trackman Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 (edited) I asked for a pattern to be made of the church were James Dean's funeral was held. It is Fairmount Friends Church in Fairmount, Indiana. My wife helped to restore the stained glass windows (180 of them) working with a company out of Jacksonville IL. Russell (Birchbark) was able to come up with a pattern for me. He said the pictures of the church wasn't very good to make a pattern off of but I think he did a great job! In the picture the round windows look egg shaped but they are 6' D circles. The picture makes them look odd LOL. By far not my best cutting. There isn't a lot of detail but were there is it was hold your breath time. I used a FD #3 UR an FD New Spirals #3. Cut the lines first then cut with the spiral. I am not good enough to cut straight with spirals. Thanks Russell for the help!! Edited December 27, 2017 by trackman Lucky2, New Guy, lawson56 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawson56 Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 He did an Awesome jobAs you did in cutting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPscroller Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Great job on both the cutting and the pattern. Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrolling Steve Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Very nice work all around ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockytime Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 The cutting is remarkable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birchbark Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Well done! Very nice. I think it turned out great. There were some tough spots in it for sure, you handled it, no problem. You took out the flower pot It looks great. Thank you for taking the time to post a picture for us, much appreciated. Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWSUDEKUM Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing this with us. DW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgman Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Excellent cutting Del. Russell is one of the best for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Great partnership between the two of you. Fabulous pattern and awesome cutting. Well done guys. Marg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 6 hours ago, trackman said: I asked for a pattern to be made of the church were James Dean's funeral was held. It is Fairmount Friends Church in Fairmount, Indiana. My wife helped to restore the stained glass windows (180 of them) working with a company out of Jacksonville IL. Russell (Birchbark) was able to come up with a pattern for me. He said the pictures of the church wasn't very good to make a pattern off of but I think he did a great job! In the picture the round windows look egg shaped but they are 6' D circles. The picture makes them look odd LOL. By far not my best cutting. There isn't a lot of detail but were there is it was hold your breath time. I used a FD #3 UR an FD New Spirals #3. Cut the lines first then cut with the spiral. I am not good enough to cut straight with spirals. Thanks Russell for the help!! They chose the right man for the job!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackman Posted December 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 9 hours ago, Birchbark said: Well done! Very nice. I think it turned out great. There were some tough spots in it for sure, you handled it, no problem. You took out the flower pot It looks great. Thank you for taking the time to post a picture for us, much appreciated. Russell I also took out the small tree and added the windows. The picture you worked off was from several years ago. So I changed small things like they are now. This will be put into a auction the church is having for a fundraiser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 great job on the pattern and cutting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappile Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 You really did a good job with that. That is a pretty little church. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackman Posted December 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 6 hours ago, Scrappile said: You really did a good job with that. That is a pretty little church. It does look small in the picture but it is quite big. I think it holds 600 people with a second story and basement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Monk Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Awesome pattern and cutting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky2 Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Del, I think you did a very nice job cutting it out, And that Russell did a very nice job coming up with the pattern. Between the two of you, I think it was a perfect bit of collaborating. Len Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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