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I had a request recently to cut out a Michigan State Spartan item to go along with the Michigan cutting board I did for someone. Because of the Spartan head logo, I can’t cut it out like I did with the Michigan outline because the parts aren’t all connected. I decided have the head stand proud as a full board instead of a cutout. Because I was afraid the image would get a little lost in the board that was all the same color, I came up with the idea to stain the board first and then cut out the background leaving the Spartan head stained.
About 10 years ago, I had found out that you can get stain colored at Home Depot and this is just what I needed to do to keep with the school colors.
Here is a picture of the piece of wood I started with.
Here is the pictures of the colored stain and what the board looked like after the first coat of stain.
Here is a shot of the computer screen during the carving process.
I got pretty excited about how the image was turning out, so I took a picture after it was only 24% complete.
I’ll share some more pictures as it gets closer to being finished. Since the stain is water based and not the usual oil based stain that I usually use, I need to tinker with the finish that I am going to use. I am teetering between wipe on poly or polyacrylic.
Very cool bro!
Nice! What’s the difference between the two finishes and what do you like using?
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KnarlyCarl wrote:
3 hours ago, KnarlyCarl said:Nice! What’s the difference between the two finishes and what do you like using?
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Polyeurothane is oil based I believe and the polycrylic is water based which works better with the water based stain. It also leaves more of a milky finish than the glassy look of polyeurothane.
Note to anyone…..please correct me if I am wrong.
The project finally came off of the X-Carve. It took in excess of 4 hours to cut out. I still need to do some work on it, but here is what it looks like so far.
Looks really good! Beautiful wood you got there as well tugnut!
Jimbo
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Dam man that’s looks awesome,,,, how much do these X-Carve machines go for? Looks like you can have a ton of fun with these
MikeyB wrote:
Dam man that’s looks awesome,,,, how much do these X-Carve machines go for? Looks like you can have a ton of fun with these
$$$$$ throw in an arm and a leg too
https://www.inventables.com/technologies/x-carve
Starts at 950, full kit is 1500, they have a 200 dollar software upgrade as well
Jimbo
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Thanks Jimbo, that’s on my future list
They came out beautiful John!! Are you going to post the rockler cart mod to?
Mondo1310 wrote:
7 hours ago, Mondo1310 said:They came out beautiful John!! Are you going to post the rockler cart mod to?
Hey Mondo, I posted it in the “In the shop” sub-forum.