Tattoo Beer Bottle Opener

Nicole from the Tulsa Area contacted my to have a tattoo theme beer opener done for your Boyfriend.  My first reaction was...interesting! I looked at the 3 pictures she attached to the email and thought there is no way I can import these picture and trace them to get them converted into vectors. I need good quality pictures or better clip arts work the best. Taking a image of a guys arm just wont work.
Telling the customer..."it cant be done" is not something I do. Actually so far I never had to turn a single customer down due to the design work being to difficult.

My solution to the problem was to break down the items in the tattoo, single them out and find them on google as clip arts. Import them into my software and rebuild the tattoo from scratch.  So we started going back and forth exchanging all the items that were needed to rebuild the tattoo. With a little bit of editing we came up with a pretty solid design.  

Technical Data	Technical Data
Tool	90° Inserted V-carve tool
Speed	18000 rpm
Feed	80 ipm
Runtime	45 min
Font used on front board	WESTERN

here are some of the items....

After putting everything together I added some stars in random spots to tie everything together. The hard part of the project was dealing with a lot of single images that all had to come together and look like a fully tattooed arm.  

the estimated machine time for this project is 57 min. 

3D Render of the Back board



after about 20 min of cutting time....using a 90° V-carve tool 


done after 45 min cut time. 

Here is the finished Beer Bottle Opener 

A photo posted by Stefan Weihermueller (@customwooddesign) on Aug 24, 2015 at 11:28am PDT