Steve good patterns

[Allen levine]

Im Having a family reunion next month and wanted to give little woodworking gifts to some relatives I don't see often actually not any since 2017

my nephew up here got some Xmas stuff I made like that soor

topper and a few puzzles

the other nephew in conn I'm going to give him a watch I've have for 10 years and at his wedding he was admiring it so it's a great gift for him

the other nephew upstate here I gave him my marlin 39 lever action 22 as he was about to go purchase one

inhad the original receipt in 1988 I paid 240 and we saw it on eBay for 800 bucks he was thrilled

now the patterns

nurse is walnut mounted on painted pine

soccer is walnut mounted on painted pine

saw blades are walnut ply and cherry ply mounted on painted pine

gotta use whatever I have

still working on others

i mailed some out to those that can't attend

problem is they showed their sibling ha what uncle made them and now they all felt left out

the saw blades are for friends

[Allen levine]

This one is not a Steve good pattern

I think once I sand letters paint them and mount them on I'm thinking a piece of cherry as I have a lot of cherry left it will be fine 

[Mike Crosa]

Looks pretty good to me.

 

[Denny Knappen]

Mighty fine projects

[Allen levine]

Finished 

ended up using pine since I had a piece left and I don't build anything out of pine but it works well for signs 

poplar painted letters oak handle axe with walnut 

thin entire project was made with pieces out of bins from leftover pieces 

3 coats polyurethane out of rattle can

not a lot of scroll work just letters which I was able

to cut fast with 2/0 blade

8 and 3/4 by 15

Edited June 2 by Allen levine

[rjweb]

Allen, they all look excellent, RJ

[Allen levine]

Keeping busy till I leave for nc and tenn

some more good patterns

rummaging through bins and shelves made all this from leftover pieces and cutoffs

forgot buttons on Santa's shirt so I glued on some black teddy bear eyes worked well

[Allen levine]

And there's a lot of scrap bins I'm going to have to start some intarsia to use some of it up so it doesn't go into firepit

Edited June 5 by Allen levine

[rjweb]

Allen, very nice you have been busy, RJ

[Allen levine]

Made the dog bank this morning had to sort through the bins again and not each piece was exact thickness but not noticable

Once again this project was made with only pieces from previous projects cutoffs and scraps 

the piece of pine I used as base had a slight warp of around 1/16 th but I used it again no one will notice specially two kids

 

all sapele with a piece of poplar on front door

Edited June 6 by Allen levine

[rjweb]

Very nice, still been busy, RJ

[Allen levine]

Keeping busy beats sitting around doing nothing

[Allen levine]

Neither of these two came out that great

xmas tree puzzle Santa is too tight blade must have drifted should have used a 5 blade instead of 3 Spanish cedar

i might try one more of them 

model t layers gluing up were off a bit sanded as much as I could poplar body sapele wheels

just have to move on and stick it on a shelf

 

[wombatie]

What excellent looking gifts, plus they are keeping you out of trouble.   Well done.

Marg

[Allen levine]

Made a door topper today only took 2 hours

had a piece of oak with holes but placed the pattern and didn't hit holes used some leftover walnut ply for back

Some family members saw this before and I promised I'd make them each one so I'll stack cut Spanish cedar with whatever ply I have for backing 

[Allen levine]

Some naughty word scrolling

my kids and grandkids are here Sunday they won't last on the buffet more then a minute

just keeping busy for one more week then we babysit for 6 straight days and then we leave for a month 

[Allen levine]

Made this today one of his newer patterns 

an egret

hard maple with cherry base

[Allen levine]

On a lot of cuts that needed sharp turns since I was using a 9 blade I just backed out and cut them all like that 3/4 inch maple 

[rjweb]

Allen, nice job, RJ

[Allen levine]

Started this bus pattern this morning

im stupid I decided to use hard maple instead of something like poplar

cutting 3/4 hard maple is not easy for me with lots of turns

i think I'd do better with regular 7 and 9 blades I only have reverse tooth blades in that size 

only got 3 layers cut gotta get ready for celebration today but not sure how I got hoodwinked into bbq'ing for everyone

anyway will post progress next week and I know there will be plenty of sanding involved