Carved Wood Stained Plaques

[Dhaffner]

These look great. Creative use of food coloring for sure! I always enjoy the variety I'm seeing on here. Great job.

[chebytrk]

OK guys.......... so what's the technique in making a "stained glass" wood carving? Maybe "Bud" can make a video instruction on how to do it? hint... hint

[geekviking]

For the viking pattern, I hope your knee feels better!

[AskBud]

Sorry folks,
I'm not an artist, and I hate to paint.
However, I've looked at some of the posts and there seem to be two schools of application.
I've carved the Lion & lamb, and it is purely a Raster carve with the standard carving bit, except for the edge carve (I don't remember if I added that or if it was on the post).

The Easter Egg post is using a 60 degree bit with a depth of 0.060 on the outer frame, and 0.050 on the actual egg & flower design.

My guess, and this is just a guess, is that some of these have come from a book (or Site) and that the CW person has just scanned the image and used it as is, or modified to suit their taste.

The raw image would lend itself to the Raster cut as in the Lion & Lamb.

I suspect that the Egg took more work on the part of the Designer/Artist. If you click within the Egg portion, you see numerous carve sections, and by clicking on the Bit Selection you see the 0.050 setting for the 60 degree bit.

I think, if I were to do a design, I would select the method used on the egg even though it requires more design & thinking to develop. My guess is that the pattern was applied as in the Lion & lamb, but then the Designer/Artist laid out the various carves by tracing each path with "Connecting Lines" and then altering some paths as necessary (or wished).

If you look at the Egg post/pattern, you also see that the Designer/Artist separated the "Frame" section as a stand-alone portion, which means they may intend to keep that portion for other later works. This leads me to think that any picture, or coloring book becomes an avenue for Stain Glass Art.

Sorry to say this is not an AVI Video. However, perhaps my words paint the picture we all needed. Maybe the first owner of the Egg Pattern will confirm, or deny, my theory.

Here is a link to the Egg Pattern:
http://forum.carvewright.com/showpos...4&postcount=46
AskBud

[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

[Hexe SA]

Hey Dan, they must have been on the next Page --

In the mean time I'll give you another Lion to carve, to make up for the others.

Thanks for the pattern Ken. I finished it out with "Gallery Glass" paint and liquid lead.

[Kenm810]

Very Nice, I like your finish
Really looks like Lead and Glass!

[Icutone2]

Great job! No sharp edges to get hurt on lol.
Lee