Too Much Trouble

[Old Joe]

This 6x9” Stevie Ray Vaughn cutting is a case of too little of a good thing. Again, I decided to cut a slightly modified Charles Dearing portrait much smaller than the artist intended.Actually, only the guitar was too difficult. I used mainly a combination of Pegas 2/0 spirals and Pegas MG 2/0 and MG #1s with micro drill bits. 1/4” Baltic Birch mounted on 3/4” Pine, stained True Black.

[redwine]

Very nice work! Charles patterns are a challenge to cut but the result is well worth it! You did yourself proud with this one even with the reduced in size pattern! Well done!

Erv

Edited May 7, 2020 by redwine

[amazingkevin]

You did great!!!

[Rockytime]

Very nice cutting and mounting!

[Dave Monk]

That came out awesome!

[penquin]

Man you got some good eyes to that in that size.  Very nice.

jim

[wombatie]

Awesome.  Well done.

Marg

[Scrolling Steve]

You did good 

4 hours ago, wombatie said:

Awesome.  Well done.

Marg

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by Scrolling Steve

[Charlie E]

Nice job! 

[daveww1]

awesome job

[Dragonkort]

fantastic!!

 

[Denny Knappen]

Wow, Joe, that is an amazing cut.  Just perfect.

[Old Joe]

On 5/8/2020 at 4:53 PM, Denny Knappen said:

Wow, Joe, that is an amazing cut.  Just perfect.

Denny, I regret making it as small as I did. I do like to challenge myself with miniaturizing patterns, but the spaces were just too small, as I have 3 minor “blowouts” on spaces between the frets. I thought about attempting to cover them, but decided against it.I added detail to Stevie’s fingers that Dearing didn’t have, including finger nails and wrinkles on his knuckles.This is probably my least favorite of musician portraits that I’ve done, but I have someone interested in it to purchase, so I won’t dwell on the screwups.