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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: geneVG on July 25, 2011, 11:32:26 pm

Title: Uncle Sam
Post by: geneVG on July 25, 2011, 11:32:26 pm

Can anyone tell me what else I could have done to make this better?

gene

Title: Re: Uncle Sam
Post by: dgman on July 26, 2011, 12:33:51 am

Hey Gene, It is a very small picture and is hard to see much detail. The cutting looks good. From here it looks like you used 1/4" Baltic birch plywood. I think it adds too much depth to it. It might look better if it was 1/8".
Can you post a larger picture so we can see it better?

Title: Re: Uncle Sam
Post by: GrayBeard on July 26, 2011, 10:06:06 am

FWIW...all my portraits are done in 1/8" BB or Oak p'wood. I also think a darker backing might have been better to make for more contrast.

Just my opinion and we all know about those!

~~~GB~~~

Title: Re: Uncle Sam
Post by: kimb on July 26, 2011, 11:06:21 am

I cut all of my projects out of 1/4" because I think the deeper dimension looks better. I guess thats why God made us all different, it would get pretty boring if we all did  everything the same. I too think it would look better with a brown or black backer.

Kim

Title: Re: Uncle Sam
Post by: mrsn on July 26, 2011, 11:27:35 am

I would put a darker backer on the piece. Something a little less baby blue will contrast better with the light color of the cutting.  Another way to get the contrast would be to stain the plywood.

Title: Re: Uncle Sam
Post by: BilltheDiver on July 26, 2011, 11:33:26 am

How about a backer made of diagonally striped red white and blue?

Title: Re: Uncle Sam
Post by: geneVG on July 26, 2011, 07:12:23 pm

CAn someone tell me how to make the picture larger?  And thanks for all the advise.  I did cut it in 1/4 inch BB. 

Thanks for all the advise.  I'm farlly new at the picture cutting.


Thanks Again
Gene