Steve good patterns

[Allen levine]

Must sleep more I made first frame too small then made a second frame and it was also 1/2 inch too small but I can use 

need to sand frame tomorrow and apply tung oil but tomorrow I can get busy gluing it all in place

i laid all the pieces in frame to make sure it will fit and look ok

nothing is glued or centered correctly just showing color contrast

hopefully this piece will be done by Saturday or Sunday 

I have a nice frame for future use 

[Allen levine]

I was happy when I made first frame because I had a leg from a hall table I made that was not needed 

originally this hall table had curved front aprons with 5 legs

while Dry fitting it all I fell in shop grabbed onto the table and my weight snapped all the tenons so instead of recutting all this curved aprons I just made it all straight 

but of course the first frame was too small so that didn't work out 

oh well

[Allen levine]

Finished just letting oil cure and glue cure before I attach piece to frame

[rjweb]

Beautiful piece,RJ

[Allen levine]

Seems Judy Roberts company uses the post office and I may never see the patterns I ordered as the post office in ny is totally incompetent so now I have to get downloads and waste half a day running to staples for copies or find another site for intarsia 

staples is a zoo and the wait is impossible but they can't file a lost mail claim for 20 days then wait for po

eh

no patterns to work on so I did another quick good download this morning 

letting it dry and maybe one more coat of spray lacquer

cherry with a pine base

Edited August 26, 2025 by Allen levine

[Allen levine]

I got my new patterns today from Judy gale Roberts and I'm quite sure I'm in over my head

They are huge and the more pieces the more room for error 

having said that it's only wood and unlike money it does grow on trees

ive been going thru my lumber racks

i received a huge order of wood from my supplier 

50 bf of walnut

50 bf of wide Spanish cedar even though I have tons of 8/4 Spanish cedar it's narrow

75 bf of poplar

i have mountains of sapele cherry and hard maple not stuff for scrolling but I use it here and there

today I just picked up 24 linear feet of red cedar and 16 linear feet of white cedar

i have an order coming in tomorrow of 12 linear feet of butternut

6 linear feet of blood wood

don't recall how much aspen 

and a box of mystery scraps of exotics 

im set for the next few years of intarsia 

now I just have to get busy

my first project starting next week is the Rottweiler puppy on pillows by gale roberts

today I have to make a monster truck ramp for the kids to play with their cars

im proud of my grandson he got on the bus today a practice run to start kindergarten next week

i promised him if he does a good job I'll have the ramp ready

I hope everyone is out enjoying this weather

inwill not be doing any work as we have not only my grandkids tomorrow we also have my great niece so I'll be busy till next wednesday

one cool note my grandson  is attending the same school I attended when I started kindergarten 

I'm happy it's not the same teacher

 

 

[barb.j.enders]

Glad you got your plans.  I was also surprised at how big they actually are.  I didn't read the sizes on the patterns when I ordered.  I took them to a commercial location to have them scanned to a USB stick.  Save the original.  Now you can get copies printed at anytime.

 

ps - it is okay to start a new thread for new projects.  I have skipped over your stuff thinking it is an old thread.  Just realized that you keep adding on to the original.

Edited August 28, 2025 by barb.j.enders

[Allen levine]

Skipping over my projects you're not missing much

i just figure it's all same designer might as well stick them all on one thread 

today I'm cutting names of the kids and mounting them on maple

both nieces took theirs home already even though they were damp with lacquer

the kids like it as it isn't easy finding custom made stuff with their names

[Allen levine]

We are babysitting 3 kids this weekend

my 10 yo niece came over this morning as her parents had a 6 am flight

she did some diamond painting with my wife and I made her name she loved it

timed it took me 23 minutes to plane cut and rout base

fun project

[Allen levine]

I made this piece from Steve good this morning

i I need to make the base and sand and clean

i decided to cut off the hat on Santa and make it out of bloodwood and aspen

only that part 

 

[Allen levine]

I made the hat and base

need to fix lines and sand a bit

im not applying finish 

this is a shelf piece I'll be giving to my daughters sister-in-law on thanksgiving

she invites me and my wife as well as my son and his wife each thanksgiving and I always bring her some Xmas decor I made

 

im sanding it tomorrow then I'm out of shop for at least a week

mynwifes birthday Saturday a lot of family here then we are off to pa for a week or so

Edited October 2, 2025 by Allen levine

[rjweb]

Very nice, RJ

[Allen levine]

For my grandsons kindergarten teacher

quick 1.5 hour project 

I went looking for a pattern from Steve good for teachers and this was perfect since my grandsons fav saying about his teacher is best teacher ever so it's spot on 

[Allen levine]

My wife just let me know this morning she's going to need alot more of those little Xmas trees with ornament

i glued up strips enough for 12 more trees and told her this is I'm done with this stuff

this Thursday I will be handing out everything I made related to Xmas besides the trees and reindeer