'Bee on a Comb' designed by by Fiona Kingdon

[Frank Pellow]

This week, I started and completed 'Bee on a Comb:

                            

It is a companion piece for 'Double Dragon" -see

As with all of Fiona's patterns I have utilized, I cut this out of thick (almost 1 inch) Spalted Maple.

For reasons that I don't understand, not all my cut swere at a perfect 90 degrees.  If one looks closely at the back of the cut piece, this is obvious:

                 

I had thought about hanging this n a window with no backing but, because the cuts are not perfect, I decided not to do this.  The imperfections are hard to detect once a backing is glued to the piece.  I tried various veneers as a backing:

          

and chose #6 which, I think, is Elm.

I sandwiched the veneer between the cut piece and 3mm thick Baltic Birch plywood, glued all the together, the cut out a circle on my scroll-saw:

   

I then sprayed everything with clear semi-gloss "rattle can" stuff, attached a brass plaque and hung it on our bedroom wall beside 'Double Dragon':

  

 

 

 

 

Edited February 17, 2020 by Frank Pellow

[rjR]

Great work.

 

Sometimes the wood seems to have a mind of it's own on whether or not the cuts will remain 90's!

[spirithorse]

Very, very nice work, Frank,

With work that thick, it would be very hard not to put side pressure on the blade as you are cutting.
Also, the blade has to be square to the table and the thicker the wood, the more any minute discrepancies in square will show up.
You are much more critical of your cuttings than anyone else would ever be. Those are excellent projects and you can be proud of them.

God Bless! Spirithorse

[trackman]

I like the name tags you used. Did you make them?

[meflick]

Beautiful work Frank, thanks for showing. 

[Rockytime]

Beautiful work! I'm not able to detect anything not 90 degrees so it must not exist.

[amazingkevin]

I would be in 7th heaven cutting the Combs and not mess them up. Real quality cutting here Mr. Pellows

[Whisper]

Super job well done!  I don't see any imperfections.

[wombatie]

Love it.  Marvelous work Frank.

Marg 

[LarryEA]

Your work is just beautiful. Thank you for showing.

This should be inspiration to many others....

[Frank Pellow]

8 hours ago, trackman said:

I like the name tags you used. Did you make them?

I designed them, but I had them made by a small local manufacturer of awards, plaques, and trophies.

[Loskoppie]

Stunning

[Scrolling Steve]

Excellent work all around !

[daveww1]

fantastic work

[Frank Pellow]

For those of you who said that they could not detect cutting mistakes, I modified the diagram that showed the back of the piece in front of a window, I modified the photo to add three red arrow pointing to three of those mistakes.

[Fedido]

Thanks for sharing. I was told before I started that I will be most critical of my own work. Also, I was told to not point out mistakes as most will not notice them. I share this because the mistakes you pointed out would not be noticed and does not take away from the overall amazing work. Well done! 
 

Hendo

[Frank Pellow]

49 minutes ago, Fedido said:

Thanks for sharing. I was told before I started that I will be most critical of my own work. Also, I was told to not point out mistakes as most will not notice them. I share this because the mistakes you pointed out would not be noticed and does not take away from the overall amazing work. Well done! 
 

Hendo

Thanks.  In genera, I agree with you about to mentioning mistakes.  I did so in this case for two reasons:

1. I am mystified as to why some of my cuts were not at 90 degrees
2. The uneven cuts are harder to see when there is a backer board on the piece.  ( Some day I would like to make one of these with no backer board, so I need to solve my cutting problem.)

[Fedido]

I can understand that. I made a piece in the shape of a grenade for work (there is a story there). I screwed up the piñon it by having the front perfect and the back at about 45 degrees. Let’s just say it is now a grenade armed with no pin.  
 

Hendo