To Fish or Not to Fish

[Frank Pellow]

My grandson Ethan (16) and I will setting out on Friday to Pellow's Island for a two week holiday.  While we are at the island, we will be doing LOTS of fishing.  I made this item:

to surprise Ethan once we get to our cabin.

The pattern is by Steve Good. 

I printed the pattern at 130% then cut it using 6mm thick Baltic birch plywood with (mostly) a Flying Dutchman reverse tooth #1 blade.  Then, I stained parts of it using Saman water based stain.  Before staining, I carved a small barrier between stained and unstained regions:

After staining, the whole thing received two coats of clear gloss rattle can urethane.

 

 

Edited August 16, 2018 by Frank Pellow

[GPscroller]

Nicely done Frank, enjoy your holiday.

Jeff

[DWSUDEKUM]

Nicely done Frank.  Thanks for sharing this with us..

DW

[wombatie]

Looks good Frank.  Have a great trip with your grandson and make some memories.

Marg

[amazingkevin]

Thanks for showing your work!

[newfie]

Nice work thanks for sharing 

[daveww1]

fantastic job

[new2woodwrk]

Very cool project - Thanks for sharing it

[rdatelle]

Great job on that Frank. I like the way you stained that. I was wondering how you got the stain not top bleed into the rest of the wood.

[Frank Pellow]

1 hour ago, rdatelle said:

Great job on that Frank. I like the way you stained that. I was wondering how you got the stain not top bleed into the rest of the wood.

Thanks Ralph!

As I attempted to show in the second photo, I carved a small grove at the edges between the sections that were to be stained and those that were not to be stained or to be stained a different colour..

Edited August 16, 2018 by Frank Pellow

[bobscroll]

Really nice job there Frank and good thinking on finishing as well,

Bob