RabidAlien

I've been wanting to try resin on some of my patterns. Need to just take the leap and give it a try. I'm guessing, on yours, that the contact paper is still on the back? The pattern and resin look great, but I'm imagining it with a light source (window, LED strip, etc) behind it and how stunning it would be lit up.

Separately. There's only two stains, though, so I just dumped all of one color into a ziploc bag, poured in some stain, sealed, sloshed around, then removed and dried. And poured remaining stain back into can.

Do a search on Etsy for "papercut lightbox" (add "dragon" at the end to narrow the search), and get a cooling pad for your credit card. This one is a WildChild design: https://www.etsy.com/listing/703892973/dragon-fantasy-lightboxlayered?click_key=7f5a79d442f228edff693d3eaa71f0aa8a4c1ff9%3A703892973&click_sum=af0d3e28&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=papercut+lightbox+dragon&ref=sr_gallery-1-42&organic_search_click=1&sts=1 https://www.stevedgood.com/catalog/ Do a search for "mechanical heart".

Its a fun cut.

Cut this Steve Good pattern recently. Pretty quick cut, not a lot of internals, the gears/teeth were probably the worst part due to the tedium of cutting the same shape over and over. But they really went quick and weren't difficult. He always puts a disclaimer about being careful when drilling peg holes for parts that are supposed to line up, but I cut the lines on the holes, didn't have to do much sanding/enlarging, and everything lined up perfectly. I finished up the larger version of the heart(s) yesterday, and will probably sand the gears a little bit thinner this time just to make sure they don't bind since they're the same thickness as the two (hidden) spacer pieces. If I had a plane, I'd take some scrap and plane it down to 1/16th thicker than the gears, just enough to allow easy spinning. 1/8" bbply, Pegas #1MG blades.

Cut this Steve Good heart/gear pattern for my wife and daughter, decided to give them early (lots of family stuff going on). Haven't really cut much for Christmas this year, in past years I've had a garage full of gifts I scrolled. Owl/Wonderwoman/Superman trivets, multi-layer dragon scene, and Superman/Wonderwoman pics.

Paint? Naw....wrap it lovingly with Ferrer wrappers.

Love the frame, knots/dings add character, in my opinion. Well cut pattern, too!

LOL Welcome to scrolling!!! We're all mad here.

We are all our own worst critics. Looks good from this angle!

Ironically, its one I'd gotten and forgotten about. "ForgottenUncial". I usually snag my fonts from dafont.com

Saw this quote pop up in my FB feed, thought it was a solid line of reasoning. Threw together a quick pattern. 1" whiteboard, Pegas #3 MG blades. Pattern is stained Minwax "Natural Oak" and the backer is "Early American". ...don't quote me on either of those stain names. I'm still working on first cup of coffee, and its been a VERY trying, emotional couple of days for the family. No losses, but prayers/vibes/thoughts would be appreciated. Frame is built, just need some light sanding on the upper left corner to get a better fit.

Nice!!! Gotta ask (cuz of course I need yet another font), what font is that you use for your initials keychains?

Literally firing up a message to you now. While on a call with a tech, and remoted into five different computers waiting for updates/testing. LOL

Okay, now THAT's cool!

Found this one in the Pattern Library, can't recall who did the pattern. My daughter looked at it and saw a wolf with raggedy ears....she now calls it the "angel wolf". I picture this as what my guardian angel looks like at the end of most days. Maybe with a bottle of something 100-proof nearby. 1" whiteboard, used two Pegas #3MG blades. Minwax "Early American" stain. Quick cut, there's not many pilot holes. There's one spot that's kinda delicate, next to her right knee, cracked when I was sanding. Glued it back on, sanded down the spot but I can never seem to get rid of any surface glue seepage no matter how deeply I sand. Thus the little white blotch.

Doc and the Earps were not quite as innocent and morally upstanding as the movie would have it seem. And John Ringo was found on the side of the road some time after the whole Tombstone incident, nobody knows who, exactly, killed him. Josephine Marcos was common-law married to Johnny Behan (and her relationship with Wyatt fueled a lot of the animosity between Behan and the Earps). There was a fourth Earp brother who was a driver for Wells Fargo (or rode shotgun) who was in and out of Tombstone on occasion, but didn't have much to do with his brothers. Check out this book, it clears up a lot, and makes BOTH sides look more and more human, rather than "black-hatted villains vs. white-hatted upholders of truth, justice, and law". So very many places where one or another could've set aside pride and ego, and Tombstone would just be another failed silver mining town rotting forgotten in the deserts. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Gunfight-Shootout-K-Corral/dp/1439154252/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+last+gunfight&qid=1636829160&sr=8-1 Sorry for hijacking your post! It really *is* an awesome cut! My Dad was big on Texas history (Curly Bill Brocious spent some time in prison in Lampasas, I believe), grew up on Gunsmoke and Wagon Train, and would've loved this cut.

A stagecoach *had* been robbed, and there were rumors that Doc and Wyatt were in on it, disinformation put out by Sheriff Behan who was running against Wyatt. Wyatt was a provisionary Fed Marshall at the time, I believe, and was working to track down the robbers, who kept showing up dead. From other causes/disputes, but Behan ran with it. Wyatt had made an agreement with the Clantons and McLauries to help track down the cowboys responsible, for which they'd all take an even cut of the Wells Fargo bounty and Wyatt would get credit for solving the crime that Behan couldn't. Ike Clanton was a notorious alcoholic and not the sharpest crayon in the bunch, and got it in his head that Wyatt was going around talking about their agreement. Being ranchers, the Clantons and McLauries would often allow "herds" of cattle (mostly stolen from Mexico by rustlers) to graze on their land for a little cut of the sale of the cattle. Nobody really looked too hard at where cows came from back then, even the Army. If word got out that they were helping hunt down other cowboys, it would've ruined them (best case) and put them in the crosshairs of vengeful rustlers/cowboys. Ike kept drinking, kept freaking out, and convinced some friends of his that Wyatt was doing bad things. Threats were made, common sense was ignored, and a shootout happened in an empty lot. During the trial, there was a lot of conflicting information put out about the shootout, as witnesses were more interested in ducking than recording, but the Earps were eventually exonerated which led to the escalating feud between the Earps, Doc, and the cowboys.

Looks good to me!

Nice pattern, nicely cut!! Recently read the history of the actual encounter....the movie was great, and I know they dramatized stuff, but dang they took a lot of liberties.

Either dress up the edges (KYWoodmaster's round-over bit suggestion), or make a thin frame out of some old banged up wood, like from a pallet, and leave the barest overlap on the front of the piece, maybe 1/8".

This. Is. AWESOME!!!!

I will give it a try again, but work has been crazy so I'm not sure how much time I'll have to design.

Lots of things to give thanks for. And like Jim said, if I put any effort into it, I could easily cruise right on past #10.

Awesomeness!!! Do you have patterns for these?