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Hi, all. Haven't posted in some time, for which I apologize. Life kinda took me in another direction. Still, the machine is functioning brilliantly, and has been seeing steady use, though not as...

OK - carved it out of pine. Honestly? It doesn't look too bad. Also, I made an interesting discovery. Naturally, certain areas of the carve were fuzzy. I tried dressing up a few of the most...

So, here we have the results of my second experiment with the scanning probe. I had a large-ish, simple foliate head wallhanger lying around here forever and decided to scan it just to see how it...

In this case it would be difficult. There's an entire ridge missing because the probe deflects too much. I'd have to paint that back in somehow, and if I have to make up whole features, what's the...

Nobody? I was thinking perhaps I could scan the piece twice at 90° angles and merge them...

So, I did a first go round with the probe this evening. I scanned a small, cheap, plastic rococo picture frame I got at a craft store for a dollar. It produced a reasonable result, but I noticed...

BEAUTIFUL use of perspective on the fish to enhance the 3d.

Here's a work in progress. Sometimes you just *need* a Tudor Rose, ya know? I figured that with this one, it might help someone someday to see the Photoshop file in all its messy glory. It really...

Give that man a gold star!

Ugh. Well, it seems that the files it creates are empty, so it's useless. Sorry for the false hope. If I get it working, I'll repost.

I've used curves in PS plenty, and that's a great technique, Alan. Curves doesn't always yield the results I expect, however. Also, not everyone has PS. For those who don't, this is a handy little...

So - Using Wineskin, I got Wolfie's Gradient Designer running on my Mac, no virtualization needed. It's not perfect, but it functions. It's the closest we Mac users are likely to get to a native...

Yep. I was thinking that might be highly instructive. Incidentally, the reason I had it seemingly reversed on my version of the tile is because I had envisioned eventually coating it with a solid...

I wonder how it would carve in Corian?

Yep. I saw that, and I believed him. Still, I needed to see it for myself.

Also - I worked out how to defeat cupping easily and with minimal attention on my part. It happened to my quatrefoil carve as well. Extrapolating from the suspected cause noted here, I placed it...

Here it is with some dark stain, deft, and a stain wash over that still drying. A friend felt that while the elements may not be specifically, the composition gave off an Egyptian vibe. I may run...

Here are some pics of finishing. I'm just diddling around with various antiquing ideas. This is a combination of stain, deft semigloss, black shoe polish, more stain as a wash, and soon I'll tire...

So, here it is carved smaller than it ought to be. Yes, there is a lot of fuzz. To what degree is this because of 1) soft pine, 2) scaling, 3) the design's intricacy?

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And yes - the sled from the posted thread looks excellent. It's conceptually simple enough, but has anyone made shop-drawings for it?

I tried that on my very first carve. It did not go well. A strip about 4-5mm wide was left uncarved but for an irregular gash in the middle of that strip. I concluded from this that I should...

Awesome info! I'm gonna need to start a notebook and keep it with the machine...

Wow. Was I ever overthinking. Or perhaps designer was underthinking. I kinda expected that the software would be smart enough to crop down to include only the region to actually be carved. I've...

If I'm understanding you correctly, then this is my eureka moment. It's not the size of the design that matters, it's the size of the virtual board in designer? If I had put my two 6x6 tiles side by...

Nope. I checked hopefully, but no such option was offered.