I used two pieces of wood from an original 12"x48" piece cut in half, what I did was Place them on the CNC Machine and machined a new seam with a 1/4" up spiral, This ensured that the edges would have a perfect mating seam for the two piece Glue-up to make a 24" wide Board.
I went to woodcraft and bought two sets of their clamps (they are now 19.99ea.)
The splice is right in the center and you can hardly see it.
I got the Marine Logo From James (Vector Art 3D), The Rope I created myself, made one of the turns in Acad then did an Arrey on a 360 deg, with an extra 67 and worked really well, I would have used the One which came with the Aspire software DVD but by the time i enlarged it i found that it did not have a symmetrical width all around, but mine is perfect now.
I created the roughing pass:
Then created a circular interior finish pass:
Next I made a Raster second finish pass but the bit i used was a straight sided round nose, i should have used a up spiral round nose, because when it came to the letters, it seemed to hack at the wood instead of cutting it, so on some of the pointed portions of the times roman lettering it broke the edges, maybe i should have used a different text, but i wanted to match the Original Seal as much as possible:
Here is the Finished Cutout of the Marine Corps Seal:
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