My friend’s twin daughters had a school project…
To recreate the AHVA אהבה statue for a school fair (which means love).
It had to be 40" x 40" minumum.
Their father asked whether I would be able to help the girls. I said, “Only if they come here and do it with me”.
Of course they said “Yes”, because they thought it would only take an hour at the most. As everyone knows on this forum, the girls and I hung out for a very long time, over multiple days:rofl:
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To their credit, they never got bored or complained and were really good at putting blue work holding tape on the stock.
The first step was to get them to help me with the VCarve image tracing.
After that, we went to the garage where the girls learnt how to measure stock material and zero the machine.
It was then to running the multiple jobs. Which turned out to be more jobs than I originally thought, because after we cut each letter out of .75" MDF, they asked if we could make it 2.25" thick (essentially tripling the production time and adding a gluing step in between).
On the positive…Super glad I had two pairs of ear protection for the girls to wear.
I got the girls to cut out the tabs, sand and then paint the MDF letters and the pine base.
When they weren’t around, I used treaded inserts to connect the bottom letters to the base, and some dowels to connect the top to the bottom letters. Oh, how I wished I owned a Shapeoko 5 4x4 at this stage in the process.
The finished product looks amazing from all angles (Very glad we took photos so the teachers can see that the kids did most of the work)
