white corian

[Julie Coffey]

Awesome explanation- and work thank you so much for sharing.

[JOHNB]

Matty; Thanks For The Step By Step. Wow, What A Difference When Illuminated. What Bit Did You Use?

[Matty]

Matty; Thanks For The Step By Step. Wow, What A Difference When Illuminated. What Bit Did You Use?

The only bit used was the 1/16th carving bit

Matty

[Dave-Carve]

Hi Matty Nice job, And execelent walk through on HOW TO ....Just like to add my 2cents worth . Not To be know it all or anything, I just have to explan prossess I feel Will help some .
When carving litho's Remeber ALWAYS
1) The Thicker the corian the darker the image !!!
2) The thinner the corain the lighter the image !!!

So the black of the eyes should be thicker than the White of the face.
before Carving make sure you rotate picture to note dark image features are higher.

The White of the face will be lower than the black or darkhair of head!!

If Not When back lit You will have a litho that looks like a negitive (unless this is what you want)

I found out the Expensive Way 8X10 Corain Carved backwards !!!!

[Matty]

The thinner the corain the lighter the image !!![/B]

So the black of the eyes should be thicker than the White of the face.
before Carving make sure you rotate picture to note dark image features are higher.

The White of the face will be lower than the black or darkhair of head!!

If Not When back lit You will have a litho that looks like a negitive (unless this is what you want)

I found out the Expensive Way 8X10 Corain Carved backwards !!!!

Dave is correct about the thicker material you use the darker the picture.

No offence Dave but I think the terminology “Rotate” is incorrect Should be “INVERT”

In the process as I described above “Rotating” the Image will not make any difference in regards to carving positive or negative. IF you rotate you just rotate the image,
The easiest way is once the image is on the lay design board in your Compucarve software select the image and then right click and click invert.

[Dave-Carve]

Dave is correct about the thicker material you use the darker the picture.

No offence Dave but I think the terminology “Rotate” is incorrect Should be “INVERT”

In the process as I described above “Rotating” the Image will not make any difference in regards to carving positive or negative. IF you rotate you just rotate the image,
The easiest way is once the image is on the lay design board in your Compucarve software select the image and then right click and click invert.

Im Saying Rotate The Image to look at it .To make sure it is "Darker areas Higher".
I Didnt mean rotate Would change Image (Inverted)
Ive seen some images Not inverted after you have inverted them. Rotating Image before carve lets you be sure the dark (Highest point Least carved)images will be carved dark light images (Lowest deepest Carved) will be carved light.

Example = Picture with 2 or more people and senery the mountians or what ever should be cut less depth than the people .But if moutain in back ground is snow covered (white ) whiter than the people. the program Will carve moutian deeper than the people , so in effect the people will be carved looking like a negitive. BUT if you ROTATE before you carve you can adjust or at least see what is going to carve Darker Or Lighter!!!

Also sence were on the subject .
If Your doing a special project such as one with name, or poem ingraved ,and you want to keep "same as picture" you should flip or mirror Image as when done you will be flipping corian to light , If not all images will be reversed.
Example = Org pic dad on right , son on dads right knee
carve with no flip = dad on left , son on dads left knee
Just a quick example !!!!!!

Sorry I explained wrong /or you read wrong ?????

[Matty]

Dave is correct , I did misread his post and the suggestion to angle the image to check the image before carving is excellent advice.

Thank's Dave

Matty

[Jeff_Birt]

I'm still lost, rotating am image does nothing but rotate it. In your example of people with mountains in the background, you would start with the mountain on top; rotate the image and the mountain will be either to the left or right sides (rotated +- 90 deg), but the image has not changed. The resultant carving will be the same in either case.

[liquidguitars]

nice job wonderfull..

LG

[sk8nmike]

Where do you get your Corian?