Some Cuts from this past Weekend

Two word art cuttings I did this weekend. The first is LOVE font is Copper Black. The pattern by myself. Wood is Poplar.

The second is for my Daughter. It is her favorite game and has been for ever. Font is Litecraft, wood is poplar, The pattern is by myself.

Mermaid with a crown

I was asked by my brother-in law if I could make a mermaid for his son. So I found a nice one on Sue Mey's website and purchased the pattern and did a stack cut of it. I put it on two different backgrounds and I'll send my nephew the one on the oval.

The actual mermaid was cut from 1/8" baltic birch with Flying Dutchman Spiral Flat End #3 and finished with Watco Danish Oil Natural.

The backers are pine with Flying Dutchman Ultra Reverse #5 and finished with Watco Danish Oil medium Walnut.

The 10 Commandments

My latest work from Sheila Landry Designs - Pattern by Keith Fenton

You can find this here: Sheila Landry Designs

I took my time and spent about 2 weeks working on this as time permitted and did the one from my previous post simply because I wanted something completed. And the America plaque was just an evening worth of cutting. But this is my favorite now. This one is not going to work it is hanging in my living room!

Taken outside

The back side. I'm just as proud of how it looks from this side as I am from the front.

Now hanging on my living room for all to see!

Thanks for looking!

Another Wordart Cutting

This is another of my AMERICA wordart themes. I have some of these that I have yet to cut. But this one is done after a few delays and pushing it to the side to work other projects and hopefully I'll be completing more stuff in the future. I had a couple of disappointing things that I either messed up or still working on. I have a 10 commandments set that is two tablets that I am working on. Hopefully that will be done next week. But you just never know.

It is cut from pine using my own pattern created in Inkscape. Large font is Angsana New and the small is Park Avenue BT

WordART Veteran United States Navy

OK So my 81 year old Dad had a myocardial infarction (To use older folks a heart attack). He had bypass surgery and is struggling with getting back on his feet. So to cheer him up I designed this word art for him. He is a carver not a scroller so when I go there in a week or so I will present this to him. When I was there last week I showed him the design and he was excited about it. When I came home it warmed up enough that I could cut it out and get it finished. So now if the weather will hold I will bring it to him in a week or so.

I cut this out of a piece of 1/2 inch Poplar for the backing. The letters are cut from 1/4 inch Red Oak. I finished it with  Minwax Golden Oak Stain.

I have seen these designs various places and was intrigued by the simple design and after playing with inkscape I figured out a way to produce a pattern to make this. I had the two designs one for VETERAN and one for Unites States Navy.

About the only thing that someone may say is that it is made from two pieces of wood that you have to glue together.

So I am going to post my patterns here. This is 15 inches x 5 inches and you will have no problem cutting this on a 16 inch saw. It is what I used. The pattern is in 2 pieces that you will have to tape together but I have placed two markers on each page to help put them together.

What I did was to cut them with scissors so that there would be no blank and make the overlap as small as possible. Line them up and tape them together Then fold them over and use a glue stick to have the over lap stick together. That why when cutting the pattern won't come off once you cut through the tape holding the edges together.

The first pattern is the background the second are the letter pieces you will have to cut out and glue to the back piece.

UPDATE:
I actually updated these drawings so that they are a little bit better than before. Now the RED outline is continuous rather the broken. Learning all the time!

Veteran United States Navy Word Art Back Part 1
Veteran United States Navy Word Art Back Part 2
Veteran United States Navy Word Art Text Part 1
Veteran United States Navy Word Art Text Part 2