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Framed Cut Acrylic Feather – Daniel D. & Tamaryn Brown, 2018

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Framed Cut Acrylic Feather – Daniel D. & Tamaryn Brown, 2018

I scrollsawed this feather, which my wife painted using acrylics. I then built the frame from Walnut & Maple.

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January 31, 2018September 25, 2018 LaughingMantisBoxes, Frames, Woodworkingacrylic, feather, frames, maple, paint, scrollsaw, walnut, woodworking

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A little #asmr. Wait for it 😂 Yes. This was han

A little #asmr. Wait for it 😂
Yes. This was hand cut on a scrollsaw. Covering with tape as I go is the only way to prevent tears.
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#scrollsaw #spiderman

Canyon Wren, 2023 I like birds. I like nature. Ove

Canyon Wren, 2023
I like birds. I like nature. Over the past year or two I’ve greatly enjoyed all the posts about our local native (and non-native) wildlife by the Pittsburgh Park Rangers (@pghparkrangers) account. So when Ranger Stevie (@steviewanderphotography), who had been handling a lot of those posts, asked if I’d make a wooden Canyon Wren (her children are named “Canyon” and “Wren”), I couldn’t say no. I very rarely take commissions like this. But being a born and raised southern country boy & biologist (transplanted to Pittsburgh for 14 years now), I find community engagement with and about nature to be incredibly important, especially in urban areas like Pittsburgh that actually has an amazing amount of green space and wildlife. So her role in that provided me an extra incentive to do it. More than anything though, it was just a fun idea.
The design is roughly based on a photograph by Ken Chamberlain, used with permission.
This piece took just over 3 weeks and ~30-40 hrs (I always lose track) from design to finish. All ~280 pieces were hand cut on a scrollsaw, it was made from 13 species: mahogany, canarywood, koa, rosewood, chakta viga, maple, black walnut, claro walnut, wenge, ebony, holly, black limba, and yellowheart. Being a relatively small piece, I managed to cut almost all of it from leftover offcuts from other projects.
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#scrollsaw #scrollsawart #intarsia #woodintarsia #woodworking #woodcarving #canyonwren #birdart #birdsofinstagram #makersgonnamake

Oiling up the body of this Canyon Wren for @stevie

Oiling up the body of this Canyon Wren for @steviewanderphotography of the @pghparkrangers. The Pittsburgh park ranger account just made a nice post about the American Holly tree. I mentioned in the comments that it’s prized for its whiteness amongst woodworkers, but if not harvested and dried properly it becomes darker (“spalted” by fungi). The throat of this bird showcases that nicely. The whitest 2 pieces are holly dried correctly in winter (from @cyclocrosscutter). The other throat pieces are holly I milled and dried myself in summer (given to me by @afonticiella and @pghchocolatier from a neighborhood tree that had to be cut), which obviously aren’t very white. But it’s great to have some different holly tones for gradients like this.
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#scrollsaw #scrollsawart #intarsia #woodintarsia #birdart #canyonwren #woodworking #woodcarving

Dorkiest crossroads signpost ever. Mostly made to

New project progress. Geek crossroads. Not even ha

New project progress. Geek crossroads. Not even half done. Also nothing is actually attached yet (also shop lighting shadows suck). Still have some playing around to do. I think I have like 17 designed, with maybe 2 more still to design, and another couple dozen I would love to add if it wouldn’t end up like 15 feet tall. I’ll probably have to cull some as it is. 😂
But I still need Druidia (for @tam_a_ryn. She’s a huge Spaceballs fan, which she saw before Star Wars. The “Aspen” is for her too 😂). And Hill Valley (Back to the Future) for sure.
What would you add for your own dorky crossroads signs?
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#geekart #scrollsawart #woodworking

Congratulations to Dr. Osama Shiraz Shah @osamashi

Congratulations to Dr. Osama Shiraz Shah @osamashiraz for successfully defending his PhD “Multi-omic profiling of E-cadherin deficient breast
cancers and their in-vitro models towards enabling
precision medicine”! I have zero doubt you’re gonna be one successful scientist. I’ve now made like a dozen of these plaques for students graduating from the @leeoesterreichlab. This one was cut on scrollsaw from sapele, yellowheart, crabapple (from next to our old work building), and curly maple.
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#woodworker #scrollsaw #graduationgift #diysigns

We have a little patio table that I literally pick

We have a little patio table that I literally picked up off the side of the road years ago. A few weeks ago I looked at it and thought “I should replace that with a handmade table.”
So here we are. Designed in consult with @tam_a_ryn. The top and shelf are walnut scavenged from a tree someone cut beneath a power line in our hood years ago. Legs are scrollsawed and hand-carved sapele. The top is inlayed with a scrollsawed sunflower intarsia made of walnut, mahogany, bloodwood, and yellowheart, and inlayed with router and chisels. Finished with @odiesoil
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#woodworking #instarsia #scrollsaw #patiofurniture #diyfurniture #homedecor

If you haven’t been following my stories, I’m

If you haven’t been following my stories, I’m making a porch table from mahogany, firewood black walnut top, and a bunch of species to make in inlayed sunflower. This is just some super boring asmr from carving on the legs.
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#woodworking #woodcarving #diyfurniture

I’m just zis guy, you know?

I’m just zis guy, you know?

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