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  • First Name:
    Kirk
  • Occupation:
    IT
  • Location:
    Leander, Texas
  • Gender:
    Male
  • Scroll Saw:
    Dremel 57-2, Wen 16"
  • Project Types:
    Fretwork, wood toys, bit of everything.
  • Interests:
    Computers, sci-fi, outdoors, Great Danes, military history
  • Design Software:
    GIMP, Inkscape
  • Two Truths & A Lie:
    I love the smell of fresh-cut wood
    I hate the taste of coffee
    I have been more than 400' below the surface of the ocean
  • Quote:
    The Master has failed more times than the Beginner has even tried.

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    At that price, its worth stacking out of the way somewhere and potentially using to practice on, or for some honey-do project around the house.
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  20. RabidAlien
    Made this one for my wife, after the neighborhood hummingbirds discovered our hummingbird feeder.
  21. RabidAlien earned a Medal Steve Good Remembrance Challenge - 2026
  22. RabidAlien
    Likin' the dark (old-school lanterns were usually darker as they aged, due to sitting out in weather and all the oil/smoke). These things are awesome!!! I'll second @JackJones and inquire as to the pattern source?
  23. RabidAlien
    Not sure if he has llamas, I'm currently cutting an octopus pattern of his that has a LOT of little tiny detail cuts.
  24. RabidAlien
    Picked up this (and several other) pattern from Etsy, finished it up today. Fun cut! Or cuts. 4 layers. Used a bunch of Pegas MG #1 blades, 1/4" ply I picked up from Amazon (MUCH better than the stuff I'd been getting from bigbox store). Base was a piece of scrap (most likely bigbox "whiteboard") I shaped and rattlecanned "satin green grass". I cut a 1/4" slot about 2/3 of the way back on the base, cut a scrap of the 1/4 ply, filed the hole to get a good tight fit and gorilla-glued the Highland cow to the upright to give it something to stand up against. Minwax stains Honey, Provincial, and Natural, with some white, pink, and sky blue oil paints for highlights (eyes, nose), hard to see in the pic. Pattern is here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1879895335/highland-cow-multilayer-svg-laser-cut?ls=r&ref=hp_recent_activity_hub-1&sr_prefetch=1&pf_from=home_non_recs&pro=1&sts=1&content_source=fb7a703158ca5bb6ad339f51f164c9d1%3ALT9f8bbbbfd30f6638d82844be90e68b968fa3d0ee&logging_key=fb7a703158ca5bb6ad339f51f164c9d1%3ALT9f8bbbbfd30f6638d82844be90e68b968fa3d0ee
  25. RabidAlien
    Charles Dearing pattern. Stack cut this one cuz my daughter saw the pattern and said "that's cool. Its for me, right?" So...yeah. Did some experimenting on cardboard with some rattlecan (brick red and fireengine), she opted for the red backer. 1/8 BBply from bigbox store....which delaminated really bad so had to end up flipping one of the pieces. Mostly Pegas #1MG blades. Lots of holes, but danged if I'm not really happy how they turned out! Frame is 1x2 strip. Dragons stained Minwax Ebony, frames/backer are Minwax...Provincial, I think.
  26. RabidAlien
    I have a couple of Steve Good patterns downloaded, but in the middle of another couple of multi-layer projects at the time. Here's one of his that I did, I don't think I got around to posting: It hangs outside my cube, next to my nameplate, at work.
  27. RabidAlien earned a Medal Groundhog Scroll Saw Challenge - 2026
  28. RabidAlien
    I order them in gross (144 quantity) from Bear Woods. I believe they're Canadian, not sure whether hunting around in Australia would be cheaper than shipping from Canada. https://www.bearwood.com/scroll-saw-blades-modified-geometry.html
  29. RabidAlien
    I usually use a 1/16 drill bit, and a Pegas MG #1 or #3 blade. Drill all the pilot holes, cut all the scrap out of one side, then flip and cut the scrap out of the other. I have a cheap icepick that I use to spear stubborn pieces that don't want to come out of the oddly-shaped interior holes, or I'll put the blade back in and kinda chop up any stuck interior pieces (carefully so as not to hit final project).
  30. RabidAlien
    some of the ones that I keep coming back to. Steve Good veteran compound cuts, and some F-bombs that were my early attempts at designing.
  31. RabidAlien earned a Medal Favorite Projects 2025 Scroll Saw Challenge - 2026
  32. RabidAlien
    10 (had to look it up) Pattern was found on Etsy (seller has temporarily closed shop) as an "owl mandala" papercutting pattern. There were one or two spots that had islands (including the bottom layer...definitely had to modify that on the fly!), and I think I printed it out at 150% size since at the time I bought it (2021...again, had to look it up! Memory sucks.) the smallest drillbit I had was a standard DeWalt 1/16. I found BearWoods' scrollsaw bits after that, and that helped greatly with the smaller parts of the bottom two layers, so if I did this one again, I'd probably leave it at 100%.
  33. RabidAlien
    It wasn't one that I started in 2025, my old 16" saws couldn't handle the size of the bottom two layers. But I was able to upgrade my saw at the end of 2024, and after a couple of small bookmark-sized pieces (which I'm using as bookmarks, oddly enough) to get a feel for the saw, I did a larger cut, and then finished off the bottom two layers of the owl. Definitely a time-consuming project, but that feeling when it all got stained and I was able to start stacking the layers....
  34. RabidAlien
    I need more coffee. First read that as "Halleluy'all. Being from the South...it made perfect sense. Nicely cut!
  35. RabidAlien
    Finished up another one, despite being knocked out for almost a week by whatever crudbug is going around. At least I'd gotten all the cutting done before it hit, and had the week after Thanksgiving off to help recover. This one was a commissioned piece, a young lady at work found the plans on Etsy (metal wall-art design, had zero islands to worry about, other than....um.....EVERYTHING), bought them and will be gifting this to her boyfriend. There is a frame, but it was elsewhere, drying. All of the letters and logos are individually cut out. Its a pain trying to blow sawdust out of the garage whilst still maintaining control of the little dots above the "i"s. Did some quick stickynote maths (my head still hurts), measured a couple of places on either side, and ran a line of 1/32" whiteboard tape to make sure all of my letters were level. Fun project, but lots of thin lines and sanding at the end was a pain. Minwax "Natural" for the backer, "Honey" for the text/piece, and "Ebony" for the frame.
  36. RabidAlien
    A couple of compound Veteran cuts for various vets I know/work with. Steve Good design.
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