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I just got the 1000mm X-Carve put together, and with all this workspace and pipe dreams of making an archtop acoustic guitar, behold… a 4" Deadpool coaster! My wife, a huge fan of Deadpool, wanted this for valentines day.
It’s walnut, padouk, and maple, with a 18 gauge copper wire inlay.
I made many mistakes such as too big a tolerance around the profile cuts for the inlay, and I was a bit heavy handed with the chiseling of the rounded kerfs to make them sharp corners, etc… but hey, that’s how we learn.
Not sure why the copper looks wavy in the pic, It doesn’t really look like that. Lighting? messed up when resizing the image? shrug
Well, I’ve done some stone inlay and stained glass work, and dabbled in 3d modeling and textures in the video game industry. Wood is a whole different beast, though. I’ve made other things with hand tools, but when it came to carving a 1/32" channel for some copper wire, let’s just say that doing it by hand wasn’t realistic. Loving the xcarve for sure.
