Post #728513 by nicework on Sat, Sep 27, 2014 10:08 AM

Hello.I am new to tiki central. I guess I can give you my experience with the cnc. My back ground is as a Ice carver. I started carving ice in 1992, back in those days their was no cnc. it was all done by hand. in 1995 thier was a company called ice magic that started using the cnc machine, the cnc machine cuts perfect logos and cut with percision only because it is a machine. So what happened is that alot of people would start ice carving companies just using the cnc machine and companies started poping all over the nation. I to have worked at companies that have the cnc machine and i would run the jobs change the pits and so on and so on. So i have experince as a hand carver and a cnc operator. Now as a artist the people who program the computer are diffinitley master artist you have to know many things and designs and mathe to program the cnc and i respect that as art most diffinitly I have worked with some of the best cnc prgramers and thier is definatly a ART to that HATS OFF! But please do not get it twisted the cnc see does not carve it is machining or milling not carving. big difrence carving is when you use hand tools and hand power tools.. as far as using a machine for buisness yes that is the way to go. but machine cut items do not have a soul it was just programed things that are carved by hand have those imperfections that give it heart and soul. So run that machine make money it does perfect work, but is it a carving that my friend is where the truth must lie.

The CNC IS A POWERFOOL TOOL GREAT TO HAVE. Takes alot of talent and art and brains to use. But my opinion and experience it is not a carving.

looking forward to see other replies have a bless day

look at the picture can we really call this carving or machine work

I carved this by hand I think this is what carving is a man and his power tools and chisels. I did this for students at a culinary school