Crucifix carving a work in progress

[brianh]

I was commissioned to carve a crucifixion for a church. It is being renovated so they gave me some of the old church pew wood for the carving, the wood is red Oak.

I decided before making the church one to do a practice run so I glued up some tulip poplar and made this one. It gets roughed out on the CNC router I have a computer model that is low detail but I get the proportions.

I finish it off by hand with die grinders and some little dremels with carbide burrs.

This one is almost done a little more work on the hands and feet

 

[Moosefire]

Holy moly... thats insane work. You scaled it perfectly too!

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[toolin' around]

Awesome work, that’s beautiful!

 

[JohnKal]

You sir are extremely talented!

 

[jbfsr]

That is FANTASTIC. Good work.

 

[SteveH-CO]

Nice!

 

[Bill Bowman]

Very nice sir.

 

[Bryan Burns]

Fascinating!

 

[bczygan]

Beautiful work.

Interesting article:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/crucifixion/roman-crucifixion-methods-reveal-the-history-of-crucifixion/

Bill

 

[californiamilleghia]

WOW,

did you make the CNC file or get it of the net ?

 

[brianh]

WOW,

did you make the CNC file or get it of the net ?

I had a small metal corpus, I used the CNC machine to scan it. I made a probe out of a Tig electrode and mounted it in half inch aluminum rod inserted in the collet of the router, then connected my zero plate wire to the metal corpus it took almost 18 hours to scan a 4" high model.

My software has that ability built in, that was the only time I have used it. If I was to do it again I would use the gamer modeling program Make human, it is free and exports machinable files of humans it is very versatile.

 

[PugetDude]

Nice workmanship.
Incredible detail for a trial run; I would think the poplar would take fine detail better than the oak? Make the cross out of the pew and use this one!

 

[iajonesy]

Very beautiful work, brianh, wish I had your skills.

Mike

 

[californiamilleghia]

I had a small metal corpus, I used the CNC machine to scan it. I made a probe out of a Tig electrode and mounted it in half inch aluminum rod inserted in the collet of the router, then connected my zero plate wire to the metal corpus it took almost 18 hours to scan a 4" high model.
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did you ever do a tread on that ?

I picked up a kinect "scanner" the other day for a couple bucks ,
but reading about it does not give me much hope of getting a good file .

Thanks for your ideas

 

[rustyjames]

Wow, that's really something!

 

[Firstram]

Beautiful! I'm so happy to see a a working shop on GJ! Waaay too many shops that show polished tools and no sign of more work than time!!!

 

[Ed_Hazard]

Excellent work.

 

[matt_i]

Great project! Thanks for sharing how you developed the model.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

WOW!
You sir have a gift!

 

[ChefRex]

Excellent work!

 

[brianh]

Beautiful! I'm so happy to see a a working shop on GJ! Waaay too many shops that show polished tools and no sign of more work than time!!!

I will never be accused of OCD on cleaning, one friend I have almost has a breakdown entering my shop. I installed his kitchen he chased me around the first day with a vacuum cleaner, that was cut short fast.

A lot of the woodworking equipment I have is as old or older than me.

I do try to keep it somewhat neat and clean but it is never woodworking magazine material. Neat and clean is subjective...........

 

[Bears Fan]

Awesome job on the carving and some really cool lighting on those pictures too

 

[Ton ton]

Nice.

 

[brianh]

Awesome job on the carving and some really cool lighting on those pictures too

A friend of mine is a professional photographer He took the shots of me working. He has covered stuff all over the world.

 

[brianh]

Nice workmanship.
Incredible detail for a trial run; I would think the poplar would take fine detail better than the oak? Make the cross out of the pew and use this one!

The request was for the Oak it holds detail well with rotary tools hand carving is challenging in oak. This is also old tight grain, It will look much better than the poplar one I believe.

did you ever do a tread on that ?

I picked up a kinect "scanner" the other day for a couple bucks ,
but reading about it does not give me much hope of getting a good file .

Thanks for your ideas

No I never did, it was about 15 years ago when I did the scan.

 

[brianh]

This is another one done a few years ago, a little smaller. When I got the wood I did not have a big expectation of it turning out well. It was the attic boards from the church. Not the same church I am doing work for now. The boards were Fur that stuff is fuzzy and chips easily while carving.

Surprisingly I think it turned out well.

 

[Jayman17]

Incredible work, like always!

Jay

 

[mrjaw14]

Awesome work! the way the wood is stained really fits with what's being depicted and adds a level of realism without going full color. I hope the church liked it as much

 

[NYBODYMAN]

WOW!!! Amazing work. Neversink/Grahamsville is a beautiful area too.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm hardly ever on this board, but the "Crucifix" in the title of the thread caught my eye, Brian. Thanks for posting your work. It is truly inspirational to see on this cold but bright and fine Sunday morning.

Neversink/Grahamsville is a beautiful area too.

I was just going to ask Brian about that sign on his shop wall in post #1. There's a river (tidal estuary) and town near me down here in NJ called Navesink that was originally Neversink.

 

[pepi]

You sir are extremely talented!

X 2 very nice ..

 

[brianh]

Awesome work! the way the wood is stained really fits with what's being depicted and adds a level of realism without going full color. I hope the church liked it as much

Thank You it was just a clearcoat I rubbed it down with boiled linseed oil let it cure and fine coated with water base satin

WOW!!! Amazing work. Neversink/Grahamsville is a beautiful area too.

I moved up to this area in the late 80's after getting out of the army the Catskills are beautiful I bike ride here year round


I was just going to ask Brian about that sign on his shop wall in post #1. There's a river (tidal estuary) and town near me down here in NJ called Navesink that was originally Neversink.[/QUOTE]

That sign was a prototype for the town, I did all our town signs several years ago. Neversink NY town valley was damned and flooded in the late 40's for the NYC water reservoir system, the river is the neversink some still have hard feeling about it.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Neversink NY town valley was damned and flooded in the late 40's for the NYC water reservoir system, the river is the neversink some still have hard feeling about it.

Thanks for the backstory. I don't know about Sullivan County, NY, but 'Navesink', 'Navisink', and 'Neversink' down here are all anglicized derivations of the term Nave Sinck, the name of a Lenni Lenape Native American tribe in the Unami dialect. Like so many other names along the eastern seaboard here.

 

[NYBODYMAN]

Thank You it was just a clearcoat I rubbed it down with boiled linseed oil let it cure and fine coated with water base satin



I moved up to this area in the late 80's after getting out of the army the Catskills are beautiful I bike ride here year round


I was just going to ask Brian about that sign on his shop wall in post #1. There's a river (tidal estuary) and town near me down here in NJ called Navesink that was originally Neversink.

That sign was a prototype for the town, I did all our town signs several years ago. Neversink NY town valley was damned and flooded in the late 40's for the NYC water reservoir system, the river is the neversink some still have hard feeling about it.[/QUOTE]

Beautiful are, especially riding on 55 through the reservoir. I worked in Liberty for a few years at the lovely state building by the entrance to SR 17 exit 101a.

 

[Bigblue&Goldie]

Wow! The way the grain ended up looks really cool!

 

[brianh]

I finished them up, the finish is boiled linseed with a touch of poly to harden it a little more. I forgot the crown of thorns for the pictures I steamed branches from a thorn bush in the yard.

The spikes are drywall screws I heat the heads red hot and pound them flat while red hot I dip them in linseed oil it burns on a black finish.

This is the Oak one the Cross is reclaimed Chestnut.









This is the tulip polar one cross is cherry

 

[iajonesy]

Wow, your skills are incredible. What a gift you have.

Mike

 

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