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| From:  xeno1283 (Original Message) | Sent: 5/12/2005 6:24 AM |
I was requested to cut a skull out of wood yesterday for $40. I made this and sold it to him today. The wood of choice I made was appropriately 4/4 Bloodwood which is denser than Purpleheart. I cannot find Redheart if my life depended on it. At least not in 4/4 thicknesses which I work in primarily. I cannot post the file right now because the image is 23 megabytes in size. My Olympus c-8080 creates large Tiff files and I haven't resized it as of yet. |
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Man do I agree with bloodwood being hard. I tried to carve some once and wound up using it to sharpen my knife intead. A bit of a tale but pert near true. gw |
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Here is a picture of the 1" thick Bloodwood piece that I cut. It stalled out the 70 in/oz Excalibur 30" scroll saw motor twice while trying to make on the spot turns. |
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Very nice work. I love bloodwood, but it is not an easy wood to cut. Thickest I've ever cut is 3/4 inch and I know how difficult that was. Don't know if I'd want to tackle something as thick as you did, but the result was worth it. |
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Bloodwood looks great, but it is hard to cut and I hate the smell of it. Good-looking project, would you be willing to share the patter <hint hint>? |
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Sure you can have the pattern. I looked for it on the internet when I was practicing my drawing of skulls. |
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The pattern is skull.jpg in the FSSP area. Take it easy! And have fun with the pattern as I did - without going through so many blades like I did cutting the 1" thick bloodwood. I would of welcomed 1" purpleheart after cutting that thing out! |
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| | | From: General | Sent: 5/17/2005 2:53 PM |
>From: "xeno1283" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "scroll saw portraits" <[email protected]>
>To: "scroll saw portraits" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: I think I sucessfully cut one of the hardest woods yesterday
>Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 01:46:53 -0700
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Remove my e-mail address from scroll saw portraits.
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I can't believe you can scroll saw Bloodwood. When I resaw it, to make thin material, it taxes my big bandsaw one heck of a lot. I'd never even think of scrolling bloodwood thicker than 1/4". Wow. Nice scull.
-dirk |
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i love to scroll bloodwood... i love the way it smells.... use it a lot in intarsia.... have scrolled 1/8" up to 3/4" -- a beautiful wood... just have to run the saw slow so it doesn't burn. d. |
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