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Frank Pellow

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  1. Frank Pellow
    Great photos! I like the scroll saw work too, but I really like the photos. Thanks.
  2. Frank Pellow
    Thanks for letting me know where to find similar patterns.
  3. Frank Pellow
    All of those you posted are appropriate, but the one that I like best is the clock with multiple farm scenes. I am already thinking how I might incorporate multiple scenes (other than those) into a clock.
  4. Frank Pellow
    I didn't grow up on a farm, but the two villages that I lived in (Hearst Ontario and Beeton Ontario) were in the middle of farming regions. As a teenager, I worked (and I do mean worked) a few summers as a farm hand on small (about 100 acres) family farms doing virtually every farming chore you can imagine. Good times! Here is a photo of an old barn scene that I scrolled, stained, and framed three years ago: Thanks to Charles Dearing for the pattern.
  5. Frank Pellow
    Thanks for both telling me how to do it in Inkscape and for the offer to send your modified pattern. I don't (yet?) know how to use Inkscape; therefore please send the pattern to me at: [email protected]
  6. Frank Pellow
    Thanks for both the link and the advice. I'm not at all sure I can figure out how o get the red lines, but I will give it a shot. I see that Sam has quite a few optical illusions there. The one you cut is really interesting, but so are a few others.
  7. Frank Pellow
    You did a great job on this Brenda. I am temped to try it too. Where did you get the pattern? By the way, I always enjoyed the Guy Fawkes bonfire night a lot more than Halloween night.
  8. Frank Pellow

    DC-3

    Frank Pellow replied to munzieb's topic in Bragging Rights

    Thanks for the memories. My first flight was on a TRANS CANADA AIRLINES DC3 from Kapaskasing to Toronto in 1951.
  9. Frank Pellow
    -Don't throw away your money by spending $200 on a new saw. If that really is the case (Is it?) buy used.
  10. Frank Pellow
    That's quite innovative. It gives me some ideas. Thanks.
  11. Frank Pellow
    Incredible!
  12. Frank Pellow
    I made a simpler version of this for my granddaughter Isla who is leaving Milo behind when she (Isla) returns to University tomorrow.
  13. Frank Pellow
    So, it appears that my decision to match the orange padauk with a contrasting brown wood (roasted maple) will prove to be a bad choice.
  14. Frank Pellow
    Thanks. No, I di not treat it with anything special. I've seldom used Padauk and I was unaware that it can darken, but I guess that I am not surprised. Oh well, I can always hope that this does not darken too much.
  15. Frank Pellow
    I made this for friends who will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in November. Pauline and Dave are very musical and have been members of the best choirs (both classical and barbershop) in Canada. In Dave's case, it's the best in the world since his choir won the World Barbershop championship about three years ago. The word design comes from Keith Fenton and the music on each side is my modification of a Steve Good design. The dark wood is Roasted Ontario Hard Maple and the light wood is Padauk.
  16. Frank Pellow
    Another vote here for Flying Dutchman Ultra Reverse.
  17. Frank Pellow
    I own one of the purple Excalibur saws manufactured about 20 years ago. That's when these saws were still being made by Sommerville in Pickering Ontario Canada. It's been a great saw but, for the last year or so, the clamping mechanism has been acting up. I tried fixing things with the Quick Clamp Renewal Kit from Seyco but that did not help much. I finally decided to try the (expensive) Clamp Replacement Kit from Pegas: In the photo, the kit is still in the box and the upper clamp mechanism has been removed and is sitting on the left hand side of the table. The kit comes with no instructions, but it turned out to be quite easy to install. My only difficulty was removing the old clamp mechanism beneath the table because it had sort of "glued" itself into place. The Pegas clamps are a joy to use. They are better than original clamps ever were.
  18. Frank Pellow
    WELL DONE! I've cut a couple of mike Williams patterns and they are, definitely, the most complex and challenging patterns that I have utilized.
  19. Frank Pellow
    Thanks JIm, I was thinking that if I just glued a photo to some wood then cut it that I might rip the paper. But, with dried laquer over the paper, it should work OK. But I doubt that I will cutting freehand; rather I will search for a puzzle pieces pattern, attach it to the back, and cut the puzzle that way.
  20. Frank Pellow
    Very nice! Assembling puzzles at Pellow's Island is a long established pastime. Seeing what you did makes me want to do something similar. Just how did you go about making the puzzles?
  21. Frank Pellow
    Thanks for the information.
  22. Frank Pellow
    Good advice, but the artist, Charlie Harper, is dead.
  23. Frank Pellow
    I'm not sure what the rules are for sharing (for free of course) a pattern based upon a painting done by someone else. If someone in the know can enlighten me, I would appreciate it. I, myself, would never attempt to sell such a pattern but, maybe, it's OK if I give it away.
  24. Frank Pellow
    Thinking about this some more, I'm going to attempt Charlie's birrrdbath: using segmentation. It's going to be quite a challenge for me.
  25. Frank Pellow
    Thanks! I'm not interested in that particular drawing but I suspect that it came from a colouring book. That gave me a clue to look for Charlie Harper Colouring Books on the web and I found several.
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