Novice Question

[Rockytime]

I an cutting several simple puzzles for a two year old grandson. My question is, how do you cut the black lines indicating a detain on the animal like eyebrows, lines in the ears or folds in hair, etc? Do you use some kind of knife, wood burner or what. I hope I'm not the only one with this question.

[Rockytime]

WOW! Enlarged the cutting is terrible. I was experimenting with quite a few blades. The FD ultra reverse whatever did whatever it wanted to. Hyper aggressive. The Olson skiptooth did also. The #4 FD Penguin Silver let me stay on the lines, The Pegas Modified Geometry, OMG. Never use those again. So what you are looking at is my experiment station. It is common 3/4" pine from the box store.

[Ron Johnson]

Lines are all cut with the scroll saw blade Les. The inside lines need to be drilled with I think a #87 drill bit (you wanna try not to have drill hole shown after cutting the line). Looks like ¾" ply your cutting so a #5 double tooth or a skip tooth should cut just fine providing the blade tension is proper.

Edited October 18, 2016 by Ron Johnson

[jamminjack]

The lines in the legs look to be veining lines. Just drill a small hole and cut the line.  I use a # 1 blade for that.

The eye brows and eye look like they should be cut out. They are pretty large. I would cut them out.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[DWSUDEKUM]

Les what you are talking about is called veining.  There are several ways of doing this.  The most common is to drill a small hole and insert a thin scroll saw blade and cut that line.  Some will use a flat blade such as a #3 or #5, some use a spiral blade such as a #3 or smaller.  A lot will depend on your skill level and patience.  Basically Les, drill the eyeball, cut the eyebrow, cut the leg veins.  Nice job on the puzzle btw.  Thanks for sharing this with us.

 

 

DW

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

I would probably paint those on. A more detailed puzzle I would do as mentioned veining. 

[Lucky2]

Rocky, you could get away with using a permanent black marker.

Len

[WayneMahler]

I would probably do something like a permanent black marker on this one. Just remember to give it a good food safe finish, you know how little ones tend to want to taste or eat things . 

[NC Scroller]

There are many ways to deal with those veining lines. There is no right or wrong.

 

- Since it is for a 2 year old just omit them. Only you will know.

 

- If you want to cut them on your scroll saw it will probably require some #68 or #70 drill bits and some 2/0 or 3/0 blades.

 

- You can draw them with a permanent fine line Sharpie or India Ink marker.

 

- You can burn them in with a wood burning tool.

[Rolf]

There is no # 87 drill the smallest number drill is 80 (at .0135" you don't want to use that) 

Scott is correct with the drills for the smaller blades.

I would definitely cut them.

Edited October 19, 2016 by Rolf

[amazingkevin]

I an cutting several simple puzzles for a two year old grandson. My question is, how do you cut the black lines indicating a detain on the animal like eyebrows, lines in the ears or folds in hair, etc? Do you use some kind of knife, wood burner or what. I hope I'm not the only one with this question.

Pine is not a good choice for kid puzzles ,breaks to easy.Trial an error.

[Rockytime]

Thanks all for the information. I have a complete selection of small drills down to 80. I was a model railroad modeler for 40 years. I think I will do the cutting. However I will use a larger blade. Fine cuts will just get filled with paint. Using 1X4 pine boards work as the individual parts are small , therefor quite stout. I also wanted the pieces thick enough so they will stand. Thanks again for all the responses.

[Phantom Scroller]

If the line is big enough to drill a hole and cut a line fine if not the old felt fine tip marker for me then lacquer on top. Roly

[meflick]

Wow, seems like I should have come on here YESTERDAY when I was struggling with the same type of question on a design or two I was working on cutting out.  Some of the "design" lines were so teeny tiny I was trying to figure out how in the heck I was suppose to actually CUT them out.  I tried, but the drill bits I had on hand were a little too big. Actually, I thought I had the smallest size I had already in the drill press but lesson learned - didn't double check it.  It was too big in the end. I was using 2/0 blades but the hole I had drilled was too big so then I was trying to cut wider to accommodate of the too big of a hole I had drilled.   I waited for DH to come home and he showed me where he had some smaller ones then I had. (That's when I also double checked and figured out I had had one smaller then I had in the press but it still wasn't small enough.)  Now I will check and see if any of them are #68 or #70.  If not, I will go find some.  Thanks for asking "just what I needed" to know and to all those who answered!

[rjR]

For a 2 year old's puzzle; I would use a fine tip on the wood burner and burn them in! Safer  for chewing that way!

 

 

As really fine cuts and I seem to not get along well, I cheat like that.

[orangeman]

Interesting comment re the Pegas Modified Geometry blade. That is my "go-to" blade for almost everything. Cuts cherry, walnut, maple, padauk, locust with ease. I prefer the Pegas MG blades over everything else I have tried for 3/4" hardwoods.