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VERY VERY clean cutting on the letters of Mr. Clifford. Whoever he may be, I'm sure he will like it. Nice job.

Even if you use solid wood, but want/need a backer, the edge will still show the layers. Our work is supposed to be art and so I am of the opinion a project is usually not finished without some form of frame.

Wanting to try something different I did this 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" multi layer project, Dolphins pattern by Alex Fox. All 1/8" BB Ply. Most cutting done using an Pegas #0 MGT. Rather easy cutting except for the need to be very consistant and precise with the outline circle that needs to be identical for each layer. I made sure my cut was on the waste side edge of the line and found my dremel tool handy for truing the layers up. I selectively stained various parts of the layers witn a very light colored stain in order to help distinguish the layres while the other other areas had just a natural stain applied. The 6 layer project panel was finished with multiple coats of clear lacquer. When I do any kind of multi level projects I am picky about the panel outside edges showing so I will almost always try to provide some form of frame to finish the project. This project did not lend itself to a conventional frame and I did not see it as a wall hanging anyway. So I used simple coner molding from lowes tha has just about an inside leg dim of 3/4". Simple mitered corners and painted deep brown and then coated with a few coats of poly to protected even more. I glued the completed panel into the frame and fabricated a fixed lean back stand out of scrap 1/4" BB Ply and clued it to the back. This piece, a Walnut Dragon Vase and my Grumpy Old Man desk sign have been the few departures for me from doing the more, I would say, conventional wall hanging type artwork that prefer to do. .

Hey Ralph, where in Florida will you be calling home?

After cuttig the two pumpkins for my neighbors on eaither side of me I realized I needed something for the front of my own house. Saw this post by Danny and decided it would be a quick project I could do for myself. Copying is the sincerest form of flattery, right?. Top layer is 1/4" maple solid core ply with a 1/2" sanded ply backer painted dark brown. Thought I would just make it pop a little by adding color to the leaves and protected with a number of coats of clear spray poly. I also use Pegas #1 and #5 MG blades.

Last few months every day the feel like temps have been well over 100 or it is raining, and, then there is the Covid crap. So my riding has been limited since march. Hopefully it will cool down a little now that, technically, fall is here and I can get back out on the road. When the weather starts to cooperate I will be able to ride in the morning before the rains show up and scroll later in the day. Best of both worlds.

Like everything else, you find tricks to getting a decent result. On the long curve, like the front wheel, if I make sure I stay inside the cut out area I can go back and shave very gently up to the line using the spiral blade. Then of course my Dremel tool can help to smooth thing out when ther is room in the cut for the sanding drum. OH, OH, did I just admit to a scroll saw NO NO!

Bet you can. Love the paint job.

Very nice cutting. I like eagles. I have already done 4 different eagle plaques and I have about 15 more I plan to do over time. I've got two projects getting ready to be cut and one is a very intricate Charlie Hand Eagle head pattern called The Guardian. Will probably take me quite a few days to complete.

Welcome from Florida in the U.S. I really can't help making any kind of comparison between those choices. I would think overall cost would probably be the most derterming factor. However, I chose the 21 inch Pegas and I am very happy, it is a really fine saw. I'm glad you did your research and getting a quality product from the get-go! We will be looking forward to seeing some work from you soon. BTW, I consider myself a slovic as my relatives on my fathers side was from the otherside of the mountains when Czech was a separate county I believe. Of course I have a little Danish and Irish in me from my mothers side as well.

Funny this is exacly how i felt and still do in some instances. I happen to cut using a 5X lighted magifier and when I'm using even a 2/0 spiral, it always looks like my points and sharp corners are so "ROUND" , but when you take the magnification away the points and sharp corners are there when viewed from a normal viewing distance. My bigest bugaboo is trying to do long straight or smooth curved cuts with the spiral ( unless the line is representeng feathers or fur). Very difficult! BTW, the work is great. Just hoping the backer is just reflecting the light poorly in the pic...almost looks blue making him look a little sickly.

From what I have read in many post herein, some of you ONLY use straight blades and some ONLY use spiral blades. However, for those of you who use both in maybe a single project or maybe one or the other in separate projects, I wonder if you experience the same problems that I do. When you switch between blades do you find your hand control is messed up for a while until you have cut for a little while? I recognize eye/hand coordination is different based on the blade being used and relies a lot on mussle memory. As a result I find it dificult to follow the line with a straight blade after I had been using a spiral blade for a while. It also takes me a bit of time to get back into following the lines with a spiral blade after using a straight blade for a while. Just looking for any tips or advice to help hand control when switching between blade types. Thanks

My other passion is Riding my full dress Harley Motorcycle (MC). That tends to make me gravitate to MC scroll saw patterns.

Amazing work. Curious, how may horrs per session did you work? I know I can not concentrate on small details like that for more than one or two hours at one time.

From what I do know, I'm sure it was done by hand. I can believe that some of the more straight line work may have been done using razor blades. As I mentioned. it is all material only 1/16 inch thick. I'm guessing Balsa. My Grandfather did a lot of different art/craft projects. Don't know what ever happend to it, but I can remember when I was a very young child a sculptured eagle he made out out of hundreds of small pieces of layered Balsa wood.

Found this free 2009 Pattern by The Wood Aartist and could not resist. There was no words on the pattern, I added them in a Font called Curse of the Zombie i found on the dafont website. Just needed to add a few bridges. I actually added the words afte the image was totally finished and it looked like it needed something to complete the picture. It is an 8X10, cut from 1/8 BB ply with a 1/8 painted black BB ply backer permanently fixed in a very cheap Wallmart farme. Almost completed with one Pegas 2/0 spiral blade. Finally broke doing the R in DARE. This was a quick, fun to do, cut. It was especially fun not having to be tooooo careful while doing the letters. I have a number of other MC related patterns in my pattern envelope just waiting.

Love it, copied the image into my PC for a not too distant future project. Thnnks for sharing.

Absolutely Beautiful! Just want to know what blade you used to cut those stones?

This picture is of a piece my grandfather did before my father was born and he passed at age 98, so I know it is well over 100 years old. It has always hung, in one frame or another with various backer materials, in our family homes managing to survive all these years. I inherited it in 1992 and it was in very poor condition. I repainted the fretwork and affixed it to a very dark red velvet backing stretched over a hardboard panel and had it professionally framed. It is approximately 34"X40". The framing was of musiem quality done to seal and preserve the work. Is currenly hanging in my daughters home and hopefully will be handed down to future generations. As you can see there is a number of individual pieces and I believe they were cut from very thin Balsa Wood, maybe 1/6" thick. From what I understand, this was all cut by hand, I presume using a fretsaw. If you look close you may find there are two words that are different from the Lords Prayer I was tought in Sunday School as a young kid. Unfortunately, when my Grandfather was still alive I failed to learn more about how this work came about because I was young and had more important things on my mind.

I like...nice work. Is the two pictures of the same cut, just in different light and one closer to the camera?

It was his post that gave me the idea to make these.

Patterns are Pumpkin Split Monograms purchased and downloaded from The Holz Brothers web site. Cut from 1/2" thick sanded ply with a black painted 1/8" BB ply backer. Pegas #2/0 MG for the lettering,#1 MG for all other interior areas and #5 MG for the outside perimeter with the backer attached.. The Pumpkins are rattle can Orange with Green acrylic craft paint on the stem. Made more weather proof by multiple coats of rattle can Clear Urathane. Other than the letters, the patterns were easy cutting. Patting myself on the back a little I do have to say that my letter cutting skills sre improving.

I purchased a precision hand miter saw set up to make good miters (https://www.garrettwade.com/fast-safe-accurate-mitre-saw.html). I did not want to spend a lot of money for a very precise power miter saw. I do not have a good place to use it anyway..

I checked with them. They only supply a paper copy in B&W lines and shaded areas. IK ordersd some and will scan them into my PC for safe keeping. I found some really advanced cuts that I might try.