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Well, I liked cutting it, but the design is just too small for coin. The eyes are really hard to see.
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So, I took a normal Celtic Heart cut, then using the Arbor Press/Dapping Kit from Harbor Freight to dome it. Turned out pretty neat I think. ------Randy
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After I cut this pattern, I started to wonder what it would look like if I "Freed" the pattern from the outside coin. I don't know if it is better or not, but I like it. I pictured the before and after. (I tried a marathon session to try to finish most of this in one session, so the cutting started getting a little sloppy as I fatigued and started to hurt. If I ever do it again, I'll cut it over days instead of hours. There are 62 cuts in the initial design and cut on an Eisenhower. This is somewhat of an optical illusion, your eye might immediately see flowers inside of circles, but if you looks closely, the whole pattern is just interwoven circles.
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Elizabeth Olsen delivered a few new patterns. The Cats I'm pretty happy with. I upload the pattern for that as soon as I get the illustrator files for it to convert to pdf. The Airforce design needs a little work. The text was initially too small to cut, so I tried to enlarge that part, but I still had issues cutting it. I was off on the entry holes, throwing some of the letters off. For this kind of pattern, especially at this scale, I would rather have the inverse for the letters, so I'll see if she can come up with the design in the inverse. Her original design would work well if it was expanded and cut in wood at a much larger scale. I've converted the source vector file to PDF, so in that format, you can be scaled to any size, without losing detail. Here is the Original AirForce Pattern, you may have to enlarge a few of the bridges: AirForce_ElizabethOlsen.pdf AirForce_ElizabethOlsen.pdf
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I'm pulling in a few Artist to begin designing patterns for the Scroll Saw Community (focusing on Coins). These pieces can potentially be blown up and cut in wood as well. My designers don't know my limits yet, so they are pushing the boundaries. The image below is blown up considerably, so those "strings" are even thinner than they look. If anyone wants to try this, or blow it up and cut it in wood, let me know as any pattern I'm commissioning will be free to the scrolling community. This pattern designer is Elizabeth Olsen. I like the way she thinks, so I'm excited to see what else she comes up with. ------Randy
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I've been getting pinged by various folks looking at trying their hands at coin cutting. I thought I would take a minute and give a quick "Secrets" type post. In this case, I want to show a technique that makes it look like your piece has floaters, while in truth, the supports are hidden. Let me show you: I want to draw attention to the section circled below: In the unobstructed image below, it look like that piece is "Floating" with no supports. This technique is common amongst the better coin cutters. So what is going on? The surface material over the supports has been cut away, hiding the supports further below the surface. If you look carefully, you can see the supports buried down underneath. So, how is the surface cut away? Believe it or not, it is possible to cut while holding one edge of the coin up at an angle. If you cut from both sides, you will be left with a wedge as your support, but no surface material. This does weaken the support, so I have to be careful not to remove too much. Does this look a little awkward? It is a little, but the hard part is seeing what I am cutting with the coin angled up away from me. I have to lean way forward. In the past, I have also turned the blade around backwards so I can cut with the face of the coin facing me. Well, I wanted to show you something different, I hope I did :-) -----Randy
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I've told people that the blades I used are as small as a regular sewing pin, but both are so small, it's kind of hard to know for sure without really really zooming in. So out of curiosity, I scanned the smallest blade I commonly use. I assumed I would get a profile view, but was thrilled to see the front which give an idea of the actual kerf. I can't really see the teeth with the naked eye, so it was nice to get a zoomed image. Anyway, I though this was really neat, hopefully you will also. Click the picture below so see full size, so you can see the teeth.
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If we have any Firefly (SciFi) fans here, this one is for you. I about chickened out on this cut because when I printed it out, several of cuts were not much wider than the Kerf on a 6/0 blade. Took a chance and it wasn't as bad as I had feared. My source coin was not near big enough for this pattern, so I had to smash the heck out of it to get it to a cuttable size. I really needed a bigger coin, but, you do with what you got. Below is the original so you could see what I was going for. If I had the talent for painting, I might try to paint that outer ring . . . but I'm not.
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Cut on an elongated Eisenhower. Logo is really wide but not very tall, so it made sense to stretch out an Eisenhower to get more room. This could have been cut much smaller except for the eyes which don't scale down that far. In addition to the coin I cut, I added an extra picture to show the elongated coin before I cut it. I used a rolling mill to elongate the coin (this is like a train, except you can keep it in your house) :-)
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A friend of mine lost his father a few years back He requested that I make this as a gift to his mother, and I assume as a type of memorial. The parents were married in 1964. So happens, that was the last year they made the Kennedys out of silver, so I got a little more experience cutting silver, and saving those shavings. -----Randy
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Just out experimenting with stuff, looking at SciFi Symbols. Saw this from the Star Trek Universe and thought I would try to cut it. There were a lot of floaters in the pattern, so I tried to bridge things as I went. If you look close at the center piece, that whole section is held by a very little bridge towards the front, which makes this way too fragile. If I cut this again I'll put another support in the back.
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Making this for a Disney and Star Wars fan. Found the graphic on Google Images, and thought this might be the perfect fit for this person. I wasn't super familiar with the Star Wars symbol, but it came up all over the place in may searches, so evidently it is common amongst the fans. Those ears however, look very familiar :-) In a totally accidental happenstance, notice how In God we trust was in about the only place it could be, and still be completely visible. Not sure I could have done that on purpose. What do you think? ------Randy
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Someone found my facebook business page for coins, and asked if I could put a Name in the empty spot up top of the butterfly coin. That empty space always seemed awkward for me, but I wasn't sure how to fill it. I really really don't like fonts that have a line under them to hold them together, but found some name art on another facebook page that I did like. The font that I thought flowed together nicely is called "Birds of Paradise." That font is free for personal use or $49 if you are going to use it to make money. I'm sure most use this for free regardless, but my conscience said to pay the artists, so I did. The other coin is the Eagle Saw that I had left in the Acetone (forgot about) and needed to be polished to finish it off. I've been randomly giving coins away from my personal Facebook page for sometime now, but have switched to the business page so that all my friends that don't care about crafts or coin cutting don't have to see all my coin posts. I'll probably give the Eagle coin away on the business site sometime soon. When I sell a coin, I get money and that is my reward, but when I make someones day with a gift, that actually makes me feel good. -------Randy
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Ok Lawson, send me your address, I'll send you your Star Trek Emblem.
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I've done this cutting a few times over the years, but haven't cut it for a while. I'm trying to get my inventory up, and folks seem to like this one, so I cut this today, and got halfway through another one just like it. The pattern is by Steve Good and is cut on a Kennedy Half Dollar. Steve actually featured a prior cutting of this on his Blog a while back. ------Randy
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I find it extremely easy and exciting to sit down at a project that has already been prepped drilled and ready to cut, even if I only have a few minutes here and there. But if things aren't ready to go, I put it off because I have to go find a pattern, print, cut out, find a coin and clean it, then ca glue it, then mark the holes with a punch, oil, then drill . . . . The process is messy, time consuming, and I have to be in "work clothes that I can't ruin" So, knowing that I have a lot that I need to cut, and having some spare time this weekend, I hunkered down and prepped 21 coins with various patterns, and they are ready to cut. Now, in theory, I can set down at the saw and cut away, 30 minutes here, 10 minutes there, whenever I can. Time will tell how effective that approach is. At my normal prices, this stack, once cut, is worth over $500 (If I don't give too many away).
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I let too much time go without practicing the detailed stuff, so I cut a few simpler patterns to get my "feel" back, and then cut this. Kind of a tricky pattern, so only second time I've cut it. First time I cut this, it was by special request for a friend. This go around, I'll probably put this in the craft store to see if it sells. -----Randy
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This is the my first coin I've cut on the Hawk BM. The Pattern was purchased from Sue Mey. I was curious is the Hawk could do it, but it cuts this type of thing pretty well. The coin was a once U.S. bronze one dollar, that I flattened to .025" and is about 2" tall.
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This pattern is by Paul Boer and was posted by him to the Facebook Group "Scroll Saw Pattern Cafe." I suspect most folks cut it at about 10 inches tall. I made use the of the Rolling mill again and elongated an Eisenhower significantly to accommodate this pattern.
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I usually try to double post to my two favorite forums at about the same time, but because of the outage, I posted this to the Fox Chapel forum earlier. So for those of you that don't frequent the other forum, here is my latest: I found a rolling mill on Craigslist at a price I could afford, so that gave me the ability to flatten coins (without a hammer). Because this design is so wide, I would have to shrink the pattern down to where it was uncuttable on a regular coin. For this cutting, I flattened/elongated a greek drachma to about 2 times it's normal width, then cut this pattern. For perspective, It is about the same height as a dime. On my screen, the image below is about double actual size. It is too fragile to wear, but it makes interesting conversation piece. This is my very old but new to me rolling mill:
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Though most coin cutters out there like to cut out designs that are already a part of the coin, that isn't really my thing. When the coin is all silver, the contours make up the design, it is a real challenge to see where to cut. I thought I would try this again, and again, I struggled all the way through the coin, straining my eyes to make out the lines between the shadows and shades of silver. I must have my light wrong. If you don't see the bit of metal holding the "earth", it's because I overcut it, then used a black marker to further hide it. Anyway, hope you like the attempt.
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Ok, I'm sure some of you were hoping this was in wood . . . in time, I'll get back to wood, but I just need to get metal out of my system first. In any case, you have to admit, you have probably never seen this done with coins before :-)The gold/bronze inlayed coin is a Greek 100 Drachma, the copper is a Provident Mint coin. Blade was 2/0, angle for inlay was just under 8 degrees. You can't really tell it in the picture, but I lucked out and the inlay is perfectly flush and tight. I'll probably drill a hole in the top for a chain or something.-----Randy
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I very rarely cut a penny, less than 4 ever I think. Thought I would give it a shot. I don't need a cheater for anything down to a quarter in size, but the penny falls well outside that tolerance, but hey, look at that pretty cheat piece. The cheater made a nice bonus piece too. The cheater (Oily Jig) in this case was thick enough that it made the cutting harder than normal. Lesson to me, keep those cheaters super thin.
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The source image didn't really lend itself to cutting, but hopefully it is enough that the UT crowd will let me come back around. If we have any artist out there capable of original drawings, please consider drawing something scroll saw centric for the community. Plus, the original source for this is trademarked, so I have to keep this one hanging on my own wall. ----------Randy
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About once a month, I get to spend time in a craft store, holding down the fort, so to speak. Usually there is some dead time, so I take a manual saw (called a hand frame) and try to cut coins old school style. This is far harder than the scroll saw I usually use, but I'm getting a little better. All the inside cuts were done this way, and I cut the outside and tried to smooth my goofs on the inside with the normal saw when I got home. So if you look closely, this particular celtic pattern has a heart incorporated into it. Found the image google image shopping
