For a friend, a sign for her pond.

[Foxfold]

Work in progress, I've designed the pattern I've been asked for, transferred it to my wood, cut it and stained it. Will varnish next week. Very new to this so any comments/criticism more than welcome.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Foxfold
Forgot to add photo

[JimErn]

Looks great, very nice work

[oldhudson]

Feels just right.

[meflick]

Looks great to me Brenda your friend is going to love it. 

[amazingkevin]

Better than it has to be. Your amazing.

[Loskoppie]

I think it is beautiful.

 

[DJ2772]

It looks like you hand carved it, but I'm assuming it's segmentation with the pieces stained black? Look great! I like the background stain too, looks like it unevenly absorbed, but gives it an amazing weathered look.

[Foxfold]

1 hour ago, DJ2772 said:

It looks like you hand carved it, but I'm assuming it's segmentation with the pieces stained black? Look great! I like the background stain too, looks like it unevenly absorbed, but gives it an amazing weathered look.

Thanks David.  It's  a piece of industrial plywood, hence the grain and the way it took the stain. It wasn't done on my scrollsaw I did it with my Router, so I suppose you could call it 'carved'. 

[smitty0312]

On 7/3/2020 at 6:04 AM, Foxfold said:

Work in progress, I've designed the pattern I've been asked for, transferred it to my wood, cut it and stained it. Will varnish next week. Very new to this so any comments/criticism more than welcome.

Beautiful......question....what method do you use to transfer the pattern to wood? Thx in advance.

[Foxfold]

31 minutes ago, smitty0312 said:

Beautiful......question....what method do you use to transfer the pattern to wood? Thx in advance.

I printed the pattern 'back to front' if you get my drift then stuck the pattern to my wood on one side, so I can lift the pattern to check how the transfer is going. I use Rustins Cellulose Thinner. I dampen a piece of linen/kitchen roll with the thinner and rub it onto the paper just enough to dampen the paper (too wet makes the ink run), I then rub it over with an old credit card until it is dry. When you lift the paper the pattern has transferred the ink onto the wood. It's really that simple. The only thing to remember is that this only works with Laser Jet printers. There are ways of doing it with normal inkjet printers I believe but you'd have to look that up on YouTube or Google it.

[smitty0312]

1 minute ago, Foxfold said:

I printed the pattern 'back to front' if you get my drift then stuck the pattern to my wood on one side, so I can lift the pattern to check how the transfer is going. I use Rustins Cellulose Thinner. I dampen a piece of linen/kitchen roll with the thinner and rub it onto the paper just enough to dampen the paper (too wet makes the ink run), I then rub it over with an old credit card until it is dry. When you lift the paper the pattern has transferred the ink onto the wood. It's really that simple. The only thing to remember is that this only works with Laser Jet printers. There are ways of doing it with normal inkjet printers I believe but you'd have to look that up on YouTube or Google it.

Thanks very much for the tip, i really appreciate!