Installing trim

The routed pieces were mitered and then fastened in place.  We then used sculpting epoxy to fill the holes and seams before painting.

The pieces will get three coats of base color and then three layers of glaze. The hearts will be then painted pink to match the corner block trim on the rest of the house like in the background of the photo.

Today the last of the trim was painted for around the circular windows and doors. We’ll be installing that tomorrow. Stay tuned…
-dan

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Final details

We’ve created more than 200 routing files for the trim on the house and routed thousands of pieces over the last two years. In the last three weeks we’ve been working hard to finish the outside and this includes creating even more routing files and then routing a bunch more pieces. Thankfully there aren’t many areas left to do.

The trim around the front and patio doors was routed yesterday and assembled today. This afternoon I created the routing files for the decorative bands around the patio posts. I thought them worth posting as they involve three different procedures that are a teeny bit tricky.

The decorative bands are 8 inches wide and are comprised of four pieces that will be motored to fit. As usual I started with some vector files created in EnRoute.

 I then created a fat relief using the large rectangle.

Next I created a thinner flat relief of the three crews that would be embossed on the final piece.

I then added domed hearts to the centre panel.

I then added some woodgrain to the rectangular shape using one of the bitmaps from my TEXTURE MAGIC COLLECTION. This shot shows how I stretched out the bitmap to allow the rectangle to fit into the section of woodgrain I liked.

I used a value of 0.15 inches for the woodgrain.

I then merged using the REPLACE function. First I selected the relief I wanted to modify.

Then =, following the prompts I selected the areas I wanted to merge.

 As quick as that the panel was ready to tool path. But I needed eight panels so I duplicated them and arranged them to fit onto the piece of 30 lb Precision Board I would route them from. Then I used a 3/8″ ball nose bit for the rough pass with a 50% overlap. The final pass was done using a 1/8″ ball noise bit and an 80% overlap.

Here’s a shot of the pieces on the MultiCam.
Tomorrow the completed pieces will be mitred and then painted before they are installed on the house. I’ll post a picture of the completed door and the posts as well.
-dan

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House featured in South Africa

Janis and I designed and built our new house for ourselves, to enjoy and be comfortable. It is also designed to showcase the things we are passionate about. Although there is still a lot of work to do to totally finish it off the house has garnered a lot of attention already. The latest was a feature in a South African architecture magazine.

I was interviewed late last year by a fellow from England who was writing some articles about how EnRoute Software was being used. He loved our house and thought it was worth a mention. That article was picked up by the magazine.

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HEARTS! Everywhere.

We are wrapping up the routing on the house project for the season as we move on to begin the major customer project that will take us into NEXT summer. The crew is split right now with half finishing up the work on the house and the other half busy on the new. My job is to juggle and organize everyone, plus the final planning for the big project plus the preliminary planning for the next after that. I’m also trying to squeeze in as much physical work as I can as well.

Half the shop is stacked with almost completed trim in the final stages of paint. Most are the square trim blocks that will go on the intersections of all of the house trip. It is a colorful sight! Next week they will all be out of the shop and onto the house at last!

The house is now looking spectacular with the bulk of the trim in place. It is hard to believe how many pieces were designed in EnRoute, and routed with the MultiCam from 30 lb Precision Board. The project would have been almost impossible any other way. I’ll be posting pictures soon of the house with the trim all in place.
-dan

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Last routed piece for inside new house

Today a long awaited piece is on the MultiCam. It’s the last piece for inside the new house.

In the last nineteen months I’ve created more than 200 routing files in EnRoute and we’ve routed thousands of pieces. Now the last piece is on the router for the interior with not many left on the outside to go.

 It’s been quite the adventure – our largest routing project to date. Just the same I’m gonna enjoy simply living in the house instead of working on it regularly.

-dan

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