Custom Animal Shapes 1/8″ (3 mm) MDF Designs 0012 – 0021

September 5, 2016 Jon Off CNC Laser, CNCROi.com News, Shapes Library, Wood Products,

CNCROi.com is launching a bunch more custom animal shapes, this time, they are made out of MDF rather than plywood but they are equally available at our online store under Shapes Library.

Like the plywood earlier, these custom animal shapes begin life in a protective shroud so that clean-up is non-existent. Unlike plywood, MDF is easily sanded and painted due to its very consistent surface and material density.

To add additional detail to these models, an inner engraving pass is added to the outer cutting path, this allows more detail that’s clearly visible, especially on MDF.

To bring budget considerations into play when we do custom animal cutting, this is 3 mm or 1/8th inch MDF which cuts about twice as fast as the “twice as thick” plywood so the unit cost would be lower on these units than on the plywood ones for essentially the same shapes.

If this is meant to go on a wall, this is a more cost-effective solution as you don’t need the added depth and strength that comes with plywood BUT if you wanted to leave this exposed and not painted over, I’d suggest going with a custom wood veneer, that will cost more but you have the natural beauty of the wood. Paint over plywood or MDF ends-up looking the same, but exposed and natural, real wood is tough to beat.

We can also personalize and make these in endless scale parameters so, for instance, if you wanted to make a wall collage of just leather back turtles, we can design additional turtle shapes for you and make them in a variety of scales from a few inches to a few feet to give your collage more interest.

We can also make them in a variety of materials, so if you wanted to paint half and keep the other half natural, we’d make them in MDF (cheaper) for those that will be painted and real wood veneer or anything else you want for the other half.

CNCROi.com gives you endless flexibility when it comes to shapes and sizes of all kinds across a huge variety of materials and custom applications.

Let’s say your child’s favorite animal are silverback apes, which you can see one of in the image above. We can make one that’s 39 inches across and a bit higher to put on a window as a laminate, a stencil that you can paint through onto whatever medium you wish or even make a custom self-inking rubber stamp or coaster set out of that exact shape!

A question we often get at CNCROi.com is if we have the capacity to make other shapes than what’s found in our Shapes Library, the answer is a resounding YES! We can make them from your photographs, sketches or anything else you have on hand.

The good thing is that once you give us an idea of your budget, we’ll find a way to optimize what you want with the resources you have on hand regarding material and size and volume requirements. It may mean we have a few sizes, as the smaller ones will cost less than bigger ones to meet your volume requirements, it may mean we go all out and cut them out of solid Corian or into stone. It’s totally up to you.

We have more than just an industrial Austrian wide-format CNC laser in the shop, so the possibilities for your work are as endless as your imagination and the budget attached to it.

Now that the CNC laser cutting of these MDF custom animal shapes is just about done, you can already clearly see the inner outline through the protective masking and all the smoke and debris that landed on the wrap instead of the MDF surface.

Here’s a clearer view, we’ve had some customers who requested us not to wrap this on purpose so that the smoke makes an extra staining on the edges of the shape, that’s no problem, we work with what you want. It does create a nice outline contrast though.

Here are all the shapes cut out, they are all accurate within 5 nanometers of the original drawing though on MDF, we can be 20 nanometers and you really couldn’t tell. We do have clients where this accuracy DOES MATTER so you get to benefit from this wicked overkill relating to these specific custom animal shapes.

Let’s take a look at each one individually, here’s a baboon sitting.

Here’s a tortoise.

Here’s a leather back turtle custom MDF shape.

The silverback ape I made reference to earlier.

No custom animal shape library is complete without a RAT!

Rhinos come out great too, notice the tail on the left, if this was cut out to the exact outline, it would fall off, that’s why we do this extra “step back” contour.