Baby Announcement Plaques

This is a piece of Black Cherry cut from our bush lot, 12" by 9" , in this operation I am pocketing the area I intend to carve the 3D image and text.

I flipped the plaque over and used a spacer in the area I had just pocketed to engrave and carve the key hole to hang the finished plaque.

I used a ¼" flat bottom up cut end mill to hogg out or remove unessary material but left .040" above the final cut. You can see the outline of the stork image.

I changed cutters to a very fine tip tapered ball nose. The tip width is 1/16" or .0625".

I started the engraving final finish cut in the centre of the image and will follow the oval patern until it reaches the outer edge.

The tip of the cutter steps over only 8 percent of the diameter at the tip, this relates to removing a path only .006 about the thickness of a piece of paper.

The finish cut with the tapered ball nose took 48 minutes to complete, this gives a very fine finish that requires very little clean up.

The next step is to engrave the text, here I used a 60 degree V bit double flute which gives me a nice clean cut finish.

A little closer look at an angle to show the 3D image.

The date on the photos is not the date of production. I finished this December 4 2019

Removing the clamp hold down devices, and getting ready to finish.

I used a clear satin acrylic spray finish, 4 coats between drying periods.

Looking better.

A view of the back side, the hanging key hole, my name and details regarding where the tree came from and when.

A close up of the 3D image and text details, I would have prefered to have the text coloured, perhaps black or dark brown.

Another view of the back side.

This is Black Cherry stained with a light brown stain.

My first Baby Wall Plaque.

This is a nice piece of White Ash Live edge..

The Plque is about 10 inches wide 12 inches tall and three quarters inch thick.

The little feet are 3D modled ant the text is engraved.

With a light glazing stain makes the text and modeling stand out.

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