Here's some of my latest art

gramp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:24 pm **(#21)**

Sorry. I just woke up from a nap.

And it's 2013.

I'm interested in "how many hours it takes to come up with a final design--BEFORE a cut is ever even started." (No hurry. I'm going to take a nap. ;^) )

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:31 pm **(#22)**

A bit tired were you gramp? :hehe

gramp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:36 pm **(#23)**

@Erisian

You got some kinda Brigadoon-thing goin on? (You WOKE me UP!)

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:40 pm **(#24)**

Sorry, was it the bagpipes? They can be a bit noisy! :rofl

gramp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:17 pm **(#25)**

@Erisian

Alright enough with keeping me up already; work on PegLeg! Zzzzz... (and dream of bagpipes... oh big woo, E.

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jgatesmail · **Joined:** Jun 07, 2015 **Posts:** 1

Hey Pegleg44, Are you still on this forum? I am relatively new to the CNC machining as I just bought a Shark2.0 HD from Rockler. I would really like to chat with you about the process in depth. I will copy what you put in your post but, I am very interested in being able to do this with Gimp and my CNC. Any information is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

PegLeg44 · **Joined:** Feb 14, 2012 **Posts:** 426

Yes I'm still on the forum. I look at posts every day. Here's a link to my youtube channel where I have a couple of videos showing how I work in gimp:

Peglegs youtube Channel

I use gimp as my cad software and then bmp2cnc for my cam to turn images into g-code. I also use Simply Cam by mr soft:

http://www.mr-soft.net/

Matera · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2013 **Posts:** 143

Fascinating. I'm glad this got dug up!

PegLeg44 · **Joined:** Feb 14, 2012 **Posts:** 426

I also us ZBrush. I just got it. Actually I bought another guys license. They let you do that. Saved $300 that way. Anyways I do the work in gimp and then save it as a png file and bring it into Zbrush as an alpha and make a 3D mesh out of it. Then I can work on it in 3D to touch things up here and there. Zbrush also can do screen capture movies. I put up a video of some of the stuff I've made.

Here's a link:

Video from : www.youtube.com

Doodle Dorp1 · **Joined:** May 30, 2015 **Posts:** 13

Those look great! Do you do any 3D printing?

PegLeg44 · **Joined:** Feb 14, 2012 **Posts:** 426

No not into 3D printing yet. Maybe one day when the kids want to make some 3D stuff I'll get one. There might be better machines by that time.