My wife’s birthday is coming up and she’s a huge star wars fan. There was a han solo in carbonite stl bouncing around the internet and I grabbed hold of that and gave it a shot as my first ever carve.
I used Carveco Maker to handle the CAM of the relief, and set the cut with a 1/4" roughing tool and then a 1/16" relief carve tool (I used Amana 46315-K for roughing and Amana 46282-K ball nose for the finishing carve.)
The project started by hogging out the excess wood from the top of the walnut. It was a little sad seeing the walnut go but I was in-it-to-win-it, so-to-speak.
Here’s a pic of the amana 1/16" ball-nose bit carving the x-motion part of the relief
Here’s a pic after the y-motion part of the relief was completed
I used walrus oil cutting board oil because it’s what I had on hand, and I know it brings out the dark color of walnut quite well:
And finally, here’s the condition of the piece after its had a couple days to dry off after the oiling.
Overall, I’m sure I could do this piece on a smaller device; amusingly, a few people have asked “could you make a coffee table with this and a clear resin top?” With the 5x10 I’m sure I could! The question is whether I’d want to run afoul of Lucasfilm in the process…
My wife loves it and can’t wait to hang it in her office!
