FrankEV

I like the scroll work, but is there a little bit more to the story. I'm confused.

There are two patterns on one sheet from The Wodden Teddy Bear. I liked this one the best of the two. The other has the word LOVE as part of the stem also but in a script type font that you need to have the Rose horizontal in order to read it. I liked the simplicity of the single Rose, but without the addition of the color it just did not pop . Even using a contrasting backer, as most projects do, it was just tooooooo simple! Thanks

This is a Wooden Teddy Bear pattern cut out of 1/4" solid core ply using a Pegas #1 MGT and a #1 Pegas spiral blade for the leaves. The Rose is painted with craft acylic paints. The backer is an 8x10 piece of 1/8" thk BB Ply stained with a clear stain. After the painted rose was glued to the backer the panel was finished with multiple coats of clear gloss lacquar. The panel is loose fit into a store bought frame and uses the cardboard backer with table stand that comes with the frame to hold the panel into the frame. It can, therefore, be a wall hanging or table displayed. This was a quick "fun cut" taking less than 2 hours. Painting and finishing was much more time consuming that the scroll work.

Very nice work. Was that pattern her family's actual coat of arms?

Very nice work, but sorry, that table cloth, or whatever it is, has to go! You should take pride in your work and not hide it with a background like that. Difficult to tell even what it is. A simple white poster board would be a much better background.

My 11X14 pattern. Top layer 5/32" Maple solid core ply over a high gloss black painted backer. All cutting was done using a Pegas #0 MGT blade. The panel was finished with mutiple coats of high gloss lacquar. The Font is from dafont.com called Hard Sports and was very scrolable requiring NO bridges, and it lent itself to the subject nicely. I found the free bike/riider figure on line. I cusom made the frame. I cut down a 2 1/2" wide Poplar board to 1 3/4". After gluing up the miters I distressed the wood with various bits for my Dremel tool and then finished it with a combination of Expresso and Weathered oak stain followed by multiple coats of satin lacquar. Hobby Looby sells an almost identacle frame for over $30. This one cost me about $6, the price of a 6' long piece of a nominal Poplar 1 x 3 from Lowes with the understanding that everything else I needED I already had.. This project is what I would call a "half fun cut". The font cutting was time consuming and tedious but oveall enjoyable and satisfying...but not much fun. Lots of eye strain. The Bike/Rider image was an easy and quick cutting... fun to see come together. This project will probably wind up hanging in some bikers man cave. I was thinking this same quote, slightly modified to read "WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU A CURVE...STAY ON THE LINE" with a scroller image might make a good project.

A fun cut to me is one that is relatively simple and quick to do, but one that produces a good looking final project. A large, intricate, challenging cut may be satisfying to do as well, and something I really enjoy, but they normally require a lot of concentration and patience so therefore, not what I call a "fun" cut. Edit: I have to qualify my statements as it is what your definition of "Fun" is. IMHO there is a big difference between "Fun" and "Enjoyable/Satisfying". A "Fun" project is most likely enjoyable and satisfying but a "Enjoyable/Satisfying" project may not be "Fun" to do.

What do you do for patterns that are larger than 8 1/2 x 11? A lot of the patterns I do are designed for 11 x 14.

Me and my spiral bades got together again to produce this 11" x 14" Charles Hand Pattern having 260 holes. Both layers 5/32" thick solid core ply (top maple, bottom walnut stained a deep walnut). Pegas 2/0 spiral blades throught out except for a Pegas #5 MGT for the lower area perrimeter straight line edge cut hidden under frame. Panel finished with multiple coats of high gloss lacquar and installed loose fit in a store bought frame. Managed to do all the cutouts with only one minor break through between adjacent cuts. I actually found I could stay on the lines fairly well. Of course, there are really no smooth line cuts so who will know the difference anyway. Cutting time overall around 12 hours, but most of that time was used threading the blade through the holes. Of course I did use about 15 blades as the threading would oftern kink the blade and then, within one or two more cuts, "snap" another blade breaks.

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.