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I'd cut that one just before I did this. Cutting Steve's torus is what made me go back and tweak the lines to make them a bit thicker. I lost a little bit of the details in the center, but it was an edit that needed to happen.

Another cool pic I found on Pinterest and converted to a pattern (made the lines thicker, for sanity's sake). 1/2" whiteboard (not quite as knotty as pine, but REALLY soft), Pegas #3MG blades (3x, I think).

Definitely a happy Rottie!! Well cut!

Love em! I think the white pattern/black backer is my fav, though.

Amen.

Dang, that's nice!

Nice!!!

Nice!!!

They look great to me! I've got the compass printed out and waiting to be cut, myself.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang that's some serious fretwork! VERY nicely done sir!

Pattern JPG's are posted below if anyone wants em.

Very nicely cut!

Been playing around with some random cellphone wallpapers and various cliparts of grass and bamboo, to put together my first layered pattern. Couldn't decide which samurai (layer 2) looked better, so I did both. The bamboo/tall grass (layer 3) and short grass (layer 1) were a pain to cut, and I ended up doing a lot of on-the-fly adjustments since I didn't have a drill bit small enough to get some of the pilot holes for details that would've made the grass blades make more sense. I tried to make sure that any sharp blades had a line that could be traced back into the lower regions, so there wouldn't be any grass tips poking out of another blade with no extra body to connect to the "ground". These were fun cuts, though, for a week off of work. 1/4" BB ply from Lowes, four layers. Layer 3 (bamboo) took probably a day and a half to cut on its own, cut the short grass (layer 1 in another half day, then the two samurai and the moon took about three hours total. Layer's 1 (short grass), 3 (bamboo), and 4 (moon) were stack cut. The two samurai were solo cut, but only had two interior cuts so those went really quick. Layers 1, 2, and 3 were stained Minwax Honey, frame and layer 4 are Minwax Ebony. White plastic sheeting over the moon was a protective cover for a laptop privacy filter that I saved after installing for a user. LED strips wrapped around the inside of the frame came from Amazon for about $12...the red moon is a newer strip, it is multi-colored and cycles through the color spectrum. Yellow-ish white LED's are single-color only. Used Pegas #1MG blades for this one.

Love it!!!

Took a week off from work, since it was pointed out that I had to "use it or lose it" by Dec 31. No prob, more sawdust!!!! So I start in on a multi-layer project when the wife mentions that she was serious when she said she wanted me to make a large sign for the tortoise enclosure. Oh, and the daughter wanted one for her bearded dragon terrarium. Me pointing out that signs wouldnt' do much good, as neither tortoises nor beardies are noted for their reading abilities. So Sunday was spent making signs. Nugget is the Sulcata Tortoise, and Yuki (Japanese for "Luck", I'm told) is the beardie. Yuki: Nugget:

Summers spent camping and hiking with friends, way back in the day. Dad was in the Air Force, stationed down in South Georgia (fart, and they smelled it in Florida kinda South). We'd get away to go camping as often as we could, and once we had access to cars, we started driving up to the Appalachians to camp. Mountains will always hold a place in my heart. We lost track of each other after highschool, I went and joined the Navy and had a stroke or something that caused me to volunteer for submarines. Qualified on three of them before getting out in 1998. My Dad, who passed in 2009, was a big fan of Texas history, and grew up on Westerns. He knew every John Wayne and Clint Eastwood western by heart. First time I saw "Outlaw Josey Wales" was sitting on the sofa, watching it with him. Still love that movie.

Nice!!

Yep. I set it down to go grab some stain, turned around and had to stare....it looks 3D until you get right up next to it, or look at it from the side.

Steve Good pattern, I believe. Not a difficult cut, just time consuming...and we've got one of our daughter's friends staying with us for the week, so instead of one moody 12-year-old, now there's two giggly 12-year-olds with no volume control. LOL Pattern called for 1/4" bbply, I used a piece of 1x8 I had left over from building the tortoise enclosure. Used 2 Pegas MG #3 blades, stained Minwax Honey.

Great cutting and excellent choice of wood! Where'd you get the pattern?

Nice!!!

FluffyCow!!! Nicely cut!

Dang those look good! I might have to try this, been hesitant to dabble with resin for fear of screwing up a nice piece of wood and the expense of the resin.

Great actor, great human being, and awesome cutting!

Nice!!