Family Crest/Coat of arms

[highdet]

Going to visit my son who purchased a CW machine and would like to find out how to get a pattern for a BENNETT coat of arms and or how to make a pattern from a .jpg image (if the image has enough resolution ?) Thanks in advance for helping a newbie. As much detail as possiblefor making a relief carving will be greatly appreciated.

[DickB]

Post a picture or a link and someone will probably step forward and make a pattern for you.

[chief2007]

DickB is correct - post a picture or link. I googled your Coat of Arms and several showed up. So knowing which one it is that you want would be a big help.

[highdet]

I hope this jpg image will work. I have a piece of walnut just under 7 inches wide and long enough to make several copies. It is 1 3/8 thick and hope this will work for a nice relief carving.
Only see my son every year or two and this will be our first project on his CW machine. thanks! (plan to use the 1/16 carving bit...)
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[chief2007]

Did the best I could do with the image size.

See if this pattern will work for you - You can re-size it as needed. Use Bit Optimization: Best

[Bigtyme]

Nice job, Chief....and pretty darn fast.

[b.sumner47]

Chief, I'll bet that you where waiting for then to deceide on witch crest they wanted, well anyway nice job. Did you get that pen you mentioned before ?


Capt Barry

[highdet]

Thanks Chief for working on this pattern! Sure is nice of you. I am traveling next week to get to NC to work on this. (1660 miles)
Maybe you know if they allow more than one copy of the CW software for just one machine? Sure would be nice if I could work on patterns in New Mexico and send them to my son.
And thank you for your service to our country.

[chief2007]

Not a problem, hope it carves well for you.

To answer your question you are allowed 2 computers per license.

[chief2007]

Chief, I'll bet that you where waiting for then to deceide on witch crest they wanted, well anyway nice job. Did you get that pen you mentioned before ?


Capt Barry

Still waiting to get the drawing tablet, it's in the mail, waiting for it to get here.

[jaustin]

nice job chief.
would you mind explaining how you created it?
i played around with paint.net and couldn't get a clean pattern when imported into carvewright

[chief2007]

nice job chief.
would you mind explaining how you created it?
i played around with paint.net and couldn't get a clean pattern when imported into carvewright

Converted to grayscale and added a touch of Gaussian blur in adobe photo elements (learn that trick here on the forum from the pros), then imported to designer, re-sized larger at the import screen. Then opened it in pattern editor and a little smooth, and a little more blur.

Some are easy, some are harder, and some we just get lucky on, lol.

Highdet

I played some more and made it inot a shield as well - files are attached

[fvcasey]

My Neice wants her family coat of arms carve but i can only a jpeg in color and any of the red parts are being completly carved out.
how can i get it into a pattern that will all be the same.58987cna anyone help me with this.

[James RS]

Use Gimp or Paint.net and use the wand tool and select the red area and change the color to a light grey


My Neice wants her family coat of arms carve but i can only a jpeg in color and any of the red parts are being completly carved out.
how can i get it into a pattern that will all be the same.58987cna anyone help me with this.

[lawrence]

video on the way, but in the meantime here's a pic

and welcome to the forum!
Lawrence

[lawrence]

Here's some quick and cheap advice... you can use the same technique to "fine tune" getting rid of the colors completely or add different shades of grey/color as well.

during my review of the vid I noticed that I called "circles", "squares" a couple of times... we could make a drinking game out of how many times I get a shape wrong ;)

Hope this helps,
Lawrence


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ccH1ZwsSHwo

[fvcasey]

Thank you So much that is exactly what i wanted to do

[easybuilt]

Lawrence that was an excellent video, thanks for taking thie time to create it.

[Bigtyme]

That is really a great video, Lawrence. It is an excellent primer on working with patterns. Thank you for putting it together and I like the idea of the drinking game, but I was too focused on what you were doing and didn't really hear anything that didn't make sense.... maybe if I had a drink before watchinig it....yea, that's the ticket :)

[chebytrk]

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Well here's my attempt at carving out a project for our upcoming reunion. Gonna just set it up for relatives to have a drawing to see who gets it. Then we'll all see if we can sign the back. Hope it makes a nice "memento" for that special day of gathering. Of course you know relatives (that I've never seen) will say "I want one... can you make me one"? LOL

[Bigtyme]

What a beautiful job, Jerry....All the way around. Super carve and the painting is excellent. I also commend you on the idea of having everyone sign it as a memento. I am afraid you better replenish your wood supply. I think you may be busy after this gets unveiled....

[Dale]

Good design and Excellent painting!

[rcdages]

JerryB,

What a wonderful carving and outstanding painting.

Well done sir.

For sure all will love it and many will want it.
Keep us posted.

[lynnfrwd]

Beautiful!

[RogerB]

Very nice work JerryB .Just a little to make things last. Seal the back so when people sign it the ink will not bleed .Or front then one more coat to finish it.
Happy Carving

[lawrence]

Looks GREAT -

Lawrence

[JoeinWestMich]

THANK YOU, Lawrence. I was having trouble tracing a logo because of the colors. This was perfect timing.

[JDPratt]

Lawrence: Please tell me that is now in the tutorial section. If not, it should be.

[SharonB]

Jerry....not much else to say but WOW! Great job! You did one top notch job.

[Ilonaco]

CW allows the software to be placed on two computers. I've done it for a few years now.

[diverdill]

WoW!!! Very nice. Such pretty colors too. I think we are related, I want one!!! Your family will be jealous of who ever wins!!!

[chebytrk]

So... the rest of the story on my Coat of Arms plaque..... I raffled the plaque for $1.00 per ticket. After a 1st cousin won the plaque I placed his ticket back in with rest and had another drawing for the money that had been collected & another relative won the $105.00. It was all fun & enjoyed by all. I picked up another 3 orders from others so it all turned out good for me in the long run. On a personal note what I enjoyed the most was a cousin of mine telling everyone his story of how he became a US Boxing Olympian at the age of 18yrs old & fighting in Rome in 1960. Then also the story of one of the other members of that same US Boxing team. Some guy named Cassius Clay. Cool stories & amazing career. Yup.... good time!

[myshop1044]

Jerry B. that is a first class plaque, you always do great work.

Perry B.

[Icutone2]

Fantastic Job!
Lee

[Capt Bruce]

Great job Jerry and it sounds like the Family Crest was a great addition to the reunion.

[Ilonaco]

Highdet, I just put 2.0 on two machines. You have to license the program to two specific computers, but they allow the software on two computers. I already did it so I know it's true.

[Geomoo1]

Here is my rendition of my family crest for our reunion coming up next month. I'm not going to raffle it but am going to have a drawing for it and the winner will have every one else sign the back for him/her. I haven't carved it yet but will post when it's finished...

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[rcdages]

Looks good George,

Looking forward to seeing the carving and the way you finish it.

Good job.........on the ptn

[chebytrk]

Looks very nice! Should carve and paint up well.... be sure to show us when you're done. Get ready for the orders! LOL

[CNC Carver]

Looks really good. I'm sure that will be a nice way to remember a good time with the family!

[Capt Bruce]

Very handsome design George,
We'll look forward to finished pictures. That will be worth optimal carving speed or the fuzzies down in the deep spots will drive you crazy. Nice work Sir.

[Geomoo1]

Here is my version of the Moore family crest for our reunion next month. The carve came out better than anticipated, but I only wish that I could be a lot more adept at wielding a paint brush. I did a couple of changes from the pattern posted earlier. The first pic is the original drawing downloaded from the net. I left room on the sides for every one to sign the plaque.

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[TerryT]

That looks great George

[aokweld101]

great job!! and the painting looks great too don't count yourself out on the painting you did well...someone will like that hanging on there wall..

[SharonB]

That is a great project all the way around. And there is certainly nothing wrong with your painting techniques.

[chebytrk]

That came out great! Colors look real good.

[lawrence]

very nicely done- thanks for sharing!

Lawrence

[Geomoo1]

Thank you all for your nice comments. I am really proud that the carve came out as good as it did.

[rcdages]

Looks great.

[bergerud]

It does look great. I wondered, however, about the lion. It is not quite the same as Designer's lion but it is very close. Could you use the Designer lion or do these Coats of Arms have to be exact?

[Geomoo1]

It does look great. I wondered, however, about the lion. It is not quite the same as Designer's lion but it is very close. Could you use the Designer lion or do these Coats of Arms have to be exact?

Thanks, bergerud. I tried a carve with the lion in the picture but I couldn't get the details to come out enough so I opted for the other lion with less detail. It's not exact but I don't think it really matters. I think it just depends on the designer's choice since there are a lot of different lion drawings available.

[peep]

Can someone have a try at my coat of arms. I just can not seem to get any height out of it.

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn111/Peep_2008/Walker_zps517defca.jpg (http://s302.photobucket.com/user/Peep_2008/media/Walker_zps517defca.jpg.html)

[CW-HAL9000]

try importing this, you might also try it inverting the pattern. You can play with the greys in a paint program to change the heights.