Post by autobodyman on Mar 19, 2010 12:10:48 GMT -6
After doing the train tunnels with the track on the mountain in the background, I thought it might be cool to do a train wrapping around a mountain. Train on the brain I guess ;D Now I don't really have a place for this and mostly did it thinking I could scan it in my carving machine (when completed) and sell the pattern.
I thought about it for a little bit, drew up a rough pattern and then thought how am I going to get this many levels without screwing it up and ending up more than 1¼" thick (max scan depth on the machine).
I decided to try doing this with some 1/8" plywood and carve each layer then glue up.
I started by stack cutting the outside of the pattern on 5 sheets of 1/8" BB ply. about 10½" tall by 11" wide.
The first 3 sheets carved and glued up with the 4th sheet sitting on top.
4 layers glued up and carved. I stack cut 3 more layers tracing the 5th one for a shorter pattern.
6th glued on and carved.
The final 7th and 8th layer on, carved, sanded and clearcoated. Overall wound up 15/16" thick at the thickest point. Not sure how that works out, must be a combination of the Metric plywood (slightly less than 1/8th inch) and my carving some.
Took me around 18-20 hours to cut, carve, glue, sand, cut, carve, sand, clearcoat this.
Like I said other than carving this mostly because I thought it might be interesting, I don't really have a place for it, not sure it's all that good really? Might have been better if I had planned down some regular wood to 1/8" thick, don't really like the plywood look.
Could probably spice it up with some trees around the bottom, probably won't do anything more than scan it for a while anyway. My next project is to get started on Western carving for an end table I've been planning to build for a few years.
Thanks ~Mike
I thought about it for a little bit, drew up a rough pattern and then thought how am I going to get this many levels without screwing it up and ending up more than 1¼" thick (max scan depth on the machine).
I decided to try doing this with some 1/8" plywood and carve each layer then glue up.
I started by stack cutting the outside of the pattern on 5 sheets of 1/8" BB ply. about 10½" tall by 11" wide.
The first 3 sheets carved and glued up with the 4th sheet sitting on top.
4 layers glued up and carved. I stack cut 3 more layers tracing the 5th one for a shorter pattern.
6th glued on and carved.
The final 7th and 8th layer on, carved, sanded and clearcoated. Overall wound up 15/16" thick at the thickest point. Not sure how that works out, must be a combination of the Metric plywood (slightly less than 1/8th inch) and my carving some.
Took me around 18-20 hours to cut, carve, glue, sand, cut, carve, sand, clearcoat this.
Like I said other than carving this mostly because I thought it might be interesting, I don't really have a place for it, not sure it's all that good really? Might have been better if I had planned down some regular wood to 1/8" thick, don't really like the plywood look.
Could probably spice it up with some trees around the bottom, probably won't do anything more than scan it for a while anyway. My next project is to get started on Western carving for an end table I've been planning to build for a few years.
Thanks ~Mike