Frank Pellow

Hi Joe. The stained glass items that you depict are excellent! You appar to be every bit as good with stained glass art as you are with scrollsaw art. I'm better wit scroll sawing. Cheers, Frank

Ingenious. I love both the design and the implementation of the design.

I utilized a set of patterns created by Charles Dearing to create the three framed panels shown in this photo: They were cut from cut it in 6mm thick Baltic Birch plywood using #1 Flying Dutchman Ultra-Reverse blades and backed with 3mm thick plywood panels painted with acrylic paint. The Rosseter-Pellow frames are made from very old and straight Pine and stained to match the colours in the panels. I've recorded this project in another Scrollsaw Village thread. Here is a link: Three Charles Dearing 'Illusion' patterns - COMPLETED - Works In Progress & Tutorials - Scroll Saw Village

Thanks for the tip. I do plan to do things manually.

Frank, I thank you for a detailed explanation of the steps that you went through to create this piece. I like the heron a lot. The fact that you used a stained-glass pattern as a starting point has given me an idea. Stained-glass work is also one of my hobbies and what I am now going to do is to look through stained-patterns and attempt to find one that would also look good as intarsia - or perhaps as segmentation. Then I will create both. I'm not sure why this never occurred to me before.

Steve, in observing how you secured the glass, I notice that you managed to cut the glass in a perfect circle. I'm OK at glass cutting, but not nearly as good as you. Because of this, your method would not work well for me. I'm attaching a photo of how I secured the glass with a back view of the 'sort of oval' glass that I cut for Fiona's 'Blue Tits on Hawthorn".

'don in brooklin' was referring to me. I've backed many of my scroll-sawn pieces with appropriate glass. I'm attaching photos of three of those pieces.

There is a poem entitled 'I Long for the Northland 'that expresses the poet's love of the Boreal Forrest that stretches all the way across Canada. I've designed a plaque to hang in a new building on Pellow's Island and that plaque features the poem. Corporal J. Romanson of the Canadian Army wrote the poem during the second-world-war. My Father, Christopher Pellow, also in the Canadian army in Europe, clipped the poem from an army publication and sent it home from France to my mother and me, having first underlined the parts that meant the most to him. I changed a few of the words in order to better describe the part of the Boreal Forrest around Hearst Ontario. Here Is a photo of the clipped poem: It’s tacked to a wall in our cabin. Here is a photo of the plaque: I cut it in 3mm thick Baltic Birch plywood using 2/0 Pegas spiral blades. It’s backed with another 3mm thick plywood panel. The frame is rough-cut Pine. I've recorded this project in another Scrollsaw Village thread. Here is a link: I'm cutting a plaque that has a lot of small letters using a spiral blade - Works In Progress & Tutorials - Scroll Saw Village My dad purchased Pellow’s Island in 1925, thus in 2025, our family will have been guardians of the island for a century. I’m partway through composing a poem that I’m entitling ‘Returning to the Northland’ that celebrates that guardianship. My intention is to record that poem in a companion plaque (this time using 6mm thick plywood —which will make the cutting easier).

I understand that a small amount of Baltic Birch comes from Finland. There are, of course, many countries other that Russia and Finland on the Baltic, but I have not heard that any of the others manufacture this type of plywood. Canada certainly has vast regions of same type of Boreal Forrest where the Birch is obtained, but I have not found (and I have looked) any Canadian manufacturer of Birch Plywood. It's not just the lack of voids that appeals to me, the characteristics and quality of the Birch wood make it good for scrolling.

That looks great Don! I will have get myself some of that Decoart Snow Writer

I really like this and, in particular, I like the painting that you did.

Well, I have now done some top feeding (about a dozen holes on different regions of the panel). What do I think about it? My short answer is: "It's a lot like snowboarding -I have learned how to snowboard and taken a few runs down steep hills -but it's strange to go down a hill standing sideways. I will, most often, choose to ski down the hill facing forward." So, I consider top feeding to be something in my bag of tricks, and will use it for holes located in the middle of large panels.

Thanks, I don't have a hex socket but I managed to jerry-rig one and it worked! The table came off, the guard came off, the table went back on and I am ready to attempt top feeding (after a break for dinner).

Well, I ran into a problem when attempting to top feed. It seems that the Pegas comes with an unexpected safety "feature": Un addition to the "regular" above the table hold-down and blade guard, the Pegas saw came with a below-the-table blade guard: This is a bit of an annoyance when attaching the bottom of a blade when that is the first end to be clamped. Until now, that is the way that I always secured a blade. But, for me, it is show stopper when top feeding and securing the blade in the bottom clamp second. In this case the guard really gets in the way. Therefore, I decided to remove the guard. But, in order to loosen the screw that holds the guard in place, one has to remove the table. Metric tools are needed for this and I have them: But, even with ratchet wrench secured on the nut below the table and hex wrench with e decent amount of leverage in the indent on top of the table, I could not loosen the bolt. I'm not quite sure what to do about this. For now, I will give up on attempting to Top Feed.