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I live in Ormond Beach Florida. I found on-line, some very old B&W photos of famous places here in Ormond Beach, one of which is the Ormond Hotel from back in 1894. It is now called the “Ormond Heritage Condominium” but looks amazingly like it did in its heyday. Here is the Photo. I posted a copy of this photo on 6/19 in Pattern Central/ Pattern Requests with a request for someone to help me out with a pattern. Grampa (Paul) stepped up and produced a Pattern for me. Thank you, Paul. From his pattern I was able to modify it a little (well maybe a bit more than a little). Paul’s pattern is a very simplistic representation of the hotel in the photo as the photo is very grainy and lacked sharp detail. So, I decided to take some artistic liberties to enhance the image to present a credible image while trying to maintain the original image of the hotel itself. Using Paul’s pattern overlayed on the Photo I was able to add lot of details to the trees and bushes, even adding some Palm leaves so the tree trunks look like trees and not poles. There are some trees in the photo on the right side that interfered with view of the building so I eliminated them for clarity. The cutting is 5/32”x12”x18” Solid Core Maple Ply mounted on a1/4” thick BB Ply backer simply painted with Krylon rattle can spray Flat Black. I used various Pegas spiral and regular blades to cut the pattern. As none of the line work was straight, it was necessary to take a lot of liberties during the cutting. Most apparent is the baluster spacing of the Hand Railing. I protected the assembled panel with multiple coats Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. The frame is 2 ¾” wide 5/4” thick pre-primed molding. I used a frame making router bit to produce the profile. The cutting was not as good as I expected and although I did a lot of both machine and hand sanding, the defects became obvious (in the photo) after the frame was primed and painted. From a viewing distance it doesn’t look tooooo bad. The Paint is a Glidden MAX-FLEX rattle can spray product called Phantom Hue (Silver) in a Satin finish that dries quickly and lays very flat and is supposed to be very durable. Critiques and comments welcome.

I use DecoArt® Snow Writer Paint. I get at Michaels Really fun stuff. I find it better to paint white under it.

This one took a couple of minutes. I like to miniaturize most of my portrait type patterns, but at 7 1/4” x 11” I probably took it a little too far on this cat. The entire project was cut with Pegas 2/0 spirals. 1/4” Baltic Birch, Danish Oil applied,mounted on a nominal 1” pine board stained black. Though my wife loves this one, I think it was more trouble than it was worth.

The woodwork is great and the burning really makes them pop. Excellent job, Monti.

Oh wow they are lovely. You are very artistic. Marg

Attached is the PDF with instructions that I did for someone on another forum. If you have any questions please let me know. New spring gnome.pdf

That looks like what I was looking for. Thanks Don.

I am in the market for a new miter saw, have a lot of quarter round and baseboard to do in the near future, I had a 25 year old craftsman that bit the dust. Looking for recommendations of saw that is not to heavy, because it has to be mobil, and is accurate. If anyone has one you are happy with, I would appreciate the brand and model, thx for your help, RJ

Good evening, its a Steve Good pattern, I changed a little to add the color. I know I usually don’t post my work, well I thought this one came out nice, thx for checking it out, RJ

So if I'm understanding you, you find your artwork and then cut your project to match it? I can't see any other way. Cutting out a dog and then finding a picture to match it could prove frustrating as heck!

Frank, that is Awesome!!! You and Paul make a Great Team.

Our Prayers are with you, I do know something about being without power, my Wife and I survived a flood in my hometown, and been through a hard winter freeze, I know it's not the same as your going through. I hope your situation clears up soon.

TO FRANK EV GAWD, I have NO idea how to answer anyone's question. I am COMPUTER CHALLENGED . None of this make much sense to me. I have NO idea how to get in touch with FRANKEV ??????? If you can get your mailing address to me, I will send you the geese project to try. Adding color is a very simple quick process. ...even I can do it. lol JAN

Prayers are with you, Don. It's unfortunate that our "Leaders" are causing so much havoc.

HI, I have NO trade secrets...........You can get art work on the internet check out. CLIP ART and note what you are looking for. Example, CLIP ART - DOGS. You should get all kind of drawings of dogs. Make a copy of one you like and you have ready made artwork to use. You can get ideas from books or magazines.......I am not an artist at all, but I can sketch. I hate painting so I make a light pencil sketch on white paper and use felt tip colored pencils to color it. (Get a good set of color pencils, they work great and there is no mess or clean-up like with paint.) Then I make a color copy of my, "art work", cut it out and glue it to the scroll saw project. ( I usually paint the edges white first though.).

I needed something for my office desk. So I made different-sized Post-It holders. That reminded me of bowl making on the scroll saw. So I made two shallow maple platters - can be used for jewelry or paperclips or...

Wow Frank, that is fantastic. That is obviously a labor of love and a work of art. You should be very proud. Have you shown it to the people who own and/or operate the hotel?

Thanks Don

After your initial post, I gave this process a try. It works great on other things too. Thanks. x

I have 2 , one brand new, both I think or at least one will bevel left and right. To bad you weren,t closer you could taken the pick of the litter!!!

A "Spiralalist,s " dream!!! What a cutting!!!

Thank you Don.

Beautiful. Impressive work Frank. Marg

Do you have a pattern for the gnome? My wife is quite taken with it.

Sent an email.

Yes I did - thank you for asking!

Very artistic. Did you create your own patterns?

If you read any of my posts you know I color my work, primarily with Artist Acrylic Paints. I would be happy to give your process a try. So if you still need testers, please feel free to send my the patterns and info. The Geese look intesting. Thanks

Email sent. Thanks, David

thanks for the kind words - I'm not really a scroller "enthusiast", per se. I like to make dimensional signs and have always used the band saw, routers, or Roto-Zip to cut the elements out then do some handcarving to perk them up a bit. I'll put some of my projects in my folder later on. I work mostly with HDU (High Density Urethane). I very rarely clear-coat anything. (I'm a painter. That's what I do. I like to paint things).

MY painting is not very good either.....that is the" beauty" of this process....you do NOT have to do any painting at all. The art work is included with the patten Just cut out the project like you usually do..........paint the edges (optional) and glue the provided art work to the surfaces.....when done, it LOOKS like you painted the project. Go back and study the photos above and you will see, it LOOKS like they were painted. The pull dog illustrates it best. Only painting required was the white edges. The paper art was glued on. Would you like to try one? Have a great day. JAN

A pattern by Alex Fox, I gotta say I really like his stuff. Cut from ⅛ ply, middle layer is painted. My first "camping " project that I cut. Chris

This did not work as expected and I can't seem to delete the post: So click on the link if you would like to see three of the new puzzles I have been working on. I will post pics asap https://fb.watch/dU0GRIOOKx/

Took me awhile to figure it out, but here is the link for the gnomes. I imported into Inkscape and played around in there. https://crafthousesvg.com/products/free-fall-gnomes-svg-fall-football-gnomes-svg-fb262?_pos=1&_sid=365181567&_ss=r

I have this one: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Metabo-HPT-was-Hitachi-Power-Tools-10-In-Slide-Miter-Saw/1002652924 It is a good deal with many nice features and is easy to adjust and pretty accurate right out to the box. I like the space saving folding feature and that it goes to 60 deg. miter.

Been shopping around myself. Leaning towards the Makita 10 inch slider. A little pricey but built very well.

My searches have all failed to find the desired post. I think it was earlier this year but maybe last year. The post showed a special type of paint/coating on a dwarf’s beard that really made it stand out. Any help much appreciated, thanks in advance.

Just to let you know, I. can’t do any scroll saw work at the moment, because our corrupt government has not done maintenance on the power stations and they are now on the verge of collapse. We have been on Stage Six Load Shedding which means they switch the power off and you got to live with that. As I write this now it’s 8:00PM in South Africa our suburb has not had power since 12:00 PM today, nobody knows what’s going on. So tomorrow and the week end our schedule shows power will be off on these times: 00:00-2:30AM 04:00-6:30AM 12:00-16:30PM 20:00-00:30PM So survival ( keeping food from going off etc) is more important than Scroll Saw Cutting.