Tracing a woodblock

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

This came up on Reddit:

r/CNC - CNC for printing press?

(it would help if the image were cleaned up a bit, and of course, re-drawing would be best)

but it traces well using the default settings:

taking a while for the V carve toolpath to be calculated…

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

Finished:

[neilferreri (Neil Ferreri Ω)]

Reminded me of this post from @scratch.

Wood block print negatives

WoodCutEmporium makes some really cool woodcut prints, but I wanted the negatives to hang over my fireplace. I converted the images to black and white SVGs and then cut them out of red oak. I hit the high parts with a torch to get the black and then stained the rest. I went in afterwards and did some light highlights and then sealed everything up. [CameraZOOM-20181009193939035]

[Splinters-n-sawdust (Paul DiCaprio)]

3,731 minutes. Seems like a quick enough carve… LOL I am sure it would be awesome too.

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

Powerful argument for why re-drawing things is better, or at least cleaning up the pixel image before tracing.