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  1. Frank Pellow
    Like FrankEV, birds make up a large part of the scroll-lsawn work that I have done and, right now, I am just completing and framing another one. But, unlike him, I will only post the photo of one bird in this thread. I'm going to go away for a little while right now and figure out my favourite, then post it here. ... ... I'm back. My favourite is Brrrrdbath: I designed this based upon a serigraph by Charlie Harper. I used Baltic birch plywood for most of the the pieces and the backing. The snow pieces were cut from maple dowel and the water drops were fashioned by sanding down axel caps originally intended for use with wooden toys.
  2. Frank Pellow
    Thanks. I'm not sure either, I need to see it with the poplar frame before I decide.
  3. Frank Pellow
    I prefer the one on the left. I made two of these lanterns and talked about them them in the thread: Candle Lantern designed by Steve Good - Bragging Rights - Scroll Saw Village Steve's plan did not have a mechanism for attaching the lid. If you look at my thread you will see two different methods for attaching and removing the lid described and shown.
  4. Frank Pellow
    Mike Williams designed the pattern for this beaver. He calls it 'Working Man' but I call it 'Nature's Lumberjack'. I completed cutting it last week. It took me about 11 hours and the work has about 610 holes. The material is 6mm thick panel with a thin quarter sawn White Oak veneer on top. I’m planning to take 'Nature's Lumberjack' it to Pellow's Island and to frame it with poplar “logs” much like the mock-up that utilizes Spruce below: I may or may not decide to frame it with a green backer-board. By the way, I’m going to use Poplar because, over the last 15 years, beavers have “chopped” down all the large poplar trees on Pellow’s Island.
  5. Frank Pellow
    Changed Free or Paid to Mostly Paid
  6. Frank Pellow
    Looks good! I'm going to take a look at Russ Beard's patterns and see if there is one that I would like to purchase. I don't think you are slow. That's about how long it would take me for a pattern of that size with that many holes.
  7. Frank Pellow
    I've now made a second lantern. This time, I incorporated Joe W's suggestion of using tabs and slots in order to hold the top on. The double sided arrow points to a slot in the bottom and to a tab in the top. There are two tabs and two slots. When making this, I increased Steve's original pattern by 5% in order to give my room to conformably fit in the circle opening. The Tab mechanism seems to be more secure than the Magnet mechanism that I employed with the first lantern.
  8. Frank Pellow
    Thanks to a suggestion by Wichman, my lantern can now be picked up by the top. I screwed two 3/8 inch washers into the bottom part and glued two 3/8 inch magnets into the top. In, theory each magnet can lift 5 pounds. I purchased the magnets at Lee Valley Tools.
  9. Frank Pellow
    This one also has the bottom glued and you insert the candle from the top. Is your point that this is quite similar to Steve's other design? I do like his latest design better.
  10. Frank Pellow
    Congratulations on your design! I think that should work well. As I said earlier, I am going to make at least 5 more of these and I will try your locking design on at least one of them.
  11. Frank Pellow
    Thanks Joe. Yes, I am fairly certain that I could modify the pattern to utilize that locking mechanism. I'm going to give it a try.
  12. Frank Pellow
    I used the short top. That's a good idea about adding some decorations.
  13. Frank Pellow
    Thanks, I understand your suggestion an may give it a try. I'm going to try recessed magnets first and depending on how I like them, I may see if I can obtain harware along the lines of what you have suggested.
  14. Frank Pellow
    Magnets and recessed washers is a good idea. I will see if I can find any that are small enough.
  15. Frank Pellow
    Seeking locking suggestions: There is one thing that I don't like about Steve's design. The top of the lantern does not lock to the bottom. Thus, it can not really be used as a lantern. I tried using Velcro dots but that did not feel secure (even though, in a few tests, it was). I have not given up and am still trying to think a something. I welcome any suggestions.
  16. Frank Pellow
    Steve posted a pattern for this earlier this week. I made the "lantern" from 6mm Baltic Birch plywood which I cut using a #3 Flying Dutchman blade. The "candle" inside the lantern a battery powered. I have 6 such candles and will be making 5 more lanterns.
  17. Frank Pellow
    Like those who have responded so far, I have a little bit in stock. I doubt that I will get any more, not because of the price, but because none of the places that I purchase wood stock it anymore. I'm only using it for intarsia and, even then, I am using it sparingly.
  18. Frank Pellow
    About getting used to it: The clock is, temporarily, sitting beside our TV and both my wife and i can easily tell the time by it.
  19. Frank Pellow
    Frank that's an innovative approach to rendering innovative art in scroll sawn format. I really like what you have done! I also like your frame. I knw just how tricky it is to create such a frame.
  20. Frank Pellow
    Following up on your suggestion, I took a photo to show how the clock does look in a mirror.
  21. Frank Pellow
    I ordered the clock movement from Dan's Clock Shop in the United Kingdom. Check out: dansclockshop.com
  22. Frank Pellow
    This is fun thing intended to bring everyone a smile. I designed and made this backwards wall clock to give to my grandson Ethan for his birthday next month. I purchased the clockworks from a company in England that makes such a mechanism for clocks that work by projecting a mirror image. I very much doubt that this mechanism was intended to be utilized as I have done. Should a demand arise, I have enough supplies to make three more clocks. I've decided that I like it enough that one of these clocks will be for me. I cut the clock face from two 6mm thick layers of Baltic Birch plywood and used paint from a bunch of different cans in my shop in order to come up with 12 different colours with sufficient contrast.
  23. Frank Pellow
    I very much like what you did here. I've never attempted to glue a piece of thin veneer to plywood, but you have inspired me to give it a try. And, I will try it with this pattern. Fiona has it for sale on her WEB site for those who may want the pattern but do not have the magazine. Fiona calls this 'Three Shells'
  24. Frank Pellow
    I got to post this a couple of months ago when the topic was Sports. Now I get to post it under Games. It's Chess board and pieces designed by Steve Good : This time, I will add photos of the drawer and a cover designed by me. I made all this for my grandson Ethan.
  25. Frank Pellow
    I second all of Frank's advice.
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