I just completed my first paying gig with the x-carve. My little brother owns a dance studio, and he needed 18 parade rifles for a dance number he’s putting together for the studio’s Christmas show.
Parade rifles are pretty common and inexpensive to find at color-guard and dancing supply shops, but the standard parade rifle measures somewhere in the 36-40" length range. This dance number was going to be for his elementary school class (~6 year olds) so rifles taller (and heavier!) than the girls weren’t going to work out.
I made 28" long versions of rifles on the x-carve using Easel. I started with 2x8 pine boards and simply cut out the shape of the rifle using x-carve. Next, I rounded the edges over with a round-over bit at my router table, and dance-prop quality parade rifles were the result.
Here are some pics:
