Last Supper Box

[Mark Johnston]

I've been making a lot of boxes lately and thought I would share one that I really liked.
James from Vector Art 3D inspired me to make a carving of the last Supper with a Vcarve back ground of the room and inlayed figures. I was reading all I could find on the last Supper in the forum and found the following thread by James.

http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3012&hilit=last+supper
I downloaded the free Vcarve files, purchased the Last Supper models from Vector Art 3D files and layout the box.

I wanted to do this on a box lid so I used the box design that was designed by Michael Tyler from the Vectric project of the month for March 2011. I really like the box Michael designed, it gives you quite a bit of room to carve whatever you want. My wife likes it because it's large enough to use in decorating and gives a nice presence.

Thanks to Michael T and James B and of course Vectric for the inspiration and a program that's fantastic.

Thanks for looking.
Mark

[james mcgrew]

man that is nice !!! i did a large one which is here in the office,,, now i gotta do another!!!

[tonywish]

Mark,

That is some beautiful work! If I can get from wanting to cut steel on my Cobra I want to make something similar. It will go to the top of the list. Keep up the good work.

Tony[book]

[Paul Juenger]

Very nice Mark. I have the same Last Supper file, but have not cut it yet. I'm going to wait for my new Stinger before I do.

What did you finish it with?

[Toymaker]

Mark:
That is very beautiful. I have used the Stinger for some boxes, nothing that nice. Thanks for posting.
Burt

[Mick Martin]

Very nice box Mark [clap] what type of wood did you use?

[mezalick]

That's really great Mark !!!!
Michael

[Chris Fruge]

Mark, looks awesome! Keep it up and keep posting pics.

[Mark Johnston]

Thanks for all the complements , it sure is gratifying when things start to work the way you plan them.

Mick- I used walnut for the main box and hard maple for the inlay of the figures. I used gold paint in the text after spraying with a sealer and sanded the text to remove the sloppy painting. It seem to work pretty well except the gold paint didn't show up as much as I would have liked but you can still read it.

It's really nice to learn from these forums, it sure makes you feel like you're a part of a group.

Thank you all,
Mark

[Mick Martin]

Thanks for all the complements , it sure is gratifying when things start to work the way you plan them.

Mick- I used walnut for the main box and hard maple for the inlay of the figures. I used gold paint in the text after spraying with a sealer and sanded the text to remove the sloppy painting. It seem to work pretty well except the gold paint didn't show up as much as I would have liked but you can still read it.

It's really nice to learn from these forums, it sure makes you feel like you're a part of a group.

Thank you all,
Mark

Thanks for the information on your wood choice and the process you used, what size bit did you use to cutout the "Last Supper" inlay.

Mick

[Mark Johnston]

Hi Mick,

My final finishing bit was a 1/16" ball nose and it took 4 to 5 hours to cut with a 8 % stepover. I did a roughing pass with a 1/4" ball nose with a fairly large stepover of maybe 40 % and it took about 30 minutes. I also don't usually run the feeds over 250 to 300 so others may be able to run it faster. I didn't really keep very good timing on the cuts so I may be off a bit on those times.

They take quite a while to cut but I'm usually preparing other wood or assembling something so it doesn't matter to much.

Mark