FrankEV

How nice! Great Story! I did the standard dozen Roses thing this morning for my lady and will be making a fancy dinner tomorrow. That being said she did approach me this morning with a suggestion for a project she would like me to make for her. I found the appropriate patterns and ready to start cutting. Probaly more than 400 holes, so it will take a while and wont be ready by this Valentines day.

Maybe we are saying the same thing, but I'm not sure. You had said you though about adding brirght Jamican colors to the background. I liked the idea, but in mu mind it would only work outside the leaves inside the edge border. A black background should remain around Marley's image. Hope that is clear to what I invision.

Red Oak is great for picture frames but not the best for cuttings, especially thin panels. If Red Oak is a look that you want you can get Red Oak 1/4" x 12" x 19.5"Panels solid core plywood in boxes of 10 from Home Dedpot. Free delivery to your location. I have purchased their Cherry, Oak, Mahagony and Birch in addition to my go to panels of Maple and Walnut. Not quite as cheep as BB Ply, but very nice quality product. Your cutting looks good. Any plans to mount it on a backer for display? Right now, like the "real" Bigfoot, very invisable.

Lots of great work nicely displayed! Wish I had empty walls. What will happen when you run out of space?

Extremely nice work. I think a nice bold Jamacian colored background would look great on the Bob Marly cut, but not behind the his head within the leaves.

All really really nice. Great cutting. Font cutting just perfect. I lLove the "two" pretty kittys!

Welcome to the Village from the East Coast of Central Florida, Lots of fre patterns in the Pattern Library. Check them out and jump in and start cutting. Got questions, fire away, you will get answers real quick. Lots of truel experts in our membership will ing to help..

Very neat cutting and a really great way to use up scraps. As long as you have an outlet for them its a Win-Win situation. I have a lot of small 1/8 and 1/4 panel leftovers. I know I should do a bunch of ornaments for Xmas or some of the small multi layer patterns that are available, but the bigger projects always seem more satisfying to complete.

Nice cutting for a quickie!!! Looks thin. I would hope it is going to be applied to something.

The Plaque looks great. But I'm confused. Your title "Strangman". is that a misspelling? Shouldn't it be "Strongman"? Or, am I missing something?

Very, very well done cutting!

In another post under “Scrollers Q&A” I asked about what projects I should/could do with some beautiful Walnut and Soft Maple I just acquired. A box, made of a combination of Walnut and Maple, was suggested in a number of the replies. The walnut plank was 3/4” X 17” X 8’ but had a large knot hole in one end. I was able to cut about 14”off the end with the hole and cut the cut off up into a number of pieces. I was able to cut up the cut off into the various sized pieces I needed for this project and actually re-sawed them into 1/4” thickness on the table saw. (I do not have a band saw so, not the best way, but my only choice). This nominal 5" X7" Tribal Box is a Steve Good pattern which I followed, but not really. I did not cut the boxes from thick material but instead formed them from the 1/4” material I salvaged from the cut off pieces. I did use the fret work patterns except that I stack cut and only cut half of the top pattern and opened it like a book to apply to the top. I also stack cut the bottom scroll work also. The top projecting pediment was the only piece that was a single layer. I mitered the corners of the boxes and bottom fretwork at the vertical belt sander and used my strap clamp to hold it square while the glue dried. I rounded the corners of the boxes and the Maple top and bottom slabs at the sander. After some hand sanding with 100 and then 600 grit paper I applied a coat of Lacquer sanding sealer, then finished sanding with1500 grit paper and finally applied multiple coats of spray clear gloss Lacquer. OK, so does anyone know what a Tribal Box is used for?

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Really, really nice. Love the pattern. Great Frame.

I just purchsed that Dewalt saw on Amazon. Expecting delivery this coming Thursday. I guess you did not see my query "Which Table Saw" in Scroller Q&A just a few days ago.

If you found it in the craft area it is either Bass or Balsa wood. If you found it in the kitchen area it is propbaply wood intended to be used for serving/cooking food like Susi. You can find nice Cedar planks about that same size, about 1/4"(-) thick for cooking fish on in specialty kitchen ware shops. As the package says, made in China so you will probably never know what it is.

Well Done. I presume Shadow was the Bunny's name. The projected heart is a nice touch. Nice way for her to remeber. She will love it,

Poplar is probably about 2X the price of pine but there is a number grades of pine from the one with lots of knots to a premium grade clear of knots. Look on the Lowes Website to do a comparison. Considered a Hardwood, Poplar is much harder but much less so then say Oak. The Poplar I get from Lowes is quite stable and not as suceptable to warping, the grain is much tighter and, yes, much less likely to break. I've cut a"many hole" pattern in 3/4" thick Poplar and never had anything break unless I cut it toooooo close (my fault not the woods'.). Biggest propblem with Poplar is that the grain color is not very pretty and varies from a tan/grey to green in color. Great if the piece will be painted but not the best for a stained piece.

Great Cutting, but....Shhhhh, you never admit to breaking a piece if it can be glued back in . Others mentioned cutting Poplar. Yes it is a good choice as long as the finish project is going to be painted. The green wood tones in Poplar are not very atractive. Believe it or not, a nice pice of Red Oak will cut very nicely for parojects like this and will really finish well.

Great work for a first project. Dan mentioned using printer paper of velum on the inside to make it look a little more finished. I totally agree. Another choice is to put some 1/8" thk colored plexiglass inside. It would add a lot to the project. I'm attaching a photo of a lamp I did a while ago to give you some idea. You can find the Plexiglass on line.

Extremely nice. Bill will love it. I'm ex Navy 2 year wonder, way back in early 60's. But it still gets me a 10% discount at Lowes Obviously you have been away - or maybe just lurkimng - from SVV as I had not seen any of your posts since I joined about 5 months ago until recently. Maybe the saw just kept you away from the computer, but in any case, my complements on your craftsmanship. it is very very nice. I consider myself a newbe and I am allways amazed at what others, like yourself, have a done. Thanks for shareing once again.

You got a theme going on there...very nice work. The detail in the gun and holster is really nice.

Just wondering if, by any chance, you might edit your original post to add a little description under each photo of what we are looking at? It is a very interesting end result, but I'm not sure what I'm looking at in the photos along the way. Also, again just wondering, what was your reasoning for chosing to use a fabric as a backer?

Great work and a great piece to remember Brody. Nice cutting on the Rose...quick mount it on a backer so it dosen't get broken.

Great work...a very interesting unusual process. I love that I'm seeing more of us doing projects with color. There is a lot to say about simple B&W scroll saw projects but a little (or in this case a lot of ) color adds a lot to a project.