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Author Topic: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' added  (Read 16551 times)

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: some scrapwood projects added
« Reply #80 on: April 21, 2024, 12:00:45 pm »
"Cutie"

14,7 x 15,5cm, backer board 4mm, cutie 4mm.



Nothing to say about this one. It's cute.


"Horse"

15 x 19,5cm, backer board 6mm, horse 4mm



This one has an 'oldschool cartoon character' feel to me. Silly, but likeable.


"Bon appetit"

21 x 21,9cm, backer board 6mm, vulture 4mm



This one taught me not to use the cheapest plywood, especially not in combination with a dull blade. Terrible tearouts on the backside, took a looong time to sand those down.
Saved a few cents, gained a lot more work and frustration.
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Hagar the Horrible' added
« Reply #81 on: May 06, 2024, 08:33:30 am »
"Hagar the Horrible'

21 x 30cm, backer board 4mm, Hagar 4mm

                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Hagar the Horrible' added
« Reply #82 on: May 07, 2024, 09:08:57 pm »
I'm always impressed with these sort of 'one shot's skills. That is, the type of skills where one mistake and you either throw it away or live with it. Water colours are another. What youve just put down is it, unlike oil paints where you normally have several DAYS to just keep going over it.

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Hagar the Horrible' added
« Reply #83 on: May 08, 2024, 10:33:36 am »
I'm always impressed with these sort of 'one shot's skills. That is, the type of skills where one mistake and you either throw it away or live with it.

Heh. Funny that you should mention that, because this actually is the second shot. The first one went so bad that I threw it away.
Oddly enough, I'm pretty relaxed about this kind of project, because this hobby taught me that with patience, much practice and perseverance ... Murphy's Law is still out to get me. I have to pull off a flawless victory yet, so knowing that something will probably go wrong, I'm not that stressed out when it happens.
I have also learned not to be a bloody perfectionist all the time, because if I settle for good/very good, I'm getting more things done.
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Hagar the Horrible' added
« Reply #84 on: May 10, 2024, 02:11:07 am »
Love the Hagar one!  This is such cool work.
I think it might be hard for anyone who doesn't engage in a subtractive art like this to appreciate it fully.

This lesson you are talking about I learned shaping surfboards.

Once you take it off, it is gone, and you can't put it back to take another shot at it.

When people ask I always refer to it as foam sculpture.

I'm always impressed with these sort of 'one shot's skills. That is, the type of skills where one mistake and you either throw it away or live with it.

Heh. Funny that you should mention that, because this actually is the second shot. The first one went so bad that I threw it away.
Oddly enough, I'm pretty relaxed about this kind of project, because this hobby taught me that with patience, much practice and perseverance ... Murphy's Law is still out to get me. I have to pull off a flawless victory yet, so knowing that something will probably go wrong, I'm not that stressed out when it happens.
I have also learned not to be a bloody perfectionist all the time, because if I settle for good/very good, I'm getting more things done.
Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools! I can fix it.

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Hagar the Horrible' added
« Reply #85 on: May 11, 2024, 12:43:42 am »
I think it might be hard for anyone who doesn't engage in a subtractive art like this to appreciate it fully.

True dat. The guy who made the viking that I copied also made some cute gnomes. Now take a wild guess which ones most people liked more  ::)
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Hagar the Horrible' added
« Reply #86 on: May 11, 2024, 07:43:21 am »
David was a pillar of the community and pulled a thorn out of my paw once, don’t talk trash about gnomes, bro.


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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Hagar the Horrible' added
« Reply #87 on: May 11, 2024, 04:12:37 pm »
David the Trash Gnome

                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Johnny Bravo' added
« Reply #88 on: May 24, 2024, 05:11:58 pm »
"Johnny Bravo"

20,5 x 24,5cm, backer board 4mm, Johnny 4mm





"Johnny Bravo"

21 x 24cm, backer board 4mm, Johnny 4mm



I like him. He's silly.
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Hong Kong Phooey' added
« Reply #89 on: June 07, 2024, 10:22:19 am »
"Hong Kong Phooey"

21 x 24cm, backer board 4mm, Hong Kong Phooey 4mm

                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Mr. Lizzardo' added
« Reply #90 on: July 06, 2024, 12:04:44 pm »
"Mr. Lizzardo"

23 x 28cm, backer board 4mm, Mr. Lizzardo 4mm



I wanted to do a more traditional pattern that gave me a challenge, and boy, did I get one. This thing is almost completely about very fine details, and lots upon lots of 'em.
25 - 30 hours of focused concentration, very careful sawing and even more careful sanding.

Despite all of that there are some spots where the cheap ass veneer cracked :badmood:. Maybe later on I'll touch them up with a bit of stain, right now I'm just glad that Mr. Lizzardo is finished.
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones' added
« Reply #91 on: August 05, 2024, 12:15:03 pm »
"Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones"

45 x 60cm, backer boards 4mm, landscape 4mm, Sisyphus & Indy 4mm



Found this cartoon by Mark Parisi ("Off the Mark"), just had to do it. That look on Indy's face is priceless.

This seems to be a simple pic, but it actually was a lot of work to get it done (cutting all those simple straight lines ... two holes to drill, sawing the line up, sawing the line down... about more than 150 times). It didn't help that it's too big for my fretsaw. Because of that, cutting the letters was tricky, I couldn't cut Sisyphus, Indy & the rocks out of the 'landscape' board, and some of the straight lines were tricky also.
This time, I used stain instead of paint, looks great.
« Last Edit: August 05, 2024, 12:23:57 pm by yamatetsu »
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones' added
« Reply #92 on: August 07, 2024, 02:56:55 am »
 :cheers:
These continue to get more fun!
Well chosen piece.

The look of the stain is awesome.
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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones' added
« Reply #93 on: August 07, 2024, 02:21:23 pm »
The look of the stain is awesome.

It really is. Sadly, it's a bit impractical as it's very hard to find pics that only use shades of brown  :(
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones' added
« Reply #94 on: August 08, 2024, 12:48:17 pm »
Well then you haven't looked down the wood dye rabbithole yet maybe?

https://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/CG21713/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw2dG1BhB4EiwA998cqENqZ7QKAL4pY79MQqGqdxjHM8pCeFdVXbwqLVpQeClaZt_JrhjwLRoCtBQQAvD_BwE

I've used dyes for cresting arrows and you can get some cool stuff out of it.
The kind I used was actually powder and I know there are both water and alcohol soluble ones depending on what your end goal finish needs to be.
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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones' added
« Reply #95 on: August 08, 2024, 02:03:27 pm »
Well then you haven't looked down the wood dye rabbithole yet maybe?

I have tried some ready-to-use stuff, the brown colors work (mostly well), the others ... Let's say that green and white ended up in the trash. Stain is also a bit unpredictable, if you look at the inner parts of the letters P, D and O you'll notice that each one looks different and all of them look different from the rest of the board, even though it's the same stain and the same wood.

So, if I'm doing a pic that has many parts over weeks or even months, I cut out a few parts, paint them and glue them. I don't want to risk that parts of the some color are looking different.

Plus, there is a risk of overdoing it. I have stained pieces to get a light brown. 1st pass, too light. 2nd pass, too light. 3rd pass, almost black  :badmood:.
Now that I think of it, I had to paint this one because the stain got too dark.

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones' added
« Reply #96 on: August 09, 2024, 08:03:58 pm »
The stain bit is definitely an art all its own.
Choosing the wood you work with counts massively but there is no way to control grain and density of course so it is inevitable that you get a spectrum of color no matter what.
Sometimes that winds up very cool!
Others it will just make you nutty.
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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones' added
« Reply #97 on: August 10, 2024, 08:24:56 am »
Choosing the wood you work with counts massively

I can only get wood from a nearby DIY store and the choice I have is "Take the least warped one." So, finding a board that has a nice veneer, isn't damaged and isn't warped doesn't happen. I'm seriously contemplating switching to the dark side, using MDF for the backer boards, as I then have something solid to glue the warped pieces onto.
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' added
« Reply #98 on: October 08, 2024, 10:49:16 am »
"Creature from the Black Lagoon"

40 x 67,5cm, backer board 8mm, lagoon 4mm, bottom overlay 4mm, backer board head 4mm, head 4mm



So, to celebrate the 70ieth birthday of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, I made this. Scratch that, I'm just a fan of the Creature, I liked the pic and, crazy nut that I am, I had to do it.
This thing has 3 layers, the backer board, the lagoon and the backer board for the head, and finally the black bottom overlay and the head. The size is about 4 A4 sheets.

To give you an inkling how much work was involved, here is what I did.

1. Creating the patterns.







I had to recreate every single line from the original pic, except for the Creature and the swimmer, which I just wasn't able to do right and so just copied the originals.
To do a line requires 3 mouse clicks and moving the mouse around until I get the shape I want. For example, doing an 'S' requires two lines.
Now imagine how much fun it was to do the patterns.

2. Doing the bottom overlay.



- Cut a board to approx. size (by hand), cover it with painter's tape

- spray glue on the back of the pattern, stick it to the board

- saw out the pattern

- sand every surface

- paint every surface except the bottom


3. Doing the lagoon.



Same as doing the bottom overlay, except we now have a ton of pieces which all have to be cut out, sanded, painted and then puzzled back together.


4. Cutting out the backer for the head.



- Cut a board to approx. size (by hand), cover it with painter's tape

- spray glue on the back of the pattern, stick it to the board

- saw out the head's outline

- paint it black


5. Doing the head.



Same as doing the lagoon, a megaton of pieces, some of them very small, a few very big, and puzzling them all back together is no mean feat.
To add some suspense, those highlight pieces at the side of the head are very delicate and mostly attached to the main piece by very thin strands
(think 2mm or less), which makes them hard to cut and hard to glue back together.

Glueing the pieces onto the backer board presents a problem, too, because by sawing them out you obviously remove a small amount of material,
so when putting them back together they don't fit a 100% anymore, which distorts the picture very slightly. It's also impossible to glue every piece
to the exact place it belongs to, yet you have to put them all together so that they fit on the backer board.


6. Doing the backer board.



- Cut an 8mm board to approx. size (by hand)

- put the assembled lagoon piece at the bottom, place the head accordingly, trace the outlines with a pencil

- had to use a bigger, heavier and more cumbersome saw to cut it out because of the massive size of the board

- paint it black


7. Finish!

- glue the lagoon piece onto the backer board

- glue the head onto the head's backer board

- glue the head onto the big backer board

- glue the bottom overlay onto the lagoon

- glue the swimmer onto the lagoon

- Yay!
                  

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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' added
« Reply #99 on: October 10, 2024, 02:32:45 am »
Whoa-
Awesome work as usual.
So...
How many hours you think you got into that one?!

I have to admit that I have never watched the whole film but love the story and legacy of it all.
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Re: Fretsaw project gallery: 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' added
« Reply #100 on: October 10, 2024, 11:45:15 am »
Whoa-
Awesome work as usual.
So...
How many hours you think you got into that one?!

I didn't clock it, but I guesstimate about 20 hours went into the patterns and about 30 - 50 into the rest. Those small pieces eat up time like crazy.

I have to admit that I have never watched the whole film but love the story and legacy of it all.

It's a solid film, a bit dated now, but watchable.  The crazy thing for me is, that this film, released in 1954, in black and white, was 3D in the theaters. 3D. 1954. In black & white. Like always, the 3D trend didn't last, so most people only saw the 2D version.