Recent Work

[woodstripboats]

Just a few photos of some of the parts on a recent restoration project...installation almost finished by contractor. I did the modeling and fabrication of the all the components. The turned posts were 11'6"....

Charlie

[myxpykalix]

beautiful work.

[scottp55]

Wonderful restoration work!!
Congrats:)
scott

[James M]

Nice work! What wood and techniques did you employ to restore the architectural features? Did you scan certain elements to make a 3D model?

Thanks,
J

[chiloquinruss]

Very very nice! Russ

[dmidkiff]

Very nice work!! Did you work from photos or did you have some actual parts?

[woodstripboats]

Thank you all for the compliments! All that I learned about CNC router work was picked up from the talented and sharing people here on this forum as well as the Vectric site.
All of the components were made from Cypress, White Cedar and Poplar. I had to scale and draw from really old photos because nothing remained of the original porch except a skirt board found in the carriage house and the 'medallion' above the steps. All of the drawing and modeling work was done with Aspire 4.5. I do have a 12" Z-axis which helped with the machining of the post carvings. This was my first indexer project so there was a bit of a learning curve. 2834428345283462834728348
Charlie

[Brian Harnett]

Looks great, bet you will get more work from that job.

[guitarwes]

Wow, that's some great millwork and looks awesome. That latticing around the porch is a nice touch. I'm glad someone decided to save that old house.

So how long did the job take from scaling, drawing, cutting?

[woodstripboats]

It was about 12 weeks start to finish...I had to modify my indexer on the 8' bed to turn a 6"x6" by 11'-6" post and machining the 4-sided carving on the post took some time to figure out. That carving is 14" across and about 10" high. There are 21 corbels...four different sizes/styles with fan carvings on 12 of them, scallops on the edge of 5 of them. Lots of details...lots of spindles...I was singing 99 bottles of beer on wall while they were running. :D
Charlie

[chiloquinruss]

Curious, what length bit and diameter did you use with that tall of a "Z"? Russ

[woodstripboats]

Russ the 12" Z axis was helpful because I wanted to make the component parts easy to assemble on the job site. The leaf section of the post carving for example was splined and glued together on three sides before machining. The fourth side was splined and not glued before machining; just clamped on my 6" by 6" fixture. See attached photo. The result was a "clamshell" that just needed the fourth side assembled to complete that part of the install. You can see in the photo that I still needed to extend the holding fixture past the table edge to enable machining on four sides. The leaf section is 10" square on the outside; 8/4 material. I only needed to use 3" long bits....nothing special. I usually use .5", .25" and .125" diameter bits for most of my carvings
Charlie28369

[guitarwes]

Great jigging there.

More like singing "99 buckets of money" to me. ;)

[woodstripboats]

thanks.. LOL..:D
Yes....but I'm not much of a beer drinker anyway... :D

[chiloquinruss]

Thanks Charlie, I am always impressed by how each of us with similar equipment and software come up with some really clever solutions! Russ

[mcgoo]

I love doing architectural also - it lasts for as long as...and it shows what you can do - very satisfying indeed - great stuff !