Halloween Judging
Judging Criteria
Please judge each project and assign a score from 1 to 5 in each of the following five categories, for a maximum of 25 points:
1. Originality and Creativity: How unique and imaginative is your Halloween-themed design?
2. Design Concept: How well-conceived and thought-out is the overall design?
3. Execution Quality: How precisely and skillfully was the project fabricated using CNC equipment?
4. Finishing Quality: How well is the project finished, including any accents or detailing?
5. Overall Appearance: What is the general visual impact and appeal of the finished project?
Entry #2
The roof is lacewood, pumpkin & trim is Goncalo Alves. Pumpkin is a line drawing then brought into Aspire made into a 3D model, glued together then carved. The walls are yellow heart, the floors are ash. The spiderwebs on glass are laser etched.
The witch made with walnut, yellow heart & padauk
The eye with skull made with Yellow heart & mahogany
Door made with ash & walnut.
Grim Reaper made with yellow heart, black died veneer. Oak veneer & African mahogany .glued together then carved.
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Entry #3
The Hunted House was taken from image on the internet from pictures of the cut drawings about the size of the 3”X5” file card, the photo had to be redrawn to work as a final set of cutting files. In other words, I had to do several hours of node editing before it was able to send to the laser to start any cutting. It’s made from .125 plywood.
It was a bit difficult to assembly because of its size and my shaking hands.
All of the node editing was done in CorelDraw. It was then sent to my 40 watt CO2 laser to be cut.
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Entry #4
The outside frame is a piece of 12″x14″x1.15″ cedar I did in V-Carve Pro. It consists of 14 different toolpaths, 2 pocket, 8 profile, & 4 texture toolpaths. Total machine time was 4:19:52. It was finished with BLO followed by Watco Danish dark walnut for texture highlights.
The inner piece is carved from a 8.0″x 8.5″x 1″ piece of black walnut. The design was created using a prompt in Vista Sculpt. ‘a scary sasquatch, holding a scary pumpkin head, with the words HAPPY HALLOWEEN in an arch on the top.’ I started with just 3 toolpaths. 1st, roughing pass w/ BEAST, 2nd w/ .045TBN, 3rd profile pass for cutout w/ BEAST also. After the 1st finish pass I was not satisfied with the detail on the ‘Squatch’, so I reran the finish pass with a .015TBN, which only added 8:16:42 to the machine time. The center walnut piece is finished with Watco Danish Oil, dark walnut.
This project is permanently joined via a tedious process of chemical bonding, as well as mechanically fastening, I.E. . . Glued & screwed.
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Entry #5
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Entry #6
My entry is a book that is full of pictures that I carved with my CNC using a 90 degree diamond drag bit.
The video shows more pictures carved than being submitted in “My Haunts Book”. The book is made of wooden panels for the cover and back, fake leather covering and 1/8 inch Plexiglas with an added black 1/8 inch thick plastic background. The pictures are lighted by different colors of 12 volt LEDs that are powered by a single 9 volt battery. The black background is enhancing the lighted pictures and needed due to being taken in daylight and to stop the bleed of the pictures showing through to each other while viewing. The Plexiglas is held in place by 1/2 inch by 3/4 inch wood that have slots to hold the engravings in place and slots cut for the LEDs and power wiring. I know it’s not pretty but wanted to make it looks as if it has been beaten around thru the many years and held together with tape and glue.
The story of the book is to make the reader warry of being invited to dinner and not to be confused with they could be then invited dinner themselves.
Picture 1 The Witch – Gives warning that if a witch invites you to dinner make sure you’re not the dinner.
Picture 2 The spider – Warns not to get stuck on the menu. It is sure they will be great.
Picture 3 The Skull – Warns not to let the best part of your day be lunch. Where you are on the menu!
Picture 4 Mark Lindsay – This picture is showing a screen captured picture where Mark is attached to a knowledge sucking device and has 2% of his knowledge being sucked out.
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Entry #7
Sasquatch 3D carved on a brass coin
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Entry #8
I am entering the jar lid, it’s made out of scrap maple, the epoxy is .25 deep for the background. The black is .07 deep carved with a 18 deg v bit, .125 downcut end mill. I made a pocket cut down to the epoxy on the backside so light could pass through it. The lid radius is 4.5″ to fit a candy jar. The witch on the broom is just for aesthetics in the photo along with Scooter (the dog’s) nose.
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Entry #9
Halloween Wood Infinity Pumpkin Lantern Box 7 3/4″ X 6 1/2 “, approx 14” tall depending on the length of the branch stem. Made with fence pickets, plywood, Acrylic, mirror, wood glue, brad nails, epoxy for the skull, and mirror window film for the infinity effect. Battery-operated lights. Used a bandsaw to cut the dry tree branches. Used a glass cutter to cut the mirror. Used the table saw to cut wood and Acrylic panel to size. Used the cnc to cut the grooves for the mirror and acrylic. Used Vectric to design the face and imported it to Lightburn to laser the glass mirror.
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