Garage Wall Art

Been working on this for a while now, but it's slowly starting to come around. Everything is engraved into the wood which is about 3/4" thick. Going to put a nice metal frame around it and mount it up. Was one of those projects that took a heck of a lot longer then I thought it was going to, but the end result is well worth it. What do you guys think?
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I'm pretty sure I could for just about any car. Just takes a good amount of time between the woodwork, art design, engraving, and finish work. Let me go through and add up material cost and man hours.

 

Thank you for all of the positive responses, I really enjoyed creating this as the normal engraving work I do isn't always as fun!

 

Here is the whole process

Wood Work
Hand pick the lumber
Glue to rough size
Cut to wanted dimensions
Plane to even thickness
Sand starting with 100grit ending with 1000grit
Stain
6-10 coats of polyurethane, steel wool after every coat.
Apply tape over entire project

Design work
Find or draw blue prints for chosen car
Use Ferrari shop manuals for engine diagrams, redraw

Engrave Work
Convert all work into vector graphics
Design Work in CAD program
Engrave through tape into wood
Apply clear coat

Fill engraved parts with paint
Spend 3-6 beers/hours removing all tape
Apply last clear coat.

Frame and mounting

This one took me about 3 weeks to finish, working on it every day. I think I can get it down to under 2 weeks now that I have a good process down. I wish I could get 1500 for something like this, I'd be happy to get 500!

 

This one is about 24"X18" without the frame. Frame will add a few inches.

 

Here is the finished one for Mike. The red frame really makes this one look great!
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