Just cattin’ and clowning around

[Old Joe]

I haven’t posted in a while, though I still try to scroll something every day. The kittens pattern was from Mike Williams and if I remember correctly the clown/hobo was an Alex Fox pattern that I have had around for some time. Both are cut from 1/4”    Baltic Birch and mounted on pine 1x12’s cut to size. I painted the backer red on the hobo and stained the cat’s backer in True Black. The kittens were harder than they need to be because I made it considerably smaller than it was recommended. Hope you all like them.

BTW, I stack cut both portraits and ended up with two of each one.

 

Edited October 23, 2019 by Old Joe
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[scrollntole]

Impressive - thanks for sharing. Way too many hours spent on the cats!! whew!

Vin

Edited October 23, 2019 by scrollntole

[planeur]

Magnifique Joe ! Incredible details. Normally I do not like cat ..... but those are so .....beautyfull !

Question: I would like to see the pattern , so I can figure how you manege to do it! For a future piece like that.

 

Thanks

planeur

 

 

[Old Joe]

1 hour ago, planeur said:

Magnifique Joe ! Incredible details. Normally I do not like cat ..... but those are so .....beautyfull !

Question: I would like to see the pattern , so I can figure how you manege to do it! For a future piece like that.

 

Thanks

planeur

 

 

You can find this, and many other patterns by Mike Williams here:https://www.etsy.com/shop/MikeWilliamsDesigns

[rjR]

Both are TOTALLY EXCELLENT!

[Wilson142]

Very nice. I understand the cat piece, I tend to cut most things 30% to 50% smaller than intended because I'm using up a lot of wood I originally bought for intarsia but got sidetracked by fretwork.

[heppnerguy]

 very well cut on both projects. The Mike Williams patterns are always outstanding when they are cut as his pattern work always produces a wonderful end piece. Thank you for taking the time to post them

Dick

heppnerguy

[Scrolling Steve]

Excellent scroll work  !

[rdatelle]

Great job cutting those out Joe. I love the cat one. Looks like a lot of blade changes there.

[daveww1]

fantastic job, there both beautiful

[Old Joe]

1 hour ago, rdatelle said:

Great job cutting those out Joe. I love the cat one. Looks like a lot of blade changes there.

Thanks for the compliment. I did go through more blades on this than I have on any other portrait type project. The blades had to be ultra sharp to avoid blowout, plus I was stack cutting two of them. I used mostly Pegas MG #3’s, a couple of #1’s, and also used a couple each of Pegas Spiral #2’s and 3’s.Spirals are fast, but I am not crazy about working with them for everything. I’m not in a hurry and I have a hard time with them. I think that I now use Pegas #3 MGs for well over 90% of what I do. 

[Scrappile]

Very well done!!

[namunolie]

awesome cats

cat's hair is wow

[amazingkevin]

The things you learn doing a project as detailed as this!!! Nice to know about which blades are very sharp.i can't imagine stack cutting this with so many hold your breath cuts. You aced it all the way!!!

[wombatie]

You did a very impressive job on both, well done.

Marg

[lawson56]

WOW!! Down Right AWESOME job on the Kittens,Love the Clown.

[Old Joe]

Thank you, everyone. Many of you are always so encouraging, and I really appreciate it. Though making these projects from other people’s patterns is often challenging, I am trying hard to teach myself to use the Gimp program to start doing more original designs. Honestly, I think that is harder than cutting Alex Fox, or Mike Williams type patterns. My goal is to become more proficient at it this winter.

Edited October 26, 2019 by Old Joe

[OzarkSawdust]

9 minutes ago, Old Joe said:

Thank you, everyone. Many of you are always so encouraging, and I really appreciate it. Though making these projects from other people’s patterns is often challenging, I am trying hard to teach myself to use the Gimp program to start doing more original designs. Honestly, I think that is harder than cutting Alex Fox, or Mike Williams type patterns. My goal is to become more proficient at it this winter.

Very nice work! I love both of them. 

I get where you're coming from, I'm trying to get Inkscape down pat. I looked at GIMP and really like the wide range of stuff that can be done...but haven't tried it yet. I just did my first original pattern on Inkscape, a wedding or anniversary sign. I think it took look longer to do the pattern than it did to cut it.... 

[Woodrush]

On 10/23/2019 at 7:25 PM, Old Joe said:

I haven’t posted in a while, though I still try to scroll something every day. The kittens pattern was from Mike Williams and if I remember correctly the clown/hobo was an Alex Fox pattern that I have had around for some time. Both are cut from 1/4”    Baltic Birch and mounted on pine 1x12’s cut to size. I painted the backer red on the hobo and stained the cat’s backer in True Black. The kittens were harder than they need to be because I made it considerably smaller than it was recommended. Hope you all like them.

BTW, I stack cut both portraits and ended up with two of each one.

 

Very nice cutting