Scroll Sawn Wolf
Click on any of the pictures to enlarge.....
First, I started out with a piece of wood. This
is 6x4 red oak, purchased as a cull from Home Depot. This piece was resawn on my
bandsaw, and then jointed on my jointer, and finally planed down to 1/2" thick.
(This was my first time resawing, and there was a lot of touchup work to do on the
jointer....). Next, I cut each piece to size on my tablesaw. This left me with
the two pieces you see on the right. You can click on them to enlarge, if you want a
close-up.
The
next step was to glue a pattern on to the piece and scroll it out on the scroll saw.
Since it is almost as easy to do two pieces as it is to do one, I stacked them up and then
attached them with a few brads. I positioned the brads so that they were in the cut
off area. When I was down to one brad left in the wood, I taped the two pieces
together.
For the scrolling, I used a #9 spiral cut blade. Nothing fancy, just some left over from a pack I got at Sears. Note: Don't buy blades at Sears. They are the worst quality ones I have run across so far.
After I was finished scrolling the pieces, I pulled them apart and used some paint thinner to remove the pattern from the wood. (Paint thinner helps to remove the glue..) See photos at right.
At
this point, I got out my needle file set and removed any rough edges left by the scroll
saw blade. Next, I made a quick and dirty router table and cut a 1/2" round
over on all four top edges of each piece. (See right...)
The final steps included sanding and finishing. I sanded the top and bottom
surfaces of each piece with my ROS, and then finished off the curved portions with a 3M
fine sanding sponge (free complements of Handyman's Club of America, about the only
worthwhile thing they've sent me...). Below are the finished pictures. Click
on any to enlarge.
The very last step was to figure out a way to display these pieces. I finally
decided on a keyhole so that they could be easily mounted on the wall. See below for
keyhole detail.
