Tree of life cross

[Charlie E]

Cut in some pretty Walnut. 

 

Edited December 8, 2025 by Charlie E

[Mike Crosa]

Beautiful cutting Charlie. I assume I can download the pattern ?

 

[Charlie E]

32 minutes ago, Mike Crosa said:

Beautiful cutting Charlie. I assume I can download the pattern ?

 

Thank you! Yes, you may.  

 

 

 

 

[rjweb]

That's beautiful excellent cutting, RJ

[ChelCass]

Beautiful.  Thank you for sharing the pattern.

[daveww1]

awesome job

[AUTOMILE]

Very nice! Love it !

[Denny Knappen]

Very well done

[meflick]

 Nice work on the pattern and the cutting Charlie. Thanks for sharing. I assume this means your hands are doing better since your surgery. Glad to see that as well.

Edited December 12, 2025 by meflick
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[Scrappile]

Very pretty cross, Charlie.  Thanks for sharing the pattern, hope I can do it justice.

[Charlie E]

Thank you! I'm doing well except for some lingering soreness that make things like breaking the seal on a jelly jar tough.  Hopefully that will pass with time as I love PBJs.  

[wombatie]

Wow, that piece of wood was perfect for the cross.  Awesome job Charlie.

Marg

[Scrolling Steve]

I like it, well done, love the wood!

[MarieC]

Beautiful cross!  your hands must be feeling better with all the cutting you are doing 

[Charlie E]

1 hour ago, MarieC said:

Beautiful cross!  your hands must be feeling better with all the cutting you are doing 

Thank you! Slowly getting back to normal.

[woodman11]

Beautiful cross.  Thank you for the pattern.

John

[Scrappile]

I love Charlie's cross so I found a piece of pretty Black Walnut I want to scroll it in.  First I wanted to play around a bit. I took some scape  1/4" bb and  stained one piece left another piece nature, to get an idea of what it would look like inlaid.  This is rough, no finishing' no hiding the holes.  It has some promise.  Then I wanted to try some relief cutting with it.   Again, no finishing just to get an idea of what it might look like. Of the two, I think I like the relief cut best  The result is I and going with just cutting as is.  I do not want to take a chance of wasting a nice piece of Black Walnut.      

 

[Charlie E]

I like the idea of the relief cutting too Paul. I may try that using Walnut and Oak one of these days. I can’t really claim this pattern as my own. Just one I modified a good bit to my liking.