A couple of Aspire projects

[Tony Joyce]

These are a couple of Aspire projects I've done lately. The plate is Wayne Barton inspired and about 12" dia from 7/8" thick Butternut with a glazed and lacquered finish. The plate takes about 45 minutes to run both sides. The box is 1-1/2" X 3-1/2" X 5" and is Goncalo Alves with antique oil finish. Box takes about 15 minutes to run.

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[james mcgrew]

nice work !!

jim mcgrew

[stan kern]

I have done a few plates in my time but not as involved as yours,very nice

[Jim Dailey]

Tony,

Very nice work!!!

Question; How did you secure the pieces while they where being machined?

jim

[Mick A Martin]

Nice looking plate .... How long did it take you to design it.

[Tony Joyce]

Jim,
I screwed the blank to the table, machine the back, turn over machine the top leaving tabs on the round part of the outer edge.

[Tony Joyce]

Mick,
I probably spent about an hour drawing and improving the design to work on a CNC. Preview in Aspire gives you a quick look at what the finished design will look like. You only have to draw one of the elements and radial copy the rest so it goes pretty fast. It will be pretty easy to do some variations of this design once I have the basic design down. As to machining it took two hours to CNC machine three plates

[Jim Dailey]

Thanks Tony for the feed back on how you held the plates.

I am still struggling to find what works... I usually know what doesn't 'cause my machine gets "mad & throws things"

jim

[Gary Hair]

Both pieces are beautiful Tony, well done!

Gary

[Keith Outten]

I agree, Well Done!

Both are great looking projects.
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[George Brown]

Beautiful work!

How did you paint the background and veins black without getting it on the rest of the carving?

George

[Tony Joyce]

Beautiful work!

How did you paint the background and veins black without getting it on the rest of the carving?

George

Thanks,

I sealed the wood with two coats of lacquer(spray), then painted on(with a brush) a "medium brown walnut" glaze or grain filler, when it starts to dry(usually by the time I have coated the whole piece) I wipe it clean leaving the glaze in the V-carve portion only. Any glaze that hardens on the surface is easily removed with a rag dampened with mineral spirits. When it has dried over night I top coat with lacquer to seal the glaze and protect it. It is an easy and quick process.

[Tony Joyce]

Jim,
After rereading my post, I realized this was the way I did the prototype. When I did the three, I did the reverse, Face first, back last it worked a little better. I screw stop blocks in my X-Y zero corner to reference the blank to and cut the blank the size I have set my material to in Aspire, with the pattern centered in the blank. When I turn it over it is referenced by the stop blocks again. Additionally I do both the front and rear designs in the same design file, but use different colors to differentiate the front and back. This ensures, at least to me, that every thing lines up as planned.

[George Brown]

Tony,

Thanks for the info, will try that.

[Bob Savage]

Those are beautiful!