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yep. It does look crisp and sharp. If he has big family you might need to stack cut some more. Otherwise it is a one of a kind.

Your projects are so different, and pleasing to the eye that limits the mindset to give creticism. I see your point on the mermaid is siloette. It kinda goes like an inverse at times. Thus it is kinda hard to color.

This is beautiful. Excellent bird breast. The grain on the breast just make you feel the roundness of a real bird.

My 2 favorites are: The jellyfish has great coloring. The inner tenacles captures the curled flat texture really well. The mermaid has some really artistic smooth curves with flare. The mermaid in colors might make it better. The butterfly fish would stand out more. But I have no clue what colors to use. This is just a thought for the next time you do this mermaid.

This is similar to the bottle opener a few weeks ago. I decided that all bottle / lid openers did not have to be turned handles. Niles bottles stoppers sells this lid can opener. It looked liked it could save some cat lady's finger nails. Ok my wifes nails. So I hand drew some cat face on paper and and put it on some really hard dense wood Purple heart. I tapped the wood. Then I scroll sawed the cat face. The cat has a really shiney nose. I used CA glue on the threads like lock tight. I want the grip of the lid opener handle similar to a base ball. Your fingers goes around the handle to get a better pull. Added bottle opener. 1inch thick acrylic. Drilled and tapped for bottle opener. Cut with Pegas #11 skip, really slow motor speed. No melting was done. Arrowhead for a friend that likes NFL. He named his cat "Chief".

oooh, a video, learn from experts on youtube. Very clean and nice.

Just to clarify. My entry level could not hold blades. It didnt break them. My unit did not have a lot of vibration but my neighbors did. I was trying to saw 2.5 inches of wood also. The blade always came out of the bottom clamp. So I had to run with less blade tension. I was trying hard wood and needed higher tension.

It does look good. Also look up Kathy Wise website. I think it was her site that said there is no rules to intarsia. You do what makes it look good. Your the artist so you make the rules. If your budget and your desire says go buy yellow heart then great. Or get cheaper wood and die it yellow. Your choice. Judy Gale Roberts is more toward use natural color wood. I try to do as much as I can. The wood Purple Heart is beautful but will turn brown in a few years when exposed to sun. So a guy at Woodcrafters said he had a customer that added just a bit of purple die to satin finish to help reduce the browning. I did this for my last piece. The last order of purple heart was browner than my first order. So lets see more of your creativity.

I went through this question recently. My situation did have a difference. Should I keep my scroll saw or sell it to get laser cutter? I joined this group 6 months ago to learn what I can do with scroll saw. I learned that my entry level scroll was limiting my creativity. Because of frustration. Not being able to hold blades very well was a big reason. My midset started off what can I do that laser cutter can't. So just starting off and trying some hard projects with entry level saw was a bad idea. But because I had a want to do something that a laser can not do I got advice from this village to get a good saw on craigslist. With everyones help here I found a great saw Hawk for $400.00. A lot of my frustration instantly went away. Lasers cutters can not cut at an angle. So I made bowls from single board. I tried successfully to angle cut to inlay top wood into bottom wood. Stack cutting at small angle. That is cool. I tried to cut a pattern into a small diameter branch. I found and kinda got hooked on "intarsia" art pieces. Notice I tried different stuff. I have not tried "fretwork". Yet. Lasers can do this BUT these guys here do some amazing stuff. So I will try fretwork soon. There is functional wood art, Kinectic art. This sounds really cool also. So your question is found through out this site. My advice is get a good saw to start with. Craigslist or local ebay. Make your fishing pole holders. Then start asking yourself what else can I make. If you do not like the saw. Sell it for more money you paid for it.

F ... is for funny. maybe make another ... F bone.

I see alot of stack cutting. Now let me think.... build each half then final assembly put both halfs together?

Black tires look nice and cleanly cut. It looks like the windshield and hoods do not have many bridges holding them in. They might fly off in high speeds. in 1970's my neighbor did have a sunbeam. He drove it almost every day to work. Another cool vehicle up the street was a split rear window corvette. He painted the "keep on truckin" guy on back trunk. Yep it brought up memories. Mark

This look pretty darn nice. The part that you cheated on is having over abundance of quality supplies. I do like spirals. But I still practice with straight blades for intasia small gap in pieces. When I use spirals, I find that the blade kinda jumps to the side when finding softer areas of wood.

My math teacher always said double check the work. So I pasted this into google search... convert roman MDCCLXXVI to decimal. Results match. The number 1776 · Numbers close to MDCCLXXVI. You get an A+. With extra credit 1000 points for artisticness, another 776 points for execution.

If you tell, all of us, the glue up tricks, we can help you remember the tricks. That is if you can remember now.

nice that you play with Photoshop. Yep the user is getting smarter. And that shading is thinking different. Nice. Let's hear what others think.

here is a quick phone edit of your picture. By quick I mean 1 minute, so it is crappy. I quickly picked light brown and tried to match a color to clear finish on poplar. Ok it was a guess.

ever use wipe on gel stain? It might be easier to control.

I guess I am in a mood to be different. What would it look like if you stained the wolf light brownish, and the Indian clear? He should darken with clear coat.

yep it is flower season. I bet if you glue sunflower seeds in the middle, it could qualify for last months challenge. Then you can keep your hose handy for the sidewalk cleaning.

that is actually pretty nice. The red and white are great together.

that look pretty thick. But cedar is not that hard. What is your blade of choice?

you forgot some letters "People". maybe is was Please? But there should be another sign, dirty masks here ... arrow pointed down to laundry bucket.

scrap plywood ? That can be a whole 2nd business? Retirement fund or college fund.

I am glad the operator won't be all thumbs.