We had a friend reach out to us last week about making a cutting board for her husband’s birthday. This adorable family has a cabin about 2 hours north of their house that is their own private getaway. The even have a logo for their cabin – which is where we come in.
Her husband is a “sucker” for anything about their cabin. She asked if we could take their logo and CNC it on a beautiful board. Beautiful board, check. We have lots of those (if you want to get an idea, check out our gallery). Logo, check. Now we had to put it into our CNC software (we use VCarve Pro).
After playing around in the software, we removed some of the smaller details (like the hills and the small lines in the house. We only had a 60 degree V-bit and knew the small details wouldn’t show up. After making a few more tweaks, we sent the picture to her and got the OK to move forward. “Eeek! I love love it!” was her response.
We saved the file and loaded it onto the CNC. We have a Laguna iQ that we purchased in November and absolutely love. We took a timelapse video to send her to show her kids “how it’s made”.
To make the logo really pop, we filled it with black epoxy. The next day, we (OK, Bryant) sanded the board. Once sanding was complete, Jade finished it with a coat of Odie’s Oil (not an affiliate link, but highly recommend!). Odie’s Oil is a natural, food safe finish that only takes 1 coat to apply and leaves a beautiful, strong finish.
Our friend came to pick up the board yesterday and was ecstatic at how it turned out. We haven’t done a whole lot of custom boards, yet, but we look forward to doing more of them.
(Logo and photo credit – Meghan Smart)
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