No, I had insurance though only about half of what it will likely cost. They are working on the contents part. I'm hoping that with the contents coverage there will be at least enough to get the...
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No, I had insurance though only about half of what it will likely cost. They are working on the contents part. I'm hoping that with the contents coverage there will be at least enough to get the...
Because of this burn down, some advice for you all. Make sure your insurance coverage is high enough to cover your shop (including labor to build, which I did not, if like me you got to old for a...
Well shoot, my wood shop started on fire 3am February 12. I tried to break out around the chimney and used the fire extinguisher but just not enough. Got my snowplow out and my pickup out of the...
Thanks everyone I appreciate all the nice comments. ~Mike
This is not a carvewright project so if the moderators want to delete it.
Took me several weekends to carve the tree and make the 3 houses. I won't bother you all with the many process photos, here...
A few of the process,
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Routed out the back, routed the decorative bracket area down and re-transferred my pattern, cut out on scrollsaw and proceeded to carve.
This is in...
Slowly replacing all the light switch and outlet covers in our house. This one I tried to make a smaller version of our towel rack, my thought was a washcloth hanging on the same kind of rack:...
Again this isn't done on the carvewright so if it's inappropriate please remove.
Made another light switch cover this one for our bathroom.
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Carved from curly maple with some green...
I replaced my computer a while back and need to reinstall my carvewright software, mostly for the scanning of some of my carvings.
I checked the machine to get the numbers from it and the card that...
Again this isn't using the carvewright so if necessary moderators please pull this post.
The dimmer switch in the wife's office was starting to wear out, had to thump it to get it on and off. I...
Thanks George.
Thank you, yea this getting old kind of sucks but I guess there's only 1 alternative to that. :wink:
My chiropractor got shingles so I haven't been able to get in, hoping he...
A few more pictures:
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I thought I was about ready to clearcoat it so I started lightly sanding the rest of the gunstock with some 1000 grit sandpaper, broke threw in a...
This isn't a carvewright project so if the moderators deem this inappropriate please delete it.
Decided to carve my Ruger 10/22 as it's the only gun not carved in my gunrack.
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Thanks everyone for the great replies.
I do have a scanning probe, however my computer bought the farm last year and I need to reload my carvewright software on the new system (Windows 8, ug). ...
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I decided that the other side of the kitchen cabinet needed something to go with the carrot "people" so I carved a couple of mushroom "people"
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I used some automotive basecoat colors over reduced by about 600%, wiped on with a rag. Not sure I am all that thrilled with the coloring but the wife liked them.
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The first is...
I did all these by hand, not with the carvewright machine so if this is inappropriate to post hopefully they will be pulled.
I made the wife some hand carved flower pictures:
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Thank you.
Thanks, I appreciate that.
Thank you. I didn't really keep track of my time after carving the grapes and vines on the bottom part that was around 40 hours, probably somewhere...
My computer bought the farm a while back and I need to reload my Carvewright software, at some point I will have to get advice on how to do that from the forum. In the mean time I did this over the...
Thanks everyone, I appreciate the kind words.
I didn't really have much of a pattern, kind of just rough drew it up and a few patterns I made up in coreldraw. A few changes from the drawing,...
Didn't use the carvewright for this so if ya'll want to pull the post I understand.
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Made from curly maple and cherry.
Here is a short video of it in use:
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Thanks chief.
Thanks Sharon. I know it sounds a bit sentimental but I keep thinking when I'm in the woodshop that since I've been given my wife back that I should be spending all my time with...
My wife wound up in the hospital from August 28th threw the middle of October, had a quadruple heart bypass then wound up with ARDS scary times to say the least (the surgeon said my wife had been...
Thanks for all the great replies. Here's a link to a post that sort of explains the process, pictures too. I don't believe you need to be a member to view the post/pictures....
Okay well just the pulls are carved. From maple 3/8" thick, 3/8" tall and 1-1/8" wide.
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I'm sure glad I bought this pin vise from Harbor Freight a while back, I've never really needed it...