Fretwork

[robert_cheal]

25556.jpg Reference drawing was about 1"x 3"
Scanned in and traced over in AutoCad
I attempted to create hand drawn look with subtle irregularities.
The pattern had to be created to fill up a 12" X 96" board to be installed as door surrounds.
I made 4 of these.


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The panels were machined 1/4" deep and a relief cut at the weave point. All of the remaing detail was hand done.
On the first one I was getting tear out in the field, a new router bit helped reduce that problem.
The final back ground was stamped out with leather tool.

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For me would be interesting to discuss detailing tricks and other software options for projects like this. I have only dabbeled in projects like this. It would be fun to get better at it even for only personal projects.

Robert

[fleinbach]

Nice Robert, I don't have any information on finishing for you but I do like it.

[robert_cheal]

Frank,

Thanks for your comments.

I had good help with the hand detailing and yes it's more work than any one imagined. It gets my mind thinking about new tools for stamping background textures.

Robert