Seeking Patterns that Involve both Carving and Scroll-sawing

[Frank Pellow]

I found one such plan at: http://www.homeathome.homehardware.ca/en/index/home-projects/project-ideas/home-at-home/fall-projects/canadian-maple-trivet.htm

 

This is a plan for a trivet made out of maple and showing three maple leaves.  It was designed by Rob Brown who is the editor of Canadian Woodworking magazine. 

 

I've made about 10 such trivets  this autumn.  I also used the concept and made some smaller trivets depicting birch leaves and oak leaves.  I finished all my trivets with several coats of Polymerized Tung Oil (available at Lee Valley).

 

The attached photo shows three of my trivets.  They are made from hard maple and are about 12 millimetres thick.

 

Since I am a much more experienced carver than scroll-sawer, I really like the idea of combining the two.   I looked for patterns and plans but have not found any.  If you know of any plans or photos that combine the two crafts, please let me know where to find them.

Edited December 23, 2015 by Frank Pellow

[Kepy]

I have found some leather tooling patterns that work that way at Leathercraft Library.

[amazingkevin]

I found one such plan at: http://www.homeathome.homehardware.ca/en/index/home-projects/project-ideas/home-at-home/fall-projects/canadian-maple-trivet.htm

 

This is a plan for a trivet made out of maple and showing three maple leaves.  It was designed by Rob Brown who is the editor of Canadian Woodworking magazine. 

 

I've made about 10 such trivets  this autumn.  I also used the concept and made some smaller trivets depicting birch leaves and oak leaves.  I finished all my trivets with several coats of Polymerized Tung Oil (available at Lee Valley).

 

The attached photo shows three of my trivets.  They are made from hard maple and are about 12 millimetres thick.

 

Since I am a much more experienced carver than scroll-sawer, I really like the idea of combining the two.   I looked for patterns and plans but have not found any.  If you know of any plans or photos that combine the two crafts, please let me know where to find them.

Good idea's,Frank!

[Lucky2]

Frank, couldn't most patterns be done this way? Instead of cutting all of the feature lines, carve a few. I really like the look of the ones you've posted here, but, the details don't show up as well as I'd like for them to. Did you ever consider combining, pyrograghy with your cutting and carving skills?

Len

[Frank Pellow]

:idea:Lucky2, I guess that you are correct about that.  And, yes, one could burn some of the lines as well (or instead of).

 

I expect that their are artistic guidelines that help one determine whether certain lines should be sawed, cut, or burned.  I guess I will experiment and see if I can come up with some guidelines that work for me.

 

Heck, I might even figure out how to throw some stained glass into the mix.

Edited December 15, 2015 by Frank Pellow

[herrwood]

Here is a Steve Good ball & cage scroll and carve the ball

http://www.stevedgood.com/ballandcage.pdf

Edited December 15, 2015 by herrwood

[Frank Pellow]

herrwood, Steve's 'ball in  box' is not the kind of carving that I was thinking about, but it would be a challenging project.  I just might take a stab at it some day.

[don in brooklin on]

Hi Frank

 

Maybe you should look at some Intarsia sites.  I would suggest Judy Gale Roberts as part of the process is the cut the various woods and then in a lot of cases you are really shaping and carving the pieces.   

 

This segmented piece was all done with a single 2x4 and painted.  (Entry to our 2x4 challenge).  My carving of the flowers was done with a dremel.  (if is doesn't have a motor it is out of my skill level)

 

There are more sites than JGR but I think she has more "carved|" pieces that others artists but I could be wrong. 

 

 

Don

 

PS:  If you are looking a buying JGR patterns they are available from Workshop Supply in Canadian funds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Frank Pellow]

Don, it does look like much of the patterns I see at Judy Gale Robert's web site would give me lots of opportunity to do some carving.  Thanks for the reference.

[Frank Pellow]

Lots of Trivets:

 

I mentioned in the post that started this thread that I had already made about 10 trivets.  They are my "default" gift for the winter solstice holiday season  this year and, by the end of today, I will have made 23 in total.  I'm attaching a photo showing the final (for 2015) group of 10 trivets in various stages of completion.

 

I used a somewhat different (at least different for me) technique for these.  That is, I pasted a photo of one of my previous completed trivets to a piece of maple then used that photo both to see where to saw and to see where to carve. 

 

I'm doing one other different thing for the double oak leaf trivets and that is to stain one of the two leaves.  Margaret (my wife) told me that it was difficult to see the two different leaves in the first double-oak leaf trivet I made.  This makes the separation clear.  I'm also attaching a photo of that trivet.

[Young_Scroller]

Those look really good frank! thanks for sharing with us

[Dan]

Hey Frank, check out this guys work. He contributes to SSW&C magazine. I believe one of his patterns was in that magazine in the past but I'm not sure which issue. His name is Dick Miraglia.

 

http://www.scrollsawer.com/2009/08/25/carving-on-fretwork-creates-lifelike-portrait/

Edited December 23, 2015 by Dan

[CharleyL]

I've done a few projects where I combined scroll sawing and power carving using a dentist drill type carver. I've attached a photo of one of them here. It's from a pattern by Wildwood Designs. After cutting it out on the scroll saw it just seemed to need something else. So I carved the leaves and vines to shape and texture them, making the cross stand proud of the leaves and vines. The wood is mahogany, the finish is 3 coats of tung oil, and the leaves were colored with antique green Rub N Buff. The first of these (this one) was made in 1998, and family requests have resulted in 17 more since then. 

 

Charley

 

 

[Frank Pellow]

Charley, you have done a really good job on this.  It is the type of design that I expected to see more of.

[CharleyL]

Frank,

 

Thanks for the compliment.

 

I wish I had pictures of the other similar projects that I've done, but gave them away without taking pictures. Actually, I did take a couple of pictures of them, but the camera that I used went bad and I lost all of the photos that were in it.

 

The dentist drill carver that I have was sold by Paragrave. There are two other manufacturers selling them. One is made by Power Carver and the other is SCMI. SCMI makes the best and most reliable one These are a straight handle version of the dentist drills, which all seem to have right angle handles. They are all air powered and turn at 2-400,000 rpm using 1/16 dia shank dentist drill bits. An air brush compressor will power them. At these speeds, carving with them is like writing with a marking pen. There is no side pull. They cut wherever you point them and are a joy to use. There are carbide, diamond, and stone bits of every description available for these tools that are selling from several sources on the internet for about $1 each. If you have a friendly dentist you might get him to sterilize and save you some used bits too. That's one of my sources. The dentists use new bits for every patient and never use them over, but they are plenty sharp enough for cutting wood and safe to use if sterilized, but I soak the ones that he gives me in alcohol, as an additional precaution. 

 

For larger, Dremel type carving I use an 1/8" shank air powered die grinder. It turns at about 100,000 rpm, which is fast enough to reduce the side pulling, and it uses the standard Dremel type 1/8" bits. For me, the Dremel tools are too big and too slow to do serious carving with since they only turn at 15-30,000 rpm. Power carving with a high speed air powered tool makes all the difference in the world. These use much more air, so I connect mine to my shop air compressor.

 

Charley

[Frank Pellow]

This item: http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/topic/17940-tree-carving/?hl=tree

 recently posted by Kemaldo is exactly the type of work that I was hoping to find.

Edited January 27, 2016 by Frank Pellow