Has anyone carved on an antler?

[Bski (Chris Bosowski)]

I know that pieces of antler can be carved. What I am trying figure out is if it is possible to carve on a deer antler. I can’t figure out how you would model the antler so the tool paths would follow the contours of an antler. Is there something that could trace/follow the curve and put it into a format that Carbide can use?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

For scanning the antlers see:

Duplicating physical items (story of 2020 Christmas break)

In Digitally Map a Surface in 3D [CNC Shark Duplicator] @JVarn was wondering (paraphrased) if a shapeoko could do the equivalent of something called “shark duplicator”, basically do a 3D scan and then a carve out of an object, and I couldn’t resist trying. Below is a short story with pictures on how this went. It all started with one of these: Which will act similar to the bitzero and bitsetter, and if you plan to buy one yourself, make sure you buy a “normally open” one that closes to gr…

Once you have the 3D model you could draw on it in 2D, then create a fine 3D Finishing toolpath to cut only that.

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