Cat's are a huge seller at the Wishing Spring Gallery where I generally sell completed works, not claimed by family. This piece was developed from a Steve Good Scroll Saw pattern. It's first shot at modeling 2D vectors with Aspire.

This was a commission project for someone that wanted an Heirloom Backgammon Board that he was giving to his son and daughter-in-law for their wedding. They had a previous family heirloom that burned up in a house fire. So they had the player pieces and wanted a complimentary board to math the player piece colors. I used AI several times during this build to help understand wood movement, methods for attaching the boards in the borders to account for seasonable and area wood movement, as well as other key and unique features with the board. I implemented temporary spoiler board jigs to get my dados installed in each of the borer pieces and to properly place the player and dice holding carvings in the borders. Challenges I had to overcome were primarily mistakes I made such as I forgot to carve the dice holders before assembling the board and I got the wrong information on how many pieces there are in a Backgammon Game. I had to add extra carvings in the borders after the board was assembled because of these errors. I used the technique of creating individual component models for these additions and using an xy center location to be able to properly locate and carve these additions after the board was assembled. The client was very pleased but have to admit it was my most stressful project to date and took me 5 weeks between the design and making of the board. Not sure I want to do this project again - I hear time heals all wounds so who knows after I have had some time away from the project.

I found the plans for this cabinet and thought it would be a challenge. I used the cnc to cut the legs. Corbils, drawer fronts, and handles. Challenges were overcome by asking questions to Kyle and the group. Wonderful source of information and assistance. My wife will be using it for a jewelry cabinet.

I find myself intimidated by all your guys and girl's beautiful work. But I'd still like to post my attempts to make good projects. With this Academy and the great community, I'm learning. I finally got a finish on my last project. I don't like cherry.

I thought i would share my latest project. This was my first use of Vectric easy create AI. My client had an AI generated picture of a sign he wanted made. I used Easy create to generate the 3d files. I think it went well. The only thing I struggled with is removing the background around the sign. I ended up creating vectors around the sign which took a bit of time. Does anyone know what verbiage to use so Easy create removes the background around the final files. Here are both the AI image and the finished sign.

This is a project I started 2 1/2 months ago. I was going to make a chessboard to go with the chess pieces that I have had for about 40 years. I lost the chessboard in one of my many military moves, so I thought it would be a good time to make a chessboard. The chess pieces are an inch and a half in diameter and 6 inches tall. When I was making the project in aspire to make the chess pieces fit on the chessboard they had to be 1.6 inches square. And I wanted a design around the edges. That made the chessboard 19 inches square. Then I decided I wanted to make decorations around the board and that turned into a chess table. So a long story short, I built a chest table! It is 24 inches wide by 30 inches long and 2 1/2 inches thick on the top. The whole table is 24 x 30 x 28" high with a drawer to hold the chess pieces. I did an epoxy inlay on the drawer face and back panel, of chess pieces. It's made out of spalted maple and stained with walnut stain. I used the glazing process on all of the carved nautical designs on the legs and the top, then a poly satin finish.

Here’s a coin display I recently designed and machined entirely with my CNC router. Made with American Walnut and Peruvian Walnut, with velvet covered coin slots. Plan on offering customized variations for service branches or government agencies.

This is very simple and kind of silly but my niece is really into anime. For her birthday/valentine's day, I whipped up a couple items and this wall hanging is one of them. It is a character from one of her favorite shows. I used slightly different colors--ones she likes. The wall hanging is about 16 inches tall and is cut from a reclaimed pine panel I had made from pallet wood. The colors were done with epoxy inlays. Axiom Pro AR8 CNC with Aspire software .25 and .125 endmills The picture on the right is what I modeled it after. I am not a fan of anime but I am a fan of my niece. :-)

We recently upgraded our built-in refrigerators to built-in column refrigerators. As a result, I had to retro-fit the cabinet to allow for the taller units. The original unit had two cubby holes/shelves above the units. But now those cubby holes were only 5 inches tall and useless. I came up with an idea to add art to the cabinet. Being that we live in the Bitterroot Mountain area of Montana, I created a mountain scene. The mountains are made with solid mahogany. They are embellished with epoxy-resin inlayed snow capped mountains and an abstract river "swoosh". I utilized textured plastic (the kind that is used with fluorescent lighting) behind the mountains. Within the cabinet, I have two forms of lighting. One is a multi-color changing rope light. The other is an "aurora" light. Working together, the unit creates the illusion that we are looking at the aurora on a cold winter's night. It was a fun project and is now fully done. :-). Pictured is the original cabinet, an overview of the new cabinet and a close-up of the art. I have an Axiom AR8 Pro and was using V-Carve at that time.

one of my beautiful stl work💪

Keepsake box for my nephew.

Imade two of these for my great granddaughters for their 1-year birthday this pass January.

This is one of the first projects I did 3 years ago out of 1 1/2" x 8" walnut. I just revised my ashtray project with what I've learned since I originally made this and decreased cut time by more than half! Down to 1 hr 30 min for two of them, from 3 hr 12 min before! Also made 2 sided and added pocket for legs on the back.

I created this in Easy Creat, it’s about 7.5” in diameter, made of cherry and my wife painted it. This was a test piece made from a piece of scrap, if I make it for a customer it would be around 12”.

Finished this one today.

I was asked to carve a raised house number. The material is 10" x 20" x 3/4" hard maple. The numbers are 6" tall. I wanted to paint the top and edges of the numbers without worrying about paint over spray. The depth of cut was 0.3" with a 60 deg V bit. The width of the sloping sides were 0.173" ( 0.3 tan(30) ). The first tool path was a pocket 0.22" deep with a pocket allowance of 0.18". Then I cut the sloping edges of the numbers to 0.28" deep with a 60 deg V bit. Then I sanded and wire brushed the surface to remove the fuzziness, sealed with quick dry spray polyurethane and painted with 2 coats of black spray paint. After the paint dried for 3 days I pocketed around the numbers to 0.3" deep with a pocket allowance of 0.16" using a 5 deg tapered ball nose and 1/4" dia. up cut end mill. All that is left to do is apply a few coats of spar polyurethane for weather protection.

Here are two models I did from pictures of a dog when he was two years old and 12 years old. They are 13 inches bye 15 inches by 3 inches thick! Cut out of live edge spalted maple. I used Vistasculpt to make the STLs from the pictures. These are very close to life sized. Customer said the older one was exactly like him down to the broken canine tooth on the left side! Again I'm showing the process from carving, carved, glazed and finished.

As some of you know, I specialize in medieval reproductions. My latest project is based on a 15th-century stool held by the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in NY. The legs were carved with the CNC. The angled mortises and tenons had to be chopped by hand, though.

We were away from home and my machine for a couple of months but I finally got it done. The first time i have set up and used the Air Weights vacuum table. Used AI and photos to get as close as I could to an original true to scale Springfield Arms model 1911 (Colt) even down to the smith inspection marks. (Except for the grip). Inspration by Doug Engle's previous project share post. Gift for my back in the day partner, a firearms instructor/gunsmith. 12 X 8 Cherry still to be finished