Another tessellation comes out of its shell

After the other lizard and the seahorse designs came out so well, I thought I tackle something with a bit more detail. This is a turtle design that uses a 20° V bit for the details (using the trace operation) and then a 1.5 mm flat end bit to cut the outline (using the 2D contour cut). These designs were a bit smaller, so they are being cut out two at a time.

The CAD drawing of the turtle

The design is using 4 different types of wood: maple, walnut, cherry and palm. Here is the unfinished work in progress. There is a ruler in the pic to show scale.

Cut turtles

I still need to clean them up but its about ready to be finished.

I might next try a multi-layer 3D design. Those will take a bit more creativity than technical challenge the tessellations had to fit together.