Pattern maker.... maybe

[Sue]

Hi eveyone my name is Sue (Newbie)

A couple of months ago, I bought my first scroll saw, im not very good at it, but yes i keep giving it a go.

Inbetween going Doh! I started trying to make patterns, mainly portrait patterns and i wondered if anyone

could have a look at my patterns and tell me if they could accually be cut on a scroll saw.

 

[munzieb]

Hi Sue, Great job on the design. I have been cutting for a few years but just got started in designing my own portraits. Your design has plenty of good bridges but be careful of close narrow peninsulas. They can have a tendency to break off. I always cut any peninsulas free first to relieve any load on them from the larger piece. I learned pretty quick my love for blue tape. I try to save and reinstall all my cutoffs and hold down with blue tape. When I'm done cutting, I will flip over and first orbital sand and then use a scotch brite sanding ball on my hand drill to remove the rest of the fuzz.   Then I will finally remove the pattern and tape from the front. Keep designing!

[Sue]

Thank you

That was one of my main worries

[RabidAlien]

One thing I've started doing on my patterns is to set the paintbucket to some oddball color (red works well, or green) and paintbucket ONE area that you plan on leaving intact.  Ideally, it should then render EVERYTHING that color.  For instance...if you're using black and white as your contrasting colors, and plan on removing the black, set paintbucket to green and dump that green into a white area.  It should make all white areas green.  Any white left over, you've now identified islands.  Then just CTRL-Z to back out of that paintbucket and go tackle those islands.

[Phantom Scroller]

Neat work definitely cuttable . Roly

[bobscroll]

Hello Sue and welcome to the village, That is a good pattern. One suggestion I have is for you to colour your pattern with light grey with a red border that way you save the red ink, That's what I do on My patterns O.K. Your doing great!

Bob 

[Rockytime]

On 8/5/2018 at 8:35 AM, munzieb said:

<SNIP> I always cut any peninsulas free first to relieve any load on them from the larger piece. I learned pretty quick my love for blue tape. I try to save and reinstall all my cutoffs and hold down with blue tape. When I'm done cutting, I will flip over and first orbital sand and then use a scotch brite sanding ball on my hand drill to remove the rest of the fuzz.   Then I will finally remove the pattern and tape from the front. Keep designing!

That is a great bit of advice. De-bur before removing the pattern to keep things in place

[munzieb]

16 hours ago, Rockytime said:

That is a great bit of advice. De-bur before removing the pattern to keep things in place

Just a side note on the De-Buring. When you push the cutout from the front back into the cutout or keep it in the cutout. It will the keep or move the fuzz to the back of the pattern for easier removal. If you remove the cutout and then de-bur, the fuzz can roll back into the cutout hole.

[Rockytime]

I push the cutout out the back but sometimes the cutout comes flying out the top. But you are correct.

[John B]

That's a neat looking pattern, I don't know who Tom Hardy is, but I do like the pattern
I just asked Google and I have seen most of the movies that he is in, shows how much attention a pay.

[heppnerguy]

Very nice job on the pattern. I have made several of this type pattern and I am still struggliong to get it