Good’s Rose Vase 2023

[FrankEV]

As many of you do, I receive daily Email from Steve Good with his Scroll Saw projects.  Most of his projects are not my “cup of tea”.  However, every now and then one of his projects will grab my interest.  Earlier this week I downloaded his pattern for a solid wood Rose Vase which I decided to experiment with and make with a few modifications.  The major modification was that I wanted both the front and back to have the rose image cutout and have solid backers that I could use to apply color to the image.  

I knew I did not have any significant quantity of a specific hardwood in stock that I could use to make it and did not want to purchase any right now.  However, I did have a verity of cut offs of Maple and Walnut that were of the correct size that I decided to use.  I was able to find six pieces, all of which were 1/4” thick, except one piece was only 3/16” thick.  Also, the number of available pieces allowed me to make one face Walnut and the other face Maple, another modification to the design.  Since this is a vase, the middle two pieces - the 3/16” and one 1/4” would be cut to form the internal cavity.

First, I stack cut the full six layers to the rough outside configuration using a Pegas #5 skip tooth blade.  Second, I stack cut the Rose Image in the front and back piece using Pegas #1 MGT R blades.  Should have flipped the finished face of the back over so the image would face the same way but I didn’t.  So, the Front and back face in opposites directions, but that was OK with me.  Third, I stack cut the middle two layers to form the cavity, again using the Pegas #5 skip tooth blade.  Here again I did not follow the pattern.  I started the cut, following the pattern at the mouth of the vase, but simply cut a straight down rectangle from the inside of bulge near the top.  This added significant rigidity and glue surface to the middle pieces.

After adding my color with Artist Acrylics to the backers, the glue up was straight forward.  First the middle two pieces, the two front pieces, and the two back pieces were individually glued together.  Then I glued the three assembly’s together to form the completed vase.  Although all the layers were originally stack cut, the final glued up stack was not perfectly lined up and a bit of sanding was needed with both my bench belt sander and my rotary oscillating sander to flush up and smooth all the perimeter sides.  Finally, I eased all the sharp corners with sanding sponges and fine hand sanded all surfaces with 220 grit sponges and then 600 grit Wet/Dry Sandpaper.  The finish is multiple coats of Clear Gloss Lacquer.

This Rose Vase will be given to my Lady and occupy a place in our home.  She already loves it!!!!!!!

Hoping this lengthy dialog was not too boring.

 

Comments and critiques always welcome.

[rjweb]

Frank, that looks great, RJ

[jerry walters]

That looks great Frank. I have that pattern on my to do list. You just gave me some ideas.

Jerry

[MarieC]

Frank, I love the painted leaves and roses...very pretty!

[Gene Howe]

Very nice, Frank. And, thanks a lot for the procedural details. 

[daveww1]

beautiful job

[kywoodmaster]

I love the color adding that you do to your projects. I had not thought about the multi species sides the you did it but it looks great. I saw that one and have it on my to do list if the DR ever lets me back in the shop.

[FrankEV]

43 minutes ago, kywoodmaster said:

I love the color adding that you do to your projects. I had not thought about the multi species sides the you did it but it looks great. I saw that one and have it on my to do list if the DR ever lets me back in the shop.

The multi species sides was only because I did not have enough material of one kind.  The entire project was an experiment and a learning endevour.   

Hope what ever is keeping you out of the shop gets better quickly.

[wombatie]

It looks terrific Frank.

Marg