Made this 60” halloween decoration as my first relief. Curious to hear feedback for improvements.
I still havent figured out reliefs in Carveco yet so I got some help. I used AI for some design ideas and sent them to a guy on Fiverr. For $60 he transformed it into my specified dimensions. And he setup the Carevco model. Almost flawless in that regard. $60 was worth it as I needed this done quickly for a party.
since this is 60” wide I had to do it in three sections and clamp it. Need to work on my tiling skills. Thinking of lifting my longmill up an inch so I can pass the wood underneath the y rails. This would allow me to do this on one continuous wood piece. Is that crazy?
used pine that I had laying around. Not terrible since I will be painting it black anyways. Next time I would use poplar or something budget friendly. Hoping those pine knots get covered well with the paint.
bits: used 1/4” endmill for roughing. 1 hour, 40 mins cut time. Next time I would use a 1/4” roughing bit and speed up the feeds. Then used 1/8” ball nose with .03” overstep. Could do better but this was already a 2 hour path and want this done.
I don’t know the capabilites of Carveco, but in VCarvePro, this could be done using the tiling feature. Using this, you would do it in one piece, “tiling” it in Y so that you can slide it front to back. You don’t need to run it under the Y gantries.
Again, in VCarve, I would set the stepover of the finishing pass to 8% of the bit diameter. It does add time, but it almost eliminates sanding.
Yeah. Guess I could do that too. Am about to replace spoil board and the board its sitting on so thought that might be a decent capability to add if I ever want to do linger pieces.
Re: tiling. I would have to upgrade from a $15/mo to $50/mo product. I will think about it for future.
A month ago I had a client that needed something simular. Some carved strips being about 100 inch. When I contructed my table, I made sure it was able to slide off the wall and even rotate into the with of my space if needed, to be able to do longer projects.
Because I don’t care much if my spoilboard isn’t perfectly flat to the machine, I made a sliding mold for this one project. I made this mold perfectly flat to the machine and dimpled a zero point on the side to always be able to reset my xy zero so I could use the mill for inbetween projects. A few stripes with a vbit made tiling easy.
The client brought in plained hard wood that was flat within 2 tenths of a mm.
It was an intence process to come up with this method for there was no room for mistakes, but it worked and in the end the boards went through pretty smoothly.
I think something simular would work with your 60"" boards aswell.
Just a scrap board with a pocket as wide as the project, some inserts for clamping and a few ref points and your good to go.
