Jim Coats - "Weekend CNC Warrior" Approved!

Jim is a long time customer of ours and we had the opportunity to meet in person at the 2014 Vectric User Group meeting in Orlando.  It was a great opportunity to chat about his set up and what he planned to do once he retired.  

Since then Jim sure has been busy in his shop making all sorts of great projects including this beauty. 

Jim hacked together this sign using models from 3 of our projects.

Jim mentioned this about the font he used:

"The “Welcome” font is “Westerne” (yes with the e at the end of western) and the rest is in “Rustler”."

 

"The finish is with Folk Art Home Decor Chalk paint, then distressed with their Antique wax and a coat of clear wax buffed to finish. They were purchased from Joann’s fabric and crafts.

I designed it in Aspire 4.5 and machined it with a 1/8" ball nose bit on a ShopBot Buddy.

The standard place to “Check Your Guns” is at the door; however in our neck of the woods, we also want the hats off while inside. So checking both after entry to the bar was logical. ;) "

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Our hats are off to you Jim for sharing this great project with us and taking the time to write up all of the descriptions to illustrate how you made it happen!

Consider yourself...  Weekend CNC Warrior Approved!

Be safe and let the chips fly!

The CNCminiProjects Team

Mr. S - "Weekend CNC Warrior" Approved!

We would like to introduce you all to Mr. S.  We may not know his real name but we do know he can make some pretty nice projects with his CNC!  A while back we received an email from him packed with images of some of his completed projects.   We would love to share 3 of them with you.  

Mr. S made this wonderful firefighter plaque using the Local Heroes Firefighter project.  What a great layout he decided to use and the details came out perfect.

"The local heroes plaque was made out of bass wood and finished with clear polyurethane.  All projects were cut on a shopbot cnc machine.  The heroes plaque, approximately 7” tall by 8” wide, required some scroll saw cutting to clean up the pockets where the 1/16” tapered ballnose router bit didn't reach."

 

"I liked your Home for the Holidays Hack so much that I didn't think I could improve on it so I cut it out of very old cherry with a true tung oil finish; it turned out wonderful, it is 14” in diameter."

Love that old wood look and the knot hole!  Good choice to leave that in Mr. S it really adds come character!

 

The holiday center piece candle holder Mr. S was inspired by is made using the models from 2 mini-projects:

The font used to simulate the v-carving is called Pupcat.

And now for something totally different and very cool... wood pendants.

"The Celtic pendants are just under 2” in diameter, cut from bass wood. Rough cutting was done with a 1/8” endmill bit, the finish cut with a new 1/32” tapered ballnose bit; bass wood is very fibrous & stringy and will leave a lot of “fizzies” if the bit isn’t sharp, thus the reason I used a new bit.  One pendant has a clear polyurethane finish, the other I used metallic cooper paint and a reagent to create a patina finish, which is sealed with a special clear top coat."

Theses pendants are something we hoped someone would try, at some point.  We were pleasantly surprised to see them in the batch of photos Mr. S sent us.  Very nice job!

 

 

Thanks again Mr.S for all the great pictures and comments.  Consider yourself...  Weekend CNC Warrior Approved!

Be safe and let the chips fly!

The CNCminiProjects Team

Jevon and a great Coat of Arms hack!

If you are a regular visitor to our site you are sure to have seen the name Jevon.  We can't say enough about this guys work and how awesome it is to be apart of his projects.

Jevon sent us in this great picture of a finished project he made hacking together a few of our coat of arms models and some models he had in his own personal library.  

The flourishes and top ribbon he used are all from our Family Coat of Arms No.1 project.  Interesting how he merged them together to make a more complex flourish.

The bottom ribbon came from the Pick-Up League Basketball project.  Looks like he stretched and squished it to make it work. Nice!

The helmet looks like it came from VA3D.com(another part of the Vectric family).  Some great painting and custom modeling to finish out a very nice project.

Nice work Jevon and that is why you have earned the "Weekend CNC Warrior" title!  If you’re interested in more of what Jevon has done with our projects then check out these links...

Finished size was 23.5" x 36" model thikness was 1" w/o the rivets.

Thanks again Jevon for sharing your work with us... we really appreciate it!

Be safe and let the chips fly!

The CNCminiProjects Team