quick spaniel silhouette comission

[lawrence]

I had a guy on another forum ask if I could carve this

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into a piece of cherry as a gift for his girlfriend. This was a very quick project and overall took less than an hour and a half to dimension the lumber, design the piece, carve it out, and put a finish on it. By far the hardest part was gettting a good smooth ogee on the endgrain of the cherry as it burns just by looking at it. THe black is Marsh's spray ink and the finish is 3 coats of semi-gloss lacquer (2 coats, sand with 400 grit, one more top coat... smooth as a baby's bottom)

Thanks for looking

Lawrence

[k9smith]

how deep is your carving on this piece and did you mask it and spray it?

looks great

[lawrence]

Thanks! The carve is .1 deep and I just sprayed it with marsh's spray ink and then hand planed it off - the ink is unlike paint in that it doesn't go into the grain of the wood, it sits on the surface and is very easy to scrape or plane off. It also dries VERY fast

Lawrence

[ebrown17]

I second the use of the Marsh stencil ink, it works really nice in that it doesn't penetrate the grain of the wood. I will typically spray it and within 5 minutes I'm hitting the top surface with 80 grit to remove the overage. I've only used the black so far, but have some blue and white sitting on the shelf ready to go. Nice project Lawrence.

[unitedcases]

Is amazon the best place to buy this marsh stuff?

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[TerryT]

That looks great Lawrence.

[RogerB]

Looks like a nice finish.Nice

[Bigtyme]

Nice looking carve and thanks for the tip on the Marsh spray ink. I will add it to my finishing supplies.

[ebrown17]

I've found the best place to buy it is Zorotools,com. They generally have the cheapest prices and free shipping. The other places it can be bought is through Uline.com or Grainger.

[easybuilt]

Nice job Lawrence! I buy my Marsh from Granger. Great price for a case and free shipping when you get 12.

[rcdages]

Great job Lawrence.

You do very good work.

[lawrence]

the customer received their sign today-- it's comments like these that make it all worth while

"It just arrived. It's exactly what I wanted. Really, it's perfect. Thank you so much. Let me know how much and where to send the payment.

David "

Some days make it all worth it :)

Lawrence