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Charlie had kind of closed up his pattern shop for a while, but has a new sight open now. https://woodenvisions.com
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....so I decided to scroll Merle out of a 1/4” piece of cherry I had around. It was really fragile to work with. A Charles Dearing pattern. It is also quite small,6”x 8.”
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I don’t get on this blog very often, but it seems it wasn’t very along ago you were a struggling beginner. You have become incredibly proficient in a short time.You are already looking at many of us in your rear view mirror! BTW, I know little about the proximity of places in the UK, but if you have by chance an opportunity to come across Fiona Kingdon and her work, I would encourage you to take the time to do so. She’s my scrollsaw superhero!
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Fantastic cutting! You knock out some great stuff!
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Thank you, everyone. Many of you are always so encouraging, and I really appreciate it. Though making these projects from other people’s patterns is often challenging, I am trying hard to teach myself to use the Gimp program to start doing more original designs. Honestly, I think that is harder than cutting Alex Fox, or Mike Williams type patterns. My goal is to become more proficient at it this winter.
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Thanks for the compliment. I did go through more blades on this than I have on any other portrait type project. The blades had to be ultra sharp to avoid blowout, plus I was stack cutting two of them. I used mostly Pegas MG #3’s, a couple of #1’s, and also used a couple each of Pegas Spiral #2’s and 3’s.Spirals are fast, but I am not crazy about working with them for everything. I’m not in a hurry and I have a hard time with them. I think that I now use Pegas #3 MGs for well over 90% of what I do.
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You can find this, and many other patterns by Mike Williams here:https://www.etsy.com/shop/MikeWilliamsDesigns
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I haven’t posted in a while, though I still try to scroll something every day. The kittens pattern was from Mike Williams and if I remember correctly the clown/hobo was an Alex Fox pattern that I have had around for some time. Both are cut from 1/4” Baltic Birch and mounted on pine 1x12’s cut to size. I painted the backer red on the hobo and stained the cat’s backer in True Black. The kittens were harder than they need to be because I made it considerably smaller than it was recommended. Hope you all like them. BTW, I stack cut both portraits and ended up with two of each one.
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Cool beans, Kevin!
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It reminds of a Fiona Kingdon piece.
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WOW! Just wow!
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Meh... I’m a Caps and a Nats fan. But you did do some nice work.
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Thanks, Dave and rjR. The camera really didn’t capture the richness of the African Rosewood. The grain and overall color is really nice.
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Thanks. That’s just the scrolling section, approximately 15-20% of the the total floor space.
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I also have an air cleaner, a Grizzly which I believe to be the same as a Wen, a box fan with a furnace filter to my right, but additionally I have another box fan to my left blowing dust from left to right. If I wear a brand new 3M dust mask I get virtually nothing on it. Before I went to this set up I would scroll Padouk and have red dust in my nose hair if I didn’t wear a mask. Now? Nothing.
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I have had a few Dead Heads suggest that I should scroll something with a “3 Finger Jerry” theme. I figured since I have been on a box kick that I’d give it a try. So there you have it; I made an image based from an X-ray of a Dead guy’s hand. The box top and base are African Rosewood, the sides cherry. (For those that may not know, the late Jerry Garcia, guitarist for the Grateful Dead band, lost most of a finger when he was a kid due to a hatchet accident with his brother and was often referred to as “3 Finger Jerry”)
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BTW- The Zig Zag Man was one of the most popular tattoo designs from the 1960s. The folk story goes that in the 19th century during a battle of Sevastopol, a French soldier also known as Zouave, had the misfortune of having his clay pipe broken by a flying bullet. Needing a smoke he decided to try rolling his tobacco in a piece of paper torn from the bag that his gunpowder came in. This worked but it was in 1894 that the Braunstein Brothers figured out the process of interleaving papers in a zig zag manner and putting them in a convenient paper booklet that took the market by storm.
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Thank you, everyone, for you nice comments and encouragement.
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The sides of each box are made up of three 1/2” rings, each one comprised of 60 “pegs” scrolled on the inside and outside, i.e. 120 cuts on each ring. The wood was Sapele, sometimes called African Mahogany. I have started on two more boxes so you can see one of the rings. The newer ones are cherry, and I stack cut two at a time.
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I don’t have a dog in that fight. I am enjoying doing the scrolling. I am working on two more boxes on a request that’s theme is based on an x-ray of a dead guy’s hand. Have cash, will scroll.
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Great job. Frame looks fantastic.
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Though not really my thing, I have been getting requests for “medicine” boxes. I am amazed at how many folks in MD have gotten RXs for legal weed. Whatever floats your boat. Anyway, I made two more boxes yesterday. The one with the leaf is made with a Purple Heart top backed with African Rosewood, Sapele sides and Purple Heart base. The other one is taken from a Mr. Zig Zag tattoo. (Zig Zag rolling papers were popular in the 60s and 70s). The top is Zebrawood, backed with Purple Heart stained black, Sapele sides and Zebrawood base. I had originally planned to back the top in oiled Purple Heart, but it just looked muddled, thus the black stain.
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Good choice, I like it as you did it.
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I made this one today. Steve Good has this box with a Kokopelli, but I put a different, slightly more intricate one on the top. Top and base are Zebrawood, with a piece of Bloodwood under the top. Side walls are 1/2” Cherry. Pretty easy project, but the three sidewall rings have 60 “pegs” each, so when you cut them you have 120 total loops to cut on each ring. Monotonous. If I do this again I will make two of them and stack cut two rings at a time.
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