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HandTurnedMaple
02-05-2007, 04:31 PM
VA3D Elk on cherry with Miniwax Golden Oak stain

VA3D Eagle on cherry with General Finishes American Oak gel stain with urethane

RW Eagle Head on basswood with Miniwax Golden Oak stain

IM2HAPPI
02-05-2007, 04:39 PM
They all turned out very nice. Wildlife is my love....and my cw

1turbofocus
02-05-2007, 09:03 PM
PLEASE ! ! ! Post those in the share section

Tom

jspringertx
02-05-2007, 09:34 PM
I really like the eagle head carving the best. Where did you get the design? The eagles I have tried are not as impressive.

HandTurnedMaple
02-05-2007, 09:49 PM
I scanned in a drawing I did, then used Corel Draw to properly shade and blend.

bivster
02-05-2007, 11:11 PM
I sure could use a copy of that elk.....How did you come up with that?

HandTurnedMaple
02-05-2007, 11:13 PM
By purchasing it from Vector Art.

nodwell
02-06-2007, 04:40 PM
Really like the way your carvings turned out. As a "newbe" I am still trying to learn all I can about how to set up the carvings.
Can you answer a few questions to help my learning curve?
I am interested in what depth and height you set to carve these patterns and also did you feather them?

Thanks for sharing...

Don

HandTurnedMaple
02-06-2007, 04:56 PM
I feathered the frame rectangles 1/4". There is no point in feathering the carvings themselves when using a carve region rectangle around them because feathering only works on the outside of the carving, so the carve region would carve out any feathering I did there.

I cut both at .375 depth and 150 height with a .500 carve region behind the elk and flying eagle. The eagle head is .250 at height 100 with a .250 carve region.

The question of depth vs. height seems to come up alot. My understand is (and someone posted this somewhere to teach me) that the computer is set for .250 depth automatically with 100 height. So increase height the same % you increase the depth. .375 is 150% of .250, so increase the height by 150%. If I set depth to .500, I would start with height 200. That keeps the top of the carving near the original surface of the board.

nodwell
02-06-2007, 05:19 PM
Thanks so much...It is starting to come together. Now I am beginning to understand why I got the results I did.

If I can only solve the y-axis, 236 error I'll recut some of my earlier trials so I can see the results first hand.

Keep up the good work.

Don

Rickrljones
02-06-2007, 06:04 PM
I was not aware of the Height/Depth % issue, thanks for advise, now, what you learn about the angle?

HandTurnedMaple
02-06-2007, 06:24 PM
0 is at the 3 o'clock position on a pattern, and rotation goes counter-clockwise. So 30 is at the 2 o'clock position, 60 is 1 o'clock. Unless placing a verticle line seperate from pattern, then the measurement is from the horizontal position instead of being locked into the 3 o'clock position. So drawing a line straight up or straight down is still 90. Drawing a line SE is 45, drawing a line SW is 45, NE and NW are also 45 (or something like that, depends how accurate you are).

Rickrljones
02-06-2007, 06:50 PM
I'm starting to get the hang of this machine/software now... With all the Great help form users like yourself, Thanks HTM... Now Just figure out how to do grandson photo next on wood... I know the best way to make the the photo a grayscale is to not convert but to remove the colors from an image by selecting COLOR CHANNELS and removing RGB...

GIZMO1D1
02-06-2007, 07:04 PM
the best way to make the the photo a grayscale is to not convert but to remove the colors from an image by selecting COLOR CHANNELS and removing RGB...

guerrr.....i feel like ill understand how NASA works real soon..!!!

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