RabidAlien

Okay, now that is awesome!!

Very nice!

Yeowch. Got caught in state 5 seas one time coming out of Australia. In a submarine...which are round and best suited to poking holes through the ocean depths as opposed to riding gracefully on the surface. There was cheering when the dive alarm sounded.

Another quick cut, probably 6 hours total in the project. I wanted to give a tip from Steve Good's newsletter a try. He'd written about another scroller who wrote in to him and said that he (the other scroller) gave the back of each of his projects a quick spritz with rattlecan shellac before applying the pattern and drilling pilot holes, and the shellac helped to keep the fuzzies to a minimum regardless of whether a reverse-tooth blade was used or not. I decided to give it a try. A quick spray (ProTip: when spraying outside, pay attention to the direction of errant wind gusts. Took me a couple of days to clean off my glasses.), let it dry, flipped it over and taped/glued the pattern. I used a spiral blade for some of the cuts (still not a fan of them, they're handy but my ability to draw a straight line is...um...nonexistent) and a straight blade for the vast majority, and dang if it doesn't work! There were fuzzies, but they were tiny and rigid/brittle and most disappeared with a quick pass of some 220-grit on a palm sander. I think I'll be using this trick from now on.

I have a Wen, and while I don't use it often (only when I have the garage door shut), I also have it plugged into the same power strip I have my lights and saws plugged into....which is, itself, plugged into another strip that always stays on. All of my saws, lights, and the air filter are plugged into the second strip, which I turn off when I'm done with it (chargers are plugged in to the first strip), so I've never noticed this personally.

Framed up. Word of caution when nailing the frames....keep in mind where extraneous appendages may be. Nailer will get your attention better than a strong cup o' coffee, but I don't really recommend it. Probably got a good 1/3 to 1/2" penetration. Bled like a stuck pig for a minute until I could get a paper towel wrapped around it, kept pressure on it for a couple of minutes and it stopped bleeding. Throbbed for a bit and just really annoyed me. LOL I've cleaned it up and put some antibiotics on it. Can honestly say I gave part of myself for this project!

Awesome cutting! This is about three light-years AHEAD of my first scrollwork. LOL Love it! I'd say go with Lawson's suggestion of just sealing it as-is, and preserve your first cut with pride (not always a bad thing!). I tend to like a bit more contrast, and love Minwax's "Honey" stain, so if it were me I'd stain the owl and leave the moon as-is. Whichever way you decide to go, though, hang this in a prominent place and be proud of it!

Stained (Minwax Natural on top, Weathered Oak middle, and Dark Walnut for the back. Ship is Ebony, and shows up better than the photos indicate) and glued up. There's a 3/16 spacer in between each layer. Once the glue is dry (ie....I'm tired, its late, and tomorrow's Friday-FamilyDay), I'll belt-sand the edges and ponder on a frame.

Looks awesome to me!

Once you look at each individual cut, its not a difficult pattern. I did a raccoon once that had about 30 pilot holes, but probably 20 of them were all jagged edges due to the lil' b*stard's fur. This one had some tight corners, but not a lot per hole. The pucker-factor is in how MANY cuts there are, and how narrow the remaining pieces are. There's a couple of peninsulas, and several spots where a group of cuts cluster together and I had to stop and plan out which one to cut first so that most of the cutting was being supported by solid wood and not thin strips (made that mistake once, and lost a small piece). Her patterns are intricate, detailed, and AWESOME!!! Caress that trigger!

Cutting done on the second layer. Just need to clean off the fuzzies on the back, and decide on stains! Also a couple of photos with the two layers together (including the little ship). There will be a spacer between the two layers.

I'm more of a dog person, but I did cut this one early last year.

Frikkin' AWESOME! (and an awesomely-cut pattern, as well! )

Nice!!

This one's definitely a fun cut!

Nice! Where did you pick up the pattern?

Nice!

Possibly, or double-stacked. With thin pieces like this (several cases of long, thin peninsulas and one or two spirals connected to the rest by just one tiny stem), I think the risk of breakage is going to be high regardless. I started taping the waste back in place after cutting a section with a fragile spot. The top of the pattern started looking like a patchwork quilt!

I have thought of doing that myself, many times....usually when the snow/ice are bad enough that even my dumb self isn't dumb enough to get out and drive.

Work in progress, Fiona Kingdon's "Any Port In The Storm" pattern from the spring SSWWC magazine. Always wanted to cut one of hers! FD 2/0 blades, VERY slow speed, 3/16 ply. Got the last layer on the saw as we speak. Very thin, fragile piece, there's no zipping from one cut to the next. This one you DEFINITELY want to plan ahead so that every spot ends with you cutting along a section of wood that's adjacent to an uncut area, for stability. I had one spot snap because I wasn't paying attention to the direction I started the cut, just went my normal counter-clockwise and ended up having it break on me. Two others cracked as I was removing the pattern but were fixable with a little wood glue. This one took a while to cut......I'd guestimate about 15 hours or so, because I wasn't rushing anything and temperatures have dropped down into the single digits and even with two heaters going, the fan blowing sawdust out of the way just made my fingers start hurting. So, basically....it was an awesome time!

Young guy I worked with in retail (after I'd gotten out of the Navy) came up to me and another Navy vet one day and apologized. Said he'd enlisted and was heading to boot in a little while. We both immediately shook his hand, then asked why the apology. He said he'd enlisted in the Coast Guard and "knew" our feelings about the branch. We both looked him dead in the eye and told him in no uncertain terms that the CG was DEFINITELY a branch of the military and deserving of all the respect the other branches received. Then, when he relaxed, we mentioned "oh, but you're a DIFFERENT branch, so we're also definitely going to give you a load of crap before you leave."

Lookin good! I love cutting gears!! There's satisfaction in a cut well-done, and satisfaction in building a working device....and a GREAT amount of satisfaction when the two intersect!

You can get the font from dafont.com, its "US Declaration". https://www.dafont.com/us-declaration.font

Nice!!! And we DEFINITELY need a pattern for this one if you have it.