Vcarve and F360 (see winston moy videos) have drag bit solutions.
Those are fun. Nice little project there Ed.
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Love the adaptation to an existing item. CNC is great for this type of application. Customizing existing everyday items in the world. As a bonus you get to interact with and enjoy your work on the daily.
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Very nice work. You balloon reminds me of going to the eye doctor. One of the machines they use has an image of a balloon that goes in and out of focus to check your eyes. I have glaucoma and every time I go to the eye doctor they do that test.
Very nice composition. What is the bird? Is it a roadrunner?
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Ah yes, the eye balloon in the distance, with the air puff I am not incredibly fond of. Yeah it’s a roadrunner. I thought about having it running, but that did not match the serene scene as much. The chlorine was able to make parts lighter and then some gray stain
Around here we call them skinny chickens.
When the kids were little and playing in the yard, one of them left the back porch open. I came home from work that evening, walked in the kitchen and was greeted by one of those skinny chickens sitting on my wife’s spice rack.
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I live in east Texas and we have a few roadrunners. Up in central Texas there are a lot more and it is more desert like.
Beep Beep
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Is it battery or plug in?
What is the runtime for that?
I can’t help but think of this quote from MASH.
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It’s not pretty. I have been working to reduce the runtime from the first. On the small cube I did the whole pocketing operation with a 1/16" bit, but this time I did a rough contour with a 1/8" endmill and then followed up with a 16" to get the crisp corners. I think it’s close to 6 hours for everything.
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Do you use a Vee bit on the mating edges.
Yes, I have the carbide insert one from SpeTool and it worked very well.
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Nicely done Ed. Next you may want to use Roadrunners. 
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My grandson is fascinated with owls, a special request has been made…
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I made my first attempt at a box today following the process from @45rpm John Clark’s videos.
I just replaced my router and retrammed the machine and was super happy with the results.
This is 1.75” this walnut and the box is 3.25x8.
I pocketed out the bottom leaving only .25”. I only had the pocket on the top go to .75 leaving it pretty chunky but I plan to flip it over and do a 3D carving on the top to reduce the overall thickness.
I had to sand the lip ever so slightly to get it to fit but it looks good and is tight.
Once I do the 3D carve I will sand and finish the outside.
Lesson learned: deep sweepy was too tall to be in there for the deeper cuts and the regular sweepy was too high to be useful unless I moved the mount constantly. I decided to just pause it every now and then and cleanup.
I did use a .275” pocket for the outer contour to relieve stress. Once that cut was going I ended up just holding the vac hose to the cut.
EDIT: I did the whole thing with a single bit:
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In the light of day this seems a little rougher on the outside edges than I had hoped for. I expected that on the end grain but not the face. I am sure is will sand nicely although I need to be careful to not mess up the nice corners.
I assume that a lighter pass would have helped. I did use bit diameter plus 10% for the pocket but the path took the first ps around next to the box and the relief pass which was lighter was on the outside. I don’t know if there is a way to flip that logic. I used a .125 DOC so it was a
Lot of passes.
Would I have been better to have a full depth pass with a tiny cut once the cutout was complete?
Or maybe divide the cutout in two pieces where one is just the last couple of % depth and do that almost full length pass while there is a little wood holding it down?
I used the Xfasten tape on this. It holds really well, but at full length there may be a tendency to push the piece even though the cut would be minimal.