24" wide x 48" long for the box and a 6" diameter hole at a specific location. Front edge is 3" tall, rear edge is 12" tall, and they usually have folding legs at the rear.
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One has been cut and stained and one being cut as I post this. No more will be made like this one.
Great job C1 look very nice I should make one for the Gandkids maybe it will keep them away from the Xbox..:D
Lou
Thanks Lou, I should be finished with these by late evening and will let the last coat of poly dry overnight. These were done with a foam brush and the final coat will be a coat of spray-on poly. Tomorrow I can reattach the legs and have the guy come by to pick them up.
I have put far too much effort into these. I doubt that many home builders spend much money or time on them.
C1, your right but that little extra that you add makes them stand out from the others..
Lou
I hope so Lou. Most of my payback comes from posting what I am working on in this forum and sometimes in the Vectric forums. There is no real effort to make money with it. The biggest payback is when a family member gives smiles in return for something I made for them. Too many years went by when I was absorbed with making a living and paid less attention to them.
Anyone want to help me design a paradise box top? A friend wants one with deer/fish on it. I am kinda in a creative stump. Below is the boring Ive come up with so far. Anyone want to take a stab at something or help me better my design?
The attached file cindyboxtop.rar is my current crv3d file.
Here's a fast rework using what you had plus a border and a couple of the flourishes that I've been using lately.
I noticed that your feed rate and plunge rate numbers for the 7/16" V-bit are very slow. Can your machine go faster, like above 100 inches per minute?
Ahh thats better looking! Can you post the flourishes file you used for that? Yeah my machine is deathly slow, 18ipm feed and 10ipm plunge. I have a TB6560 for a controller and I believe that is my bottleneck.
I updated the simulation image to a colorized version.
Those numbers will make this take a few hours to cut it. Your cutters may overheat and char the wood.
No doubt that they are the bottleneck. Multi-start lead screws may improve the speed before stalling occurs. All I see about the TB6560 is negative. I have a G540 on my smaller steel machine and four G203V drives on my big machine and highly recommend them. Though the cost is out of reach for many of us home builders the G540 is worth saving for.
What does the colorized stuff do? Is there a way I can get the flourishes you used from it? Ive found every flourish vector on the internet but the one you used.
Here ya go. Two flourishes in DXF file format. These are a modified version of one from rscrawford on the Vectric forums, with his permission.
rscrawford created the original design and used it for inlay on his custom stools made of birch and walnut. I asked him if I could use it and modify it. He posted his version and you can find that one in the Vcarve Pro forums.
I made it more frilly and made other changes in the way the 'body' looks.
Changing the colors is for making the simulation look a little more like a finished sign would look if you are expecting a customer to review it before finalizing a design. The range of colors to choose from is somewhat limited if choosing from the color chart, but the Custom tab lets you fine tune the color for closer match to a particular shade. I just used the rough choices for the previous image.
Amazing what a couple flourishes can do....
Yep, that made a difference. It needed a border also. The assembled box is going to look pretty good.
I played with a simple flourish shape this week to see what could be done with it. Just an unbalanced S shape shown at the top center. All the rest were made from it just by the way the copies were arranged.