Forum: Bryce

Subject: You can take the Woodworker out of the shop.....Oh, whatever!

kimpe opened this issue on Dec 08, 2003 · 6 posts

kimpe posted Mon, 08 December 2003 at 12:41 PM

Drac, I thought I'd show you what I've been up to lately. Having been a cabinet maker for 24 years I like working with the wood. I've been making door Rosettes and thought I would show a pic. The wood texture is by Tony Lynch, aka "The God of woodgrain". I've alot more but I don't want to hog the bandwith. Hope to put them on a CD-ROM and sell at 3DC soon.

GROINGRINDER posted Mon, 08 December 2003 at 5:06 PM

Those rosettes look mighty fine. How would those be made in real life. Hand carved? Done on a jig with a router? Made with a CNC machine? I love woodworking too. Sometimes I carve small figures and make recreational gold mining machinery.

phenom01 posted Mon, 08 December 2003 at 7:10 PM

An individual woodworker, like myself, would carve them by hand. The inexpensive ones for mass production are stamped [or pressed] by machine.

kimpe posted Mon, 08 December 2003 at 7:13 PM

A purest would carve them with chisle and gouge. A contemporary person would take most of it down with a hobby router, then finish with chisle and gouge. Sadly, most of what you can buy is Poly plastic. I'm Just rendering a carving now that I spent the last 24hrs on, and I mean 24hrs, (yawn). DING! goes the Bryce toaster. Here it is hot off the press. Wood texture by Tonly Lynch.

danamo posted Mon, 08 December 2003 at 11:28 PM

Those rosettes of yours look mighty fine! Very intricate detail to add to a scene. I'll bet you could do a pretty elaborately paneled drawing room.

kimpe posted Tue, 09 December 2003 at 11:03 AM

Tes indeed, I have some Crown and Baseboard moldings done also.