CMSgt shadow box

Very nice! The inlaid stripes look really sharp. How tall did it end up being?

-- -MDWhite

Very nice shadow box. Sure can’t mistake that for Army now. Do you have templates that you use for your build or paper patterns?

-- Ron, "Curiosity is a terrible thing to waste."

Extremely nice work good job.

-- If nothing goes right go left.

Thanks everyone. This one a little bit of a challenge because I had to built the box for the insert with the ribbons and stuff. They already had all that done and so there was no sense in wasting that part. I’m a graphic designer for the Air Force so I have the vector images of all stripes and used illustrator to clean it up. The first one I started to make I printed a large life size print on a plotter printer then stuck it to some mdf and cut that out then I was goin to use a plunge router and inlay collar but I was introduced to now a good friend who had a CNC machine and we worked on getting it right. So I ended up buying a CNC machine because he lives 3 hours away and it wasn’t pratical for me to always drive over there. The final length ended up at 45”.

That looks awesome!

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