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I’ve been asked to include tool paths in this series of posts. I will be including feeds and speeds but it is important to remember that all machines are not created equal

Before we get to tool pathing I want to show how I prepare many of my piece for routing. The standard way is to tool path and route the piece and then do an offset cut to free them from the substrate. This works well but in doing so a burr, the size of the radius of the smallest tool is left around the top edge.

For our sixth version of the fish relief I did not start at the beginning. The chamfered edge relief with the sunken center was already done

For the next version of the relief we started where we left off yesterday.  To begin adding to that version I created a small circle vector and then duplicated it three times

As we get into the fourth version of this fish relief it is getting much more fun.  If you’ve practices and memorized the steps in creating reliefs up to this point then this is where the real fun and creativity begin. This time around I’ll be doing a few things differently because we’ll be adding textures to various parts of the relief in specific areas

Today I created another version of the fish plaque, taking things up one more notch of course.