Gobble, Gobble

[Minnesota scroller]

Too much detail and too much of a pain in the neck. From now on, no more than 100 entry holes. My wife's cousin saw my owl and requested a turkey. I should be thrilled. It will be my first sale. I probably made about $2.25 per hour. But I guess nobody pays me for watching TV. This did get quite tiresome after awhile though. I think I'll try to find patterns that are just a little less delicate. This kind stresses me out too much.

Mike

[Marcel in Longueuil]

Hey Mike,

That's the problem with comissioned work: You feel the pressure of completing it quickly, still feel underpaid, and get really frustrated with every little thing that normally goes wrong in every project.

I feel your pain.

On the other hand, you did a heck of a nice job on this chicken, and I'm sure it's glad the pain in the neck is yours not it's, He he.

Very nice,
Marcel

[Charlie_1]

I know the feeling with the frustration with those really detailed patterns ,thats part of the reason why I went to segmentation and it turns out I really enjoy that lol
Great work on the turkey

Charlie,

[Rolf]

I really like the turkey, I enjoy patterns like that but I always stack cut them, this way if you do sell them your hourly rate comes up.
When I start to lose my motivation, I cut a few small things for some instant gratification.

[ozarkhillbilly]

Mike once again ya did good! I'm with Rolf, try stack cutting 2 or 3 pieces of wood, you can sell the extra or keep it for yourself to admire.

Keep the saw dust flying!!!

[Dusty Buffalo]

Love the turkey. Looks quite tasty.

I think I would have gone crazy(ier) trying to do something like that. But he does look great.

[Minnesota scroller]

Good advice Rolf and Bill, but who else would want a turkey???

[pete00]

mama mea......thatsa lota holes..

nice job

[Little flower]

May have been frustrating but you must be so pleased seeing the results! Maybe you better tell the recipient not to show anyone in case you get someone else pleading with you to drill another few hundred holes.Lol.

[Sawduster]

Awesome gobbler ! Man my neck & shoulders ache just looking at that

[minowevie]

well I have to say all your hard work sure did come off good. and I bet your customer is pleased to death.
I would like to ask this here. that is alot of wood hanging out there. all buy itself. how do you handale your wood from bracking while you cut out the other sides. it wonts to bounse some, right. I know I tape mine as i go. but does anyone else have any sugjestions on this. like in Jeffs patterns, the pieces is so small.like hair like wood left. do i make sence. I have never herd anything on this. and sure would like to know. how do you keep the whole piece together, wile cutting the rest out. do you tape top and bottom?? or just let it bounse. and where do you put you finguers. ?? the work i do has bridges. holding the pieces together. but some of the work like this great turky. is so vunaralbale.
Evie

[Minnesota scroller]

Evie,

As far as the turkey is concerned I just made sure I cut out all the smallest pieces first because that doesn't amount to too much wood anyway. I saved the large piece till last. Yes, it was kind of hairy cutting out the last large piece but I took it extremely slow, including the blade speed, and placed my fingers very close to the blade. I never thought about taping as I go. That sounds like just one more pain in the neck.

Mike

[BJHolm]

The turkey is beautiful! Too many holes for me tho. I used to cut a lot of the original Scroller Ltd. 3D pictures. They were one continuous line for each piece and very fragile. I stacked them 4 layers deep 1/8" BBply and used masking tape over the fragile areas to hold them in place while cutting the rest of the piece. Of course I didn't tape them till I ruined a few very intricate projects.. *sigh I wasn't smart enough to think of it before cutting. Taping is a good idea, Evie.

BJ

[minowevie]

Evie,

As far as the turkey is concerned I just made sure I cut out all the smallest pieces first because that doesn't amount to too much wood anyway. I saved the large piece till last. Yes, it was kind of hairy cutting out the last large piece but I took it extremely slow, including the blade speed, and placed my fingers very close to the blade. I never thought about taping as I go. That sounds like just one more pain in the neck.

Mike

I agree Mike, taping is alot more work, but so is fixing and or making a new project.
Bj masking tape . do you mean the painters tape?? or the off white. that you mask things while painting. i use the blue . I keep small pieces taped to my saw or wook bench. and tear them as i go. into very small pieces if i need too. I find they will even stick to sawdust. but hold my wood together, so as to make it one piece again. and when i stack cut these things. the bottom pieces fall out , some times through the whole in my tabale, thats why i tape the bottom too. if i don't leave it on to long. like for a week or two. the blue tape comes right off, even if it is layered . some times the cuts are so close together. i have to put small pieces on at a time to holed it from moving. but gosh there just has to be a better way. how does jeff do it. i wonder. anyone know.
what ever you did to your turkey. it tured out awsome.
Evie

[Sawduster]

Awhile back I cut out a black lab that was similar to this in that it had a lot of those intricate curves along with huge areas adjacent. On the smaller " squiggly " parts I put the wood back in and taped it, but faced with that " bounce " on the final large areas, I was so afraid of ruining all that work, that in desperation I cut the next large pieces in smaller sections, finding a good place to leave the line, going across to a similar place and back to the start, taped that and took out another section, rinse and repeat s-l-o-w-l-y until i had it all done. It cost me a few more blades and time, and is probably the oldest trick in the book , but it worked for this rookie