It all begins...

with an idea. My wife had asked for a mirror that she could mount on the wall above our dresser. I was hesitant to get her one, but I finally caved. However, I was gonna do it my way.

I work at a lovely woodcarving company named Carvewright. You may have heard of us. Our CNC machine is getting pretty popular. Anyways, I used the software for the machine to design an extremely nice frame for the mirror. I spent numerous days working on the design, trying to get it just right. After working my butt off, I finally got it.

There was just one problem. I did not have a machine to use to carve the project and I couldn't hijack one of the test machines at work.

So a buddy of mine stepped in and offered to carve the project for me, basically for free! The only issue was that I had to send the project file to him. So I loaded it onto a removable media drive and off it went through the regular mail. The project encountered a few snags along the way: snowstorms, death of a close family friend, move into a new house, holidays, etc. It finally got to his place in PA a few days before Christmas.

My friend Chris immediately got to work on the project. After almost a day in the machine carving and a few complaints from his wife, it finally finished carving. Its currently on its way back to me, here in Texas. Its due to arrive tomorrow, if all goes well.

I'll have a few things to do before it is complete, such as sanding and finishing, but I know the wife will love it.

You can see a few of the pictures by clicking on the following link. It will take you to the Carvewright forum, where we have a thread all to this project.

http://forum.carvewright.com/showthread.php?t=9709

I'll post both before and after pictures both here and there when I finish the project. I'm sure that the members of both forums will love the finished piece and I know that everyone at Carvewright is waiting anxiously to see it.

Well, that's all for now. Type to you later!