Two Felines

[FrankEV]

I converted these Spotted Leopard and Cute Kitten patterns for the scroll saw from free images found on-line.

The Spotted Leopard cut panel is a 5/32x11x17 Maple solid core ply attached to a painted black 1/4 BB backer. The cut panel was Hand Painted with Artist Acrylic Paints.  Cutting was completed with Pegas #2/0 and #0 spiral blades. The finished panel was protected with many coats of Deft Spray Clear Gloss Lacquer.  The assembled panel is set in a custom Poplar 1 3/4” wide Frame finished with multiple coats of Minwax Pecan Poly/Stain.

 

The Cute Kitten is 5/32x11x14 Walnut solid core ply attached to a Hand painted 1/4 BB backer.  The Walnut cut panel was darkened with Minwax Dark Walnut stain.  This pattern was very challenging because of the many very pointy cuts.  Cutting was completed with Pegas #1 and #2/0 MGT R blades.  The Backer was Hand Painted with Artist Acrylic Paints.  The assembled panel is set in a custom Poplar 1 3/4” wide Frame finished with multiple coats of MInwax Dark Walnut Poly/Stain.

 

As always, critique and comments welcome.

I'll post the PDF Patterns in "New Pattern Announcements"

[daveww1]

fantastic work, they're both beautiful

[Fish]

Beautiful work!  Thanks for sharing. 

[preprius]

Your work is so striking to the eye.

I love how you kept the green grass mixed with the paws.  Shows some depth and realism.

On both the whiskers look like some of the wood would fall out.  Are some of the whiskers painted on?

 

[FrankEV]

4 hours ago, preprius said:

On both the whiskers look like some of the wood would fall out.  Are some of the whiskers painted on?

No, none are painted on.  The leopard wiskers are all cut outs.   The Kitten wiskers are surface mounted.  I did lose one that I did not bother to try to fix. Another is actually broken but glued into place.  The Kitten was a difficult piece to cut.

[Dak0ta52]

Beautiful work as usual, Frank. I'm sure the kitten required a lot of spinning on the table if you cut that with a straight blade.

[jr42]

Very nice Frank, they look great.

[FrankEV]

2 hours ago, Dak0ta52 said:

Beautiful work as usual, Frank. I'm sure the kitten required a lot of spinning on the table if you cut that with a straight blade.

Yes, lots and lots of spining.  I first tried with a spiral blade but just could not get the points and pointy interior intersections sharp enough.  Using the regular blades, in some areas I did the double cut to get into the interior points, but mostly cut spin cut spin, etc. 

[lawson56]

Frank, Down Right Awesome job. Love the Kitten.

[Eric67]

Beautiful work Frank!

[wombatie]

Beautiful work Frank especially the leopard

Marg