All the Kings men!!

[james mcgrew]

life size!! king will be 762" tall and 24" dia at base full round, sliced and machined with aspire, files scanned and prepared by Guy "Mr T" of new wave woodworking. machining is next

jim

[Eric Mims]

looking good. What material are you guys using?

[GJMATHEWS]

I hope that is a typo! 76 inches tall is what Jim meant to type.
Jim must have been too excited to type correctly! [lol]

After looking at Jim's original email, I just sent him a new file for the queen. I got rid of the Princess Leia look on the hair. Looking at the pieces together, in my eyes the queen needed to be reworked just a bit.

Most of these files are in the 70 to 90 MB size range. The king was actually 560MB prior to me reducing it down to a hundred plus.

Myself and Jim will be posting more on this entire process as we get time. The scanning and 3D work was done on my end. I will be putting together a thread that deals with the process of scanning from start to finish.

The best is yet to come as Jim and a few other CAMaster owners mill these files and bring them to life. They will put Aspire through its paces, and from what I have seen so far, Aspire will pass with flying colors.

Kudos, to all involved on this project! [fantastic]

I for one, am quite proud to be a part of it.

[james mcgrew]

hdu slices

[Russ Revels]

I want to see the table this sets sits on.:) Man what a project. It is looking great.

Russ

[james mcgrew]

a large city park!!

jim

[james mcgrew]

GUY HAS DONE A MASTERFUL SCAN ON THIS

the king is in the HOUSE!!!

jim

[GJMATHEWS]

GUY HAS DONE A MASTERFUL SCAN ON THIS

the king is in the HOUSE!!!

jim


Jim,

I am honored and humbled by your praise, and at the same time I am as proud as all hell to see my scanning and modeling work come to life in your shop.

I am only 33% of the talent that is on this project. Because I also know what goes into getting a file ready to mill, holding it down, bit selection, and cutting strategies, I can honestly say that the true credit for this project is going not only to your shop, but Aspire's ability to slice and render toolpaths for 3D models. In addition, Dave plays a part in this as well as do the the other CAMaster owners that are helping to carve this wonderful project.

...if I were to die tomorrow I would die with pride. Just knowing that some of my work will live on not only in your community, but other communities and companies that may contract to have these produced is almost as fulfilling as the love of my family.

"Thank" you to the other 66% involved for the incredible honor of seeing my work produced somewhere other then my shop.
[fantastic]

[Joey Jarrard]

I sit here in shock over what I am seeing. The work that has gone in to this project is jaw dropping. I can not help but to be proud of our machines part in all of this. Thanks so much Jim & Guy for doing what you do. I can without hesitation say our machines are solid built and can be pushed to the limit. Our proving grounds are in your shops. CAMaster’s hat is off to all the CAMheads that post work on this and other sites. Please keep this up it only helps us all out. The more the owners post the better chance we have to build on the good things that have been started.

Jim when the job is done I will come up for a game.

[fantastic] [fantastic] [fantastic] [fantastic]

[james mcgrew]

let me introduce you to my friend!!

jim

[GJMATHEWS]

Jim,

Either you have not completed the back of the king yet or he is suffering from "split personality disorder"!

[lol]

Such an incredible project! What a great day this is!

Guy

[Eric Mims]

hey Jim, I forgot to ask. . did you use registration holes for each slice or just line up the slices by eye afterward during glueup?

[james mcgrew]

they layup well! just glue and some 18 ga pins then sand a little bondo ( a lot on our first one)

once you get it down it is pretty easy

jim

[james mcgrew]

in the first photo you can see the "knight" coming together, the front with out ther face is standing and the back is on the table, you can also see the 12 model i carve to show tool pathing and what the software see's

[Eric Mims]

that marbling is pretty awesome. What product is that?

[james mcgrew]

some artist that david found i will phoro the eyes later!!

jim

[james mcgrew]

king, queen, knight and some mdf doors i am doing with a x3 machine and vcarve pro snap, snap, snap

[james mcgrew]

more more more

[james mcgrew]

here is the king during the mann tool display

[james mcgrew]

the rest got lonely with out the king

jim

[Joey Jarrard]

Jim I am ready for a game.
Tell David he needs to make a large checker set for us red necks [lol]

[GJMATHEWS]

Jim,

Is anyone working on the pawns? I know for a fact that the milling of these pieces takes quite a bit of time and then there is still the cleanup when the sliced parts are put together. 16 pawns is a lot of machine time.

Guy

[Joey Jarrard]

Did you get your motor ok?

[james mcgrew]

guy the pawn is awesome!!

jim

[Russ Revels]

I am really looking forward to seeing these in person in Oct. They look fantastic in the pictures.

Russ

[james mcgrew]

all the kings men

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/911977.html

[Joey Jarrard]

That was a great write up. congrats to you and david. the set looked great. thanks for the product placement.
have a great weekend [fantastic]

[james mcgrew]

brian caldwell of woodshop news has written an article on the chess players

jim

http://www.woodshopnews.com/out-of-the-woodwork/498461-all-the-kings-men