Lil mermaid sculpture (Steve good download)

[Allen levine]

A lot more difficult for me as I'm not experienced at all the fret work but I believe it came out ok

5 hours 45 minutes into this project

all pieces are cut

need to fine sand then fit the dado into the base better 

I chose maple and poplar as this one I'm painting wanted bright colors wood can't offer

heres where I'm at 

days over gotta go get my grandson out school and bring him to speech therapy lotta driving but it is what it is

im the uber grandpa like so many others here I'm sure

The 1/8 th thick pieces I'm glad I told Mr goods advice and stack cut because one tail snapped off when I was trying to take tape off glad I had another piece 

[ChelCass]

Beautiful.

 

[Wichman]

Some notes about removing tape from patterns.

Use a sharp pointed scratch awl to lift an edge up, then use tweezers or small needle point pliers to pull on the pattern/tape/shelf liner. 

Pull towards the center, if there are multiple points to lift, work on each appendige separately, stop at a common area until all appendiges have been lifted. Work from the most fragile to the tougher areas.

Use a very sharp angle to pull across fragile areas about an inch above the piece of possible, minimize the lift stress on the piece.

When I lifted the pattern with shelf liner from the dragon; I started with the tail, pulling the pattern to the body, then lifting the fingers and toes, then the wings from the bottom upwards, and finally peeling the pattern off the body. The tail is 14" long as cut and 1/8" wide at the thinnest. I cut 5 of these and didn't break any removing the pattern.

This is my needle point awl, I got it in a knife set from HF.

 

[Peter N White]

Will look very good when finished.

[Scrappile]

I use a flat edges x-actor blade to remove tape when I use tape.

[rjweb]

Allen, great job, RJ

[Millwab]

Shelf liner doesn’t have the tack that tape has and is a lot cleaner to peel off 

[Allen levine]

26 minutes ago, Millwab said:

Shelf liner doesn’t have the tack that tape has and is a lot cleaner to peel off 

I have 3 rolls of the clear plastic liner I'm just lazy when I'm out there and forget to use it 

[Allen levine]

First coat of paint wanted to see how the colors look

nothing is glued or cleaned

[daveww1]

nice job, looking forward to seeing it finished

[Allen levine]

[Allen levine]

I started another Steve good download this afternoon

its the quilting queen placque

 

It's good practice for me