RabidAlien

Straight-up Stencil pattern. Font is "Pirate Scroll" from dafont.com (with a lot of editing....the font, if enlarged, includes a lot of "weathering" to give it that rusty, barely-maintained, out-in-all-elements look...which is straight-up cool, but not really ideal for scrolling). Used a piece of the 2x12 beam for this, and considering the number of blades I went through to cut that thing, I believe I"ll use the remainder for a shelf. LOL At least two Pegas #7mg's and a #5mg snapped or twisted on me, and the last #7 was cutting more out of habit than out of any sharpness remaining on the teeth by the end of it. Still, I'm happy with it, and seeing as this was cut from the original pattern, I was able to make some tweaks to the design to space out a few letters to prevent them from running into each other.

Looks good!!! So....one free lady with every cup of coffee? Wish I'd known of this place when I was single!

Welcome aboard! I've always wanted to make a wooden clock, myself, and one day I may get the wifely permission to buy the metal bits and get around to actually cutting. Ambitious? Sure, I guess....but as another on the forums said, "every project is just one hole, one cut....some just take longer to finish." Cut away, and mount your first completed clock in a place of pride!

When I have a project that looks like its going to take a while, I also print out a couple of "quickies", usually wordart (Steve Good patterns, or one of my own), so when I get to the point where I really don't want to go out to the garage and cut more, I'll set the long project aside for a bit, and cut one or two quickies. I've got some finished patterns to show for my time, a sense of accomplishment, and when I get back to the long project its like I'm starting anew. Great cut, BTW!!! Do you have a pattern for this?

AWESOME!!!

Very nice!!! Can't mistake it for a gorilla, so yep, your job was done very well!

Official WhiteHouse Scroller. Or....Official WhiteHouse Curmudgeon. Either one works.

I passed Geometry class in the last century, and I firmly believe I only passed it because my teacher didn't want to deal with me again the following year. I'm more of a visual kind of guy, so I'd draw a circle the size I wanted, print off a bunch of patterns and start laying them around to see how many fit around the circle. If the patterns overlap, make the circle bigger. If there's space left over, you can either widen the gap between sides, shrink the circle down, or make the circle bigger and add another side. Just reading Jim's maths made my head hurt.

Looks like you cut the outside of the antlers, then looped back around to the inside. That means all the stress of blade vibration/pressure sits on the tiny connection piece. I try to find all the little islands and cut around those first, then loop back around the outside. Looking at it another way, if the thick black line is a river, cut the part that touches the inside of the antlers first. That way, you have all the rest of the piece of wood to help provide stability to the weak bridges. Coming back around the other side of the river, the antler points still have the rest of your project for support. Its a hard lesson to learn. All is not lost, though....wood glue is your friend!

Ah, yes, the joys of islands. LOL Nicely cut!!! One trick I do, when I'm thinking about printing something to cut, is to load it up in Gimp, select the paintbucket, change the color to a neon green, then "paint" the area that will remain. Gimp will change everything connected, so your islands will stand out as the original color. Some intricate patterns, I'll zoom in and find that the island *is* connected with a bridge, but the bridge is so thin that its a couple of pixels wide and those are not quite the same color, which I'm fine with. Other times, I find actual islands and have to sit back and figure out the best way to unobtrusively bridge them or whether I can take them out altogether. CTRL-Z lets you un-do the paintbucket and get back to the original colors without the inevitable odd-colored dot here and there. Another trick, in a case like this where you have a backer, is to cut the island first, then cut the "outside" of the pattern, stain everything including the islands, then glue the islands back into place when you attach the pattern to the backer. Plenty of ways to approach scrolling, just keep at it and find what works best for you!

Okay, now THAT is awesome!!!

oops. Disregard.

My desk at work. Not visible (behind the cube wall from this point of view) are my "F-bomb", "Meh", and "Death Before Decaf" signs (marked by arrows). Didn't really realize how many projects I'd brought in until I started marking them down! Also not visible (stuck in the cube windows across the way) are "Mondays Suck", "Nothing Ruins A Perfectly Good Weekend Like A Monday" and "When In Doubt, Reboot". There's several other pieces I've made and given (or sold) to other people. ETA: I'll be making a magazine holder (or two) later this month to put my slowly growing collection of SSWW magazines, which will definitely involve scrolling, but hasn't been cut yet, in case that is what the original challenge wanted (something new, not something past-cut).

Not all in one day. I don't have all that much space at home for "my" decorations (much less permission from TheWife to ...decorate...), so I take a lot of my stuff up to work with me.

Heh. I work in IT (desktop support...some remote support, mostly on-site IT work) for D. R. Horton (not "doctor"....we're a homebuilder). I've decorated my desk with a lot of different patterns, some of them my own, some Steve Good. Usually something IT-related, anti-Monday, coffee, or just plain snarky. I'll get a pic of my desk area tomorrow, but here's some of the stuff I have up:

1/2" scrap BB ply, used a Pegas #1MG (until it snapped at the reverse tooth, replaced with another #1MG). Figured if I was cutting one "dad-themed" sign, I'd best keep the wife happy and cut a "mom-themed" sign. Its safer that way.

In hindsight, I probably should've included the word "Frequent" in there.

**tips hat in general direction** Welcome back! Kinda know how you feel....for me, scrolling helps the depression, even when I goof up a pattern.

A new one to take to work. Easy cut, just two small inside cuts and a lot of swooping outside curves. 2" rescue lumber, the end scrap of the piece I used for "Love is a Verb". Pegas #7MG blade, Minwax's Provincial stain.

It'll work great on 1"! I just didn't have any big enough at the time.

Thx! Thicker wood...just go slower. Thank you sir! I enjoy the odd curves a lot more than I do the sharp angles, but when you get down to it, its just following a line. ....sometimes I manage to do that. LOL

I have it attached on top of one of my monitors at work.

Pattern posted: https://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/35002-love-is-a-verb-pattern/

Awesome cutting! I'm coming to realize that spirals tend to want to go their own way, but that they most certainly have their moments when cutting trees and other jaggedy shapes. A purpose for every tool! I'd prefer to have the real thing mounted above a doorway or mantlepiece, but they become harder to use after you've scrolled em out.

Another wordart pattern (I'll put it up in the Pattern Library, if I don't forget). This one was cut out of scrap 2x10 from a nearby construction site, so it was some dense lumber. #5 and #7 Pegas MG blades (#5 still had some life in it from another project and did a fair job on all the inside cuts). Finish is Minwax "Classic Grey", I thought I'd give that a try. This sucker is heavy, solid, and will probably still be standing on a shelf long after the house collapses around it.