Anybody else on here with a cnc router?

[jwatts]

I've done a few pretty cool projects on my cnc the past few days. First, I was asked to make a sign for a hunting club. They wanted it to look like a national forest sign. I previously bought the font the forest service uses and added it to my design software, so I made them a sign from pvc board. I still need to fill in the letters with the proper yellow color and it'll be ready.



The other was a pretty detailed, lengthy 3d carve. I carved a section of mountain range and valley into a slab of sinker sweet gum. It took a little over 9 hours, but man it came out great.

 

[Wildabeest]

Nice work!

 

[jwatts]

Nice work!

Thanks. I've done a few individual peaks, and a few other forest signs, but I really liked these 2.

 

[El Jason]

That’s cool!

 

[jwatts]

That’s cool!

Thanks

 

[Hem]

I REALLY like the mountain range.
Had me thinking how cool it would be to have one of my local ranges as such.

 

[jwatts]

I REALLY like the mountain range.
Had me thinking how cool it would be to have one of my local ranges as such.

There's a few sites out there that let you zoom in on an area and export the topographic relief as a grayscale image. The software interprets the image as a 3d image and carves based on that. It's pretty sweet. I built the awards for a local trail race. I carved the terrain relief of the trail into the trophy.