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Thank you for the encouragement Dick heppnerguy I always try to make some sort of memorial plaque for someone that looses a loved one. They seem to mean a lot to the person who gets them Dick heppnerguy

Thank you Dave for the nice comment. I was just happy to finally complete it as it was why over my skill level, but if it makes the recipient happy it makes me happy as well Dick heppnerguy

My neighbor has his other house on Victoria Island and spends the winter here. He told me yesterday, that he was going to take this plaque home to Canada and show it to some of the guys that also worked Shore guardian duty on this air craft. He believes they will like it too. Dick heppnerguy

I am happy that you apparently liked the end product. That is my goal but this one was way more challenging then I expected. Way too many changes of ideas from the time I got it cut to the finished project. Thanks for the nice comments though Dick heppnerguy

Thanks Ron. I was a real challenge for me as I am not a pattern maker and the photo I had of the craft was not all that clear. I had to do a lot of things that really do not go as protocol so that added to the stress of it. I am just glad that it is finally finished and out of my shop. Thanks for the encouraging comment. Dick heppnerguy

I made this for a couple of Nieces who's mother recently passed away at 95 years old. She was married to my wife's brother who died about 55 years ago and several years later she remarried. My wife and I saw her only a few times since my wife's brother was killed so we really do not have much of a connection with her. We do keep in pretty close contact with the daughters and when she passed I made one of these plaque for each of them.. I modified the plaques a little and got them into the mail yesterday. They will be receiving them on Monday. These are patterns by Sue Mey and like I said, I did modify them a little. Dick heppnerguy

It was a challenge as it was my first intarsia pattern I made. He said he is going to take to Canada with him and show it to some of the guys that flew this airplane too. Dick heppnerguy

Thank you. I am just happy that it is finally finished and delivered. So glad you like it Dick heppnerguy

Amazed that I actually cut something? Just kidding, Thank you for your fun comment Dick heppnerguy

He seemed to be pleased with it. He sort of mentioned it last year but nothing was done about it until about a month ago when he mentioned it once more and then sent me a photo of the plane Dick heppnerguy

it was a struggle with all the changes but he has it at home now so me shop is waiting for me to start my next project Dick heppnerguy

This was a challenge for me. I have never made an intarsia pattern on my own before. My neighbor came to me with a photo of the military airplane he spent his 25 Canadian Air force carrier in. This aircraft was used to search the ocean waters for enemy subs. I found it very challenging for me because he kept changing what I was doing and he kept wanting it to be more of a model than an intarsia item. I was really wanting to making it just the way he wanted it but every change, along the way, put more doubt in my success to make it happen and added a lot of extra time to the process. This project is 28 inches long and approximately 14 inches high. I used a woodburner to make the stripe on the body of the plane black. Dick heppnerguy

Original ideas and patterns are always my favorite ones to see. I wish I had a better mind for pattern making. Good for you. Dick heppnerguy

love all the items posted. They all look fun items. Thanks for posting them for all of us to enjoy Dick heppnerguy

I love how you are venturing out and incorporating one hobby with another. Keep at it, you are doing great and obviously having fun at the same time. Can't beat that. Very nice projects. Dick heppnerguy

This will be a great and loving Valentines present this year. I am sure she will love it, and it outlasts candy and flowers but a long ways. Dick heppnerguy

This is one place that people do not think so much about the outstanding job these people do. This plaque is not only unique but points out another sector that truly deserves to be recognized. Great job on a nice project Dick heppnerguy

Thank you so much. I see exactly what you are saying. I had meant to make a bridge on the left side of the face and forgot to do so. A very good observation on your part. Charlie did make some very good points and observations and I am so happy that he did reply as he has done so many wood portraits and I was hoping to get some pointers from him. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me with my new endeavor. Dick heppnerguy

Thank you so much for your reconstruction and your comments. This means a lot to me and is very helpful. I have to agree on several things you talked about as I like your rendition better than my own. This is sort of looking at my first scroll saw cutting and comparing it to the improvements I have made through the year as far as my skills go I really felt the same as you about the forehead and did exactly as you mentioned but I wasn't sure if as I got to the smaller part of the lines if they would even show through the backer board so I elected to to keep them even for that reason. I can see however that my idea on it was incorrect as yours look fine. Another thing I like on your is the thinner facial lines on the left side of the face ( as we are viewing it ) and I made the effort to do that also but I could not make it look the way i was after so I resorted back to the heavier lines. I think I am happier with it the way I did it, in this case. The nose I also did not like the amount of heavy underline on the nose but I did this from a tutorial that Travis made and teaches from here in The Village and I ended up making that line considerably smaller than did Travis, but I have to say, I like the way you did the nose better than did I. Now to the eyes. Travis said in his tutorial that if you don't get the eyes right, none of the portrait will be correct. In this pattern I have to say that I prefer the highlight the way I did mine over the way you did yours. I am not putting your way down, I am just stating that I prefer the way I did the eye highlighting on this one but I am happy for you comment as it gives me some options on others in the future where I am sure I will probable use your way of making them and I am so happy you have shown me some options that I may not have considered when I really needed better way to do them. Seeing things a little different than you do in some areas does not make you or me wrong, I believe, but only means we have a little different view on how we like what we see. We are individuals and everyone has different likes and dislikes. There is nothing you did or pointed out that I am going to consider as I go through this learning process and I believe that almost everyone who makes portrait patterns would make some part of it a little differently than others. I can not thank you enough for all your input and also including a rework along with you comments as it does help me to better understand what you are pointing out to me. Dick heppnerguy

As for me, I am in the same boat you are as far as understanding all there is about changing a photo to a scroll saw pattern. In most patterns one can cut something incorrectly and no one can even notice it but with wood portraits ever miss cut or wrong lines stands out and changes the face just a little and those things are critical. In the Village site, Travis has a step by step tutorial for making wood portraits using GIMP. This was the results of trying to follow that tutorial but making the changes as I see them. It is a 7 part tutorial that you may enjoy viewing. I think you did a better job with your wood portrait then I did on mine but then I am not the talented person you are for sure. Thanks for showing your work I really like it a lot. Dick

This photo was taken from the internet and it includes as much of the top of the head that showed in the actual photo. I too thought the exact thing you mentioned about the top of the head when I saw it but it was all I had to work from. Thank you so much for your input as that is exactly the type of thing I am looking for so as to pick up pointers that will help me as I go about my endeavor to learn to make scroll saw wood portrait patterns from photos. I truly appreciate you taking your time to help me. Dick heppnerguy

Congratulations. Marriage is a commitment that requires a lot of give and take, sharing, understanding and thinking about 'how important is it to be right? and last but most of all, loving each other and treating them with that thought always first. We were in the same situation you are talking about except I was 21 years old while my wife was 18. We have been married 62 years and still love each other very much. Dick heppnerguy

maybe the first sale was just before Christmas too. They are usually some of the best sales times. You can buy a fair amount of supplies with that money. There is always time for another sale and you have a good start on that one already Dick heppnerguy

I have made a few personal portrait patterns and enjoyed the outcome of most of them. I struggled to go through the step by step procedures, that took my so long to achieve my goal, so I do not take the effort to make one very often. This year I plan on making enough of them to be able to go through the procedures in my head without the long process. So I once again took the long time effort to once again begin my effort to learn this process in my head. I fail to take the time to learn new things that take time to learn, so I don't bother to put out the efforts. Here is my newest efforts and I am looking for comments that are on the negative lines. I want people to point out where my weakest parts of this and my future efforts could use some advise so I can see it through someone else's eyes and help me to be more aware of where I need to pay more attention. I understand that we are not here to critique other people's work, but to support them in their efforts to learn. I understand that I am a mediocre scroller, at best, but I have been scrolling for a number of years and still make a lot of mistakes. Please help me, if you choose to and let me hear your thoughts so I might be able to improve as I go along, trying to learn. Dick heppnerguy

It looks pretty darn good to me. I was drawn to the back part of the pattern cut as well and I thought the way you did that added a lot to the portrait. Dick heppnerguy