Thread: CNC Carving Ornamental Relief

Welcome to the forum kkilst,
Wonderful work you are doing. Is it your own design?
There are a few of us doing 3D carving but none that I know of doing it for a business. Our machines are a hobby mostly. It look like you might be machining on a mill or does that handwheel belong to another machine.
Myself I use Vectric Aspire as the deisgn software but I am new to it and still learning.
Hope you have lots more of your work to show us.

Hi Rod,
It is nice to know we have friends sharing the same hobby and passion in this field.
No, it is picture from customer, from where we create the 3-D CAD data.
Being not be able to purchase expensive router, we take the effort of making it ourself.
Handwheel partly shown in the picture is for holding round or circular part,
using the 4Th. axis rotary CNC controlled, example is this Merlion sculpture.
My work is part hobby and part business, I do works based on customer requirements,
from interior design, furniture, pattern for iron ornamental design, hotel signs, etc.
I guess your location in Australia? Which part?
Lie

Hi kkilst,

There are a lot of home built CNC machines here. Can you take some photos of your machine, as we would love to see them.

Hi kkilst,
The Merlion is a work of art and thanks for sharing with us.
I am in Perth, Western Australia.
I would like to see you machine as well.

Welcome Kkilst although not into CNC yet I am a follower of Ornamental turning and have seen only a few CNC home build's doing this type of work or similar.
You pieces are excellent especailly having used wood........what is it???

The figure is brilliant

Thank you all.
I am using normal 3-axes CNC router for cutting this relief, and I will try to take
snapshot of the machine next week to be posted.
With the modern PC processor, it is now must faster to process the CAD and CAM
data from various software available on the market. Machine can speed up this carving process, manual carving will take a few days. The result from the machine, the pattern of relief is perfectly symmetry and consistent. Final touch-up by hand is using V-shape tool. Combination of machine and hand produce good workpiece.
Thank you.