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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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