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There was only one problem with the pattern; it was for a flat image. So Carl and I put our heads together and 3D it. Some of the pieces were easy to make in 3D, like the ball ornaments, the letters, holly, candy canes, holly, pie crust around the windows and the bows. The hardest part was the snow on overhanging the roof with little lights in it.
It was a labor of love and pricelessly worth every minute we spent on it (even getting up at 3am to paint).
Becky48 wrote: I Love It.........I do hope that you post a How to on this......Fabulous Job....
Unfortunately our professonal photographer didn't think it was going to come out even 1/4 that nice so no photos were taken durning the construction phase. I'll start writing up some "how to" and have some photos taken during tear-down.
I'll have to remind our professional photographer (me) that it's important to take images of every phase of every project, no matter what the initial opinion is on the subject.
That would be great...The Paint/colors you did are so shiny and vivid.......It really is a wonderful, wonderful piece. As soon as I saw it I was yelling to my husband..."see that's what I want right there look"..... I'm definetly going to order the patterns ....Is yours made out of wood or Styrofoam.....I was thinking of making some out of Styro....
Your house looks real good. Kathy and I have been doing Winfields for about 15 years and we did the Gingerbread house in 2D. I did cut the roofline and piece out of another piece to give it more dimension, but yours is much better. Love the sledder on the roof.
____________________ GIVE THEM A SHOW, AND THEY WILL SLOW
Joel Jenkins
Great job. My Birthday is on Christmas Day and my husband got me a $100 gift certificate to Lowes's LOL He said he figured he might as well get me the gift card because I would spend the money this summer on plywood etc anyway. LOL
Chris in Ct wrote: <snip>
I have to ask how many hours did it take?
Chris, thank you!
It took about 15 -20 hours a week from the very begining of September to December 16th. Most of that was because I was very picky. Confidence in my artistic ability was EXTREAMLY low before stepping back and seeing the project 100% finished.
Yes I even did a lot of the painting with a fine liner brush, just to get the edges "perfect." My 2008 projects will not take nearly as long. Who knows, I may even believe Carl when he tales me it's good.
Phyllis, it's truly gorgeous..you did an absolutely fantastic job on it and have every reason in the world to be extremely proud of it. I just love it!
Phyllis, what an awesome job. That certainly will be a family heirloom for years to come. I can appreciate ALL the work you did on it, as I am a woodworker too. Just fantastic. So for some of the finer stuff, did you use a scroll or bandsaw?
zman wrote: So for some of the finer stuff, did you use a scroll or bandsaw?
Yes, both.
For the roughing out of the larger pieces a band saw was used.
The smaller pieces (candy canes, bows, holly, pie crust window frame and letters) were all done on a scroll saw.
There was a lot of fastidious corner rounding and sanding. I'm quite annal retentive about being methodical.
A few of the items used on this project:
Table saw
skill saw
Band saw
Scroll saw
roto zip
oscilating spindle sander
Random orbital palm sander
6" fixed belt sander
4" belt sander
1" band sander
Hot wire foam cutter
pneumatic nailer
cordless drill
resistance soldering tool
Shop Vac
sanding blocks
paint brushes (many from 4" to a fine liner)
P.S.
My husband says"you're CDO, not OCD" You know it's important to get those letters in the proper alphabetical order.
MrsD wrote: zman wrote: So for some of the finer stuff, did you use a scroll or bandsaw?
Yes, both.
For the roughing out of the larger pieces a band saw was used.
The smaller pieces (candy canes, bows, holly, pie crust window frame and letters) were all done on a scroll saw.
There was a lot of fastidious corner rounding and sanding. I'm quite annal retentive about being methodical.
A few of the items used on this project:
Table saw
skill saw
Band saw
Scroll saw
roto zip
oscilating spindle sander
Random orbital palm sander
6" fixed belt sander
4" belt sander
1" band sander
Hot wire foam cutter
pneumatic nailer
cordless drill
resistance soldering tool
Shop Vac
sanding blocks
paint brushes (many from 4" to a fine liner)
P.S.
My husband says"you're CDO, not OCD" You know it's important to get those letters in the proper alphabetical order.
Phyllis, I had to think about that a bit , then I got it. . OK, so I have learned a heck of a lot about this light thing over the many years, and have been a weekend warrior for what seems like forever, but what the heck is a resistance solder tool? Otherwise the shopping list above is already in my one car/three car garage. Tracy has always bugged me about doing more cutout patterns for Christmas. Time. That is the limiting factor in ALL planning.
On the corner rounding, on your small pieces sanding was prudent. On some of the larger ones, I might have went by way of using a router. I have done some pretty foolish things with that tool, including the buttons on my wood panel snow family which was a Winfield pattern too. Fortuntely I still have all my fingers!
zman wrote: what the heck is a resistance solder tool?
Resistance soldering directly heats the work to be soldered by passing a large electrical current through it rather than indirectly heating the work by holding a hot chunk of metal to it.
It's not for everything, but it's especially good for soldering things that are very temperature sensitive since the average time to make a good connection (with practice) is only a fraction of a second. Plastic (e.g. fine wire insulation) near the joint is not melted and the joint is cool and strong in about two seconds.
In the case of the toy shop, I used the resistance soldering rig to do some modifications to the set of micro lights that run around the roof - I had to break the set into two pieces and fashion a connector to join them back together. This allows the two halves of the roof to be separated for storage without removing the lights.
zman wrote: <snip>
I have done some pretty foolish things with that tool, including the buttons on my wood panel snow family which was a Winfield pattern too. Fortuntely I still have all my fingers!
OUCH! You must be brave! I'm a coward and wouldn't have even tried it. A few different grits of sand paper and possibly a carving knife and/or chisels would have been my first thought.
I'll let Carl (CarlD) answer the " ... what the heck is a resistance solder tool," because he is the one who used it on the lights.
Clarification: The "You're" in my P.S. was referring to me, just incase anyone thought differently. It's kind of a joke Carl and I toss back and forth to each other.
Oh yeah we did use 2 differnt routers, an hand held and one installed in a routing table. That list was long enough already.
A quick question for you: Did you make the toy solders in your picture?
Last edited on Saturday December 29th, 2007 08:30 pm by MrsD
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