Old Joe

I posted pics recently of Willie Nelson. Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. I got around to Kris Kristofferson thanks to a Dearing pattern. This one took a minute to cut.

These are all based on patterns I bought from Fiona Kingdon, with a few liberties taken and changes made for individual uses. The common denominator is that I did recessed cuts allowing the inner ring to slip forward 1/4” to allow the stained glass panels to fit enclosed behind the scroll work. The “Entwined Lovers” were all wedding/engagement presents.

I was clenched pretty tight.LOL!

Good job! I honestly think that learning to use and to have confidence using spirals was one of the most important steps I have done to advance my scrolling skill levels.

We might work out a barter. He has a surplus of some live edge slabs that he had mentioned that he would be interested in swapping.

Love it!

I have done dozens of projects combining stained glass and scrolling. This is an engagement present I scrolled backed in glass. I cut an angled recessed ring in the outer perimeter and inserted the glass in back of it.

I really don’t do too many Baltic Birch portraits anymore, as I have been working more with thicker hardwoods. That said, a friend asked if I had ever done any with Johnny Cash or Waylon Jennings, or if not, would I consider doing them. So I have some 1/4” BB, checked Charles Dearing’s site, found some cool patterns,and with some minor variations came up with these two. The Waylon Jennings has some very delicate bridges, which were a little nerve wracking.

I haven’t been here in sometime, though I still scroll regularly, I don’t get online as often. I have been expanding into more hardwoods, though I will still cut an occasional portrait in Baltic Birch. This first one started from the Treehouse pattern by the incomparable Charles Hand, though I took a few liberties to make it unique. Instead of BB I used a 5/8” African Rosewood board and cut a large vertical oval with a recessed angle cut. I extended the tree, added the girl in the swing, added the foliage, carved the bark into whole tree, along with a couple of knotholes. Then I cut a piece of 1/4” BB to fit behind the recessed cut and I inlaid the boy with a kite, his dog, the two cats, butterfly, the hanging birdhouse, and the 4 birds over the treehouse. Hope you all like it! This one took a bit of time to do. I will add a couple of other recent projects on another post. Incidentally, other than the inlay work and the recessed cut, almost all of the rest of this was done with spiral blades and I used my Pegas saw. The carving was done mostly using a Foredom power carver, and some by hand.

Fantastic!

Great job, Denny! Those baskets are well received. I also have made many of Alex’s baskets. I started inlaying them on the bottom after a while and doubling up the bottom disk and putting a Steve Good signature coin on the bottom. Sorry to add to your post, but thought you’d like to see them.

Thanks. I spent many years in the optical business and one thing I learned is that no matter how routine the surgery is, there are still more ways to screw it up than you can imagine. It’s a great surgery…unless you’re one of the ones that gets a bad job. So, I chose who I want to do it, but she is booked solid until around early September. I’m in line! And looking forward to it.

I haven’t posted in a while. Though I still scroll almost daily, due to needing scheduled cataract surgery on both eyes and excessive pain from arthritis in my wrists and fingers, my productivity has slowed up. This one was really difficult, as the tiny bridge work was hard to do with blurry vision, and even magnifiers have reached the point of being ineffective. Anyway, based on a Charles Dearing pattern, 1/4” Baltic Birch, all cut with Pegas spiral blades, mostly 2/0, about 11”x7,” stained with Danish Oil, mounted on a 1” pine board stained black. Hope you like it.

Too cute, Denny!

I have mixed feelings on this one. I took Paul’s pattern of the guitarist and glued it to 10” x 8 1/2” piece of Baltic Birch and just went freehand on the beard additions and all of the background walls & window without any pattern. Just kind of drew it with my blades as I went along. There are a couple of things I wish I had done differently. I might actually redo the whole thing.

I asked for help for a pattern to make a portrait for a friend’s wife of her musician husband. Grandpa got me started and I took it from there. My friend often plays Bluegrass in his shed, so I expanded the picture a little bit.I also added a few details to his beard. I’ve done better guitars, but this is ok, I guess. Three pics included: one of the picture Grandpa used, one of his pattern that he did, one of the almost finished piece. Thanks for your help, Paul!

I credit Steve for my learning the basics of scrolling and for helping hundreds of others to do the same. I’ve lost count of the many patterns that I have cut of his, but here are a few.

His tale of woe has generated a lot of interest and sales from sympathetic folks that I show my work to.

Thanks, but, no, it’s not oak. I bought a couple pieces of 1/4” Lacewood a few years ago and still had some around. So, the outer two layers are Lacewood and the innermost layer is Baltic Birch stained with Dark Walnut Danish Oil. This piece sold immediately and at a fairly high price. It took time to make, but for those that are selling their work I would recommend this pattern from Alex Fox, but use nice wood for the outer layers.

Very impressive!

Cute!

I had put a picture of this on social media and an acquaintance wanted to buy it. I sold it, much to my wife’s dismay, but it was a good price.

Sweet! Nice job, and your stick-to-it determination is impressive.

The picture really didn’t do this justice. I guess that I got a bad camera angle, but it looks like I glued it uneven. I didn’t, it’s spot on!

I’m trying to support Alex Fox as much as possible. This is my 3rd new piece from his patterns in the past couple of weeks. I made this one from a 1/4” piece of Lacewood that I had around, back piece is Baltic Birch.