The entire project, Joe said, has involved “coming up with an interesting idea, then figuring out how to do it.” At first, for example, the brothers had no idea how to make the fireplace they wanted, with two sword-wielding angels spanning it. It’s a fun design process rather than a tedious process.” Instead of spending a lot of time on calculations, “When you’re telling the story of philosophy, you can ask, ‘What do you put in there?’ It’s getting to play with the art,” Chris said. You can arrange something the way you want it, at the size you want, and then upload and print. The CarveWright software also gave them an advantage, Joe said: “The software is designed with a more of a design element. “It would’ve taken me the rest of my life if I tried to do it by hand.” “That was one of the main reasons we wanted the CarveWright, was to do things like this,” Chris said. Even in great old libraries, you’ll find the carving is a repeated pattern that some master carpenter can set apprentices doing.” With that volume of carving, every single one is unique. “There’s 140 linear feet of different scenes,” Chris said, with Joe adding “That’s the significance of doing it with these types of machines. Some scenes depict stories from such learning disciplines as math, physics, chemistry or philosophy while historical scenes pay tribute to the Eygyptian, Greek and Roman eras, as well as the Revolutionary War and World Wars I and II. “It’s like ‘Find the geckos!’ Kids get a kick out of it.” “My wife likes the geckos that are around down here all over,” Chris explained. Carvings of gecko lizards are interspersed among the vines on 33 fluted columns. Some of those homages include carved friezes above the cabinets and panels, as well as carved busts that serve as corbels to the room’s columns. Although not yet finished – “I don’t know that we’ll ever be totally finished,” Chris said – the 1,000 foot (50’ x 20’) room is already up to two-thirds full of books (it’s designed to hold up to 4,000 volumes), as well as serving as a display for artifacts, scientific instruments and other homages to learning. Chris, a former robotics engineer at NASA, and his wife, a mathematician, had always wanted a library. When Chris and his wife first purchased their current home in Texas, there was an empty room.
And they have used the CarveWright to create a plethora of detailed panels for the library room in Chris’s house. In their case, though, the brothers are involved with LHR Technologies, inventors of the CarveWright CNC System. It’s not too unusual for a couple of brothers to “sit down with a couple of beers and come up with all sorts of crazy ideas,” as Joe Lovchik described the design process he and his brother Chris have followed.
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