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  1. RabidAlien
    Awesome!!!
  2. RabidAlien
    The horizontal pieces are 14", the vertical are .....8.5"? Something like that. The pattern fit on a regular letter-sized sheet of paper.
  3. RabidAlien
    Nicely done!
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    Another papercutting lightbox design I found on Etsy. Five layers, the top layer with all the frilly edging, was the worst part to cut. I have an LED light strip behind it, and used thin strips of 1/2" ply to separate the layers. The rest is 1/4 bbp. Stained Minwax Natural. Frame is some extra 1/2" ply, trimmed down to size. I left the top and bottom longer, I like the overlapped look and the wife is happy as well. The LED strip fades between colors, these are teal/purple/red, but the camera on my phone doesn't really show them well. The pics were taken before I put the LED strips fully in place, they're still wrapped around the spool and leaning up against the back. The light is much more even now.
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    Love it!!! Took the evening off from a Russ Beard owl to cut these two little guys! I'm forgoing the bases and drilled a little hole in the tip of the hats, gonna make ornaments out of them. Still not sure how I'm going to stain em, but I know the frizzy-beard guy will have red hair (Minwax "Gunstock" stain).
  6. RabidAlien
    Duke's a very photogenic pup! Nicely cut on both!
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    Looks like a darn great start, to me!
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    Cut this one for my wife this past week. We celebrated our 17th anniversary on Sunday. 1/8" bbply, Minwax Honey/Natural stains. Took about 6-8 hours total, not counting the cold/rainy day that kept the stain from drying quickly. Note for the next time I do a Steve Good tab-n-slot box design: cut ON the line, not edged up to the line. Had to do a bit of filing on the slots, they fit tightly on the dry-run but there was a bit of swell after applying the stain.
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    I had considered some of these as well, but I hadn't planned on them in the first place so the border wasn't right. I could have gotten the larger ones (had they had any in black) and just made little X's across the border, but the braces along the back of the piece weren't aligned with the border. Or maybe I'm just overthinking things. I'm happy with how it turned out. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Briscon-100-Count-Metal-Non-Insulated-Cable-Staples/999958577
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    I did finish it up after this photo was taken, added some black tacks around the edge of the scrolled piece to help hold it in place and to make it look less like it was just glued on. I got the tacks from Lowes, but they can be found at any hardware store. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-2-oz-5-8-in-Black-Cut-Tack/3036042
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    Did a couple of these earlier this year, finally got the second one a home. We'd gotten our daughter some horse-riding lessons (in part to help with anger management, part to just get her out of the house and into the sunlight for a while!), so it just made sense. Plus, my wife says I make her enough stuff during the year, she doesn't need anything more at Christmas time. She'd prefer something more....sparkly. LOL
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    Dammit, getting dusty in here. [[wipes eyes]] Had to say goodbye to too many pets over the years. It never gets easier, but having the opportunity to experience the unconditional love of a pet offsets the pain. Very nice cutting. The collar itself would make me cringe, very nicely done!
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    Yep, but I mis-remembered when I snagged it. See the link in the post above yours.
  14. RabidAlien
    May have not been quite as recent as I recalled. My bad! http://www.stevedgood.com/kinetic.pdf
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    Okay, okay, I'm a sucker for gears. Especially gears that do something. I'm a big fan of steampunk/dieselpunk but really dislike how some folks just glue random gears all over things and call it steampunk. They need to be FUNCTIONAL!!! Or at least appear functional. This pattern came in one of Steve Good's daily newsletters the other day, and I had to bump it to the top of my to-be-cut pile. Note: read the instructions several times before drilling pilot holes. Silly me missed the part where the front spinny-piece was to be stack cut. That's a LOT of pilot holes to re-drill, even if the original holes made it easier. Yep, this one was fun to cut. Gears and frame are 1/2" whiteboard, chunks left over from another project. 1/4" ply for the front piece. Stains are Minwax, "Honey" and "Natural" for the dark and the light (respectively), and some teal rattlecan spray for the backer, left over from another project for my wife. Gives it a pop of color.
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    Nicely cut! I'm convinced, and have seen nothing to change my opinion, that the English language (and American English in particular) is not so much a language as it is the bastardized result of a drunken non-consensual pileup consisting of at least seven different languages, with a few dead languages thrown in for science.
  17. RabidAlien
    Looks awesome to me!
  18. RabidAlien
    Nice!
  19. RabidAlien
    Nicely cut!
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    Gears fascinate me for some reason. In this case, as you rotate the gear, the flat edge causes the teeth of the first gear to withdraw from that point, while the teeth of the other gear advance, so contact is always maintained. I'm so glad someone else figured that out first, though. I'd never have thought of it on my own. LOL
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    A Steve Good pattern. This was a quick cut, even though the pattern has two gears on it, I stack-cut the gears and washers. I modded the backer a bit so that it would fit in a base and be free-standing, and added a small crank (just a 1/4" piece of dowel inset and glued to the top gear). 1/2" ply for the gears, 1/8 for the washers, 1/4" dowel for the axles/crank, and 1/2" pine for backer and base. Took about two hours from printing the pattern to staining. Minwax Espresso and Natural stains. The gears do turn and mesh well, but a word of caution. When gluing in the axles after dry-fitting and staining, make sure they're perfectly straight up and down. I think one of mine got a fraction off, or the stain caused the wood to swell more than I expected...everything still turns, but not quite as easily as the dry run. Of course, that could also be because the posts were not glued in yet and had some wiggle-room....either way, a quick, fun pattern to cut.
  22. RabidAlien
    Awesome!
  23. RabidAlien
    First scroll project, first post.....and you choose "Firefly"? SHINY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep that hanging in a position of pride in your shop or room somewhere, and refer back to it often to see the progress you make as you go, you'll be amazed at how your skills advance! For a starter, this is excellent!!!
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    One old, one new....old one is a Steve Good (I believe) Thanksgiving trivet. The other is a Steve Good bowl I just finished up....as a kid, Dad was in the Air Force and we were stationed a thousand miles away (or more, depending on the year) from the rest of the family, but when we would get to visit with the grandparents, Mamaw would ALWAYS have a bowl or two of candy sitting around. Didn't matter if it was Thanksgiving or Christmas, there was a bowl of those fancy hard candies you only find during the holidays, and a bowl of those peppermint nougat things that I came to love. So having a bowl for snacky-stuff is always handy. The SteveGood pattern calls for 1/4" stock, I used 1/2" ply to make it a bit taller....more munchies is not a bad thing, is it?
  25. RabidAlien
    I can give it another shot.
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