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I can immagine why your fried. Select all letter that are yellow, put them to be painted. Select next set of letters and paint color. Ater your all done waiting for paint to dry you have many groups of letters to find the places. Yep puzzled sounds correct.

Yep that picture is the same as as I thought. It is just a matter of preference and how the blade reacts. Oh and tension of the blade. gritting teeth because I'm tense.

sorry for a side note.... I like that vase.

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Frank your mermaid did have both posituve and negatiive silouettes. It make the viewer think. For me it was easy to see the mermaid. Only after we discussed how to paint it did I realize it was both pos and neg. So i guess the decision would be how or what the whole picture /story wants to be. If you want the viewer to think about the scene it is a good way to get them to pause and feel the art piece.

Could this be called, created a rat hole?

Update. . . I did make the blade tighter. in fact a bit too tight. I stuck with mgt 2/0. I ran 1 blade for awhile. the next 2 blades just popped. So I backed off the tension just a bit. Seems to do much better. I did not try the 2/0 skip. Yellow heart and paduak. 1/4 inch. Looks like I will need to touch up some places for a better fit. Now for giving it depth. Need to get some grooves going. Again thanks for advice, tips, tricks.

Ok its friday night I can go back to the scroll saw and try all these tips and tricks. I am building flower to feed my flock of hummingbirds. Then make another flock flying in from the left. And I want to thank everybody for pitching in there 2 cents. I really appreciate it. It was a good topic for us newbies to learn tip and tricks.

it is only the decision to have negative angle of the table or positive angle. I dont have an arm angle unit. So I am assuming you can angle it 22.5 in either direction.

I too am left handed. but left handers know how to adapt easier. so why does angle matter? the blade is just cutting a tad more wood.

ooops just in case here is the pic of the rings for the bowl.

Here is some pictures. For a non segmented approach. If you cut angle at fixed angle for all slices you wont get a curved sphere. So here is pics that helped me get close to a sphere. You have to change angle for each slice. it is good you are starting with 3/4". This allows you not to calculate past 45 deg. If it did go past 45 you would just cut from other side of board. Assuming your table only goes to 45. Ok I have not cut this out. but i did pencil it down at scale. 1st pic shows scale drawing. notice how the bowl gets thinner walls. I had started with 1inch thick. 2nd pic shows calculation and side view of flat board. I added 1/8" to each offset. Then I calculated the angles. 1 equation is shown. notice that the top will still stack and match the thickness of the previous ring. Build 2 halves, use magnets to hold together. That way you have 2 bowls. just remember what the mathmetician said when he stubbed his toe. SOH CAH TOA. Sin angle = Opposite/Hypothenuse SOH Cosin angle = Adj / Hypotenuse CAH Tan angle = Opposite/Adjacent TOA Here is my bowl, the 3rd and 4th pic, that cut at 22.5 deg for each slice. It looks like a boat. It took me 3 hours to figure this out. I have not used geometry for awhile. What was hard was to figure a way to illustrate it. Easy to make after i drew it to scale.

@octoolguy thanks for reminding me. I am on slow maybe 25% saw speed.

i have tried flying dutchman and these pic use pegas. 2/0 skip and 2/0 mgt. Hawk . I feel that non skip blades allows more teeth to cut both sides of blades. With skip I think they skipped one side of the blade. Rotating the wood counter clockwise is worse than rotating the wood clockwise.

Im cutting 1/4 in material. First pic is using 2/0 skip blade. with skip tooth I bounce between line edges. when I slowly turn the wood the blade twists 90 deg without cutting anything. I apply presure and still not any cutting action. So I have to fiddle with it. takes along time to make it turn. 2nd pic is 2/0 MGT - by looking at lines it seems much better to control. 1 . what technique am I missing for the 2/0 skip blade. 2. does the 2nd pic show I need to get better? 3. what line size setting in inkscape do you use? Me. Mark Eason

How do you decide on amount of work vs the wood choice? I feel that your quality of workmanship is better than red oak material. Is the amount of time and effort worth getting more exotic wood? I struggle with this decision based on project also. If it is a handle vs a fine jewelry box. Or will I need to tap threads. Who the article is intended to go to. I have lots of these stupid concepts in my head as I start choosing next project.

My favorite movie Tombstone. I can hear his voice. It is a technique to torture someone to cut tongues out. I have Doc and Wyatt in my home office. They are water colors. Also have a great photo of saguaro catus. The other gunsliger I have is of more modern time. Tom Brady. Also water color from same artist. For your piece, just for fun you might consider adding some bullit holes to make it more authenic. No not on him , just around him. Your work captured his facial expressions well. The mustache is at the correct angle. The lines on the right side of the board are great. Yes tongues can be awkward at times. They can detract from from the art piece.

during the night I thought that I need to start shaping pedals. Maybe Next project.

Since I ordered bottle stoppers, I had to come up with different handle design. Different from the cat lid opener from a previous post. I chose a yellow butterfly on a redish flower, because wine gives people butterflies. Well I think that is why they drink it. Maybe it is the oil and vinager that attracted the butterfly. Oh well, this is for my neighbor. She can make up her own story. Wood used: Red gum 3/4" Yellow heart 1/4" Food safe finish. Shellac first , then Carnuba wax, butcher block conditioner. Found Johnson paste wax. Did not use oily butcher block. Mark

left one Me.

you know how to see if edges are straight by looking down the line by rotating the part on edge. I used my phone to look down the edge. Yea tilt the phone like it was on edge. Those red /white stripes do Not have variations. The stars are perfectly aligned and spaced and not rotated at all. Since the stars are separate pieces this alignment takes very special effort during gluing process. I hope the were stacked cut. The middle oval is amazing. I can not tell if this black ring a seperate piece or the outer part is just painted. Either way the consistency of black thickness is awesome. The perfectness just makes me want to pull out my caliper to find something slightly off. I promise I won't do it on the pictures. Of course the text flows perfectly with the curved edges. I can not find anything to criticize or change.

It took me awhile to get what you did. I got it when I saw the shadows on the top pic. Now that is clever. Maybe you can add more lines to help define the hair feather outline. And maybe some shoulder lines.

Hah, good choice of words...manufactured sticks are usually turned on a lathe. Thanks for feedback.

Very nice. Did you have to redue any feathers. Did you break any? I am surprised you posted the pics before the event.

i just cut 1 inch thick acrylic. I have cut 1/8 inch thick aluminum. With an aluminum cutting blade. and a 2.5 inch branch. Ok I might have been pushing the limit there.