My First Saturday!

[JuicyCarp]

So this is my first weekend with my machine, and I am in love with it! I have done 6 carvings and wanted to share my first two completed carvings. I wish I could give credit for the inspiration to whoever it came from, but unfortunately I do not remember who it was. I was perusing the gallery when I seen a project I liked, and that project lead to these! So whoever you are out there who gave me this inspiration, if you see my projects I wanted to thank you! Additionally I wanted to thank everyone on the forum who has helped me with any questions I have had, this forum rocks!

The first carving is one that I made for my wife for Valentine's Day (she gets it early!), and the loooong one is one I made as a going away gift for one of the families we got really close to during thier tour here at Fort Bragg, they have 6 children! Both of these signs are more or less prototypes for V Day, hopefully I can sell a couple and start paying for the machine a bit!

Please feel free to offer advice and critique! I have tough skin and welcome the oppertunity to improve!

Kevin

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[mtylerfl]

Absolutely beautiful job, Kevin! With a start like that, I can hardly wait to see your future projects. Congratulations!

[chief2007]

I agree really beautiful, great job!

[henry1]

That is nice great job

[Dale]

I wish my first carvings came out that good, those are great! Being on active duty you should have no shortage of projects. Wish I would have gotten my machine before I retired now I'm 900 miles from my old unit.

Dale

[ladjr]

Those are two great projects. Congratulations on your purchase and continued success.


Leo
Life is to short carve something today

[scoobie_6]

they look amazing how do you get the letters on top of one another?

[TerryT]

Very nice, thanks for the pics.

[JuicyCarp]

Scoobie,

If you place text on top of text and set thier heights to different levels, it will layer the text for you.

[b.sumner47]

Wonderful job. Thanks for sharing.


Capt Barry

[myshop1044]

JuicyCarp would you mind posting one of your MPCs, not that want to use you project, I like to study your techniques of stacking lettering,
so I can maybe use them in a later project of my own. I will store up those techniques up in my memory bank for the futher,
the only problem I have is remembering where in the hell I put my memory bank.
Thanks for showing us your work, you are doing a very good job.

Perry B.

[Smoken D]

A really excellent job!

[JuicyCarp]

Thanks for all the great comments, here is the final one of the day!
Kevin58657

[scoobie_6]

what settings do you use to layer you text? i keep trying and can't come close lol

[JuicyCarp]

Scoobie,

The lower text depth is .250, and the height is 100. The higher text depth is .250 and the height is 250. I posted the mpc in a different thread if you would like to use it.

Kevin

[Capt Bruce]

Beautiful work for your first couple of projects. We'll be expecting to see great things from your shop. Congratulations.

[JuicyCarp]

I wish i had a shop! right now I just have my one car garage, and all my tools are sitting on the floor because I dont have any work benches yet! Looks like an elfs shop! But we all have to start somewhere right?

[lawrence]

Well you are doing an excellent job with what you do have then-- those look GREAT

Lawrence

[SharonB]

When people see what you produce you might have to give up your day job just to keep up with the orders. All of the projects are beautiful.

[kennelmaster]

Kevin,
You asked for critique and advice so here it is....
Never, never stop carving! Your work is that of a master and you project "eye" is top shelf!

pjs