Volunteer work to raise money for a free Hospice Center in my area.

Mothers Day Sign from Kyle's Class

I finally felt capable of designing and cutting out new aluminum mounting plates to upgrade my two year old Openbuilds Lead 1010 from V-wheels on X and Z axis to HGR15 linear rails. Replacing the wheels as they wore or cracked was tedious. To some this may seem trivial but to me it was proving my progress of learning the software and hardware. The tolerances have been greatly increased after adding the linear rails. The Y axis will get upgraded when I am able to obtain more linear rails. Thanks for looking.

One of my first projects.

Built this game for the family, not sure I want to go through the effort of marketing and selling because it required me to manually paint and I don’t enjoy the painting part. I can make for others if they really want but it isn’t a cheap one if I will make money for my material and time. I really like the look of this BAMX Material from Cutting It Close. The material can be purchased at this link: https://cicworkshop.com/products/bamx... Full disclosure: It is an affiliate link so I get a small commission if you purchase. My family has 7 people living in the house so the previous 4 person aggravation style games didn’t allow us all to play at the same time and didn’t want to leave a family member out. I developed this 8 person version to resolve the issue. And liked the BAMX material look. I wanted to be able to build marble storage into the board but the approximately 0.745” didn’t provide adequate pocket room with material above and below the pocket for the 14mm marbles and dice. Material above, so the marble holes don’t go through . Material below so a sturdy lid could be mounted with magnets or some other method. Because of this I opted to 3D print a separate marble holder. Lid not shown. I designed in Fusion so that all I do is put in the number of players, and sizze of the marble and Fusion will make the case the correct size for the storage. That was fun figuring out the parametric dessign for that. #bamx #aggravation #gameboard #familytime #games

A couple projects I’ve done in the last several days. Both are made of cherry and finished with tung oil. The tray is 14 5/8 x 11 3/4 x 1 3/4.

Thanks to the advice I received here and on the Q&A show, about creating gothic tracery, I was able to decorate this copy of a 15th Century French bench on my Genmitsu PROVerXL 6050 Plus. Already I can see the charm of a CNC with ATC. This design uses 4 bits for the legs. Dimensions are 20" tall, 11.5" wide and 25" long. Red oak.

My son got me a set of handmade knives for my birthday, so I made them a magnetic knife block. My plan is to add an edge lit acrylic panel in front, i.e. the slot in the base, later. Now if somebody breaks in the house, I can strip all the knives off of here and beat them to death with the block, 24 ceramic magnets adds up the old weight. First time using laminated bamboo, it actually cut pretty nice.

I carved this a while back and have been playing with the finish on it, my wife and I did the epoxy ( only second time using epoxy, just experimenting) and she dry brushed the detail. I think I’m going to call it done.

Another successful project completed, many thanks to the lessons learned here with Tiling Toolpaths!

My first project with VCarve and my Shapeoko 5. Definitely a learning curve over Carbide Create. This is far from perfect, but my grandson will love it.

Hey group, made another snack tray ! V carve Pro and the live classes make this easy. The new bowl bit is the GOAT. Fast and very smooth on the bottom, toolstoday #45986.

One side project carving soap holder designed and cut with cnc

I created this French Cleat bracket for stacking Bar Clamps. You can adjust width of 2 parts to make it work for other clamps than what I have shown. VCarve file available upon request.

French Cleat hammer holder. VCarve file available upon request.

Finished this clock for my son. Tried adding led lights for first time.

Here are 2 of the projects I made in the last few days. The sign still has to be painted.

I made this bar sign for a coworker. They love bourbon and the bar in their home is called the “Drankin Room”. Was a quick little project on a Saturday.

I finished a model I made of my son & daughter, which I carved from Rosewood. The wood is beautiful, but the grain pattern was a little too distracting, so I decided to try and paint it. Not great but I'm happy with my first shot at this. The faces are the most difficult to paint, but I learned about layering paint, shading and dry brush techniques.

I finally had time and warm weather to finish the sign that I started during last month's challenge. Late for the challenge, but I think it turned out pretty well.

This is a retirement clock I did for a fellow instructor pilot in the C-17. It is patterned after elements in the pilots Heads Up Display. All the inlay work is using face grain and the hands were cut out using the OPT laser on my AVID CNC. I sloped the face to resemble the earth using the V Carve molding tool path.

Did some carvings during my visit to my country (Philippines)last month. My first try with my CNC machine.

Created this two sided bowl (epoxy resin lip, white oak, and maple) using Aspire. This one could be done using vCarve pro if the "drip stock" model was imported from an STL file. This was done using a two sided project, profile, and pocket tool paths. I will create a video on how I did this soon. Already created a video on how I got this brilliant shine using my lathe - if interested go checkout my YouTube Channel Rob Sandstrom Designs

Another house warming gift for a coworker. Included is his wife's vision for what she wanted.

New welcome sign for house.

I did the Haunted Mansion plague this weekend and the other two during the week. My wife painted the Welcome sign but I need to finish it and the others.

My wife makes pictures with small colored dots and always has many dots left over when she finishes. I mixed them all together and pocket cut the letters in a decorative cutting board that she picked up at Walmart with her niece’s name. I then poured it with epoxy for the final touches. I think it turned out very unique.

I carved this over the weekend out of cherry and haven’t decided on a finish.

My most recent model that I used the learning from this training program and lives to be able to do. this model was designed completely from my imagination. I have been using some material from CIC workshop for trays and other projects and wondered how it would look glued up and put in a bowl. Making a video on the process for my YouTube Channel at this time. Should release within the next week to show the process. It wasn't as difficult as I had thought it would be, the more of these I make the easier they are to create. I used the create rounded shape component, limit (zero) plane, and 3D tabs features to create the bowl and setup the toolpaths. It was a combination of 3D model and pocket tooldpaths to get what was desired. Attaching pictures of the final bowl to show results of using the BAMX material.

This was my second attempt at a double sided project. First attempt is not to be mentioned! Vectric free files of the month

My Mom wanted a dish for her avocados so I made her this. Bloodwood carved on a 48 x30 Longmill. Vcarve Pro wants to kick my butt, but I have Kyle. Thank you sir, this platform rocks.

Cutting Board with sign engrave on back side of cutting board

All done! I hope they like it.

Had to have a sign for the shop door.

My wife likes Hummingbirds, so I made this for her. It was made out of Bacote and finished with Tung Oil. The overall dimensions are 15.75 x 9 x .875

So success at last. I finally got my gun grips finished. One set was made of cherry and the other walnut (a pair of each). This was a two sided job with the 3D model on the top and only pocket and moulding toolpaths on the bottom. Kyle's tips on how to add extensions to the profile vectors for the moulding toolpath really helped out. One of my questions in the Q&A was the thickness of the back edge of the grip. This turned out to be a problem the the cross sections of the two rail sweep. Again with his advise I used a contour gauge to measure the contour at four points down the original grips and was able to get a good 3D model. Thanks Kyle!

Made a few minions I found on cults3D and thingiverse. I used white oak cherry and ambrosia maple. They are 1 sided using v carve pro

Made these out of poplar They go with the catfish ones I make. As you can see I have been experimenting with finishing techniques and #4 is in its natural unfinished state. Also, they are hand painted as I do not have a laser to etch the black parts

This is my newest creation. I still have to tweak it a little. I used 3D modeling, V-carve lettering, and laser etching. I hope to carve it tomorrow.

Just a fun napkin holder project, combining my 2 hobbies of woodworking and model aviation.

Live Edge version of the shared file

My AI chip Carve It's Bear :30 Clocks

These are cherry bifold louver doors that I finished last month for laundry area and furnace. Because the dryer & furnace burn gas, I wanted to make sure there would be enough combustion air, so I angled the louvers at 30 degrees to provide more air flow. The louvers took some time, there are 90 louvers per door (360 total). Each louver was rough cut on the table saw, then went to the planer, drum sander 120 grit (both sides), then random orbital sanded at 220 grit (both sides) in a make-shift jig that holds 22 louvers at a time. And finally, the router table to round over the edges (4 passes each for a total of 1440 passes). I used System Three T-88 Epoxy for glue-up due to the time it takes to line up all of the louvers (not fun!)

I have christened this chip carve "Swirling Around the Drain" AKA my life. It's 8.5 inches in diameter on 0.75 thick maple, and a quick blast of rattle can gloss poly. The "Beauty Mark" at 12 o'clock, took extensive planning.

Just added this to my offerings that my wife sells when she is doing her open air markets events. Just need to apply 2 coats of poly to the top and it's done

This one is similar to the "Swirling the Drain" that I carved earlier, but just a slight variation on the theme. It's also smaller at 9 inch diameter. I used 0.75 thick maple, and cut it with a 1 inch 90 degree V bit. This one I have labeled "The Blade"

Just a simple clock that is guaranteed to confuse Millennials, Gen Z, & Gen Alpha. Cut from hickory stock.

made this out of maple. Size is 8-1/2" wide x 11" high, I used a .125 tapered ball nose and a .0625 tapered ball nose on this. The font is IFC Railroad and I made the letters .125" high

I designed and carved this Taylor Bass kicker for the Buffalo Bills vs Miami Dolphins 30-27

Kudos to Rob S for the lesson a while back on epoxy signs. I was commissioned by my neighbor to make a sign for his new cabin. Originally, it was going to be painted. After watching Rob's Learn Your CNC lesson, I decided to take a crack at epoxy. This is my first one and it came out super. Needless to say the neighbor is thrilled. Thanks Rob!!!

Made this "Pak Flat" Cat House using two cats as an outline for the door. Then lasered a kitten with a butterfly and painted with acrylic paint. Butterflies are cutouts on sides and back. Learned a lot from this project!

I am new to this community. Just want to share the last thing I have made for fun. I am all over the place making different projects of all kinds. Lately I have been really enjoying making cutting boards. Love how these are turning out.

It’s hard to find time to decorate with an infant. My solution? Make a 6.5 ft tall Grinch to “steal” all my decorations. Now I get it all done in 10 minutes. This was a fun project, except for the painting, and was my first attempt at tiling a project. It’s not perfect, but it was a great learning experience and I’m really happy with how it looks.

A colorful plaque I carved and painted.

Just design and made it , Ohio trivet , in vcarve pro

A friend of the family is a huge Star Wars fan and my son came up with this idea for a gift exchange. Everything was designed in Aspire. The Death Star was 3D modeled and carved out of Cherry. The storm trooper was split into multiple closed vectors that were then exported to Fusion 360, extruded, 3D printed and assembled. The storm trooper is on 2 pins giving room for LED lights. Had lots of fun with this one.

Getting ready for the holiday fair

A few ornaments I made and carved.

Made this 19" x 15" by 3/4" inch Christmas tray using BAMX panels made with 1/8 inch mahogany top and bottom with bamboo sandwich in the center from Cutting it Close. What a pleasure it was not having to prep the wood prior to the carving! This was a one and a half hour carve. I used epoxy with gold flakes to give it a little sparkle in the VCarve design. It was an hour just sanding the epoxy down so a total of 2 1/2 hours from start to finish. This is the URL: https://cicworkshop.com/collections/wooden-panels/products/bamx?variant=42974606098623

I'd like to say that this was a fun little project but that would be a lie. This thing gave me fits at every turn. It only works with a .75" or larger 90-degree v-bit, I didn't own one, thanks IDC. Forgot to reset my zero in the controller, ate the first 2 x 2 piece of poplar. That "Little Stiffy" bit is sturdy no doubt. Because of the small size of the reindeer every time I made the final cut the antlers would break off. The vacuum table (16 x 16 Airweights) with a fixture plate pulled the one end lower than the other and cut the letters progressively deeper as it cut, now it looks like the excitement is building the closer we get to Christmas. One positive note, the pocket for the votive candle was a perfect fit on the first try. Still have to clear coat it before the grandkids gets here today, so back to the frozen shop for more holiday cheer. If anybody else wants to punish themself with this, please let me know and I'll put it in the Community Member Files page. Merry Christmas everyone.

Christmas is coming plaque I carved and painted with acrylic paints. Size is 9" x 8.5" wide. used a 1/4" endmill for roughing and a 1/16" tapered ball nose for finish toolpath, 4 hr carve.

10 months of your course, Kyle, learning Aspire v12, ultimately purchased a Maverick 3 x 5 Pro and finally made my first two real projects this month. I still have a lot to learn and perfect, but couldn't have done it without your tireless teachings. Appreciate what you do for us, especially the newbies, and look forward to many years perfecting my CNC abilities. Thanks!

Have you ever wanted to view the actual woodgrain direction of what you're cutting, including end grain cutting boards with inlays? I have figured it out, and it's really easy to do. I have also attached a zip file in the PDF file,with the different Y direction wood grains. I have found it amazing to be able to actually see the direction of the wood grain. I am using. It also helps me visualize when I'm cutting small parts to make sure that they are situated in the correct grain direction. Enjoy! If you have any questions, let me know!

Did this for a friend who lost her dogs over the years.

Sharing my latest project. I made 12 Jubilee crosses. I used the techniques Kyle teaches to create the artwork from a bitmap image. I used vcarve to cut the emblem and poured the 7 different epoxy colors. I also used v carve to create the arms of the cross. Used v carve to make templates since there was 12 of them. The rest was made with conventional wood working equipment, table saw, miter saw etc. The wood is hard white maple I sourced from a local saw mill.

Haha, when a customer wants what they want you make it. Office humor at it's finest! LOL

Handcrafted 3D Wooden Wall Art – Elderly Couple Embrace

At a family gathering my sister-in-law ask if I could 3D print a "Knitty Knotty" to which I answered " maybe if I had any idea what that is". This is a Knitty Knotty, I had to do some searching to find pictures of one on the internet. It's used for measuring yard after you spin it. I found many that were indeed 3D printed, usually in two interlocking pieces, all looked rather flimsy. I also saw many others that were made from wood and decided that I would take a stab at making one out of poplar. I had the spindle from another project. They have a small farm where they raise goats and chickens, so I decided to make a logo that I thought would look nice for it. I used Copilot AI to create the logo and used the generated image to Sketch Carve it on one end along with the name of their farm. I used Oramask for the V-carving of the letters and airbrushed them before flipping it to the other side. I later gave it 2 coats of shellac and hand painted the logo with a small brush and acrylic paint. A quick sanding job and coated with a couple coats of clear. Ready to do Knitty Knotty things. This was my first double sided project, and I need to rewatch some of those lessons before next time. It turned out ok but not perfect like I expect of myself.

I made this 3" x 27 1/2" x 18" cutting board from a hard Maple slab. I used a combination of Sketch Carve and V-carve, and manipulated the depth of cut in sketch carve in order to get a .45" cut depth for an epoxy fill. It worked out great due to the fact that it was a large carve.

For Christmas, I made a bunch of lithophanes for the family and fitted them in a one-piece cherry frame that I carved. I used tape LED lighting and carved a diffraction lens for each out of 1/4" acrylic using a 60* v-bit so the light would spread evenly without hotspots. And on the backs, I laser engraved the date the photo was taken, along with a QR code that when scanned gives a link to the original photo. The lithophanes were carved from some solid surface material for countertops with a 1/32" ballnose. Each piece is 3.5"x4" and took a little over 2 hours on average. Everyone loved them, great gift idea if you can find the material!

A few of my Lithophanes I carved all using a 1/32" tapered ball nose or a 1/16" tapered ball nose bit depending on photo and detail. Fun to make

Finished carving this 3d model added base to it, then added touch of paint to highlight the shadow.

Something I made for our pet. My wife painted it.

A coworker bought a new home so threw this together…

hello everyone I have made a new vaccum table from HDPE 15 mm if anyone wants the file I will gladly share it greetings Eric Meertens Netherlands

First double sided project using Aspire and an iTECH K6090T Desktop CNC Router. I didn't use the double sided feature of Aspire as I haven't completed any lessons on this yet. I just created a reverse image on a new sheet and created new tool paths. I used 20mm dogs as dowels on the centreline. Material - Lacewood for cockerell and golf ball - African rosewood for pedestal.

Valentines Day present. Created from one of the Valentines series of Kyles trainings.

Made a keepsake box overall size is 11" wide x 10-1/8' x 6-1/2" high. Took a while to figure it all out, but Kyle's videos helped, thank you.

My nephew passed away so I made a lithophane of his parents' favorite picture.

Changed a few items. I 3-d printed the knobs and top. The top is a friction fit. The body is 1.25 material but I pocket cut the openings instead of cutting different pieces. So the whole body is 1 solid piece. The base is 1” thick material

1st double sided carve. For a coworker who lost her daughter. Cedar

Wanted to make a unique project with ocean theme for a fund raising auction.

This was my first attempt at layering multiple designs and carving them. The base is hard maple with laminations of 0.125" walnut and a second layer of 0.125" maple.

I made a cool truck snack tray for my grandson. I made the graphic in v carve. I need to purchase a better bowl bit to make the bottom more smooth.

I am designing & making woodart for 2 years now. And I recently percased my CNC to be able to make different kind of designs (more round shaped & curvey) AND faster :) This is one of the first woodart designs I made with my CNC machine after completing the course 2 months ago. Very happy with the result. I only have to figure out how to get rid of the square lines.

I just had a thrill for fishing and it was fun carving this largemouth bass. The paint job might not be the best.the 3d modeling helped me tackle this project. There was really no real challenges involved that I know of.proud of all the good comments I got on Facebook.

This is a project that I made for a friend in a car club I first made some using paint and the next year he asked if I could make him some more. At that time I told him I am making things with epoxy and he said sounds good so I made him four of these using epoxy and he was very happy with the way they turned out as he gave them to the fowls who helped his with the car shows.

Just finished carving and painting this 3d model golum from the lord of the ring hope you like it

I missed the live lesson on this on Thursday but have done a lot of stacked text. I have done this 2 yrs ago using aspire. Pocket is .25" deep, bottom text is .125"high and the top text is .15 high. I only used a .125 tapered ball nose bit for the toolpath. All I did was click on the vector border and do a 3D finish toolpath, that's it.

This is another custom 3D carved bench 100% designed in Aspire 12. Used 3" maple for legs and 2" for back and seat. Has the Bonneville Dam carved in the back.(It is a local dam here in the NorthWest on the Columbia river). The legs have the Army Corp of Engineers Castle carved on the ends. It is 36"H X 54"L X 23"W

This was a custom design/carve out of crotch maple using Aspire 12. It is 7" X 7" X 1". Going to Australia!

Chip Carved in maple , just under 12 inches in diameter.

Carved this cross in cherry, measures 11" x 7 1/2"

Hey Kyle, just wanted to say thanks for the help on the flowers for my plaque, Here is the pic of how it turned out. P.s the verse is the Lord's Prayer in German.

I decided to just use the rope border in the clip art because I wanted it going one direction.

Finally tried the tiling! Not as hard as I expected. Thanks for the guidance in your lessons!

Kyle, I used your wavey flag file for the front of this.

Volunteer work to raise money for a free Hospice Center in my area.

Mothers Day Sign from Kyle's Class

I finally felt capable of designing and cutting out new aluminum mounting plates to upgrade my two year old Openbuilds Lead 1010 from V-wheels on X and Z axis to HGR15 linear rails. Replacing the wheels as they wore or cracked was tedious. To some this may seem trivial but to me it was proving my progress of learning the software and hardware. The tolerances have been greatly increased after adding the linear rails. The Y axis will get upgraded when I am able to obtain more linear rails. Thanks for looking.

One of my first projects.

Built this game for the family, not sure I want to go through the effort of marketing and selling because it required me to manually paint and I don’t enjoy the painting part. I can make for others if they really want but it isn’t a cheap one if I will make money for my material and time. I really like the look of this BAMX Material from Cutting It Close. The material can be purchased at this link: https://cicworkshop.com/products/bamx... Full disclosure: It is an affiliate link so I get a small commission if you purchase. My family has 7 people living in the house so the previous 4 person aggravation style games didn’t allow us all to play at the same time and didn’t want to leave a family member out. I developed this 8 person version to resolve the issue. And liked the BAMX material look. I wanted to be able to build marble storage into the board but the approximately 0.745” didn’t provide adequate pocket room with material above and below the pocket for the 14mm marbles and dice. Material above, so the marble holes don’t go through . Material below so a sturdy lid could be mounted with magnets or some other method. Because of this I opted to 3D print a separate marble holder. Lid not shown. I designed in Fusion so that all I do is put in the number of players, and sizze of the marble and Fusion will make the case the correct size for the storage. That was fun figuring out the parametric dessign for that. #bamx #aggravation #gameboard #familytime #games

A couple projects I’ve done in the last several days. Both are made of cherry and finished with tung oil. The tray is 14 5/8 x 11 3/4 x 1 3/4.

Thanks to the advice I received here and on the Q&A show, about creating gothic tracery, I was able to decorate this copy of a 15th Century French bench on my Genmitsu PROVerXL 6050 Plus. Already I can see the charm of a CNC with ATC. This design uses 4 bits for the legs. Dimensions are 20" tall, 11.5" wide and 25" long. Red oak.

My son got me a set of handmade knives for my birthday, so I made them a magnetic knife block. My plan is to add an edge lit acrylic panel in front, i.e. the slot in the base, later. Now if somebody breaks in the house, I can strip all the knives off of here and beat them to death with the block, 24 ceramic magnets adds up the old weight. First time using laminated bamboo, it actually cut pretty nice.

I carved this a while back and have been playing with the finish on it, my wife and I did the epoxy ( only second time using epoxy, just experimenting) and she dry brushed the detail. I think I’m going to call it done.

Another successful project completed, many thanks to the lessons learned here with Tiling Toolpaths!

My first project with VCarve and my Shapeoko 5. Definitely a learning curve over Carbide Create. This is far from perfect, but my grandson will love it.

Hey group, made another snack tray ! V carve Pro and the live classes make this easy. The new bowl bit is the GOAT. Fast and very smooth on the bottom, toolstoday #45986.

One side project carving soap holder designed and cut with cnc

I created this French Cleat bracket for stacking Bar Clamps. You can adjust width of 2 parts to make it work for other clamps than what I have shown. VCarve file available upon request.

French Cleat hammer holder. VCarve file available upon request.

Finished this clock for my son. Tried adding led lights for first time.

Here are 2 of the projects I made in the last few days. The sign still has to be painted.

I made this bar sign for a coworker. They love bourbon and the bar in their home is called the “Drankin Room”. Was a quick little project on a Saturday.

I finished a model I made of my son & daughter, which I carved from Rosewood. The wood is beautiful, but the grain pattern was a little too distracting, so I decided to try and paint it. Not great but I'm happy with my first shot at this. The faces are the most difficult to paint, but I learned about layering paint, shading and dry brush techniques.

I finally had time and warm weather to finish the sign that I started during last month's challenge. Late for the challenge, but I think it turned out pretty well.

This is a retirement clock I did for a fellow instructor pilot in the C-17. It is patterned after elements in the pilots Heads Up Display. All the inlay work is using face grain and the hands were cut out using the OPT laser on my AVID CNC. I sloped the face to resemble the earth using the V Carve molding tool path.

Did some carvings during my visit to my country (Philippines)last month. My first try with my CNC machine.

Created this two sided bowl (epoxy resin lip, white oak, and maple) using Aspire. This one could be done using vCarve pro if the "drip stock" model was imported from an STL file. This was done using a two sided project, profile, and pocket tool paths. I will create a video on how I did this soon. Already created a video on how I got this brilliant shine using my lathe - if interested go checkout my YouTube Channel Rob Sandstrom Designs

Another house warming gift for a coworker. Included is his wife's vision for what she wanted.

New welcome sign for house.

I did the Haunted Mansion plague this weekend and the other two during the week. My wife painted the Welcome sign but I need to finish it and the others.

My wife makes pictures with small colored dots and always has many dots left over when she finishes. I mixed them all together and pocket cut the letters in a decorative cutting board that she picked up at Walmart with her niece’s name. I then poured it with epoxy for the final touches. I think it turned out very unique.

I carved this over the weekend out of cherry and haven’t decided on a finish.

My most recent model that I used the learning from this training program and lives to be able to do. this model was designed completely from my imagination. I have been using some material from CIC workshop for trays and other projects and wondered how it would look glued up and put in a bowl. Making a video on the process for my YouTube Channel at this time. Should release within the next week to show the process. It wasn't as difficult as I had thought it would be, the more of these I make the easier they are to create. I used the create rounded shape component, limit (zero) plane, and 3D tabs features to create the bowl and setup the toolpaths. It was a combination of 3D model and pocket tooldpaths to get what was desired. Attaching pictures of the final bowl to show results of using the BAMX material.

This was my second attempt at a double sided project. First attempt is not to be mentioned! Vectric free files of the month

My Mom wanted a dish for her avocados so I made her this. Bloodwood carved on a 48 x30 Longmill. Vcarve Pro wants to kick my butt, but I have Kyle. Thank you sir, this platform rocks.

Cutting Board with sign engrave on back side of cutting board

All done! I hope they like it.

Had to have a sign for the shop door.

My wife likes Hummingbirds, so I made this for her. It was made out of Bacote and finished with Tung Oil. The overall dimensions are 15.75 x 9 x .875

So success at last. I finally got my gun grips finished. One set was made of cherry and the other walnut (a pair of each). This was a two sided job with the 3D model on the top and only pocket and moulding toolpaths on the bottom. Kyle's tips on how to add extensions to the profile vectors for the moulding toolpath really helped out. One of my questions in the Q&A was the thickness of the back edge of the grip. This turned out to be a problem the the cross sections of the two rail sweep. Again with his advise I used a contour gauge to measure the contour at four points down the original grips and was able to get a good 3D model. Thanks Kyle!

Made a few minions I found on cults3D and thingiverse. I used white oak cherry and ambrosia maple. They are 1 sided using v carve pro

Made these out of poplar They go with the catfish ones I make. As you can see I have been experimenting with finishing techniques and #4 is in its natural unfinished state. Also, they are hand painted as I do not have a laser to etch the black parts

This is my newest creation. I still have to tweak it a little. I used 3D modeling, V-carve lettering, and laser etching. I hope to carve it tomorrow.

Just a fun napkin holder project, combining my 2 hobbies of woodworking and model aviation.

Live Edge version of the shared file

My AI chip Carve It's Bear :30 Clocks

These are cherry bifold louver doors that I finished last month for laundry area and furnace. Because the dryer & furnace burn gas, I wanted to make sure there would be enough combustion air, so I angled the louvers at 30 degrees to provide more air flow. The louvers took some time, there are 90 louvers per door (360 total). Each louver was rough cut on the table saw, then went to the planer, drum sander 120 grit (both sides), then random orbital sanded at 220 grit (both sides) in a make-shift jig that holds 22 louvers at a time. And finally, the router table to round over the edges (4 passes each for a total of 1440 passes). I used System Three T-88 Epoxy for glue-up due to the time it takes to line up all of the louvers (not fun!)

I have christened this chip carve "Swirling Around the Drain" AKA my life. It's 8.5 inches in diameter on 0.75 thick maple, and a quick blast of rattle can gloss poly. The "Beauty Mark" at 12 o'clock, took extensive planning.

Just added this to my offerings that my wife sells when she is doing her open air markets events. Just need to apply 2 coats of poly to the top and it's done

This one is similar to the "Swirling the Drain" that I carved earlier, but just a slight variation on the theme. It's also smaller at 9 inch diameter. I used 0.75 thick maple, and cut it with a 1 inch 90 degree V bit. This one I have labeled "The Blade"

Just a simple clock that is guaranteed to confuse Millennials, Gen Z, & Gen Alpha. Cut from hickory stock.

made this out of maple. Size is 8-1/2" wide x 11" high, I used a .125 tapered ball nose and a .0625 tapered ball nose on this. The font is IFC Railroad and I made the letters .125" high

I designed and carved this Taylor Bass kicker for the Buffalo Bills vs Miami Dolphins 30-27

Kudos to Rob S for the lesson a while back on epoxy signs. I was commissioned by my neighbor to make a sign for his new cabin. Originally, it was going to be painted. After watching Rob's Learn Your CNC lesson, I decided to take a crack at epoxy. This is my first one and it came out super. Needless to say the neighbor is thrilled. Thanks Rob!!!

Made this "Pak Flat" Cat House using two cats as an outline for the door. Then lasered a kitten with a butterfly and painted with acrylic paint. Butterflies are cutouts on sides and back. Learned a lot from this project!

I am new to this community. Just want to share the last thing I have made for fun. I am all over the place making different projects of all kinds. Lately I have been really enjoying making cutting boards. Love how these are turning out.

It’s hard to find time to decorate with an infant. My solution? Make a 6.5 ft tall Grinch to “steal” all my decorations. Now I get it all done in 10 minutes. This was a fun project, except for the painting, and was my first attempt at tiling a project. It’s not perfect, but it was a great learning experience and I’m really happy with how it looks.

A colorful plaque I carved and painted.

Just design and made it , Ohio trivet , in vcarve pro

A friend of the family is a huge Star Wars fan and my son came up with this idea for a gift exchange. Everything was designed in Aspire. The Death Star was 3D modeled and carved out of Cherry. The storm trooper was split into multiple closed vectors that were then exported to Fusion 360, extruded, 3D printed and assembled. The storm trooper is on 2 pins giving room for LED lights. Had lots of fun with this one.

Getting ready for the holiday fair

A few ornaments I made and carved.

Made this 19" x 15" by 3/4" inch Christmas tray using BAMX panels made with 1/8 inch mahogany top and bottom with bamboo sandwich in the center from Cutting it Close. What a pleasure it was not having to prep the wood prior to the carving! This was a one and a half hour carve. I used epoxy with gold flakes to give it a little sparkle in the VCarve design. It was an hour just sanding the epoxy down so a total of 2 1/2 hours from start to finish. This is the URL: https://cicworkshop.com/collections/wooden-panels/products/bamx?variant=42974606098623

I'd like to say that this was a fun little project but that would be a lie. This thing gave me fits at every turn. It only works with a .75" or larger 90-degree v-bit, I didn't own one, thanks IDC. Forgot to reset my zero in the controller, ate the first 2 x 2 piece of poplar. That "Little Stiffy" bit is sturdy no doubt. Because of the small size of the reindeer every time I made the final cut the antlers would break off. The vacuum table (16 x 16 Airweights) with a fixture plate pulled the one end lower than the other and cut the letters progressively deeper as it cut, now it looks like the excitement is building the closer we get to Christmas. One positive note, the pocket for the votive candle was a perfect fit on the first try. Still have to clear coat it before the grandkids gets here today, so back to the frozen shop for more holiday cheer. If anybody else wants to punish themself with this, please let me know and I'll put it in the Community Member Files page. Merry Christmas everyone.

Christmas is coming plaque I carved and painted with acrylic paints. Size is 9" x 8.5" wide. used a 1/4" endmill for roughing and a 1/16" tapered ball nose for finish toolpath, 4 hr carve.

10 months of your course, Kyle, learning Aspire v12, ultimately purchased a Maverick 3 x 5 Pro and finally made my first two real projects this month. I still have a lot to learn and perfect, but couldn't have done it without your tireless teachings. Appreciate what you do for us, especially the newbies, and look forward to many years perfecting my CNC abilities. Thanks!

Have you ever wanted to view the actual woodgrain direction of what you're cutting, including end grain cutting boards with inlays? I have figured it out, and it's really easy to do. I have also attached a zip file in the PDF file,with the different Y direction wood grains. I have found it amazing to be able to actually see the direction of the wood grain. I am using. It also helps me visualize when I'm cutting small parts to make sure that they are situated in the correct grain direction. Enjoy! If you have any questions, let me know!

Did this for a friend who lost her dogs over the years.

Sharing my latest project. I made 12 Jubilee crosses. I used the techniques Kyle teaches to create the artwork from a bitmap image. I used vcarve to cut the emblem and poured the 7 different epoxy colors. I also used v carve to create the arms of the cross. Used v carve to make templates since there was 12 of them. The rest was made with conventional wood working equipment, table saw, miter saw etc. The wood is hard white maple I sourced from a local saw mill.

Haha, when a customer wants what they want you make it. Office humor at it's finest! LOL

Handcrafted 3D Wooden Wall Art – Elderly Couple Embrace

At a family gathering my sister-in-law ask if I could 3D print a "Knitty Knotty" to which I answered " maybe if I had any idea what that is". This is a Knitty Knotty, I had to do some searching to find pictures of one on the internet. It's used for measuring yard after you spin it. I found many that were indeed 3D printed, usually in two interlocking pieces, all looked rather flimsy. I also saw many others that were made from wood and decided that I would take a stab at making one out of poplar. I had the spindle from another project. They have a small farm where they raise goats and chickens, so I decided to make a logo that I thought would look nice for it. I used Copilot AI to create the logo and used the generated image to Sketch Carve it on one end along with the name of their farm. I used Oramask for the V-carving of the letters and airbrushed them before flipping it to the other side. I later gave it 2 coats of shellac and hand painted the logo with a small brush and acrylic paint. A quick sanding job and coated with a couple coats of clear. Ready to do Knitty Knotty things. This was my first double sided project, and I need to rewatch some of those lessons before next time. It turned out ok but not perfect like I expect of myself.

I made this 3" x 27 1/2" x 18" cutting board from a hard Maple slab. I used a combination of Sketch Carve and V-carve, and manipulated the depth of cut in sketch carve in order to get a .45" cut depth for an epoxy fill. It worked out great due to the fact that it was a large carve.

For Christmas, I made a bunch of lithophanes for the family and fitted them in a one-piece cherry frame that I carved. I used tape LED lighting and carved a diffraction lens for each out of 1/4" acrylic using a 60* v-bit so the light would spread evenly without hotspots. And on the backs, I laser engraved the date the photo was taken, along with a QR code that when scanned gives a link to the original photo. The lithophanes were carved from some solid surface material for countertops with a 1/32" ballnose. Each piece is 3.5"x4" and took a little over 2 hours on average. Everyone loved them, great gift idea if you can find the material!

A few of my Lithophanes I carved all using a 1/32" tapered ball nose or a 1/16" tapered ball nose bit depending on photo and detail. Fun to make

Finished carving this 3d model added base to it, then added touch of paint to highlight the shadow.

Something I made for our pet. My wife painted it.

A coworker bought a new home so threw this together…

hello everyone I have made a new vaccum table from HDPE 15 mm if anyone wants the file I will gladly share it greetings Eric Meertens Netherlands

First double sided project using Aspire and an iTECH K6090T Desktop CNC Router. I didn't use the double sided feature of Aspire as I haven't completed any lessons on this yet. I just created a reverse image on a new sheet and created new tool paths. I used 20mm dogs as dowels on the centreline. Material - Lacewood for cockerell and golf ball - African rosewood for pedestal.

Valentines Day present. Created from one of the Valentines series of Kyles trainings.

Made a keepsake box overall size is 11" wide x 10-1/8' x 6-1/2" high. Took a while to figure it all out, but Kyle's videos helped, thank you.

My nephew passed away so I made a lithophane of his parents' favorite picture.

Changed a few items. I 3-d printed the knobs and top. The top is a friction fit. The body is 1.25 material but I pocket cut the openings instead of cutting different pieces. So the whole body is 1 solid piece. The base is 1” thick material

1st double sided carve. For a coworker who lost her daughter. Cedar

Wanted to make a unique project with ocean theme for a fund raising auction.

This was my first attempt at layering multiple designs and carving them. The base is hard maple with laminations of 0.125" walnut and a second layer of 0.125" maple.

I made a cool truck snack tray for my grandson. I made the graphic in v carve. I need to purchase a better bowl bit to make the bottom more smooth.

I am designing & making woodart for 2 years now. And I recently percased my CNC to be able to make different kind of designs (more round shaped & curvey) AND faster :) This is one of the first woodart designs I made with my CNC machine after completing the course 2 months ago. Very happy with the result. I only have to figure out how to get rid of the square lines.

I just had a thrill for fishing and it was fun carving this largemouth bass. The paint job might not be the best.the 3d modeling helped me tackle this project. There was really no real challenges involved that I know of.proud of all the good comments I got on Facebook.

This is a project that I made for a friend in a car club I first made some using paint and the next year he asked if I could make him some more. At that time I told him I am making things with epoxy and he said sounds good so I made him four of these using epoxy and he was very happy with the way they turned out as he gave them to the fowls who helped his with the car shows.

Just finished carving and painting this 3d model golum from the lord of the ring hope you like it

I missed the live lesson on this on Thursday but have done a lot of stacked text. I have done this 2 yrs ago using aspire. Pocket is .25" deep, bottom text is .125"high and the top text is .15 high. I only used a .125 tapered ball nose bit for the toolpath. All I did was click on the vector border and do a 3D finish toolpath, that's it.

This is another custom 3D carved bench 100% designed in Aspire 12. Used 3" maple for legs and 2" for back and seat. Has the Bonneville Dam carved in the back.(It is a local dam here in the NorthWest on the Columbia river). The legs have the Army Corp of Engineers Castle carved on the ends. It is 36"H X 54"L X 23"W

This was a custom design/carve out of crotch maple using Aspire 12. It is 7" X 7" X 1". Going to Australia!

Chip Carved in maple , just under 12 inches in diameter.

Carved this cross in cherry, measures 11" x 7 1/2"

Hey Kyle, just wanted to say thanks for the help on the flowers for my plaque, Here is the pic of how it turned out. P.s the verse is the Lord's Prayer in German.

I decided to just use the rope border in the clip art because I wanted it going one direction.

Finally tried the tiling! Not as hard as I expected. Thanks for the guidance in your lessons!

Kyle, I used your wavey flag file for the front of this.