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  1. Old Joe
    This one took a couple of minutes. I like to miniaturize most of my portrait type patterns, but at 7 1/4” x 11” I probably took it a little too far on this cat. The entire project was cut with Pegas 2/0 spirals. 1/4” Baltic Birch, Danish Oil applied,mounted on a nominal 1” pine board stained black. Though my wife loves this one, I think it was more trouble than it was worth.
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    Lekker, Don!
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    Credit to Steve Good for the design.
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    I made this guy for no one in particular, but I will probably give it to someone on a whim. I don’t paint many of my projects, but this one wouldn’t look very good unpainted. Anyway a birder friend saw it and said that studies have shown that birds shy away from houses with faces if they have eyes, so I whited out the eyes. You gotta take curb appeal under serious consideration when showing a house. Hopefully this will be Gnome Sweet Gnome for some finely feathered friends.
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    I took Mark Eason’s advice,and with some help from a tiny set of tweezers got a feather in the wand. The portrait was cool, but the wand and dragon stand was the big hit! Thanks for all of the great commentary.
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    Just to share a tip regarding the wand. I first made one out of walnut, but it was too fragile. The internal compound cuts in African Rosewood were a challenge, as that wood is not easy to cut, but it is much more durable. I think the walnut would be okay for wands without internal cutouts.
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    Very nice. I use a lot of Padauk and feel your frustration, as it has happened to me, too. I find that the dust sneaks up, gets on my hands, and the expletive deletives come roaring. I have sometimes lucked out with the help of mineral spirits, but not always, especially if it gets on Baltic Birch. Regardless, the piece is beautiful.
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    Our Harry Potter crazy granddaughter is turning 8 next week. I did a Potter portrait and made a compound cut wizard’s wand and stand. The wand and stand were from Al Baggetta patterns. The pattern was another C. Dearing pattern. The wand was cut from African Rosewood, the stand was Zebra wood and Hard Maple.
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    I rewrote the script. Took the puddle out. A bit of touch up and he’ll be finished.
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    I haven’t glued it yet. I feel quite sure that the existing backer is totally salvageable either way.
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    Impressive!
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    I haven’t quite finished this portrait of Gollum from the Lord Of The Rings,(a Charles Dearing pattern). My backboard has a huge knot in it and I sanded the black off to try to make it look like a pool of water to go with his fish. I haven’t glued it up yet, as I can’t decide whether to leave the knot as is, or black it out. Opinions?
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    Both are fantastic! Hat’s off to you.
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    Merry Christmas, Scrollers! My cat loving wife loved this one.
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    You did a nice job on this. I did it a couple of months ago using Zebrawood and Padauk, but I had to do it twice as when I first stack cut them I used too small of a blade and it flexed a little resulting in an imperfect fit and I didn’t have the patience for the required sanding to make it work.. The second time I cut them individually and they fit perfectly. Again, nice job.
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    Amazon’s prices have been crazy lately. A little over a month ago I paid $6.49 for a jar of the glitter snow. Today it is $9.25.
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    I bought Aileen’s Glitter Snow Paint from Amazon. Also, another snow by Aileen’s, Pure Snow, I think. It comes in jars that don’t go too far, and the glitter is very understated.
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    This is in answer to Frank’s question as to why I often make my scrollings smaller. Two reasons. First, I like the challenge of making them smaller without making it look muddled. Secondly, I find the portrait types that I do sell easier. I once did two almost identical portraits of Tom Petty except one was 25% smaller than the other one and the smaller one sold for 50 bucks more than the larger one. Smaller portraits don’t overwhelm a room, making them work better for some people.
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    Xmas Tree

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    Nice cutting! I’d just use Danish Oil on it.
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    Cute.
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    I made this two layer pattern from Sue Mey for a Golden Retriever loving friend. As I often do with other people’s patterns,I shrunk it down to 60% of the original size. Stack cut front and back panels, painted the back black, then I painted the front using glitter snow paint for the white parts. I used Pegas 2/0 spirals, except for the perimeter for which I used #1 spirals. Overall height is about the same as a 12 ounce beer can. Hope you all like it.
  25. Old Joe
    I’ve tried the speaker enhancement box. Now I doubt that I ever will. I cut 3 of the skulls last year. On two of them I cut the spider on a very slight forward relief cut and they gave it the appearance of them being on the surface of the forehead.
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