Cedar Mantel

[zeykr]

Cedar Mantle ~60" x 6" x 12". Scene was purchased from vector art 3d by the customer.

[dlcw]

Very cool Ken. I've been approached by many people to do this exact type of cedar mantles. I assume you cut a slice off the face, carved it and then glued it back on? That is my plan.

[tuck]

Awesome!!!

[curtiss]

Pretty impressive, looks like a six-horsepower stagecoach, must be pulling some beer of some kind.

[joe]

Excellent work Ken.

The wood, with it's colors add a lot of movement to the carving. You gotta make one of these for youself and prospective clients.

Keep up the good work. Looks like you're on a roll.

Joe Crumley
www.jcrumley1@cox.net
www.normansignco.com

[zeykr]

Don,
My plan was exactly as you say when I had the PRT, but with the 12' PRS, I set up the table so it has a 2' overhang with the idea of doing things like this. I do quite a bit of work with logs such as mortises for balusters and the overhang has come in very handy. Plan is to build a nice adjustable/removable table under this area, but for this one I jury rigged it.

[bob_s]

Ken;
Very nice work
Before you build a structure on the end and fight with the overhang problems take a look at this.
I have had to make a number of table bases that started as 12 x 12 beams. I decided to cut a hole in my table from about 77 to 90 in the X and 6 to 42 in the Y. This was the largest that i could make it without moving the steel and I didn't have time to do that. I then put an open Box in underneath that is attached to the PRS steel beams and is very close to being perfectly aligned with my top surface. It has made handling these large beams much easier. It is like having a basement 8 1/2 inches below part of my table.
I have a joinery setup on one end now for mortice and tenon work using Gary's dovetail setup as my starting point.
If I knew then... I probably would have set my table up "shorter" in the Y because I rarely do full sheet work like the cabinet makers. That would have given me room for a big overhang on both ends. Although this hole in the surface does allow me to cut 4 x8 by just putting a Brady vac with a closed bottom over it.

[myxpykalix]

Ken,
I like your "helper" in the shop there. Beats having to manhandle that heavy stuff huh?

To date i haven't done anything extra long but if you look at my table, your picture has shown me an idea on how to do thicker long stock and i'm thinking i could set up one of those fences with a micro adjustment to be able to index it....

[billp]

Ken,
Paint the forklift blue, and you're done with the refit.....

[MogulTx]

Bill-

And you then need to send him two ShopBot decals. One for each side of the mast! He can have the first ShopBot Robo-helper...