A FrankEV pattern

[CSull]

I liked your pattern Frank so I took a try at it.  Cut from 1/4 Maple with a 1/8BB backer using a #2 spiral blade.  I made the frame from alder and stained it.  I must say the painting was challenging-getting the colors in the right place on the backer was time consuming. I probably went about the hard way

[Dave Monk]

Very nice and colorful. What color stain did you use on the frame?

[FrankEV]

Excelent job on the Three Amigos!.  Very nice cutting and colloring work. Ya did good!!!

Yes painting the backer is time consuming and can be difficult to get the right colors in the right place with out overlaps or missed areas.  I have gone to making paper stencils from the cutting pattern to get most of the colors in the correct place. Helps but not always 100% accurate.

Not intended as a critism but I'll offer one suggestion.  In the future try cutting nominal 1/8" thk  material and use 1/4 as a backer.  There is less visable vertical cut edges.  Also, the 1/4" thk backer makes the panel much more rigid. 

   

[CSull]

7 hours ago, FrankEV said:

Excelent job on the Three Amigos!.  Very nice cutting and colloring work. Ya did good!!!

Yes painting the backer is time consuming and can be difficult to get the right colors in the right place with out overlaps or missed areas.  I have gone to making paper stencils from the cutting pattern to get most of the colors in the correct place. Helps but not always 100% accurate.

Not intended as a critism but I'll offer one suggestion.  In the future try cutting nominal 1/8" thk  material and use 1/4 as a backer.  There is less visable vertical cut edges.  Also, the 1/4" thk backer makes the panel much more rigid. 

   

Thanks for the advice Frank, it makes sense-don't know why I didn't think of that

[Hawk]

Excellent work. I did this pattern about 2 months ago, same problem, getting the color in the right places is time consuming, but well worth the effort.

 

Chris

[CSull]

8 hours ago, Dave Monk said:

Very nice and colorful. What color stain did you use on the frame?

Used Behr B3550 Fishing Village-I think it would have looked better if I had used Alder that wasn't so spalted. I am working on a frame using aspen and think the stain will look better on the lighter wood.

[heppnerguy]

I think you did a splendid job on this. Colorizing it from the backerboard to show through in all the right places can be a real challenge alright. Especially when some of the lines are very small and close to something that has to be a different color. It all looks so nice and you should be proud to hang this one on the front room wall for others to admire when they visit you.

Dick

heppnerguy

[wombatie]

Wow what a wonderful job you did.  I congratulate you.

Marg

[Dak0ta52]

Excellent Craig. Coloring is nice but I'm really impressed with the grain in your maple.

[don watson]

I see an excellent piece of work. Thanks for showing it as I will try this sometime when I am sorted out.

 

[daveww1]

awesome job, the painting makes the job pop