Thread: Perching Eagle

I am intrigued Seyiy. How do you get the different tones in your work when it is scrollwork.???

Originally Posted by artme

I am intrigued Seyiy. How do you get the different tones in your work when it is scrollwork.???

Hi artme,
The answer is simple; "Shoshine."
I think this sort of polish or shine whatever you call,is common in most countries.The substance is not creamy , but liquit in plastic bottles with foam rubber applicator at the throat of the bottle.It dries up in seconds.
I do not sand the wood that I will cut in prior cutting.Leave it with saw marks an hairy.When cutting is over I apply the shoeshine.(I keep three colors-black,light brown,dark brown)For some projects single color,still for others multiple colors.For sanding it should be well dried.I use heatgun to speed up the drying.Using a sanding block and not so fine grit of sand I begin to sand it lightly and orbitally.Removing the excess of the paint this gives some natural look.
With high detail patterns I don't apply coloring in general.Lots of cutouts with black backer creat good contrast in the wood,but if the pattern is one with rather few detail,then the figure is often hard to see in the wood against that background.So I lightly color the figure as explained above.This makes it more visible.
regards,
seyit

You do wonderfull work Seyit and lots of it. You put us to shame. You are so talented. Do you keep your work, give it away or sell it? Keep it up.

Marg

Originally Posted by wombatie

You do wonderfull work Seyit and lots of it. You put us to shame. You are so talented. Do you keep your work, give it away or sell it? Keep it up.

Marg

Hi Marg,
Some of my early work are hanging on the wall of my workshop for years now.The rest is stuffed in plastic bags.I have no idea if they are well there.
I have not been able to sell even a matchstick so far.If there is somebody who may want to buy my work, I don't know where he or she lives.This is only a pastime for me.I first make a pattern and then want to see it in wood.
Thank you again.

Do they not have markets where you could sell some of your work, near where you live in Turkey?

Marg

Originally Posted by wombatie

Do they not have markets where you could sell some of your work, near where you live in Turkey?

Marg

Hi Marg,
Tokat is not a large and crowded city.Only a modarate Anatolian town with mostly native citizens.Actually there are a couple of shops that sell souvenire and similar things.But I have not asked them to give me a stand.
I have been planning to display them in an exhibit in Istanbul.May be someones get interested in my work there and things direct themselves into a bed there.

Fantastic work Seyit,
I am a novice with scrollsaw, so sorry to ask it's very easy thing but how do you do the very smal cuts.

working with small blades, it's very hard for me to open the blade and pass the wood throught the hole and connect the blade again.
I broke 3 blades to do so with no luck.

Originally Posted by sarama79

Fantastic work Seyit,
I am a novice with scrollsaw, so sorry to ask it's very easy thing but how do you do the very smal cuts.

working with small blades, it's very hard for me to open the blade and pass the wood throught the hole and connect the blade again.
I broke 3 blades to do so with no luck.

Hi sarama 79,
I drill the pilot holes with 1mm bits.
I don't use spiral blades.Plain end # 0, or #1 blades what I always use.
Fasten unfasten,bolt unbolt is a real task,but scroll sawing is a matter of patient.
Same saw brands have good solutions for fast clamping,but I cannot aford them.

Tanks a lot Seyit. you are really doing a nice work, hope I can get there.