The Man with No Name

[FrankEV]

I found this B&W ‘High Noon Show Down’ image on-line and thought it would be a good Scroll Saw subject.  I know there are few fans of Old West among the SVV members that might like it.  I understand this is a scene from a movie/series of a while back of the same name.  I never watched it.

The conversion consisted of no more than resizing and inverting the image, so the cutout areas were red lines with grey fill.  Added a few bridges to the pattern and I also found that I needed a few more bridges during cutting.  I didn’t count, but there were a lot of holes.  All cutting was done with Pegas #2/0 Spiral blades, except I used a Pegas #1 MGT R for the long straight cuts along the narrow 1/4” wide edges (under the frame rabbet).

The cut panel is 5/32” x 11 x 14” solid core Walnut ply that was darkened with Minwax Dark Walnut stain.  The cut panel was affixed to a 1/4” x 11” x 14” solid core Maple Ply backer that was left natural.   This project is “Old School” - two tone wood, and it took a lot of will power on my part not to try and add color.  The assembled panel was finished with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Spray Lacquer.

The Frame is 1 3/4” wide Premium Pine rails sealed with non-wax containing Shellac, stained with Minwax Honey Maple Gel-Stain, and finished with two coats of Clear Minwax Satin Wipe-on Poly. 

Since I have been using Acrylic Paints and Polycrylic finishes recently, I almost forgot how long oil stain and Poly takes to dry - seems like forever.

Comments and critiques always welcome.

I’ll post the pattern in Pattern Exchange.

[preprius]

I definitely see Clint Eastwood.

Nice scene, guys with guns. 

Good job.

[MarieC]

Wow!  I love how you have depth to the picture.  Very well done!  How do you turn out pictures so fast anyway?  Takes me forever.  

[daveww1]

great job

[rdatelle]

That looks great Frank.

[rjR]

Nicely done.