Punch Your Scroll Saw!

Aug 12

I love this picture drawn by Paul Davidson. Any guesses as to who it is? Well, you’ll have to watch the video to find out! I came across this picture and knew I had to turn it into a scroll saw art piece. Fortunately, there are not a lot of pieces. There’s the hat, face, arm, and fist. Three of those use the same species of wood. I used a No. 5 reverse tooth blade for the entire project.

This project started by making a walnut picture frame. I wanted the fist to look like it was punching through the frame so I had to do something I’ve never done before, cut the frame with a scroll saw. I had to make the rabbet for the frame extra deep to allow me to cut the frame. It felt wrong, but turned out right.

The artwork starts with a sheet of 1/2" thick MDF. I made my own veneer and glued wenge on one side and cherry on the other. If I had a cheaper type of hardwood I would have that instead. The wenge is all that really matters. That’s for the dark areas of the picture.

I made a maple panel that is about 1/8” thick and cut out the profile of my picture. I glued it to my wenge backer board. Then it was time to add in all of the pieces to make the artwork. I used walnut for the hat and sycamore for his skin. I varied the thickness of the boards to account for the perspective. This fist is closest to the you so that is thicker. His face is sunken into the background so that is barely thicker than the maple background. All of the other pieces fall in between. Once it was all cut and sanded, I applied multiple coats of Arm-R-Seal satin.

Make a veneer press! https://youtu.be/dVJ9feaGN5U

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