Popular Post kmmcrafts Posted June 9, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 9, 2020 I've been trying to get a few new items made to add to my arsenal.. Here is a few I recently done.. Just playing around.. have more new ones on deck to cut today.. Couldn't remember if I shared those last two trucks or not.. but if so here they are again, LOL jollyred, MTCowpoke22, amazingkevin and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted June 9, 2020 Report Share Posted June 9, 2020 very nice work kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted June 9, 2020 Report Share Posted June 9, 2020 Can,t go wrong making these collectable items of choice!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjR Posted June 9, 2020 Report Share Posted June 9, 2020 Well done. The 1965 Chevy pickups were a very nice looking pickup then and still are among my favorite style of pickups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Johnson Posted June 9, 2020 Report Share Posted June 9, 2020 Nice collection Kevin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonkort Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 those are fantastic!!! there so pretty..i think you can tell that i like them lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockytime Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 Lookin' great Kevin. You seem to have a great specialty. Before my health deteriorated I used to go to lots of local car shows. Had I been scrolling there would have been lots of opportunities to make clocks sales. You do it great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 13 hours ago, kmmcrafts said: I've been trying to get a few new items made to add to my arsenal.. Here is a few I recently done.. Just playing around.. have more new ones on deck to cut today.. Couldn't remember if I shared those last two trucks or not.. but if so here they are again, LOL You certainly found your nitch. There are a very large amount of vehicles to keep you doing new ones, that is for sure. You keep knocking these out and maybe some day you will have made all the cars ever made..... Probably not Dick heppnerguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 Very nice work Kevin. Is the word Lighting on the second one engraved or scrolled? If not engraved have you thought it? Marg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oges Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 Lovely work, a great collection of clocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 On 6/9/2020 at 8:09 AM, daveww1 said: very nice work Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 22 hours ago, amazingkevin said: Can,t go wrong making these collectable items of choice!!! I've always been a car and old tractor enthusiast.. I've always had a vision of doing clocks like these when I first started scroll sawing.. but I couldn't get the word typed well enough in my asking for patterns and would always end up with a portrait pattern... feeling obliged to make what I asked for I did portraits for a long time.. Love doing them too.. maybe better than the clocks because you can stack cut and be more production type work BUT.. they just didn't sell well for me.. Yes they sell.. but not great.. Then when Steve Good did the 57 Chevy pattern I had a vision to custom make the design into the clock as I had envisioned years before.. Then I had a sample of a clock when asking for patterns to show.. Also many CNC machinist make car stuff and there seems to be a lot of vector drawings / coloring pages etc.. out there now that any times I can find an image I can make into a pattern myself.. Most of the clocks I have made was based off if that 57 of Steve Goods.. and All of them was a request from a customer and I made it and then I offer it in my online store.. many of which are just an image of the original one and made to order rather than made and ready to ship.. some cars are real popular to sell while some of the others I've only made the requested one.. It helps a lot too that I'm in a lot of car clubs and groups etc.. to get sales.. word of mouth goes a long way too. Thank you for the comments. amazingkevin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 20 hours ago, rjR said: Well done. The 1965 Chevy pickups were a very nice looking pickup then and still are among my favorite style of pickups. Yes, I have to agree.. I like most anything from the 50's through the mid 70's car wise.. and most any trucks I like but the Chevy trucks from around 64 - 72 are a great design.. actually like the 73-88 Chevy's GMC's too.. Thank you for the comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 17 hours ago, Ron Johnson said: Nice collection Kevin. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 13 hours ago, Dragonkort said: those are fantastic!!! there so pretty..i think you can tell that i like them lol Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 12 hours ago, Rockytime said: Lookin' great Kevin. You seem to have a great specialty. Before my health deteriorated I used to go to lots of local car shows. Had I been scrolling there would have been lots of opportunities to make clocks sales. You do it great! Yeah, I get to the shows now and then too, I like to actually go sit somewhere near the show when it ends.. kinda fun watching them leave the shows.. and you can just sit in the A/C in the car and watch them drive by, LOL.. As for making money around here selling the clocks at shows... Coming from a person that likes building cars.. I think I can speak for most of them car guys at the show, but they'd never spend the money on a clock with all the car parts they sell at the shows.. They're there to spend money for car parts and won't spend a dime towards a clock or T-shirt etc.. The clocks I sell are 99.9% sold to women buying a gift for their husband / boyfriend / or Teenager... about .01% of my sales actually goes to a guy buying the clock, LOL.. In fact, I think a couple years back someone here got a spot at a car show and had 1-2 sales that only covered the booth and both sales was to women, LOL.. Thank you for the comments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 11 hours ago, heppnerguy said: You certainly found your nitch. There are a very large amount of vehicles to keep you doing new ones, that is for sure. You keep knocking these out and maybe some day you will have made all the cars ever made..... Probably not Dick heppnerguy Yeah you're right.. there are a lot of different cars.. not only that.. some folks get picky and ask me if I can make it have flames since her hubby's car has flames painted on it.. or this wheel style rather than that.. LOL.. Most times I decline getting that technical unless they want to pay a substantial amount more, LOL Thank you for the comments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 8 hours ago, wombatie said: Very nice work Kevin. Is the word Lighting on the second one engraved or scrolled? If not engraved have you thought it? Marg Thank you Marg, They are all scrolled.. The one with a base on it is a smaller clock so I had to shrink the text down quite a lot and the details are someone lost in it etc.. plus the angle of the picture makes it looked carved.. If I ever make it again I'd probably size it up some to show the details better.. wombatie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 3 hours ago, Oges said: Lovely work, a great collection of clocks Thank you Oges 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonkort Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 love the cars or trucks lol may i ask what type cnc machine you have and what it can do? my youngest daughter and her husband are moving to maryland in a few weeks and i have saved a tidy little sum to give them to help them get started in there new life....frountly my daughter has been hiard for an elementary juinor hight school as there art teacher so there haveing better luck finding a place to live..( lol just as i told them would by the way...lol as an ex landlord i know most people wont rent to you no matter where your comming from if you dont have a job yet. lol ) and i v been able to save up a tidy sum ( part of my income tax return lol) so im beginning to look at cnc machines again ...iv been looking at one called x carve i think it is..but its about 2 thousand dollars...i can go that high if i have to but want to look a several and get some more information and perhaps a little advice on what would be the best by. id like it to do the ingraving and a little carving....i think its like low relief and or perhaps high relief carving...it they make one that does that...i only mention the carving part because of the name of the machine... and how hard is it to use the program that comes with it to make patterns.....but i will most likely just down load as many free patterns for the cnc mmachine as ican and perhaps start buying some here and there like i did when i first bought my scroll saw 40 some odd years ago. does any of this make any sense??? i hope with this information that iv put up you guys might be able to help stear me in the right direction....spike usuly helps me with things like this but he dost know anymore about cnc machine then i do. thank you so very much for what ever help you can give me... kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 2 hours ago, kmmcrafts said: Yeah you're right.. there are a lot of different cars.. not only that.. some folks get picky and ask me if I can make it have flames since her hubby's car has flames painted on it.. or this wheel style rather than that.. LOL.. Most times I decline getting that technical unless they want to pay a substantial amount more, LOL Thank you for the comments I agree with you. You can spend more time making a pattern, only to find that it is not exactly what they had in mind and you do it again. It can become more then you bargained for and usually end up with something that is just okay but not EXACTLY what they were after. I have been there and it usually is not easy to understand what someone is thinking. An example might be......'no, the flames are up higher or lower or longer or not that long . I try to please with a special order and often I wish I had not because what they are after is only embedded in their heads and I am not able to see into it. Dick heppnerguy kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Dragonkort said: love the cars or trucks lol may i ask what type cnc machine you have and what it can do? my youngest daughter and her husband are moving to maryland in a few weeks and i have saved a tidy little sum to give them to help them get started in there new life....frountly my daughter has been hiard for an elementary juinor hight school as there art teacher so there haveing better luck finding a place to live..( lol just as i told them would by the way...lol as an ex landlord i know most people wont rent to you no matter where your comming from if you dont have a job yet. lol ) and i v been able to save up a tidy sum ( part of my income tax return lol) so im beginning to look at cnc machines again ...iv been looking at one called x carve i think it is..but its about 2 thousand dollars...i can go that high if i have to but want to look a several and get some more information and perhaps a little advice on what would be the best by. id like it to do the ingraving and a little carving....i think its like low relief and or perhaps high relief carving...it they make one that does that...i only mention the carving part because of the name of the machine... and how hard is it to use the program that comes with it to make patterns.....but i will most likely just down load as many free patterns for the cnc mmachine as ican and perhaps start buying some here and there like i did when i first bought my scroll saw 40 some odd years ago. does any of this make any sense??? i hope with this information that iv put up you guys might be able to help stear me in the right direction....spike usuly helps me with things like this but he dost know anymore about cnc machine then i do. thank you so very much for what ever help you can give me... I have the Nextwave Shark HD4.. They used to make a small unit that was called the Piranha which a basic unit was about $1500.. I see they no longer make this model but have replaced it with a different name.. I think it's about the same thing though.. I see they also have a very small desktop looking one for about $1200.. As for advise, I don't have a lot to offer because I'm really quite new to using them.. even though I've had mine for 2 years.. I've only made about a dozen things on it.. My main business is scroll work.. and I don't want to change it into a CNC type work business at this time.. I feel I need a lot more experience with it before I jump on that train.. and the scroll work really keeps me hopping which is a big reason I haven't used it much.. Every time I get a day that i think I'll sit down and mess with the CNC.. a custom order or something comes in that is scroll work.. Everyone is different but in my opinion.. the water cooled spindle for the CNC is a must have.. I see guys on the CNC groups saying they've burnt up another router.. some of them claim they put a new router in it every 6 months.. ( they are production working the machines ).. But just from the noise level between the router and the spindle is worth the extra cost in my opinion.. I'd not be able to stand listening the the router noise all day long in a shop.. The spindle is so quiet you don't even hardly hear it run.. other than the bit carving is all you really hear... There are some other folks on here with other brands etc.. maybe if you start a new topic in the other forum section someone with more experience would give some good advise.. Here is a link to some of Nextwave products and CNC's that might be of interest.. The SharkHD510 is probably the closest to what I have.. You could go talk to Matt at LLJohnson's Workbench in Charlotte MI.. That is where I got mine. he is quite helpful and runs them in his own shop.. https://www.rockler.com/power-tools/cnc-machines-and-laser-machines/next-wave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 7 hours ago, kmmcrafts said: I've always been a car and old tractor enthusiast.. I've always had a vision of doing clocks like these when I first started scroll sawing.. but I couldn't get the word typed well enough in my asking for patterns and would always end up with a portrait pattern... feeling obliged to make what I asked for I did portraits for a long time.. Love doing them too.. maybe better than the clocks because you can stack cut and be more production type work BUT.. they just didn't sell well for me.. Yes they sell.. but not great.. Then when Steve Good did the 57 Chevy pattern I had a vision to custom make the design into the clock as I had envisioned years before.. Then I had a sample of a clock when asking for patterns to show.. Also many CNC machinist make car stuff and there seems to be a lot of vector drawings / coloring pages etc.. out there now that any times I can find an image I can make into a pattern myself.. Most of the clocks I have made was based off if that 57 of Steve Goods.. and All of them was a request from a customer and I made it and then I offer it in my online store.. many of which are just an image of the original one and made to order rather than made and ready to ship.. some cars are real popular to sell while some of the others I've only made the requested one.. It helps a lot too that I'm in a lot of car clubs and groups etc.. to get sales.. word of mouth goes a long way too. Thank you for the comments. Your doing it by the book !!! Can,t go wrong ,you,ve made your name. Looks like your in it for the Long haul. Keep your great work coming and ideas!!! kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flarud Posted June 14, 2020 Report Share Posted June 14, 2020 I like them all, especially the '65. But those Chevy's will rust out on ya and more than likely break down too! LOL kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted June 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2020 6 hours ago, flarud said: I like them all, especially the '65. But those Chevy's will rust out on ya and more than likely break down too! LOL That's why we make wooden ones, LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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