THE 3DWAXMILLER CLUB.

Welcome Richard, We are a motley crew of individuals. First, get a 3 ring notebook, and read as many posts as possible, keep a sketch book of your ideas, date them and sign your name. As time passes and your skills with the machine get better, these early notes will: 1 Act as a visual scale of impro...

This is a big millin family, some of us are short, some tall, others outsourced fat, and still others lean, but we are all a family. In families we share, get peeved, and most important communicate. Welcome Art, love to hear about the MDX-40...... Winstone

Nice to see a team of talented people join our motley group of addicts. We are smitten with the mill. You will find that soon you will be dreaming about new ways to use the mill. I hope that you stay in the forum and contribute often. If you need any help, any question, never feel that it is too dum...

I have relatives in Charleston. Welcome to the forum. You will become addicted and in time will further our addictions. Seriously, keep a notebook, date your designs, backup work, I use Acrobat 5 and love the catalogue feature. I backup each month's posts into an ever growing database. I can ask a q...

Marty, Thanks for the email. In our packet bundle of programs we also got the programs from Mecsoft. I think that Mecsoft will give you a discount on 1/2 of their price for Rhino programs if you ask. That is what they told me. There are many programs that deal with CAD\CAM. Roland is one of the simp...

Welcome Marty, You will find that you will start to dream about projects for the mill. It is a friendly addiction, no drugs, no payola, no gangs, only amazing results for helping independent jewelers do what the big boys have been able to do for years. You can make one's and two's for profit, or mak...

Welcome Thomas, My wife grew up in the Islands. Great to have you as part of the forum. Each of us were beginners, and some of us are still learning. I tell people that I am not fast, I am half fast. Several things will help you. Keep a log, a binder notebook of the programs and items that you downl...

Rocky Mountain Jeweler welcome. What a name! do you go by Rocky? Welcome to the forum. It can become an obsession. Much like watching a washing machine wash clothes. But, it does its thing in its own time. Most of us let it do it at night. some of us have rigged up contraptions that allow a shop vac...

Another David to welcome, As a diamond setter you will have some insights that we naturalistic carvers would never think of or do. Welcome to the forum and feel free to ask for help. We all learn with this attitude. Also, seriously consider getting the gig that Jeff is offering for a 4th axis. The p...

Welcome Barbara, I am a Sponsor member of the Dallas Museum of Art. One of my own projects was to scan some Pre-Colombian stone carvings using my MDX-15 and to render them into jewelry items. I am a collector [amateur] of antiquities that often are not of the quality that make it into museum collect...

I only wish that I had a MDX-15 years ago when I was sweating blood carving out 3 D letters. What a nightmare. The Mill makes the job so much easier. But the real benefit for having the mill is this forum and guys that know how to do fine diamond setting. that is a skill that I envy and am trying to...

Figure detail

Here is a shot of the a detail of the Storyteller. The older ranch hand and the younger man.

Here is storyteller. It was a lot of fun to make. We have also made miniatures of sailing vessels, historical events, discoveries, Moon landing, as well as Space miniatures for NASA. Most of my work is very realistic. I make rings to match, as well as bolos for men's wear. Here is the 1981 piece. wi...

Well here goes. here is a jpeg of the St. Michael figure. Also, in 1981 I was commissioned to make a sculpture for sale at the local PBS Auction. I made what I called the "Storyteller" which was a theme of an older ranch hand who was telling a young hand about the danger of bears that prowl in the n...