Holiday signs from Don

As always Don Harding has been busy creating some great looking projects in his shop.  Over the past few weeks he has sent in a few different variations on holiday signs using the mold board from the Home for the Holidays No.5 CNC project.

Love the finish on these.  The paint on the holly and in the letters really makes them pop!  His choice of wood could not be better... they look great!

 

 

The magic key sign is Don's take on Rebecca's Magic Key project.  If you have not seen it yet her post on the Vectric Labs blog is a great read and very helpful if you would like to make your own.

We could not help but post this one.  Its simple V-Carving but the finish and saying makes us smile!

Thanks again Don for sharing these great projects!

Larry Breaux - Customer Focus

"The videos are in my opinion the 2nd best thing about your site, right after the projects."

Thanks Larry, and we feel the best thing about our site is the inspiration we get from customer project submissions... just like yours!

"The material is some 1” oak I had leftover from previous projects. I operate an AXYZ 5012 at my place of employment along with Aspire 4.5, typically I play with personal projects after hours here and there."

"Most of the time my regular work is strictly 2d and I don’t get the opportunity to venture into 3d work too often.  I can make short work of most tasks with the software in my normal day to day work but the 3d stuff is a little more challenging and that’s why I decided to try one of your projects. You can’t get good at chess playing checkers all the time."

"The finish is Minwax Sedona Red that I had laying around. Future projects will receive Red Mahogany per my wife’s request. Then just 2 coats of some spray bomb clear satin from Home Depot. Total machine time was about 1.5 hours with the small fleur di lis in the corners. I used a .25” end mill for the roughing, a .125” tapered ball nose for the finishing pass, and a 60° V-bit for the lettering. Font used for lettering is Century."

Larry's layout is a hack using models from the Home for the Holidays No.2 and the Dish Shapes No.2 CNC project.  This is a great example how you can take one of our holiday themed projects and make something you can use every day of the year!

"Thanks again for all the work you put into making this so user friendly and accessible."

Thanks again Larry for sharing this project with us!

Hack of the Week No.81

Everyone loves to hang a great looking door sign this time of the year.  Something that shares a bit of holiday spirit!   Could also be used a holiday teachers gift...

This "Have yourself a Merry little Christmas" door sign layout was created using models from these CNC projects:

The fonts we used to simulate the v-carving on this layout are called: Segoe Print, Forgot to note the other - Sorry.

Note - This hack was assembled in Aspire V8 for presentation purposes.  It could have been done in VCarve Pro V8 or VCarve Desktop.

Why not hack together your own layout mixing and matching models from other projects or from your own library!  For some great inspiration check out our  hacks page!

Be safe and let the chips fly!

The Design and Make Team