Post #799341 by leevigraham on Mon, Dec 16, 2019 2:44 AM

A quick pre-christmas update!

I've spent some more time practicing carving patterns and panels with the router.

First pair are for the garage door trim. I wanted to experiment with as many different patterns as possible to see what I could do with the router and what I liked visually.

The second pair are screwed to the top of the door trim so I kept the same pattern. It still wasn't straight forward as you can see by the geometry. I tried a couple of different cutting depths as well.

The one thing that really made them pop was adding Japanese black to the grooves after the first burn and stain.

There's a few videos of the process on my instagram account:

• https://www.instagram.com/p/B6CNp9ZAYQ9/
• https://www.instagram.com/p/B6CgbPUAFPE/

I actually did some panel carving as well but I think I might thickness them back and go again.

Panel 1

Panel 2