Secret Santa gifts

[Termite]

A couple of banks and the spring wreath that I made for secret Santa gifts.




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[TerryT]

Those are prettly nice. Lucky recipients.

[www.carvenow.com]

Wow, those look great!

[fwharris]

Great job!! Nice to see the buffalo nickel pattern carved!

[SharonB]

Termite.... I hadn't seen the coin banks carved before and I really like them. With your paint job they look like real coins. How tall did you carve them?

[mtylerfl]

Termite, your projects look wonderful! I love the painting/finishing you did!

[JDPratt]

Very nice job on the coins. Somebody will be very happy this Christmas.

[gumbo]

Great job termite. Are they the coins on carve buddy? If so how did you get them to carve so well I've tried before and when I try to carve them they carve very shallow with very poor detail. Its proballysomething I am doing so what are were your settings? If you don't mind sharing.

[DickB]

Nice banks. Nice finish. Care to share your technique?

[Termite]

Termite.... I hadn't seen the coin banks carved before and I really like them. With your paint job they look like real coins. How tall did you carve them?

The banks are 7" in diameter by 3" wide.

[Termite]

Great job termite. Are they the coins on carve buddy? If so how did you get them to carve so well I've tried before and when I try to carve them they carve very shallow with very poor detail. Its proballysomething I am doing so what are were your settings? If you don't mind sharing.

Yes they are the ones on Carve Buddy. I have used all of the ones they have and they all come out great.

[Termite]

Great job termite. Are they the coins on carve buddy? If so how did you get them to carve so well I've tried before and when I try to carve them they carve very shallow with very poor detail. Its proballysomething I am doing so what are were your settings? If you don't mind sharing.

Nickel settings - front is depth- .300 and height of 900.
back is depth - .300 and height of 100
Indian head penny - front and back are- depth - .200 and height of 500
The diameter is 7"

[Termite]

Nice banks. Nice finish. Care to share your technique?

The pedestal on the banks are sprayed with Rust-Oleum American Accents Stone.
The banks are sprayed with Rust-Oleum specialty Metallic. Shiny silver and shiny copper - go by the tops on the spray can.
I put two coats of satin clear to finish the pedestal and banks off.

The wreath is the third one that I have made. When it comes to hand painting crafts I suk. I got aggravated and bought an air brush and as you can tell
there will be no turning back. The first thing I did on this one was to give it a light spray coat of the tan color Stone paint. It fills in the space between
the flowers and leaves and adds a little texture. Then I spray the middle of the flowers black, the smaller flowers yellow and finish with the white. Some
hand brushing for touch up and two coats of satin clear. I forgot the leaves - I spray them after the black

[Termite]

Thanks for the compliments and thanks to Carve buddy and Michael T. If you look at the last picture of the banks you can see the 1 1/2"
rubber plug on the lower left on the nickel. You can just see the edge of it. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.

[Termite]

I need to clean the sawdust out of my eyes. I forgot to post the backs of the banks. The jesus face is carved in Trex. Picture doesn't do it justice.
It looks like it was carved in a piece of granite.
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[gumbo]

Termite i just pm'ed you looking for the penny and nickle patterns I cant find one of mine and can't get the other to carve with any detail no matter what settings I use so I was wondering if you would share the ptn you used to carve these?

[cnsranch]

gumbo - try here...

http://carvebuddy.com/free_stuff.html