Live Edge Slab

Dave R

This is a bench with a claro walnut live edge slab for the seat. I drew the slab at the request of a woodworker who wanted to know if it could be done. I guess it can be. Actually, thanks to TIG's Image Trimmer, it's a walk in the park.
Slab bench.png

Box

Very nice.

davidheim1

And a good tutorial about using the plug-in on the "Design.Click.Build" blog on finewoodworking.com.

Best,
dh

cotty

@davidheim1 said:

And a good tutorial about using the plug-in on the "Design.Click.Build" blog on finewoodworking.com.

Best,
dh

Yes, it's certainly worth a link:
http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/120817/drawing-a-live-edge-slab

HornOxx

Dave - a great "walk in the park"!
Thanks Cotty for this Explanation link.
Thanks Tig, again for this very useful tool.
(I did not recognize this great "Image Trimmer" feature so far)

Dave R

Thank you all.

dale

Masterful as usual Dave. Can't tell you all I have learned from you.
Thanks

Rich O Brien

beautiful!

pbacot

So realistic! And pretty too. How did you render it?

Dave R

Thank you, gentlemen.

Dale, surely you can tell. It isn't a secret.

Peter, the rendering was done in Kerkythea. The "set" is just a large rectangle. No walls or ceiling. Two lights inserted via SU2KT. I used a plastic material preset to get the glossiness of the wood and I used the texture for the slab as a bump map and set the strength to 0.25. It's probably wrong but whenever I want to add a little bump, I just use the texture image for the map. Seems to work fine. Rendered at preset 7 or 8. I forget which. Easy setup and quick render.