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Floater Pieces in ScrollSawing


Sam777

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Sam, 

   A floater is a piece that is going to fall out when it is cut.. One could glue it back in place if they have cut it and it fell out. But it is really up to the pattern designer to make sure he or she does not have a  floater in their patterns. If you have watched me as I start my pattern efforts, I have not done very well in catching my floater. Luckily, I have a lot of good friends here in the  village that help me by pointing out my errors and then I can go back and correct them.

 

If you look at me Renaissance pattern and look at the eyelid on your right and the statues left side you can see an example of a floater, I am  not proud of that  but I just have not taken a moment to correct it. I will leave that one that way to help others understand this same question that you have, as I am NOT going to enter it in the pattern library anyway. It just is not a pattern that I like the outcome of and do not wish it to be in the library a year from now with my  name on it...

 

Dick

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Russell nailed it there....maybe nailed it is not a good choice of words here...  :lol:   but there are not many patterns that have intentional floaters... usually one can leave a space in a line to correct it and the space really isn't noticed when looking at the piece.. Take a look at almost any scroll saw pattern and you can see what I am referring to.

 

Sam,  take a look at this pattern that Birchbark made last week I made some little arrows to show you how the little broken lines keep this pattern from becoming nothing but a silhouette hole. There are probably 30 or more breaks in the  lines in this pattern.. Take a good look at it and see how many broken lines there actually are in it. You see, at first they are not even noticeable until you really look closely. They take nothing away from the pattern but rather make it a good pattern. One of these left out, could change things a lot and suddenly you have a big hole and are trying to salvage the piece by gluing it back in place.  

 

Dick

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Russell nailed it there....maybe nailed it is not a good choice of words here...  :lol:   but there are not many patterns that have intentional floaters... usually one can leave a space in a line to correct it and the space really isn't noticed when looking at the piece.. Take a look at almost any scroll saw pattern and you can see what I am referring to.

 

Sam,  take a look at this pattern that Birchbark made last week I made some little arrows to show you how the little broken lines keep this pattern from becoming nothing but a silhouette hole. There are probably 30 or more breaks in the  lines in this pattern.. Take a good look at it and see how many broken lines there actually are in it. You see, at first they are not even noticeable until you really look closely. They take nothing away from the pattern but rather make it a good pattern. One of these left out, could change things a lot and suddenly you have a big hole and are trying to salvage the piece by gluing it back in place.  

 

Dick

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Thank you Dick,

I see your arrows. Thank you for pointing them out. I understand your point.

Thanks

sam

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