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Coloring book for inspiration. i will add that to my activity for new ideas. Very good execution. Is wenge is dark lines or just nose and eyes? Please elaborate on wenge cutting experience.

new hummingbirds. my wife gave away here previous humingbirds , so her flower was just sitting there for over a year waiting. i played with simple intarsia 4 birds. 1 segmented stained. Did my first flocking attempt on (2) birds.

I like it. The girl is native American Indian which make the scene so much better. Me. Mark Eason

So I expanded the shapes of the sheaths a bit. Since Sushi knives cut fish, and other knives cut fish, so i created a fish shape. And 2 other knife sheaths for my son. There are other other playful words associated with folding knives and fish. The sides of the folding knives (handles) are called scales. The scales shown on the fish sheath are rotory tool carved. So are the gills. other wood techniques use a router to make the blade cavity. But scrollsaw with center board seems simpler. So I had fun just testing the concept. and adding texture to the wood.

I found that I like the creativity of the scrollsaw so much that I suggest to customers ideas they did not think about. So the process finalizing the artwork takes longer than the cuts. My last post was for a knife sheath. The cutout took 6 min. The discussions with customer took 12 hours. Via texts and links. But my nudges to ideas was vague so they could think about topics meaningful for them. They chose an outline of a sword that is in a computer game. After I suggested computer game icons. I was not satisfied with creativity. I could have done more techniques. But thet were happy with the outcome. My cowboy hats are the same way. I have to get customers to think on artwork on top of the hats. Bugging customers is just part of the creativity process. Form, fit, function and fiction is needed when being creative with a useable product. The fictional part is the story you suggest to the customer. I have my creative expectations and they have to think about what their wants are. Sometimes making up stuff to guide the customers in to thinking where it will go how will it be used. Lessons learned. A) Time allocations for customer bugging. 12hours before final design in my case. B) Keep engaging new open ended questions. C) Maybe limit the questions to 4 iteractions. I think after 4 or 5, both me and the customer has agreed on way less of a cool outcome. In my knife sheath, the customer settled on end design in 3 iteractions. Good decent outcome. netflix had a series called.. Abstract the Art of (illustration, Typeset (signage and posters) and 5 others topics) . My favorite is illustration, then the poster signage. One of those episodes posters and signage discussed the customer interactions. Scrollsaws can be so creative. Have fun. Me. Mark Eason

very nice pick stand. I like the racing stripe pick. The stuff I read about the wood picks , wood type makes a difference in sound. Sometimes it is the texture of the pick, sometimes it is the stiffness. Some people don't make the pick nice and smooth for 2 reasons, slippery , and strum texture. I think those makers chose to stop sanding at 180 grit.

Okay a woodened knife sheath. My neighbor has a Sushi knife that they wanted something to protect the knife edge. 8" long blade with thin < 0.125 thick blade. i sketched the blade and cut 1/8" thick wood. Then sandwhiched it with 2 other pieces 1/8" wood Paduak. The nieghbor chose the cutout to expose the blade. Too simple for braging rights. Paduak wood for outer layers. Changed title added creative. Maybe more looked at.

We have a wide variety of artists in this village. I started here also. There is many tips and tricks to learn. Welcome, I am from California. Me. Mark Eason

I bought this lavender mini tool box but the lady said it would not hold enough for her paints. So it sit on my bench doing nothing but getting in the way. Aha... lets try it over near the scrollsaw. The top allows the blades to lay front to back. The drawers are a bit to short so they have to lay left right. i have a rolling cart next to my scrollsaw. it fits in front of my air filter collector. Yea now it is off my long bench.

Denny, thanks for supplying them. I don't know where my projects take me, so I like to have these on hand. The metal cutting blades did very well. I was about to use the wood pieces in the background to help hold down the metal but never had to.

Nice. Yep almost any shape can be a box. This work brings up a question. It seems that 2 rings are either 2 diferrent types of wood or the top ring is stained different color. My question is what stage (step) is glueing. Was it glued then stained? Does the glue do as good, if wood is already stained?

I had a need to use a metal cutting blade. I need to cut a metal backer for mounting connector on thin plastic container. i had soft steel strip that I folded over to give me more strength and to match my connector panel thickness. I chose #2 Pegas metal cutting blade. The blades have wider teeth and is harder (more brittle) than wood blade. Yep I broke a blade. Overall it went smoother than I thought. here are some pics...

Haha , the blue just jumps out at you. Great job.

those can be good bottle stoppers.

adding color can be a great enhancement. really depends on the scene. Is the kittens name "Babe"?