tomsteve

if you find fence pickets at Lowe's or HD that have sat outside long enough to give it an aged look and they havent split,cracked, cupped, twisted, or warped.......... frame em and hang em on the wall because THAT will be a first!

beautiful! I love the wood choices in this!

beautiful work!!! that looks quite tedious!

yeah well im 708.484 months!

after what feels like 1956 hours, this is finally complete! a Kathy wise pattern, I used mahogany and Aspen for the majority with cherry for the hooves. not too shabby for first intarsia piece with more than 8 parts. I think I'll take a break from intasia for a bit. oooo!! there's a bulldog pattern!

the stain must be fully cured. never tried stain over BLO. I don't think it would soak in much as cured BLO would seal the grain

welcome @Sea shells. I assume the blades are slipping out of one of the clamps while cutting. it could be possible you are applying too much pressure on the wood when feeding it into the blade. if you're cutting and let off pressure on the workpiece, if it kind of springs back towards you, that is typically too much feed pressure on the workpiece into the blade. you can also wipe the ends of the blades off and scuff em up with some sand paper to help the clamps grasp the blades. you can also roughen up the end of the set screws in the blade holders,too. I use a nail file, stick it in the blade holder, and turn the clamp in while moving the nail file up and down until the blade screw clamp rubs against it. just a couple scrokes to roughen up the surface a bit

I haven't seen these but sure looks handy. the curcular fan pattern some rattle can paints can spray has driven me bonkers on a few occasions, possibly caused by spending a limited time using a spray gun for auto paint work

delivery to room of choice even. don't think I've seen that before

thanks. back about 2008 ish I picked up a 4 piece molding router bit set at harbor freight. that was one of the best HF purchases I've made.

I'll learn to slow down. I made the frame,too. kinda surprised how quick it was. didn't take 14 hours and I went slow!

I have had this pattern since it came out in SSW&C in the fall 2015 issue. it has taken a few years to just do it but I got to doin it! cut out of 1/8" BB ply double stacked, I used #1 and #3 FD spirals. roughly 12-14 hours to cut, I think it came out pretty good.

post is a few years old but I'm glad I found it. I bought the magazine with the pattern back in 2015. been wanting to cut it for some time, forgot about it, found the print I made back then but cant find the original and working on it now. I thought I may have chopped the tail feathers off when printing so glad I came across this to compare. thanks for posting, scrappile!

thank you for the compliment on the frame. I don't have precision to get perfect miters for the corners. pretty darn close but not quite.l hence the padauk in the corners. it covers up the slight gap ( only on 2 opposite corners) and seems to be a nice contrast- not blaring and not blah.