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I think this fits the Theme. Made for my Lady's young Grandson, who loves Dragons, so he can learn to tell time that is not digital and learn a little Chineese at the same time. Edit 9/4/22: Just remembered my Cube style Tissue box covers...very functional projects.

Danny posted his cutting of “Elvis” on August 9,2022. He gave credit to Grandpa, but reading on, it seems this pattern may have been by someone else or maybe by more than one. I found the original negative image, before being converted to a scroll saw pattern, on-line with no name associated with it. I like Danny’s cutting and this version of Elvis, and I had need to make an “Elvis” as a gift. A local Dinner we frequent has their walls covered with Elvis and Marilyn pics and posters. I plan to give them this Elvis and a Marilyn I made a while ago. No strings attached. So here is my version of “Elvis” that is cut from 5/32” x 11” x 14” solid core Maple Ply affixed to a 1/4”BB Ply painted black backer, finished with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. The assembled panel is mounted loose in a 1 3/4” wide Pine Frame stained with Minwax Mahogany and finished with Clear Gloss Polyurethane. The EP is a copy of how he signed some of his photos. Another, totally different project that I completed nearly at the same time as “Elvis” is a cartoon image, again that I found on-line, of “Wile E Coyote” displaying a HELP sign. This project adds to my other cartoon characters like the Pink Panther and Cockerel that I made a while back. I guess I need to find a decent image of the Road Runner to add to the collection. The cut panel is a hand painted 5/32” x 11” x17” solid Core Maple Ply that is affixed to a Hand Painted 1/4” thk BB Ply backer. And as usual, the assembled panel is protected with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. The assembled panel is mounted loose in a 1 3/4” wide Pine Frame that was simply primed and painted with Glidden Gloss Black. Comments and critiques are always welcome.

Love both. Great cutting and finishing.

Well done. That really came out nice. Curious, why so small for a welcome sign? And, will they be mounted back to back on a common backer?

If is adheasive paper (like a label) soak good with mineral spirits/white spirits and the remaining pattern should come off easily. Clean any residual glue with a mineral spitit dampend rag. Let dry throughly. Only now can you try careful sanding. A thin application of wood filler may be able to save the work, but it will probably need to be painted in order to hide the damaged/filled areas.

The following plaques are all 1/8” thk BB Ply cut panels mainly using Pegas #1 MGT R blades and mounted onto 1/2” sanded ply backers and intended to be hung outdoors. These projects were all rather quick cuts. Cut panels and backers are painted with combination of Krylon Spray Can Paints and Artist Acrylics. After assembly, the finished plaques were protected with multiple coats of rattle can spray Clear Gloss Polyurethane. Most of the cutting were positive images that I used the “washer” method to create backers that were slightly larger and perimeter and parallel to the cuttings. The exception was the 'Hello Fall' Image that is a negative resulting in a rectangular panel that I mounted permanently in a 3/4” wide rabbeted pine frame stained Minwax Honey. I could have simply rounded or chamfered the corners and left as a plaque like the others, but I just prefer to hide the exposed edges, of this style plywood/panel plaque, with a frame. The patterns were repurchased in downloadable zipp files that contained various JPG, PDF, SVG along with some other files. They are stencil patterns that I slightly modified to make more scrollable and added the words ’Hello Fall’ or ‘Welcome’ to. I purchased other stencil patterns at the same time, but they are predominantly Halloween images, and I was looking mainly for Fall. The Pumpkin in a Hat Image is for my Grandson for his new home and it will serve for both Fall and Halloween. I’ll hang the Bat on my house for a short time around Halloween. Halloween is very quiet in in our neighborhood with very few “Trick or Treaters”. I don’t really consider these pieces to be in the “ART” category. So, they were not made to be sold. They are all gifts to Myself as well as my Son, Daughter, Grandson and my next door Neighbors. Hung for a few weeks until winter sets in and then put away until next year to be replaced with the Santa portraits I made for both myself and them last year. Hello Fall Sign, Overall 12" x 18" Pumkin Welcome Sign, nom 11" x 17" (I made two stack cutting both cut panels and backers) Happy Fall Y'all Sign, Nom 10" x 10" (Aslo made two by stack cutting...attempt at the black shading was not too great) Pumpkin in Hat Welcome Sign, nom 11" x 12" Halloween Bat Welcome Sign, nom 11" x 17" Boo Pumpkin Welcome Sign, nom 10 "X 16" (pic taken before finish Poly was applied) As usual, comments and critiques are welcome.

You are correct when you say " A copyright protects the the creator from someone stealing his work." My opinion is simply that Copyright applys to the "pattern" (in these discussions) that are available for sale from the originator or his/her agent. Wnen such patterns are reproduced and redistributed for sale, the copyright law is most difinitively being broken. I don't believe there is anyone participating in this discussion that actually feels otherwise. However, unless the image itself is copyrited/trademarked, like corporate Logos and Emblems, the resulting product/image produced from a/any pattern is not, again in my opinion, subject to copy protection and the seller of the pattern cannot ligitamately stipulate what the product rpoduced from said pattern can be used for. If myself and othes really believed this truly the extent of copyright protection, then most of us should just pull the plug on our saws as should embroiders, tatoo artist, any and all crafters and artist...... I could go on and on, but there is no point. I don't consider myself breaking any laws intentionally or even unintentionally. I sell my work and not somebody elses even when I use somebody elses pattern.

I was only refering to the product made from a pattern, and not the pattern itself. I trully believe a pattern maker can not actually control what the user of a pattern does with a finish product made from such pattern. Of course, there are limitations here, when any actual resulting image is copyrighted such as corporate logo's, emblems, etc. Then it is not the work but the image itself that is protected. I believe, just stating "you can buy my pattern but can't sell the product made from it" is simply nonsence. Again only my opinion.

In just my humble opinion, reference to copyright only applies to the pattern itself and can not be applied to the product produced from them. I believe most patterns, stencils, images etc. found on-line, although they may state "copyright protected" are not unless associated with major corporations or actual book publishers. Just too costly for most creaters to bother with. Those who sell other peoples work are really the ones who are in the wrong, Steve Good's recent email, being a good example of this problem. Therefore, I can appreciate that a pattern I purchase should not be redistributed and sold for profit. However, once I purchase a copy it is mine to share, give away or transfer ownership. If the seller states "only purchasing a license for use" he/she is being nieve, and again, such a statement sounds good but is uninforcable. I also am of the opinion that particular patterns, produced by certain makers that state on their Website (or even on the pattern intself), that the pattern can not be used to produce commercial products, must be smoking something. It sounds very powerful but, I believe, a totally uninforcable statement. That is kind of like an Art paint manufacturer saying you can buy their paint but cannot sell a painting done with their paint. Too dumb for words. Also, patterns are simply suggestions fo making a resulting image, not unlike a coloring book or paint by numbers kit. Even the smallest deviation from the pattern, makes it unique and no longer what was sugggested. AND WE ALL DEVIATE, DON'T WE? If you don't mess with highly recognizable LOGO's or products by major organizations, like a Harley Davidson, copyright infringement being detected/determined and/or even verified, in any of our scroll saw work and/or our product sales is highly unlikely. I know a there are those wno will not agree with me regarding all or parts of the above, but as I stated, they are only my opinions and how I chose to operate.

Nicely done. I mainly think "Big" but sometimes "Tiny" is rally nice. JFYI,: I use Inkscape to convert, modifiy and size patterns. I position the pattern on a document/paper size I know my printer can print predetermining what my final cutting size will be. In my case I use standard US sizes (Letter 8.5x11 and Tabloid 11x17) which I keep in my Epson ET-16600 paper trays as well as and (Super B 13" x 19") that I can feed by hand. As an example, I will use the tabloid 11x17 paper size for an 11X14 pattern. Should I want or need to resize the pattern it is simply a matter of opening the SVG file and re-sizing as desired and then repeating the process. However, I do not print directly from Inscape as I have had problems doing so also. Whne I'm satisfied with the pattern I've created in Inkscape, I simply (after first saving the SVG file) do a "save as" and select PDF. I then open the PDF in Adobe and use it to print, making sure I select the proper "paper size" and other settings like "full size". I maintain the original JPG or PNG image file, my converted SVG file and the PDF file for each pattern I've cut or possibly plan to cut in the future. I have a lot that are ready to be printed plus many image files that still need to be converted into a scrollable pattern. And, just for a little bit more information. I have used Inkscape to create an Image (PNG) file, but have found a better alternative. There is a free program at https://pdf2jpg.net/ that you can use to convert a PDF directly into a JPG file. This freebee service is real quick and comes in handy on occasion.

Had to go to the Metric converter...nom 19" x 14". Nice large cutttings, very well done. Frames look great. Intersting names/species of wood you have down there. Would love to try some but not going to pay significan shipping cost just to try it out.

material cost + (hours worked x say $15 or how much you consider your time is worth) + desired profit, say maybe 1000% (or maybe more realalistily 10%). I'm happy when I can recoup my material costs, but that is just me.

Very, very nice. Looks like BB ply cut panel< yes? What is the backer and what kind of paint did you use?

From looking at the grain, I would guess Poplar. KInd of the typical Poplar light and dark areas. Looks like Wichta has finished with some stain. I like them also. He done good!

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Very well done.

Great Job...those whiskers make it or break it. Yours made it, thats for sure!!!!!

Just finished this one and posted under Bragging Rights. I think it fits the theme real well.

The Epson ET-16600 Ink jet is a good choice. Has ink tanks and can print up to Super B ( 13"x19"). Not cheap but is a great printer. I purchased mine from Office Max. Might want to check it out.

Very nicly done! I grew up on his music and still enjoy listening to it today. Did Grandpa make that pattern exclusively for you or is he sharing. I would like to have a copy of original the pattern.

Another fun image I found and just had to convert to a scroll saw 11”x14” pattern. Although the image was a simple B&W line image, my brain said ‘color’. However, it turned out to be a lot harder to make it a color project then I expected. It sat around my painting area for over three weeks before I finally decided on how I thought I wanted it to look. I first tried to color just the backer, but it just did not read well. So, I wound up hand painting both the backer and cut panel with Artist Acrylics. I'm not sure I did it justice, but my Lady thinks it came out good, so I'm happy. The Cut panel is 5/32” solid Core Maple affixed to a 1/4” BB Ply Backer. Most of cutting was done with Pegas #1 MGT R blades while a few of the small areas was done with #2/0 MGT R blades. After painting and assembly, the panel was protected with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. The frame is 1 3/4” wide Poplar finished with Rust-OLeum Black Lacquer. Comments and critique always welcome.

These are a couple of more horse patterns I converted in to a Scroll Saw pattern from images I found on-line. I needed these to fill out my Horse Theme. Both are 1/8” BB ply positive cuttings, hand painted and affixed to a hand painted 1/4” BB Ply Backers. Both Cut with Pegas #1 MGT R blades. And, as usual, the assembled panels were protected with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. And with keeping of the theme, the Frames are 1 ¾” wide distress Poplar stained with Minwax Early American and finished with multiple coats of Spray Satin Poly. High Stepping 11” x 12” Horse and Horseshoe 11” x 11” Comments and critique always welcome.

I've been here, jumping in and out with a few comments and reviews. Actually been very busy in the shop in between some home chore projects that need to be taken care of. I've got three projects panels in the works. Cutting is complete but still some coloring work to be completed with assembly and framing still to be done. Elsewise, a bunch of my time has been taken up using my new KKmoon laser engraver to put my LOGO on the back side of my past work. I had signed them with a simple wood burning pen and it really looked cheesy. So I have to sand off the burning and let the engraver do its thing. Cleaning up the existing panels takes a while. Remove frame, sand, engrave (about 45 minutes each), recoat back, replace in frame. Just finishing up the last of about 70+ panels I currently have on hand. I got about 6 to 8 done a day over the past couple of weeks. In addition to the above mentioned work, I have finally taken the time to accurately catalog my work in my computer and set up a portfolio book with photos of my available work. Probably more than I realy need, but I maintain a file that includes the original images and patterns in both SGV and PDF format. This file includes a lot of posssible future projects as well. I also take photos of each piece and have found I need to keep copies in both their Raw state and one in the cropped version I use herein and on my FB page. You need to use a raw image when odering prints on-line (I use Ammazon). So, I havn't posted much lately, but none the less very busy. Sometimes there is more to this hobby than just scrolling.

Sp, you glued together a Zebra Puzzle! Whatever you consider it, it is absolutely beautiful. Very well done.