Flowery Mirror Frame

[realfEZ]

Finally made it.

[attachment=0]Scroll Saw Mirror Frame50.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=1]Scroll Saw Mirror Frame Imed.jpg[/attachment]

 

The one with big eyes is #3 Imed.

 

Pattern is available in the forum's Gallery :

Or on my Blog : http://myscrollsawprojects.blogspot.com/2009/01/mirror-frame-2.html

[AirNationalGuardMom]

Great job realFEZ. What material did you use?

Linda

[Travis]

Wow, fEZ! That turned out great! I really like it at that scale too. What did you use to paint it? It looks like it has glass infused or something. Its hard to tell. Good job!

[Vector01]

Looks great! Colors work well.

[Christina]

Spectacular project RealfEZ..............and the little guy in the second photo is pretty cute too! Thanks so much for sharing it with us and my copy. You did a great job on this! I love it. But you need to add your name to your pattern! I added it to my copy.

Christina

[realfEZ]

Thanks friends,

 

I use (very poor quality) 5 or less mm plywood, that I cover (after scrolling work of course) with a home made coating :

 

• Acrylic paint + marble powder (I get from a gravestone maker friend's shop!... Were thinking of how mine should look like !) to make a rather thick coating.

• Apply with a perpendicular bumping motion on the plywood with a hard brush to give it the desired texture.

• Note that resulting texture depends on coating fluidity (which you can control by varying the proportions of acrylic paint and marble powder).

• Let dry/harden.

• Use coarse sand paper enough to get rid of brittle bits, making sure you still keep its rough texture.

• Fine sand.

• Paint (or use tinted varnish as shown).

fEZ.