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I crafted this plaque using ribbon striped (quarter sawed) sapele. When cutting the tree I set my saw at approximately a two degree angle. The tree worked well for this because it was one continuous cut. I pushed the tree out about 1/2 way and did a lot of sanding with a sanding mop. I'm very happy with the look.

Been busy lately. The black and white bunny (1/4") was a special request to go with the Collingwood plaque, (1/2") all made out of pine. Collingwood is a AFL, Aussie Football. A second Collingwood is being made now. Fred the Reindeer is one I made for myself, always wanted to make him. Made from 1/4" marine ply Used #3PGM blades. And finally Rude Batman, (sorry can't remember the name of the pattern maker) made for my grandson for Christmas. 2.5mm bamboo ply. I made 6 more Christmas sweaters, 3 with colored paper and 3 with glittered card, glued to scrap pieces of wood Marg

I started to cut this pattern and because I was planning on it for a gift, decided to stack cut a couple of them so I could have one for my shop wall. Well, I made the decided to cut it with 1/8 inch Baltic Burch and use a spiral to cut the eye first with it and then go to my #1 Pegas blade. There was a slight Bow in the wood so I placed both bulges facing each other so as to try and avoid the chance of breakage. Well that was a mistake as just as i finished the eye, it broke out. I was thinking that I would just go back into the shop, increase the pattern size a little but only cut the head out instead of the entire animal as then I could use the remainder of the wood I was going to use instead starting completely over again. I told my wife what I was planning on doing and showed the progress to the cut as I went along. She thought I was doing an OK job, at that point. When I finally finished it and took it into the house and showed it to her, she replied, " I don't like it." "What?" was my reply and it was because I had not included the entire pattern in the cutting.How could she have not noticed that all the other times I showed her my progress on it? Now, I can't give it as a gift and it has become another of my closet art pieces, you know, the ones you are too embarrassed to show others. Well I know here in the village, people are always complimentary at other's work, even when it is inferior to what they might be making, so because my wife caused it to become closet art, I will be looking for at least one person here to say something a little nice about it and make all my cutting time, not so much of a complete waste of my time. It is OK to lie this one time. Dick heppnerguy

Dave you are a master! That is beautiful! would give any CNC a run for it's money.

Look at the choices you have, as opposed to the choices that have been taken away from you. Because in those choices, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.-Michael J Fox

Looks great to me! My wife and I have a good relationship, 40 years, but if I want to feel good about something I’ve cut I don’t ask her what she thinks about it. Brutally honest, and if she attempts a fake approval, after 40 years it’s easy to spot. Obviously, I know she won’t be reading this.

Thanks Kevin. I really have no desire to own a CNC. I can find enough to do with the equipment I have to satisfy me.

Hi Dick: I would say that your rabbit turned out great I would proudly display this one Maybe buy your wife some flowers and apologize, for whatever you said/did then I'll bet you she will like it......LOL Fab4

I just thought I would tell you my little story. I lived in Southern Oregon for 15 years and made it a point to contact 'Scrappile' and made arrangments with him to meet for lunch, just so we could meet each other and swap some stories. Six years ago I moved from Eastern Oregon to Southern Arizona. I have two daughters still living in the town we moved from so we do get up there a couple times of the year. Whenever I get an opportunity to go to Tri Cities, I make a point to go visit Paul. We have become really good friends and I cherish whatever time I can have with him. Take the time to contact Paul and set up a visit. I guarantee you it will be worth it. You will love looking at some of his fabulous scrolling as well. He is fantastic. Dick heppnerguy

Here is a clock I did for my Lady's young Grandson. He was actually having difficulty using a clock with hands to tell time because of growing up with all digital clocks. Thought this would help and give him a chance to learn about Chinese numbers at the same time (note the simlilariity to Roman Numerals). He also like dragons.

I converted an Image of a metal wall hanging I found on-line into a scrollable 11 x 17 pattern. The conversion did not take much work as the hanging artwork was already very much like a scroll saw product. The only thing I had to do was let Inkscape invert the image to produce the cutout areas in a red outline with gray fill. The metal wall hanging was shown as Black with the contrasting image in White. I liked the way it looked but wondered how it would look in contrasting wood colors as how we, Scrollers, often present our work. I decided to stack cut two 5/32” thick solid core ply panels, one Walnut and the other Birch. The Walnut panel was then left natural (although I did darken it slightly with a quick wipe on/wipe off coat of Walnut stain) and it was affixed to 1/4” thick BB Ply backer that was left Natural. The Birch panel was primed and painted with rattle can Gloss Spray Black and affixed to 1/4” thick BB Ply backer that was primed and painted with rattle can Gloss Spray White. Both assembled panels were further protected with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Lacquer. If these cutting were solid wood, no framing would have been necessary, not unlike the original metal wall hanging which is unframed. However, to hide the plywood edges, I made narrow (1/2” wide) drop-in type frames that match the cut panels. Walnut for the Walnut panel and Pine, primed and painted Gloss Black, for the Black panel. Be warned, you should not let the apparent simplicity of this image fool you. I chose to use a Pegas #1 MGT R blade to cut the pattern to insure the cut edges were sharp. I found the cutting, with all the sharp pointy corners resulted in a LOT of time-consuming Panel spinning. I also found it took much patience and fine touch control to follow the simple, but long, curve pattern lines accurately. The image is a mirror image side to side, so cutting misstates would not be able to be hidden. I think I did OK, but it did require many rest breaks to keep my eyes from getting too crossed. If you have taken the time to read through this far, I have a BIG REQUEST. Even if you have no comments, please reply with a simple vote for the one that you prefer. I’ll number the pics below #1 - Walnut and #2 - Black for simplicity of voting. I’ll let you vote a #3 if you don’t like either. #1 – Walnut #2 – Black Yep, comments and critiques are always welcome and encouraged. You will be able to find the pattern in “New Pattern Announcements” in Pattern Central herein.

Dave, did you say you have a pegas band saw, RJ

Re-reading your post, the above sentence jumped out at me. This is something I never do. Not even in this forum, will I show a partialy finished piece. Most of the good artist I know do not ever like to show a work in progress unless they are specifically in "demonstration mode". I most often show a pattern I'm thinking of cutting to my Lady to see if she thinks it would be a good subject or not. This is usually the point where I know if she likes the subject/image or not, and will make me think twice if I going to cut it or not. I have cut a few that she did not much care for but they actually came out well, with much approval in this forum. We all know everyone has different likes and dislikes. When she visits me in the shop and sees a piece I'm cutting it's no big deal, but I don't look for any comments on my progress or how the piece looks at that time. I most often only reveal the finished piece to her when getting ready to take photos to post herein. Of course, I my case, I often need her help when I add color to a piece. She has a better eye as to how it should look, so, at my bequest, will be very honest on my efforts to color a piecce. The subject itself is not so much a concern at that point, but more so as to how the color rendering is working. This is the exception to my rule.

very nice,

probably a bit of adjustment tinkering will fix

My son is a wildlife photographer. He has taken several pictures of moose and if I remember correctly some of these pictures have water dripping from their mouth. Must be just sloppy drinkers. My son, and me too, would be proud to hang this on his wall. What did your wife think was missing from the picture? I like it. I wish my wife were still here so I could share my work with her, she loved when I would show it to her. Now I just bug my neighbors. As you can tell I like it. Jerry

Beautiful piece.

fantastic job

Very nice!

A few more. The bunny is cherry, turtle is Hickory, Snoopy, Mickey and Dragon are left over flooring. The hen is Hickory also and a Terance Thomas pattern. I don't remember what Donald's wood is.

Another beautiful piece Dave. And thanks for the tip. Marg

Like I have stated in several replies to your work, I first only saw the brown owl and imagined that I probably would not care very much for a black and white version. However, I was really surprised when I scrolled down and saw the black and white one. It really caught my attention and I had to annualize my own reaction to it. I was not sure if I liked it or not, but the more I stared at it, the more I did like it and I think my vote, surprisingly would have to go for #2. It is almost haunting to me. Dick heppnerguy

Brillant idea and a beautiful piece. Well done.

Just curious, what size blade did you use?

I buy it locally http://www.mckinneyhardwoods.com/ . If you want a small amount I would be happy to ship you some.

Very nice and a different technique.!

Beautiful work Dave. As always. You have a real gift for making beautiful stuff. Would you tell me where you find the sapele? When I was looking fo it, I found none from any of the regular sources. I wanted it for the bowl I made and was forced to use padaul instead and now it has darkened to almost brown.

Thanks so much.

Very nice well done.

Dave, what can I say another beautiful piece, you are a real artist, RJ

Having seen owls in thier nest in trees, I prefer the brown one. Having seen owls in head lights, swoop packrats in the night desert. I still prefer the brown one. But the black one definitely has the night owl concept. Ever get that feeling someone is watching you? I did when I was 12 yrs old, I was being watched by a white owl in the desert during the day. So why not do a white owl? screen shot from internet.

That came out great Paul. Love the wood you used.

terrific job, it's beautiful

I agree with Frank on the frame. A rustic one would work better. As for the water drips, if you have ever seen a Moose in the wild they eat the vegetation in the water and when they raise their head they drip water from their face/head. I would hang this on my wall. Nicely done!

I do go to their location. It is actually a guy that has a building behind his house that he keeps lumber in. I don't buy much from him because of their limited inventory. Last time I went he had 1/2 dozen very nice 1/4 sawed sapele boards. Most of my wood I get from Dallas Hardwood. I use usually use my Pegas for any angle work I do and my Hegner for anything else. The Hegner is a work horse and will outlast the Pegas by a long shot. I use my Pegas scroll band saw for most of my Intarsia work.

Hi Judy, You did well on your projects there and nicely finished too! Thanks for showing, Bob

*One of my artistic daughter's helped me out and drew a new sprig of hair for the left side of the portrait which I added as a floater. Love it when she helps me. My wife found an awesome nursery about an hour from us called, Heimu's Himalayan Gardens. It is run by Heimu, pronounced Hey Moo, who is from Tibet. She sells lots of succulents, which is something my wife loves. My wife picked out lots of plants, I got the one little one in the picture by the little wooden man carving. I told Heimu I liked the carving and she gave it to me, which was a big deal to me because it wasn't for sale but one of many carvings a friend of hers that has passed away had given her. I made this sign for her and can't wait to get back to give it to her. This one was much more gratifying than any celebrity. I found a couple of cool pieces of wood to make planters for my wife's flowers in the woods behind our house. If you're interested here is the link to Heimu's Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/heimu1983

I'm with ChelCass, #4. I like both equally. (sorry). Excellent work Frank. Marg

I will be first and say very well done but not telling a lie.

Nice, Frank. I'm partial to #1.

Dave, I see you have a Hegner and a Pegas. Which did you use for this project. when you buy from McKinney Hardwood, do you go to their location?

If it was at the right price the trip wouldn't stop me. You do not see many of those around.

Hey Tyler, I always enjoy your videos. Thanks for posting. Jerry