RabidAlien

A couple of projects this weekend. First...lemme say...I'm kinda proud of myself for not taking these frames out and setting them on fire. Or worse. They're for two of the "It Is Well" projects I was requested to do. The stars were NOT in alignment with the making of these frames, everything from my table saw not ripping the back of the frame pieces correctly (it wasn't just mis-measurement on my part, it literally started wandering down the middle of the back of one piece...had to trim the entire poplar 1x2 down to about 1x1.75 to fix that), to corners not coming together, to frustrations from Life in general....grrr. They're glued, clamped, and will be stained tomorrow if I don't toss em and go buy another piece of stock (wasn't sure if I was going to have enough to finish...ended up with about 4" left over after cutting enough for two frames). As of right now, if I never make another frame, I'll be happy. So after the frame frustrations, I needed a win to balance the scales a bit, so to speak. So....one of my Inkscape designs. Might as well, right? Just to make sure it was a good cut, easy cut. I freehanded the steam coming off the coffee cup a bit, I think I like this one better but my freehand skillz in Inkscape are crap, so anyone cutting this on their own, do with it as you will. Now to find something to cut/build tomorrow, because on the Sawdust Karma scale, today breaks even.

We foster-dopted a Great Dane/Bloodhound mix that sounds a lot like your Lab. Flynn is forever getting in trouble, then giving those big soulful eyes to get out of trouble.

That was my first compound, too! Its a fun cut! Steve's site recommends leaving the cutouts in place when flipping the piece over to cut the second side. I found that, for me at least, taking the cutout scrap OUT makes the second side easier to cut. I was worried about structural stability and my jig crushing the piece like an eggshell, but even with some of the very thin pieces (more scrap removed than wood remained) I've done, I never found that a problem. Never had an issue feeding my blade through the guide holes, and the reduced amount of wood to cut through meant that the second side was actually easier.

Cuttin thick wood is just like cuttin thin wood. Just....thicker. Just go slower.

(to the them of "Rawhide") Scrollin' scrollin' scrollin', keep them blades a-scrollin'... Nice cuts! I know someone who would love the horse, where'd you find the pattern?

I use emery boards or needle files to sand the little fuzzies off the bottom of a project. For staining, it depends on the size of the project. If its small enough, I will put it in a gallon Ziploc bag, then pour stain/BLO in and slosh the whole thing around (be careful of creating too many bubbles). This makes it easy to get stain or oil inside the fretwork openings. For larger projects that won't fit in the bag, I have an old cookie sheet that my wife donated (so she could buy a new one, I think) that I'll put the project in, pour stain/oil directly over the top of the project (to get it inside the fretwork), then flip it over to get the other side.

Awesome!

We are always our own worst critics. Looks good to me! If they say anything about it, offer to cut them an updated version for free. Looks good to me, otherwise!

This. Is. AWESOME!!!

Nice!!! Question, is the "crackle paint" something you mixed together or something you bought and just used wood glue to seal it? Or is it just paint mixed with wood glue to cause the paint to draw back in on itself, causing the crackles?

Well earned, my friend. Michaelangelo didn't start out painting chapel ceilings in Cistine, he started out with drawings his mother had to force a smile while putting up on whatever their equivalent of the fridge was back then. Yours....is excellent! Keep practicing, you can only get better!

Looks awesome!!! Much better than my first scroll project!

Awesome pattern, awesome plane! The F4-U almost didn't make it as a fighter until they put a longer-bladed prop on it, which allowed the plane to take full advantage of the more powerful engine....however, the length of the props caused them to whack the ground or flight deck, destroying the props or the wooden decks. So the wings were re-configured to the gull-wing design (based on the German Stuka? Not sure on that one), which raised up the nose of the aircraft enough to keep the prop from hitting the ground, and also gave it the convenience of making the folding wings easier, allowing more to be brought on board a carrier. Once the gull-wing was put into production, the F4U became a VERY formidable fighter, easily on par with the Japanese Zero (which was flying circles around everything else the Allies had in the air at the time). Pilots in Chennault's American Volunteer Group would claim "battle damage" to their P40's and bail out over friendly territory, allowing their (never verified, of course) unscathed P40's to crash into the jungles so that they could get an F4U replacement.

Awesome!!!!

Good catch!

A present for my Mom, who did American Sign Language interpretation for the deaf for MANY years. I never inherited her knack for languages, so I'm pretty much stuck with the alphabet and a few choice signs usually reserved for driving. A couple of ornaments, the snowman was for my wife, and the Christmas tree went to a friend. Some more ornaments, Steve Good 3D patterns I thought would be a fun and easy cut. They were. Alex Fox pattern, a gift for my sister to go on her Wall O' Crosses. A gift for a friend of my wife's, sorta a memorial for her friend's Mom.

Very nice!!! I never could get my paint to "weather" like that. Did you use water-based paint? I think mine was an outdoor oil-based paint. I always sprayed the stars.

Love it!!! German Shepherds are great dogs....Great Danes are better, though. Even says so in the name. LOL

I'm really liking it....not as dark and overpowering as Dark Walnut, it darkens the wood nicely while leaving the grain/sap to pop out.

Wood was a 2x2 piece of salvage, I believe pine, very distinct sap lines. Blade was just a 3" pin-end skip-tooth.

Minwax's Provincial.

They're fragile....my main hope is that they survive this year! Thanks, all!

So in addition to doing the two 2018 Christmas ornaments for my wife, I also tried some of the 3D ornaments Steve Good had on his site. 4 done so far. I'm out of town most of next week (business trip again), so I probably won't get a chance to finish up the last one, all depends on how the Christmas festivities and functions and obligations go. Fun cuts, quick cuts, but make darn sure your 1x1" blanks are actually 1x1. Apparently my band-saw blade started to bow out a bit, making the blanks a bit concave. Guess its time to see if they still make blades for that particular model (7.5" diameter wheels, old Black and Decker desktop model).

Awesome!!! Go Navy!

Oh, I'm not planning on doing anything with them at the moment. Not sure my saw can handle making something detailed yet that small. Plus, they're sticky and sappy and still kinda damp. I don't want to put effort into cutting something only to have it split in a month. Just wanted to let folks know of a possible source.