An assortment of Baby Plaques, Wall Plaques , Retirement Plaques.

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This demonstrates how I “ V carve ” the text into the material.

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Once the paint dries I skim off a very thin layer from the surface.

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This leaves very sharp detail in the text.

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A plaque made for Kitchener City Hall display of the Slices of Market Life quilt display.

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V carved and ready to paint.

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Made for friends of ours, she is a quilter.

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A piece of Black Cherry I carved for Mark and his family cottage.

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Notice how the pocketed area where I placed the text is a different colour than the rest of the slab, the wood has just aged, in a short time it will all be the same colour.

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Material is Black Cherry with a light stain live edge.

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Here you can see the live edge a bit better.

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This is my first attempt at 3D modeling.

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Photos taken with my phone from the computer screen.

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If I carve one like this I will provide better photos.

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I can rotate the image on the screen to give a side or angle view.

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I was asked to make a wall display plaque for a WW1 bayonet.

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A 3D wall plaque to hold your keys.

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A friend asked if I could remake this sign for her garden. A wooden sign outside in the weather is never a good thing, however she can do what she likes. I recomended a clear exterior weather type finish, but .

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This material is designed for outdoor all weather exposure, it has enameled painted aluminum skin on each side with a UHMW plastic interior.I engraved through the aluminum skin to the black internal plastic.

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This is White Ash Live edge she can use indoors. 10" by 22" by ¾" text engraved with a 90 degree V bit and the stem and leaves machined with a eighth inch ball nose.

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The wood is white pine and the file was FREE from Vectric Aspire designed by Michael Tyler.
The roughing cut ¼" end mill and finishing cut I used a 1/16" tapered ball nose.
the final cut file was over 500,000 lines of code.

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This is my first attempt at GLASING .
I changed the text to M and P for Mark and Petra, their wedding anniversary is this month, so this gift is finished.

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I used the paints I happened to have on hand and I think I could have used better colours.

Mothers Day Plaque, Original files supplied by Beki.

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Mothers Day plaque for my Daughter-in-law. Designed by Beki and downloaded FREE from Vetric.com.

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The wood is Black Cherry harvested from our wood lot. I altered the size from the original plans and edited the text.

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The finish is a clear coat, the plaqe is 7 ½" diameter. Perhaps I should have added colour to the text.

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Beki and Todd offer FREE design plans and tutorials once a week, these tutorials sure help me.

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Wedding Plaque, intended as a wedding gift.

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The wood is Live Edge Black Cherry harvested from our wood lot.

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The names and date have been smugged for a reason, the text painted a light brown.

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After the wedding I will post photos with the text exposed.

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Yes the hockey sticks are there for a reason, the plaque is about 8 ½" square.

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Black Cherry was cut from a branch with an elbow allowing the bark to border the engraved portion.

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To fit the text to the engraveable area, I took a photo and measurments then imported that image and data to my design software.

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The wood slab is about 50 inches long 12 inches high and one inch thick, I thickness planed it to three quarters inch thick.
Since my Y is only 18 inches and the material is 50 inches , I had to programed my machine to cut a tile style where the material is placed under the gantry and stepped thru and cut in three seporate steps. Matching up the engraving without showing toolpath miss alignments can be a challenge. But I have a plan.

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Not a good photo.

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I used a light stain to glaze the text and finished with a few coats of sealer and then acrylic.

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This will look great hanging at their cottage.

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Here is a photo taken in their home.

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This was inspired by a neighbour and a unused scrabble board, I though I would try it on a slab of Birch.

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It is about 18 by 14 inches and 3/4" thick, with key hole mounting slots on the back.

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His Badge number in the maple leaf.

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A sign for a painters studio.

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The material was the foot board from a Queen sized Black Walnut bed.

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I found the bed at the side of the road on garbage day.

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The border is the Black Walnut veneer and the core is Sugar Maple.

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Sign is 24 inches wide by 13 inches high and three quarters inch thich. There are two key hole slots for hanging.

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This is a close up of the V carved text, I used a 90 degree V bit and the border I used a round over bit .375. Finish is clear, no stain.

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This is machined from Hemlock and is intended to be used as a snack tray.

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A clear acrylic finish, I thought of staining but.

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It can also be hung on the wall as a sign.

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Note the finger slots at the ends for easy pick up.

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This material is laminated with aluminum both sides and a plastic core. 24 inches by 9 inches high and eighth inch thick

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It may be painted to suit or leave it as is.

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This is the waste material image, I cut this with a eighth inch endmill.

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The material is weather resistant and is intended to be used out doors.

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