A gift for a special friend.

[Hudson River Rick]

Hi everyone, I made this plaque for a very close friend who was celebrating his 60th birthday.  Marc has this unbeliveable Black Lab who doesn't know he's a dog, EVERYBODY loves COAL.  When I came up with this layout, I chose a nice piece of Cherry to mount the lettering on and I didn't have real dark wood, so I had to apply several light coats of rattle can Black on the dog pattern.  I read somewhere on the internet that if you bake poplar wood slowly in the oven, that it would turn very dark, so I told Ann Marie I was going to try that...NOT IN HER OVEN.  The person who wrote the article must have been a bachelor.  This is my version of a 1983 song by "THE POLICE"  Thanks for looking.  I have posted this on 2 other scroll saw forums, I'm sorry if this is your second view. Rick

[preprius]

oh that is funny.

[Dak0ta52]

Nicely done, Rick. i really like the grain in your backer! I just recently finished a black lab I did for commission.

[Joe W.]

Ain't that the truth!  
Well done!

[Hudson River Rick]

A great big THANK YOU to all you kind folks.  Thanks for looking at my project.

I forgot to mention that the font I used is called JOINT byPizzaDude, I got it from dafonts.

 I chose this font because I wanted something informal and fun when I see it posted, it appears that I didn't do a good job on the cutting. 

Rick

[Scrappile]

I have one of those special Labs... I understand.

[wombatie]

Love it.  I'm sure your friend will too.

Marg

[barb.j.enders]

Looks great.  And of course, I had to sing the words!!

The cutting appears to be just fine!

[Scrolling Steve]

Very Nice!

[daveww1]

awesome job

[TAIrving]

Very well done, the choice of woods and the cutting!  Mostly I like the sentiment, I have had dogs like that!

[Charlie E]

Cute sign. Nice job!

[Hudson River Rick]

Please accept my to all of you for looking at my project.  

Rick

[Denny Knappen]

I saw this on several other forums, and it still looks great here too!

[rdatelle]

That's nice Rick. So true.

[Hudson River Rick]

@Denny Knappen Thanks a bunch Denny.  I usually don't post the same thing on the 3 forums because I don't want to bore people.  This was a real special project for me so I decided to go ahead and psot to everyone. 

Rick

[Ron Johnson]

Awesome job Rick. For sure you’ve made a friend proud 

[keefie]

I love it - and so true too !