Indian girl

[GPscroller]

Finished this morning. Botas Helder pattern on white poplar burl slab. 21 X 11 X 3/4 109 cuts with Sawbird #3 ultra reverse. Pre-oil and post oil pics.

[John B]

Nice cutting on a beautiful piece of timber.
Heldas does some great patterns

[pet-design]

fantastic piece of wood and fine cutting - very well done!

[Dak0ta52]

Awesome!!!

[daveww1]

it's beautiful, fantastic job

[Joe W.]

The oiling really emphasizes the beauty.  Nice cutting.

[Eric67]

Awesome!

[Dan]

Love that crazy grain! The project turned out great!

[trackman]

I agree with the others nice work!  I think I liked it better before the oil. Stands out better.   But don’t think I have heard of Sawbird blades. Were you get them?

[rjR]

Gorgeous work!

 

[wombatie]

That is so beautiful.  Excellent work Jeff.

Marg

[GPscroller]

17 hours ago, trackman said:

I agree with the others nice work!  I think I liked it better before the oil. Stands out better.   But don’t think I have heard of Sawbird blades. Were you get them?

Thank you sir, I agree that it stands out better before the oil.  One of my friends said with the oil turned her into a ghost lol.  Sawbird blades are sold here in Canada by the Canadian intarsia artist Garnett Hall.

[CSull]

Love the use of the burl.

[frankorona]

Excellent, the title of your work reminded me of this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zX5jdbhmQ0

 

[spirithorse]

Great job!
I really like the burl slab and the grain but, I did like the portrait better before the oil.

God Bless! Spirithorse

[Blaughn]

I love the live-edge stock.  It really adds a lot to the beautiful cutting.  Well done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tbow388]

Love it!

[Scrolling Steve]

Very nice work !

[FrankEV]

GreatJob, but I too, like it better before the Oil.   Some sort of clear non-yellowing finish may have been a better choice,  My favorate is Lacquer.

On another note, are you not worried about cracking and curling.  I've worked with burl in the past, specificallly for turning bowls.  Over time they get better with age, but all curl and crack.  

Was the slab you used dry...less than 6% moiture ?   Most slabs need to be either kiln dried or stacked away to dry for a long time in order to become stable at less then 6% moisture.