Noah B Woodworks

As I was falling asleep last night I came across a really awesome video of someone who was using wood to print in the same way that a person might do a linocut. You carve the negative space out of an image and then ink the surface and it will print the image onto a piece of paper. It got my wheels turning about maybe using the CNC to do prints in a similar fashion.

I really appreciated how he made the entire thing completely by hand. He sketched the image, tweaked it in photoshop, printed a template, glued the template to the wood, and carefully carved away the negative space away with a sharp knife. The final result was incredible and it takes great patience to have such quality craftsmanship. I could most definitely do something similar with the CNC and it would take a fraction of the time. It would sort of feel like cheating though, especially after seeing the soulful result that he got.

I could probably draw the design and import a scan into Carveco fairly easily, then extract the vector. Programming the relief carving would be very straight forward. I’ve been looking for creative ways to push the CNC and this one does seem very interesting. This would definitely be a more unorthodox way of using the machine, which I like. Every time I come across someone doing a linocut print it always fascinates me and looks like a ton of fun to carve. The carving aspect is what looks fun though, so having the carving be done for me sort of sucks the life out of the process.