Carving a frog on a leaf using a special technique with vertical tabs

Carving a frog on a leaf using a special technique with vertical tabs

This video shows the process of carving a frog from a branch and epoxy resin with the Shapeoko, using a technique with vertical, instead of the conventional horizontal tabs, to secure the stock in place. Those vertical tabs were then used to accurately position the frog on a leaf, that was also carved with the Shapeoko from a tree trunk slice with an average diameter of 500 mm.

Software used:

• Meshmixer to modify the frog and leaf, and create the tabs and platform
• Vectric VCarve to generate the tool paths
• UGS Platform to send the Gcode to the CNC

Materials used:

• Slice of a tree trunk with an average diameter of 500 mm and an average thickness of 230 mm
• Bifurcated branch
• Epoxy resin (from the Epoxy Resin Store)
• Green, blue, purple and red Mica powders
• MDF board
• Duct tape: 3M #2979
• Surfacing bit: WhiteSide #6210
• Roughing bit: Amana Tool end mill #46577
• Finishing bits: Amana Tool tapered ball nose #46286 and #46281