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She loved it I ended up coating it with clear Osmo TopOil that I had left over from an earlier project. I’ll see if I can’t post a photo of the finished product once she has settlef on where to place it.

Excellent work and I agree with the choice to stain the text, the other one you posted earlier in the thread, the letters were really hard to make out due to the busy background.

Managed to get something completed for once: Fairly happy with the outcome, considering this is basically my second project, first involving any kind of more intricate fretwork. It’s not as clean as I’d like it to be but it looks okay from a distance. Not sure whether it needs a finish or not? It’ll probably be hanging on a wall so barely any touching or such. Maybe a clear coat of spray varnish? I do also have boiled linseed oil available…

Nice paint up! The bee looks phenomenal

Thanks for your comments! Yes, I planned on it being a two-tone image and was a bit worried about the discontinuous outline of the body. Also, the eye area was something I felt was not very satisfied with, as it's almost solid black. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I could do any better with the source material I had on hand at the time. I attached it to the post below. I actually since also did some further refining and discovered a new feature in Inkscape, called simplify. I'm not sure whether it looks better or not, as it kind of "rounds of" some shapes and as you can see in the photo below, the eye area is still a mess. But I took this as a learning opportunity and have made a couple of other patterns as well, one of another dog that used to be my friends, but sadly passed away not long ago. I thought maybe I'd give it a shot and make a portrait complete with a custom frame with his name on it as a Christmas present for them. It looks a little bit weird under his head because he's resting his head on his favorite teddy bear toy - it didn't translate too well to my pattern but oh well, I think they'll recognize it. Doing that one, I again found some new techniques, that was done mostly in Gimp. My last pattern I finished today was a portrait of me and my wife. Once again, I found some interesting new techniques, this time using Photoshop. I imported the photo, then duplicated the layer, then made another transparent layer above. Then, I took the duplicated layer, and used a Sketch filter called Stamp. I did this a couple of times using different configurations to get the detail I wanted, one darker than the other, then I placed the darker above the lighter one, and reduced the opacity so I could see where it had added more black. Then I drew black and white on the top transparent layer until I had the whole thing "colored". After that, I exported it as a png, imported into Inkscape, used Trace bitmap so I could resize it without losing any details, and changed the color to gray, outline to 0,5mm black and printed it out, it looks awesome if I do say so myself. I'll probably post it in my personal gallery when I'm done cutting it. Anyway, what do I gather from all of this? I find I'm really liking the pattern making part of the hobby. It's a learning experience, since I haven't used Inkscape before this and only dabbled with Gimp and Photoshop very little. But I'm really growing to like it!

Thanks, that’s definitely helpful! May I ask, how do you do that check? I’m pretty sure there are bridges for all of those, so a paint bucket job would have filled them all in I reckon?

This is an incredible piece, I know my wife would love something like this but I don't even want to know how many hours you have invested in that thing with all the reindeers and gluing etc. Even with the details on the sled, it looks like making the reindeer must've taken longer since there's so many of them. Wonderful piece, no matter what.

Hey there, in preparation of (probably) getting my first decent scroll saw tomorrow, I figured I'd ease financial hit on the missus if my first project is of something she values, so of course, I tried my hand at making a pattern of her dog. This is the first time I've used Inkscape, and this took me WAY longer than I care to admit but I think it looks decent. At least you can recognize what it is and I think, if you're familiar with the breed (miniature pinscher) you can make that out, too, at least if you squint hard enough she had a collar in the original picture which I felt was unnecessary to have in the pattern so I kind of blended that in so you cant see much of it. I'm not sure whether I should try to make some kind of arc for her back or not, it's basically almost all white until the tail starts due to how the light fell on her when the photo was taken. Also, only the paw of her front right foot is showing which looks a bit weird maybe? I don't know... I feel like if I try to add information I don't have it'll just make it look worse. I also think I overdid the smoothness on her back thigh highlight versus how I approached the mid chest and neck, but it's too far back to undo and I really don't want to start over... Anyways, just wanted to post and ask whether you think I'll run into issues sawing this out. Thanks for looking!

I’m leaning towards the Axminster. The guy just sent me pics of it, as well as a receipt of the blades that he’ll throw in the deal, almost 100€ worth of spare blades. And the lamp has magnifying glass as well. Now for the hard part - figuring out how to convince my wife I need it

The axminster was purchased in 2019, guy says he used it for a few dozen hours and it comes with spare blades and a detachable light of some kind as well. It was bought from a local store but of course I don’t know where they source their catalog… Actually, I ran into a used Hegner the other day, Multicut-1. Description didn’t say whether it was the variable speed or not, so I’ve asked the seller but haven’t got any response. He asks for 500€ for it and there’s a 50€ part missing that I’m unsure of if I need, some knurled knob thing on the front part of the arm. It’s very close to me though so that one I might just check out, almost no money lost. How important a feature do you think the variable speed is? I might post some photos later when I have something actually worthwhile to show. I only classify one of my projects so far finished, another one is in the works but needs to be glued together and painted still. Made some dumb mistakes on it, too. But I hope they won’t be too obvious when looking at a distance

Hello there, I'm new here! I've been dabbling on and off for some time now, got my first scroll saw from the FB market place for 80€ and have done a couple of small projects with it. Now, I didn't do much research on the topic beforehand, so when I picked it up, I quickly learned that one does not get a great saw for that amount of money. It's basically the cheapest thing you can get, takes only pinned blades (pinless aren't even an option on this one). So, naturally I'm starting to look for options to upgrade. There's a guy selling a Axminster Ex-21 a couple of hours drive from here and I almost pulled the trigger, he wants 800€ for it, but I'm not sure it's a good deal since they don't seem to make them anymore, so if I'd need spare parts or something, I'd be out of luck pretty much. So then I looked up Pegas, we have a dealer here in Finland that sells them; smallest option 16" is 1200€ and the slightly larger 21" is 1400€. That feels like A LOT of money even though I'm kind of in the "buy once, cry once" camp... so I'm thinking of alternatives. I ran into this thing Bernardo SS 460 which looks alrightish? But there's hardly any information on it, no unboxings or anything like that on the ol' YouTube even, and they don't have it in the store so I'd be bying it blind. I asked the store and they said it does have quickrelease for the pinless blades (and takes both pinless and pinned blades), and it also has some kind of Dremel-like thingie for woodcarving which looks like an interesting bonus as I also do some whittling/wood carving. This thing is 450€. I was hoping to get some insight into whether I should pull the trigger on either the used machine (old, no warranty but apparently still a quality machine), the Bernardo with the carving thingie (new, warranty) or save up for a Pegas. Thanks in advance!