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
I’ve loved steam trains for as long as I can remember. They just have a magic about them. I’ve panted a bunch of historical murals that featured them and have studied endless historical photos to get the details just right.
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.
Now that we’ve created a simple relief and modified it a couple different ways it is time to get a little fancier. Let’s start with a chamfered border on our fish plaque.
During my recent vacation I had plenty of time to think about things I would like to talk about in the future. Visiting Disneyland sure fired up my imagination.
Learning to be a good designer takes time. I believe it comes through practice and also by truly seeing (and taking careful note of what we see) good design around us. There are some good books available, the best most likely the one by the late Mike Stevens