house bird

[woodman12]

I wanted a bird for a book case shelf and decided to machine one out ,but no matter what feed rates I picked I could get this bird done in less than
4 hrs.
I feel the cost of this bird it would never sell ,i always like to look at what things cost to build,this would be better carved out by hand.
Mind you i could have changed the step over on the finish cut, i used 8%
Even though it was quite a block of wood


http://youtu.be/bL4DAuiBX7M house bird

[soundman]

There are some things that CNC is just not good at.......yep and that is what it looks like.....rounded and three dimensional.

Any well practiced wood carver should be able to have that knocked out before you even finish programming....maybe not dimensionally perfect....but done.

If it was a more or less flat relief...ahh well that would be a different story.

cheers