Faking rough cut wood border

[plemon]

Hi,

Anyone know of any techniques for creating an old rough edge for a wooden sign? I'm using nice dressed timber and want to mess up the border of a sign to make it look old fashioned and hand made.

Phil

[marysvillesign]

Toymaker over at the Vectric forum was kind enough
to show his method:
http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8730

[plemon]

That's a big help. Thanks

[srwtlc]

If you happen to have the "Design & Carve Wildlife" series from VectorArt 3d, there's a video tutorial for a rustic hand hewn look frame that is available online in the additional resources section.

If you have Aspire/VCP/PW, you could use the "texture toolpath".

Also, with Aspire, you can create a model of the texture preview and cut it as a 3D toolpath. Tim Merrill has a good example here...

http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=8861&p=62511&hilit=hand+hewn#p62511