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Just finished this leopard piece. I'm planning to donate it to The Farmer's House for their auction. This took about 15 hours to cut and about 1 hour to design the pattern. It's 11 x 14 x 1/8 inches Baltic Birch ply. Cut with Pegas spiral blades.
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Spring is in the air and our furry little friends are coming out to play. This month's challenge is all about the critters in our lives. Share a project of bunnies, puppies, and anything else that make you saw "awww." Post your animal projects below. When you do, please tell us a little something about it. While we love seeing your handiwork, it's the backstory that makes it special. I can't wait to see what you come up with!
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Two days of cutting produced this newest wood art piece. I'm pretty happy with this one. Pattern by me. Cut entirely with Flying Dutchman 2/0 spiral blades.
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Not really my thing but I was babysitting a cnc router a few weeks ago so I cut out about 20 of these on the scroll saw to kill time, using common pine I had laying around. Here's half, the rest are drying in the workshop. The book advertised "complete instructions" and the instructions for the colors were "this is a trade secret." That was probably the best written part of the book, which is now in the garbage. I can't really tell what level they're geared for - there is no continuity between animals - but they're going to a 4-1/2 year old. Colors are diluted acrylics, wood dyes, wood stains, and whatever else I had in the shop. Finish is just a couple shots of lacquer. I tried the cut shellac people suggested, it just ran right off. I tried dipping shellac straight out of the can, it stuck but was very rough and impossible to sand the edges smooth. I tried dipping in tung oil and the tung oil turned grayish purple green and ran off, except for the nooks and crannies where it stuck in big blobs that made it impossible to fit the pieces together until I scraped them off. On the bright side, I got rid of a few cans of finish that were just going stale on the shelf.
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Edited to add: Just noticed - my one year anniversary here in joining the village was this past Saturday. Been a great year and I thank all of you for all you have shared, encouraged, and explained to me in that year. I really like coming here and my day is not complete without at least one visit it see what everyone is sharing. Yes, I joined the puzzle bandwagon a little bit ago thanks to Iggy and several others on here. Yes, they are addicting. I got the Harvey Byler puzzles via Iggy's site and had purchased the "Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw" book by Judy and Dave Peterson and have cut some from there as well. My thought process is that this would be a good way to practice cutting on the lines which would then help improve my intarsia pieces and their fitting together. Time will tell on that one. I haven't add any finish to the pieces yet. Just cut them out and finally got some photos to post. I will try to post in two groups. The first ones will be the puzzles with the wording from Iggy/Harvey and the second will be the ones from the Peterson's Book. I have some more I am working on but haven't gotten cut out. Most of them can actually be put together from either side so that's a bonus. Mean's I am also doing better on not "pushing". I found the wood that worked best for me was the poplar which I got from Lowes. Tried some in pine, cedar, and red oak scraps. Like Goldilocks, I found some too soft, some too hard, and the popular just right for me! Harvey Byler puzzles purchased from Iggy's Site here: https://woodcraftbyscott.com
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Evenin all (well, very early morning at any rate... I had company and we stayed up late having a painting party) Here is the snail I cut out using a coloring page I found online. It took what seemed like forever to sand those rings down where they would fit in no matter what direction they were facing, but I managed it after three mouse sheets and a lot of unladylike language.
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I just got a nice piece of cedar wood to frame some of my jobs, now they are hanging in a nice place at home.
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