FrankEV

All done very well! Could you tell us about, or show, your detail for the Purple Heart inset trim. Is the panel set in the frame loose or glued in?

WOW! The GD will be very happy.

Unless it is pouring rain, after applying the shelf liner, I do all my glue spraying on the back of my patterns and panels outside. I simply use an old garbage can as a makeshift table. Before going outside, I get everything lined up and use blue tape, like a hinge along one edge, to hold the pattern in the proper position on the panel. Step outside, lift the pattern, quick spray both pattern and panel, smooth it down. Back in the shop in less than a minute or two. I hate getting glue oversparay on my bench and tools. If i use spray paint or polyurethane on frames I also do that outside by just laying out some rolled brown paper on the pavement... as long as the sun is shining. Wipe on poly is better if I have to work inside. Like others I use cardboard to prevent overspray of paint in the shop when I use spray paint on my work, but that is not done often. Staining or coloring of my panels is usually done by brush. However, I do sparay my panels with spray Lacqer in the shop, but just use brown paper to protect my my table saw that I use as a table. I do ge some airborn Lacquer dust, but this dust is dry before it lands on onything, so regular shop clean-up keeps that to a minimum. I get my brown paper in Lowes. It is 36" wide x 140 ft for under $12 and is considered a drop cloth.

Very nice and very thoughtful. I'm positive they will be liked a lot! Back in the early 1960's I was hired by the Long Island Lighting Company (Long Island, NY) and was required to join the IBEW but it was on the clerical side of the company, so not a very active Union. The IBEW for the field side (linemen and the like) were the strong active union that got us all our benefits...whatever they got we got!!! Eventhough I moved into management later in my carreer, in my retirement since 1996, I'm still enjoying the benefits that I receive that was the actual result of being an IBEW member.

Pretty lady...Pretty cutting.

Beautiful and extreamly well done!

In many hole patterns, it is not how many holes I can cut before a blade breaks, but how many holes I can thread WITHOUT kinking the blade. When that happens I know shortly thereafter the blade will break. The need to use very small pilot holes for many intricate patterns make threading the blades difficult and kinking the blade much more likely. A #2/0 spiral blade is a snug fit in a #68 drill bit hole and I have broken more than one new blade immediately after trying to thered it the first time only to have it kink. In patterns that have larger cut outs, a larger pilot hole can be used and if I'm careful, no kinks and the blade will last a very long time.

Google search produced this definition of "Furniture Grade"

Very nice work. Especially for first time using spirals. Jims patterns are great.

Relatively easy cut. Spiral #2/0 and #0 blades work best. No straight lines to worry about. Give it a shot...what do you have to lose. Can always use it for firewood.

Beautiful. Would love more info re: Panel size, wood thickness, backer, colored epoxy resin, etc.

Color works! The multi color piece is great. Well cut and well painted.

I could probably afford one of those, but...I would have to move my table saw, router table and sanding center out of my shop to make room for it, and it might not even fit through the short door. Thats what you get when you move to Florida and can only have a tiny shop. Congrats. Great piece of equipment.

Very nice, well cut. Ah, come on. only 185 Holes? Talk to us when you you do a piece with 600 holes and the cut outs are not much bigger than the drill holes.

Nice work. Gonna hang it up outside and turn you house into a pub?

A well cut very appropriate statement!!!!

This paper-cut pattern I found on-line caught my eye. The pattern itself did not need much work to make it scrollable although I made a lot of edits as I was cutting due the line work being very close together and I needed stronger bridges in many places. I have no plans to incorporate the edits into my reworked pattern. I sized it to fit a 5/32” x 15” x 10” Solid Core Maple Panel which was affixed to a Hand Painted ¼” x 17” x 12” BB Ply Backer. The actual pattern contained a lot of Vein like cuts that formed the images, but they did not open well to the backer, even though I used a very large Pegas #1 Spiral blade. As a result, I found it necessary to embellish the images by also coloring the cut panel abstractly. Other areas were cut using Pegas #2/0 Spiral blades. As always, the assembled panel was protected with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. The panel is set loose in a 1 3/4” wide Poplar Frame finished with Black Lacquer. I’m liking the very clean uniform black high gloss finish I obtain with the Rust-Oleum spray can Black Lacquer. I’m in a learning curve as the application is more difficult than paint or a Stain/Poly to get a nice uniform finish without runs or blemishes. There is one annoying problem with the Black Lacquer finish. It is hard to photograph because of glare reflections. This was the third project that I was doing simutaneously with Splat Cat and Trees of Green. The painting process was time consuming. Comments and Critique welcome.

OK, that pic is the cuttings made by frankarona. I believe it his thumb holding the top. He sent me the original pic of the sculptures from which I made the actual patterns.

Rolf, You did the pattern proud!!! It is wonderful to see someone elses take on a pattern I made available. Very nicely done. I do like the bevel on the base. Adds a little bit more class to the overall piece. Your original post would have been more appropriate in "Bragging Rights". A project to really brag about!

I believe you are correct!

Just a little FYI why there is significent time between my new project posting. Because I most often add color in the form of hand painting, I will have multiple projects occuring at the same time. I do painting in between cutting and frame making. You know paint take time to dry so I can't do different colors all at once. While these last two came together almost at the same time, a third is being painted right now and the frame for it, is drying. I have a same subject grouping of four that is waiting to be cut next, unless something else jumps up and says "cut me now". AND, my lady had a slip and fall accident, breaking her right foot and can not drive. So in between all else, for the last two weeks and probably 6 more, I'm her chaufer to Doctors and the like. Can't be scrolling while sitting in the waiting room .

I ran across this line image on-line and just had to convert it to a Scroll saw Pattern. I sized it to fit centered on a 5/32” x 12”x 12” Solid Core Maple Ply panel that I affixed to a Hand Painted ¼” thick BB Ply backer. The Tree of Life pattern needed a bit of work to eliminate a lot of dropouts. Also a lot of bridges added to the font letters. The lettering font of the lyrics to the song “Trees of Green” was very irregular shapes which made cutting with a spiral blade simple. Pegas #2/0 and #0 blades were used to do all the cutting. The Panel is set loose in a 1 3/4” wide Poplar Frame stained with Minwax Dark Walnut Stain and protected with multiple coats of Minwax Clear Gloss Wipe on Poly. Comments and critique welcome.

This is a converted stencil pattern I found on-line that I sized to fit centered on a Hand Painted 9” x 13” BB Ply backer. The cut panel is a 5/32” thick solid core Walnut stained with Minwax Dark Walnut to darken the panel. Pegas #2/0 Spiral blades were used to cut the pattern. The Panel is set loose in a 1 3/4” wide Poplar Frame stained with Minwax Ebony Stain and protected with multiple coats of Minwax Clear Gloss Wipe on Poly. I do not feel the quality of this project is as well as I can do. This is mainly because of the difficulty of cutting the thin and pointy whiskers and pointy openings and outline with spiral blades. Had I taken the time to use flat blades it may have produced a better product. As always, comments and critique welcome.

Not sure what pic you are looking at. The PDFs show the cutting patterns.

Very nice work and a great appropriate desk sign. Well cut from very nice looking Oak wood. BUT, just have to ask: Who the heck is Grace and who did she save? ......