From my memories

[heppnerguy]

I started my scroll saw work doing intarsia. I enjoyed the idea that I could make anything at all out of wood. That surprised me in itself. After messing with those for about 7 years, I got tired of doing them. I still tackle one now and then but now my past is coming back to me in my Facebook memory, look backs, like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, I posted yesterday here. So this morning I received another one of them from 7 years ago also. This one is one I completely designed and made the pattern myself. It turned out a new doctor was assigned to work in our local hospital and he turned out to be my wife's personal doctor. After talking to him for awhile, I found out he was an Oregon Duck fan so I decided to gift him with a little plaque and this was the results

 

[Scrappile]

Great job!  

[daveww1]

very nice job

[heppnerguy]

I was happy as this was one of the patterns I made myself and I thought the outcome was pretty good. considering  I was the total designer of it

Dick

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[wombatie]

The duck made me smile.  Love it.

Marg

[heppnerguy]

On 9/6/2022 at 9:40 PM, wombatie said:

The duck made me smile.  Love it.

Marg

I believe that Oregon University is one of only two universities that were authorized by Disney to use one of his cartoon characters for their school mascot.

Dick

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[rjR]

Just Mr. Jones doing his usual GREAT JOB!

 

Making tour own patterns always adds more enjoyment, even when it took multiple tries to get the pattern decent!

I have wasted a lot of posterboard, but I am too STUBBORN to quit before I get a reasonable result too. 

 

Sometimes it takes 4-5 different attempt or more for me to get a reasonable one.

 

[heppnerguy]

On 9/21/2022 at 10:07 AM, rjR said:

Just Mr. Jones doing his usual GREAT JOB!

 

Making tour own patterns always adds more enjoyment, even when it took multiple tries to get the pattern decent!

I have wasted a lot of posterboard, but I am too STUBBORN to quit before I get a reasonable result too. 

 

Sometimes it takes 4-5 different attempt or more for me to get a reasonable one.

 

If i know what I want from a pattern, I usually can make on in Inkscape. I also can do a fair job on wood portrait patterns but the hardest part for me is hair and beards.    If someone asks me to do a custom plaque for them and tells me what they want, without me being able to see even a rough sketch of their idea I usually spend more time making and remaking the pattern because they always add something to what I do and i really do not enjoy the whole process and time needed to finally understand just exactly what they wanted in the first place.

Dick

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