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A few weeks ago I posted a pic of 3 cutout copies of a "Sisters" tattoo that my wife and her sister got. The lady that cuts my hair wanted a couple for her and her sister. Like the first three, the frames are store bought.

Well, I'm gonna break the rules right off of the bat. Made a couple of these last year for the wife and daughter. Also made this huge thing a couple of Halloween's ago. 6' tall and 12' long.

My guess was contact cement.

I have several of your patterns on my "to order" list. I have just not gotten around to ordering them,, this one will be ordered tomorrow! Thanks BTW, what kind of glue do you use to do your glue-up's?

Very nice design and cut very well!

Top notch!

The mouth area reminds me of Jimmy Carter.

I live about 25 miles from Leesburg. I also stamp my pieces that I make. Some of those pieces have made their way back "home" to Illinois. So I can understand how that could happen. Pretty cool.

Great video and design!

Iggy,, you have a message.

Thank you Marg! I put a finished pic in my first post.

They must have sandwiched it between 2 pieces of 1/4" plywood for shipping. LOL

Yes sir,, my wife asked me how I got the pattern. I told her that I have my ways!

Thanks Les!

Thank you!

I will order some FD flat blades tomorrow. Which one/ones would be a good place to start? Their SR line? UR line? My favorite from Olson is the reverse skip tooth, the bottom 1" or so has the teeth reversed. This blade makes a smooth cut on top and bottom of the wood. What is comparable in the FD?

I put less tension on the spirals than I do on the flats. Is this true for everyone else? I have a Dewalt, on the flat #2 blades I tension to setting #3. On the spirals I only went to tension setting #2.

I think that I would give the FD a try if a need arises. But I would rather use a flat blade if I could! The Olson spiral may get thrown into the trash. Maybe I will order some flat FD blades tomorrow and give them a try.

I put a request in earlier today. A couple hours later there it was! Awesome people here without a doubt. Here is the request and story; My wife and her sister just got new matching tattoos a couple of days ago. I asked the artist if I could have one of the patterns that she made and didn't use, it was just a larger version of what they got. Not sure if this can be made into a scroll saw pattern or not. If someone has the time to try I would appreciate it very much. There is a third sister that lives out of state and didn't get a matching one. I would like to make all three of them a cut out if possible. Here is the pattern cut out. Not sure how I will finish them yet. May just put a little bigger painted backer on it and have it hang or make a little leg on the back and have it set on a table. It is 5"x7". Here are the completed projects. (Store bought frames)

Like several others on here,, I can not cut with a spiral blade! I have only used Olson's #2 in the past. So recently I ordered some Olson's #0 and FD New Spiral 2/0. I test them both out today. I drew up some straight lines and then made some curves. This was done on 1/8" BB. I tried the Olson #0 first. The first attempt on the straight line I was all over the place. The second attempt a little better, the 3rd better yet. All three of these attempts I was pushing the wood straight into the blade. Going from the 12:00 position to the 6:00 position. The next cut was the curvy line. At first I turned the wood when I came up to the first curve like I would when using a flat blade. Then I thought, "just slide the wood, don't turn it", that's what spirals are for. Next I tried the FD New Spiral 2/0 blade. My first attempt was better than my third attempt with the Olson. Second attempt better, by the time I got to the third attempt it was a pretty straight line in my opinion. On the curvy line I didn't turn the wood at all, just changed my direction of push. It came out decent I thought. Both blades were very close in size. I would have expected a bigger size difference with the Olson being a 0 and the FD being a 2/0. The FD cut much cleaner also and it only had 35 TPI where the Olson had 46 TPI. In conclusion, the FD cut much much better than the Olson. I may have to try some of their other blades. I have only used Olson's since returning to the scroll saw about 2 years ago. My go to blade in the Olson is the #2R reverse tooth,, I use this blade for about everything and love it. Just my $.02 Barry

Nice! Looks like you are "Taking Care of Business"! Elvis fans will understand the reference.

I'm sure she loved it! I had a pattern for 2 years of a clock that I was going to make for my Mom for Mother's Day.. she passed before I could make it. I made it anyway and have it sitting in my entertainment center. I try not to put stuff off anymore.

That's how we would probably look if someone put us in a clamp and tightened it down!

Thanks, hard to go wrong with either.

Thank you sir!