Frank Pellow

I make (almost) all my frames to suit what I am framing and only about a third of the frames I make are for items that I have scroll-sawn. On rare occasions, I find a suitable frame for sale. I make most of the frames from rough-sawn wood that I plane and cut to size. When doing this, I often save some material for future frames

As I outlined in the thread: Steve has been providing several Stick(wo)man patterns in his daily blog and I am making a few of them. Today, he has offered plans for a chess set and board and asks $5 for it. I have already downloaded it and will start work on it soon. Here are a few photos of the set: Notice the way that the board rises on both sides. Here is a link to Steve's announcement of the availability of the plans: http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.ca/2018/04/clockclock-scroll-saw-pattern-stickman.html

Kevin, where did you get the idea that Margaret painted/stained these? I did the painting/staining.

In the photo that I posted above, the group of stick people near the plate is somewhat out of focus. The photo attached here has them in focus:

During the last couple of months, Steve Good has created about a dozen "stickman" patterns and posted them in his daily blog. They cover quite a wide range, including among others: Stickman Baseball Stickman Ice Hockey Stickwoman Dog Walking Stickman Rock-band Stickman Steve Good and Family They are all quite whimsical and I plan to cut a few of them. Stickman Baseball is the first of these: I cut the figures and the playing surface from 6mm thick Baltic birch plywood. The bases are 6mm thick white oak. The figures and the playing surface are stained with Samen water-based stain.

I do play chess, and I would love to play it on your board with your chessmen.

WOW. One would have to be very careful cutting that. Well done!

These: http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=67195&cat=1,42524 Japanese finger joint files that I purchased at Lee Valley tools are expensive but, to me, they are worth the cost.

I like the owl, but what I like even more is the clever tree trunk, forest and lake all done with such a few cuts.

Thanks Les. We see loons from our island all the time. But, swimming moose are rare. In my lifetime, I have only seen moose swimming by the island a handful of times (but, the last time was two years ago).

Thanks Dave. The fishing for pike is excellent and for pickerel it's OK. I'm lucky in that my grandson Ethan (15) can clean pike so that he removes all the bones. I can't do that. Ethan is also an excellent cook. I'm attaching photos taken last July of Ethan with a pike he caught, the fillets that he extracted, and two of the fish tacos that he made:

OK, I found a photo of the original art and the artist's name is Fred Croydon.

When I obtain material from that kind of search, I always try to find the original source and the name of the artist.

Good job on the scrolling, painting and assembly. Is the design of the swan yours or did you borrow it? If you did borrow it, from who and where?

Thanks Marg. As to a place where these will fit nicely: They are going to go into our living room and I am probably going to either cut or carve another pair to go into my cabin on Lake Pivabiska -->

WOW! Now that's what I call intricate work. Well done.

When a loon is nesting and, later, when the chicks have been hatched but before they can dive, if a person or animal gets too close then one of the loon pair will move some distance (at least 20 metres) away, rise out of the water, flap its wings, a call out. Note that sitting on the nest, looking after chicks, and causing a diversion are shared male and female job -either of the adult pair can fill either roles. Most often, two chicks are born each spring. Also, a chick often rides on the back of one of it's parents. I've attempted to capture all this in a pair of scroll-sawn works: Loon Distracting: Loons Protected: The pair, entitled 'Loon Family on Alert' have been hung some distance apart in order to reflect what happens in nature: The creation of the patterns for these pieces can be found in the thread: Both the foreground and background pieces of this pair have been made from 3mm thick Baltic birch plywood. After assembly, a couple of coats of clear satin Varethane was prayed on. I made the frames out of poplar, stained them with Samen water-based stain, then applied several coats of Polymerized Tung oil. My design was inspired by a painting by Glen Rabena a copy of which I placed into the thread that was referenced above:

The wood is perfect for the sign. And. you have managed to do very precise cutting on what must have been a difficult to cut wood slab.

Bob, You used a very different technique than the one that I used on my recent loons project. I like it and I will attempt something like this segmentation with a North West Coast First Nations style theme soon.

Obviously I am in favour of using real names.

I fully understand both Imperial and Metric but almost always use metric because it is vastly more efficient to do so. You folks using Imperial are only slowing yourselves down and providing more chance of making errors. And, don't say you are too old -I am 75.

Another great nephew has arrived, so I made another set of shelves:

Thanks Melanie.

Peter, I could not find this pattern at her web site. I would appreciate it if you would give me the pattern number.

The tedium was worth it! I think that I will purchase the pattern from Sheila and have a go at it myself.