Popular Post preprius Posted September 13, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 I live near a Condor reserve area. Pinnacles National Park. This is one of the sites where they steal the eggs that the condors lay, so the condors will lay another egg. They hatch and raise the bird in captivity but release them when the are old enough. Humans captured all known California condors in 1966. There was like less than 50 of them. Now there is over 1000 of them. Every one of them is gps tagged. So i decided to make a easy scroll saw outline and inlay the white wood aspen for the under wing. The local vet does work on wildlife and does work on vultures. So I will donate this to him. Behind the wood piece On the wall is the picture I stuck to the wood to be used as pattern. Because the inlay fit flush only from the back, it looks like I turned the head the other way. Size is about 8 inches wing span. Wood is 0.75" thk Poplar for the bird. Aspen 0.5" is white pattern on wing. General finish water based stain brown on poplar then satin coat. Only satin on aspen. Actual wingspan of Condors is about 10.5ft. Lesson learned... 1) poplar needs prestain conditioner. I did this after the inlay was cut. This caused wood swelling and inlay was very tight. Fix: precondition the wood before cutting. Both woods the aspen and poplar. 2) using poplar caused more work due to staining, pre conditioning. the wood slightly bowed after conditioning which caused sanding on flat surface to sand off the stain on edges. Fix.. don't use poplar. Use dark brown wood that stains well. jollyred, meflick, RabidAlien and 9 others 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namunolie Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 great work thanks for the lesson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 very nice job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny Knappen Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 That is super nice. A nice piece of Walnut would look good for the dark color. danny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawson56 Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 Down Right Super job!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankEV Posted September 14, 2021 Report Share Posted September 14, 2021 Great Job. Yep, like Danny said, Walnut would have been a good wood choice in liew of the poplar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preprius Posted September 22, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 update... I upgraded the perch from nothing to live edge. I pasted a pic of a patch that i saw on line. So the live edge kinda emulates the peaks of pinnacles. Olive wood is the peak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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