FrankEV

Had posted this last December. "Pretty Kitty - Jaguar"

Very nice job...great entertainers. I guess you will never run out of subjects for your rogues gallery!

WEll cut and C UTE!!!! What more can be said.

Great cut. Gee, you were missing...thought something just wasn't quite right!!

Easy to cut????? Yeah sure, if you have very steady nerves and not an itchy nose!!!! Every time I'm trying to follow long parralel cut lines I get an itchy nose. Great cut and a very intertesting subject. Would look real good hanging in a modern/futuristic home of office.

You did very nice, she will love it! Only 32 years... your only getting started, you have still a long way to go. I was married a few months short of 50 when my wife passed. Almost 11 with my S.O. now. Hopefully she will out live me this time.

Cute and nicly cut. It is now the first thing I check when the air tube won't blow the pile by the blade away. Probably in less than 10 seconds after starting to cut with a new blade. Isn't it fun to learn something new!

Well done. Nicely presented in their frames.

Good cut, but she was very young in that pic.

Welcome to the Village from the East Coast of Central Florida, USA. Cute little cut you did there...looks great. For a freebee, Inkscape is a very powerful program, but not intuitive at all. In addition to learning what the basic buttons and commands do, learn how to insert an image and how to use the "Trace Bitmap" command found under "Path". Also learn how to change line weight and colors of stroke and fill. I found I can do a lot with just knowing how to work with these commands. Looking forward to seeing more work from you.

Very nicly done. I ride a Harly Street Glide Special (which is kinda a full dress bike with fairing and tour pack) and have been trying to find a pattern of this kind of bike to no avail. I going to take some better photos of my bike and using some of the softwhere out there, I may be able to make my own pattern. Would love to have a cutting that I make of the bike I ride! BTW, I hope your new friend did not bleed to badly when you cut him!

If you do cut it, make sure you use the specified drill size for the holes in the gears. Mine were too big and everything was sloppy and would not work correctly. I cheated and built up the dowels with tape to fill the gap so it would work. If you do not have the correct bit it would be better to use a 1/4" bit and open them up a tad by sanding/filing til the gears turn smoothly.

Beautifuly cut. Would be very nice to hang in a lodge or the like up north. But looking at it now, all I see is snow, and the reason I moved South to Florida.

Another pattern converted from a ZM Creations Illustration. Cut panel is 5/32” x 9” x 10 1/2” Maple solid core plywood affixed to a 1/4” x 11” x 12 1/2” backer. The backer panel border was painted with rattle can Krylon Fusion All-In-One Matt Fire Red, just to be different, and the areas under the pattern colored with Acrylic Art Paints, somewhat following the original illustration. As usual, I protected the panel with multiple coats of clear gloss spray Lacquer. This was a very quick cut using just one Pegas #1 MGT R Blade…amazing since I hardly ever get to use just one blade on a project, I break a lot. And, once again, a simple 1 3/4” wide Poplar frame that I applied a coat of pre-stain conditioner followed by a coat of Minwax Classic Grey and protected with coat of satin Wipe-On-Poly. In the pic the joints seem to be very pronounced but when viewing live they are not very noticeable. The lights seem to make them stand out in this color. Here is the original Illustration: For those who love to cut Eagles, here is the pattern Eagle - ZM Creations.pdf

For most of this Winter my shop, here in Central Florida, has been chilly in the mornings also. I have a small heater I have to put on to bring the temps up from the mid 50's to the low 70's so it comfortable to work. BTW, that is nicely cut.

Ohhhhh, do I like that one. Have not seen it before. The cutting, mating and framing is just perfectly done! The Harley "Orange mat" is an outstanding touch.

Here is what I did:

octoolguy described a BF correctly early on herein. However, a BF is usualy based on rough sawn dimensions. So when you pay by the BF for say "a dressed 1X6" you are paying for the waste and getting only 3/4 X 5 1/2. Lumber yards that sell dressed lumber ususally sell by the LF (linear foot) and the price per LF may vary based on the length of boards available. Some specially lumber providers sell rough sawn material priced by the BF for the various spiecies. This can be quite cheap but they will charge for planing services over and above the BF price. This can be as much as an extra $1/bf. Rough sawn is only great if you own a planer and can plane you own material to the thicknesses you want. You really can not equate BF prices to stock dressed lumber, but need to compare LF pricing.

Great idea and beautiful work on both the scroll work and bird house. Of course you aren't going to let any real birds use it...right? If you are going to use it as a real BH, make sure the bottom is a hinged trap door so it can be cleaned out and you need to provide a dowel on the front for a pearch. And dont forget to finish it with a non toxic finish that will stand up to the weather. A while back I made 8 bird houses (no scroll work) for my DIL with different size holes for different kinds of birds. I used untreated cedar so I did not have to worry about a finish. I had done a lot of research on what bird houses need to have.

Very neat cutting. I hate cutting font!

After seeing the post from Joe W. titled Nautilus Gear, I just had to make one. A quick - just for fun - project with every part made from Walnut and Pine scrap. Pegas #1 MGT R blade. And like Joe said "You can turn it in a complete circle over and over and . . . " Finished with spray Lacquer...it was fun trying to coat everything and not having it stick the moving parts to the stand . Sorry about the clinging dust in the pics.

Very very nice. I know those palm trees are a PITA to cut .

Very nice job. "The man in Black" was one of the best ever.

I'm sure you will find plans for a stand that will work. However, in reading the above included in the text, it remines me of what I did when I started scrolling. Created my shop in a very small shed. All was fine in the begining and just thought I could sweep up the sawdust and cuttings and all would be fine. After a few months, my small space was covered with sawdust top to bottom and no amount of sweeping or even using a shop vac to clean up worked. Scrolling is realy, realy a major dust producing craft. I hope you have thought about that and the space has good ventilation and the possibility to install some kind of dust collection system. I learned the hard way and have now a small system that works great. My shop is still quite dusty from the work I did in the past, but as time goes by I get to clean a lot of the nooks and crannies where the dust has collected.

Beleive it or not, I only spend about 3-4 hours a day in the shop. Usually very early in the morning. Painting is done in short spurts to allow for drying time whenever time permits.