Carved Wood Stained Plaques

[Kenm810]

Here's Something I thought would be fun to try,
A bit like Stained Glass carved on the CW and CC Machines.
You can use water or alcohol based transparent stains to color the Patterns
and top it off with a few layers of gloss clear coat if you want.

Just use your Imagination !!

[Pratyeka]

That is truly awsome!

[want2b]

Great idea!! I can just imagine those as raised panel doors in a kitchen or furniture doors. They would make unique panels inserted into the front door of an old victorian house. Guess I better not let my wife see these.
Thx for sharing, Rick H.

[James RS]

Ken,
Great job! I would like to know where you got the stains you used

Thanks,
Jim

[HighTechOkie]

I think the "stain" came from Photoshop. As for actually doing it. Lowes and Home Depot both carry a good selection of colored stains. They come in opaque or translucent. For the stained glass effect you would want to use the translucent stains or really thin down an opaque stain.

Really cool idea though.

Rob

[ajk]

I Will Use To Make An Antique Closet Doors With Moldings And Antiques Appliances.

[Kenm810]

Buds absolutely right,

There’s dozens of free Stain Glass patterns on the web, that you can down load for your own use,
plus you can modify the size, shape, or change the colors around to suite your needs.
You just have to use a little of your Imagination.
I like to down load and save the patterns as PNG files so I can load them directly in CW’s Designer to carve as a Raster carving,
or you can use one of the graphic programs like Coral or PS Illustrator to convert the pattern to a V-Groove Vector carving if you like.

Art skills are not mandatory,
My Grandkids have colored a few with water base markers and they look terrific, (at least to me they do)
It’s all about experimenting and having a bit of fun with these little carving machines.

[RayTrek]

Hello,

AskBud, You are pretty much on with your explanation and that is the method that will work and one that I considered.

The Frame; was created in designer with the connecting lines tool and each completed path was assigned a bit selection 60 degree V bit and 0.060 depths, All the paths were grouped for a stand-alone frame that I can use later, you can right click the group and “select all” then right click again on any of the high-lighted areas and select “copy” this copied everything in the group and the group you can now open your project virtual board and right click any ware on the board and select paste at this point you can resize with the triangle areas on the outer most areas also with all selected you can change the depth and bit of all the paths at one time.

The Egg; any single line drawing will work like a color book drawing and needs to be transparent except for the lines themselves a png or gif file will allow transparent background also you may import a jpg with a white background and lower it so that only the lines are left the lines need to be complete. Now that you have a pattern made of the lines put it onto your virtual board set the feather to “none” and select "invert" size the pattern to your likening and right click on the pattern and select “outline pattern(s)” now you have many paths.
In your “carving list” select “group” right click the group and select “all in group” right click on the highlighted paths and “select bit” assign the bit and depth there. Next select the original pattern and “hide” it or remove it. Note with all the paths selected you can change the depth in the upper menu.
You can remove paths to your likening I like to hide them so that I may put them back easily if I want.

Thank you for your explanation BUD and Ken I know that it has helped many for those ho are learning designer I hope my attempt is as easy to understand as yours.
Good Day
Ray

[fwharris]

Ken,

Your words of wisdom and wit are only out done by your talents in the finishing and designs you do. Even greater that you share them all will us.

Thanks!!!

[DocWheeler]

Ken,

What can I say? That is beautiful.