My daughter Shelley and I became well invested in our craft projects last night. We are taking wax carving and lost wax casting workshops at the Craft Guild of Dallas. Investment is the plaster like material that surrounds our wax carvings and forms the molds for casting our work in silver. The wax is melted and burned out of the investment (the wax is lost) then the cavity is filled with silver, Sterling silver actually....
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The Coonskin
I posted this picture of a couple of FRISCO signs I made last weekend over in my Dimensional Art blog. These were made on my home made HB2 CNC router using Vectric Aspire software and a few other computer control programs. Jump over to both links and take a look. I can do everything shown in the Vectric web site.
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I just spent two days at the Vectric Users meeting over by the DFW airport here in Dallas. Vectric produces several CNC designer products (I have them all) but their premiere product Aspire (especially) is the creatived software I use the most to design and create the complex forms I machine with my HB2 router machine. The results are the Lithophanes, carved wood signs, 3-D sculptures and 2-D components I make on my machines. I discovered I am fairly competent with...
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I have posted a new blog to display my creative output. Here is the URL : http://DimensionalArt.org. This will not be a “how-to” effort like my other websites. I intend to limit it to the display of the end product of my creative and artistic efforts. My plans include items I will make for sale and perhaps take request for custom work. It will be like a low key merchant site. Then again, it will be mostly a...
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