white corian

[Matty]

Thought I would try some carving with corian . Have to say that I’m very happy with the out come. They were carved on.25 inch with a depth of 0.150 and the height was set at 400.
Light shining though the back. " Lithophane "

[Kenm810]

Matty,

Very nice carvings, did you have do anything special to the photos before carving them.

[dongear@earthlink.net]

Very, very nice. Can you detail how you took the photograph and got it ready for carving? What programs and settings?

Thanks,
Don

[JOHNB]

Hi Matty; Your Carving Is Beautiful And I Have To Ask- This May Sound Like A Stupid Question Butt, Did You Do It On The Compucarve? And If So, With What Bit Did You Use? Please Do Tell Us Your Process. Thanks

[Matty]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

JOHNB there are no stupid questions.. except when I asked my 2nd wife to marry me.

Yes it was carved on the Compucarve, I will have a detailed How to in a few minites so check back

Matty

[Matty]

Here is a step by step .





Not: when you carve the image it needs to carve inverted . Yo can down load the mpc file below to see what I mean

http://www.idealmarking.com/carve/test1.zip

NOTE: I used Photoshop to prepare the images you can yuse any othe graphic programe Corel draw ect.


Matty

[Dennis Perry]

Very nice Matty

Dennis

[dongear@earthlink.net]

Matty,

Beautiful work, and great explanation. Thanks for sharing both.

Don

[Azbear]

How long did it take once you hit the "go" button?

[Matty]

Azbear, It toolk less than 1 min to convert the image,

Carving 1.27 hrs on best setting

Matty