Stagecoach Cutting

[Dak0ta52]

I haven't posted any pictures of projects for a while because I've been busy cutting. I've got about 25 hours in this piece so far along with countless blades. The piece is larger than any other piece I've done and since my upper arm on the saw doesn't raise, I'm having a difficult time feeding blades. They ultimately bend and soon after break. I keep looking at it and saying, "One hole at a time." I really believe it will be well worth the time once it is complete. Thanks, Jim Blume, for the pattern.

[John B]

That is definitely a labour of love.

 

[preprius]

3.5 horse power so far !

Those horses look powerful especially going pulling through water.   The way that the horse hair is flying and position of the legs just make it look so real. 

 Adding color will be tricky with the water reflections.     Oh use water colors.

This shows that you love the western style for sure. 

Me. Mark 

 

[Scrappile]

Okay, I've been trying to print this and have had no success.. It says it is 28x11". I tried to print it on my printer and it comes out no where near that size.  I converted it to a pdf file thinking I'd print it as a Poster, still came out small..  What am I missing.

[Dak0ta52]

2 hours ago, Scrappile said:

Okay, I've been trying to print this and have had no success.. It says it is 28x11". I tried to print it on my printer and it comes out no where near that size.  I converted it to a pdf file thinking I'd print it as a Poster, still came out small..  What am I missing.

I actually printed it a little smaller than what it was designed to be. I have a 11X17 printer and couldn't get it to print on the full sheet. It would only print on the 11X17 paper what would appear on a 8 1/2X11 page, omitting the rest of what appeared in the printing image displayed on the computer. I used Inkscape and printed half on a 8 1/2X11 page and then moved the picture to print the other half. I'm sure it would have been much easier to cut at the original size of 28X11. Less chance of break outs.

[Scrappile]

Will I was able to get to print larger so I can cut it.. I ended up using the online posterazor site which let have more control over the size.  that put it on four pages.  But it only save things as pdf.  I for some reason could not get a clear print with a pdf file so I converted it to jpeg and printed each page as a separate file. I have alway been able to print df files the size I want using the poster option, but for some reason this picture refused to do it..

Thanks for the response.  Now I Want to find a right piece of wood to cut it in..  may just end up using Baltic Birch, it is the safest way to go. Less chance of loosing something.

[JackJones]

@Dak0ta52  Hi Rodney can you tell me how you added the red lines. I too want to cut this pattern. Thanks. 

[Dak0ta52]

13 hours ago, JackJones said:

@Dak0ta52  Hi Rodney can you tell me how you added the red lines. I too want to cut this pattern. Thanks. 

Jack, I'm not sure if you mean the red lines to cut or the red lines to align multiple pages to a pattern. Regardless, both are done in Inkscape. If you don't have Inkscape, it is a free program available online. The way to create both the red lines to cut and the page alignment marks are covered in a great tutorial video Travis, the administrator of this forum, has posted here. At the top of this page is a blue line with one of the links that says "Resources" and then below that it will pop up several links, one being "Village University." These tasks are covered in his Inkscape tutorials. I highly recommend viewing these tutorials to aid in using Inkscape. He also has a tutorial for "Gimp," another common free program used by scrollers.

Someone here may be able to explain it a little better but in a nutshell, you would open (import) the stagecoach file in Inkscape. With the file highlighted (arrows a the corners) you right click the color (red) at the bottom of the Inkscape window and another little window will pop up. Then you would click "stroke." The "stroke" is the lines that you cut. It gets a little more complicated but you can actually open a panel to set the size of the stroke. That is how bold you make the line. I typically make my stroke lines .009 of an inch. I also use a light gray at the bottom of the Inkscape window, usually 7.5%, right click the light gray and then click "fill." That will lighten the interior parts of the cuts. For me, having the area to be cut out as black interferes with my visibility of the blade as I am cutting.

Hope this helps however I encourage you to view the tutorials Travis has provided in the Village University.

[JackJones]

@Dak0ta52 thank you for your explanation that worked perfectly. I’ve also started watching Travis’ tutorials.