Horse Head Carving

[MAX COX]

pattern is from vector art. carved in 3/4 x12x 18 inch poplar.

[Kenm810]

MAX COX,

Very nice, the coloring on the 3d carving is great

[Ron Smith]

Very nice ... I take it you stained the Poplar first. It gives it a good effect.

Ron

[MAX COX]

actually the staining was done after the carving had been carved. used a
natural for the light color and medium walnut for the darker color. thanks
for the comments.

[Gman_Ind]

what if the center of a carving is done first then stained folled by a patern down in the background, leaving it natural wood. Hmmm. slop on the stain then re-carve the background would clean it up.

[Mike]

I've carved stained wood several times. My board sensor can't see the darker wood. It keeps telling me to clean board sensor. I have to trick the machine into carving on dark or stained wood.

[Gman_Ind]

I read here several places to put masking tape on the board to allow the sensor to read it correctly. my question is where does the tape go? I have some very dark black walnut and want to carve it successfully. My newest machine has what seems to be a sensitive board sensor, on the sensor check menu it seems to read fairly high numbers, if I place walnut in the machine and go to the sensor check, Bard might have stated 90 is OK number to carve?? Does anyone know what the minimum value is to allow the piece to be cut?

[BobHill]

Mike,

The Board Sensor reads straight down by infrared, so put your tape on the top ends so it can read the difference between the "wood" and the belt. See if that doesn't work better. And don't forget if you are cutting with the extra 7" then to put the tape on both ends if the 7" isn't in your design and you will be cutting from the center of the board.

Bob