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Turned out pretty good, I think.

Gotcha!!! Now I know....and knowing is half the battle.

Very nicely cut!!! Just out of curiosity, I thought it was illegal to deface or modify coins (at least American coins)? It wouldn't surprise me if I'm wrong, it would explain all those "souvenir penny" stamp machines at tourist attractions.

Nice!!!!!

Where there's a will, there's a way!!! ..and usually a bunch of obscure relatives trying to get into it.

3" pin-ended Pegas skip-tooth blade. And a lot of cringing. Thank you! Thank you! Backer cut, sanded, and sprayed last night. Staining the piece was almost as nerve-wracking as cutting it, I kept envisioning the cloth I used to wipe the stain off getting snagged on a delicate piece and breaking it. I'm a big Star Wars fan, not so much a big Tarrantino fan (although I've seen Pulp Fiction....2 hours of my life I'll never get back). I did think it was a funny mashup, though.

This one has strained my eyeballs a bit. "Pulp Fiction" meets "Star Wars". 3/8" ply. Lots of TINY, fragile bridges....Vader's mask, itself, rates a PuckerFactor of about a 12 on a 10-point scale. Just finished cutting tonight, then dinner, dishes, and helping the daughter with a project, I may get around to sanding tonight, maybe tomorrow. Backer will be semigloss white (rattlecan), still not sure if I'll do the piece solid black, or a walnut stain.

Its dangerous to go to Pinterest and search "scroll saw pattern" or "woodworking" or pretty much anything related to house/shop upgrades.

Marg, it was one of the early designs being considered for the American flag. "Don't Tread On Me" was a popular slogan for those disgruntled by Britain's rule, a rattlesnake was added for emphasis, and the "Gadsden Flag" was born. Its becoming popular again as more than a piece of historical trivia as certain elements of the government keep trying to legislate away more and more of our rights. http://www.gadsden.info/history.html

You can either upload it to the Pattern Library, or add it to a post....not sure if there's a file-size limit when posting, though, that may be what's causing issues.

I'd've gone with a yellow backer in homage to the original flag, but this is an awesome cut!!! Do you have the pattern?

Good idea!!! **quietly slides flamethrower under desk**

Definitely worthy of at least a good backer! Nice cut! And yeah, something like that would probably take me 6-8 hours to cut.

Cedar fever is raging here in the mid-south. At times you can see the pollen pods on the cedar trees popping and cedar dust billowing out on the wind. There were calls to 9-1-1 reporting fires in parks and ranches it was so bad. Texass cedar pollen season (December-ish through March-ish) royally sucks. Allegra only does so much to help against it.

So what you're saying, CEDAR in general is malicious and vindictive and if its not killing you with pollen, its splitting your work. LOL

Welcome aboard!

Once you buy the book, you own the rights to that book for your own personal use. Scanning/copying is not a problem, as long as you don't go and sell those scans/copies for your own profit. There may be a blurb in a book regarding cutting some of the patterns and then selling the finished projects, but that would be in the book itself.

just one this weekend. 1/4" general plywood rescued from the scrap bin at Lowes. Frame is 2x2 ripped down the center. I think I've got the hang of cutting frames, I only had to do a little bit of trimming on the piece to fit in the frame. Frame is Minwax Provincial, cut piece is Minwax Dark Walnut, and backer is rattlecan glossy white. To help them pop, I painted the interior of the letters white, as well. I'm happy with how this one turned out, considering how many narrow pieces there were to trim up. Only had one breakage point, where my blade caught on a cut area as I was turning the piece (saw was off at the time). Not where you'd expect, either, it was down at the cuff of the trooper's left arm, that little dogbone-shaped piece at the bottom of the sleeve. I would cut the large empty areas in sections, go down a straight line until I hit a piece sticking out, then make the turn, go across to the straight section across and back up to complete the square. Then pull that piece out, turn around, cut the other side of the peninsula, turn down the straightaway, and down to the next peninsula. That method seemed to work really well for me, plus taping the ever-lovin heck outta the parts as I finished uncovering a peninsula or really narrow bridge. Towards the end, I was cutting wood surrounded by blue tape.

The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito. Unless it was made by deHaviland.

Ugh. I hate when that happens. Dropped a piece or two, myself.

Had this one downloaded/printed for a while, got it finished up today, just in time to give to TheBoss for Valentine's Day. Red is just water and food coloring, backer is metallic silver rattlecan. I like how this one turned out.

Dang.....why does nothing like that pop up near me when I have funds available (ignoring the fact that I *never* have funds available)? I'd buy it just for the 24" capacity!

The world can ALWAYS use more Celtic knot patterns!!! Some of my first projects were Celtic knots, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make them or a (free) app to help build them. I moved on to other styles of cutting, but still love knots!

That is AWESOME!!!

Very nice!!