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Elephant Head

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One of my granddaughters wanted a small reclining chair for her bedroom for Christmas, so when I was at the furniture store picking it up, I noticed an elephant head, made out of plastic, hanging on the wall with a $129 price tag. I decided I could do one of those, but better, using Aspire and double sided cutting.

This one is about 1/3 bigger than the one I saw. It is 24” wide, 22” tall and 12” deep. I made it out of MDF, and used a silver-nickel powder metal coating. I experimented using a solvent dye patina on the tusks and around its eyes.
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Wow beautiful work Gary. You have certainly got your process dialed in now. Thanks for sharing. :lol: :lol:
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Excellent workmanship and finishing, Gary!
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Excellent job Gary!! :D
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Once again, this demonstrates you can machine much more sophisticated models than most people think with a simple 3 axis machine.

Of course, it requires to master your tools.

Kudos Gary. Your finishing is excellent too.
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Now when someone says "Let's talk about the elephant in the room" you have something to talk about.

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AlbertaClipper wrote:Now when someone says "Let's talk about the elephant in the room" you have something to talk about.
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Wow, amazing!

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Wow, that looks good
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Again another fantastic finished item. I am really liking the metal finish, question well two actually.

1 Where did you get the elephant model from?.

2 How long was the machining time.

oh heck

3 Do you have any construction photos?.

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Amazing project Gary, who would believe you can create something as complex as this from only 2 directions.
Did you include the tusks or add them after? If they were included did you need to take any special measures to ensure they didn't get damaged?
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Thanks everyone for the compliments.

Brian, the model was just a free download, where there's a zillion of them on the internet. I sliced it into five 2-1/4" sections using Netfabb software, used for repairing stl's. After the slice, it will be hollow. Even though I could repair them in Netfabb, I imported them into ZBrush because it was faster and I could also enhance them. After that, each section was imported into Aspire, where I did the double-side machining. I glued three 3/4" MDF panels together to get the 2-1/4" thickness, and making it so I didn't need extra long mills.

Chris, I cut a 8d nail to use it in the end of the tusk so it would give it strength besides gluing it to the rest of the model. The metal powder is mixed with polyester resin, so when that's applied, it also adds a tremendous strength which makes everything very solid.
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