Is there a pattern available for the corners? I am really into scrolling,and I would like to try this. Thanks for sharing.
Rick
It's just a squiggle -- one can make any design that looks good. The attached pattern is what I used. Made 2 for each side stack (8 total), one at each end. Put clear self-adhering shelving plastic on the wood; covered the plastic and paper with rubber cement, attached the two; made sure the blade was at 90 degrees (else the walnut and poplar pieces would not fit together) and cut with a #5, 17 tpi, double teeth blade at a fairly slow speed. the boards in a stack were each ~3/8" to start with, then hand-planed to 1/4" after glue-up, to make sure the side was flat and square.
I'm new to scroll sawing (bought a saw in Feb), so I don't know if that was the best blade to use. It worked, though. If anyone has ideas on better blade choices, I would sure like to learn from you!
The lid inlays were also from ~3/8" boards, stacked. The table was angled to 4 degrees. It couldn't be at 90, since the image would fall through the background -- there would be a gap due to the blade thickness . At 4 degrees, the image nested into the background and was able to be glued up. That meant the image was co-planer with the background, but not even. To fix that, I planed each side until it was smooth -- down to 1/4" or so.
Hope this helps!
