Welcome to the Nut House Segmentation

Very nice. A blog about segmentation would be appropriate at this point.

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Keith, this is a great project, and I definitely need to make two of them, one for the office and one for home! You and ScrollGirl keep turning out great projects and great designs.

-- I am responsible for how I respond to everything in my life - - Katy TX

Have you been taking pictures of my house again?!? LOL! I love this!!!

-- If you don't work, you don't eat!.....Garland, TX

This Great! Looking Forward To See Great Projects And Learn
At The Same Time!

Very nice. I haven’t tried any segmentation but like your idea so much I may try to do something similar in marquetry. I agree with closet guy a tutorial on segmentation might motivate some of us on the fence to give it a try.

-- John, Colorado's (Wooden Wizard)

Awesome job i love the way the leave look. Fantastic job.

-- Monty Q, Columbia, South Carolina.

Very nice sign. I’m sure I would feel at home.

-- Donnie-- listen to the wood.

steal my shopsign and call it your project GRRRRRR!!!

NAAAA kidden you, but I do wish it was mine :—))
I like it a lot …......LOL

thank´s for sharing and the smile

Dennis

Great sign. If it were at my front door it would have to say. WARNING!!! instead of welcome..

-- Tim, Missouri ....Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the heck happened

Thank you everyone for the nice comments.

I will certainly do a blog post about segmentation ASAP. I tried to convince Sheila (scrollgirl) to do it in her blog since she blogs regularly but that was a no-go :)

-- Scroll saw patterns @ http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com ... Pens @ http://www.finestylus.com

Very nicely done. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Nuts about the sign well done

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That would fit my place perfectly. Yard full of large oak trees, we sell acorns on ebay in season, and we have many squirrels who steal our bird food. I love it! But to tell you the truth, I don’t have a clue what segmentation is. Guess I’ll have to do a little research.

Jim

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Basically, in segmentation, you cut out your object from 1 piece of wood, then you shape the individual parts, then stain each piece the appropriate color, and finally reassemble and glue them on a backer piece. I will give you a quick example here just so you have an idea.

For example, you attach the pattern for a squirrel onto 1/4” thick piece of hardwood (something with a tight grain) with temporary spray adhesive. Cut all the pieces off making sure you always have something to hold onto (ie: cut the small pieces first). Attach the pieces to a strip of double sided tape as you go along to keep everything organized.

When you’re done cutting remove the paper from the wood and begin shaping (I usually use a dremel with drum sander bits and grinding bits). Sand out the scratches made by the drum with the grinding bits and by hand.

Stain the individual pieces in appropriate colors

I usually make a backer piece out of a relatively sturdy piece of veneer. I cut the veneer by sandwiching between two pieces of 1/8” scrap taped along the edges with packaging tape. i just attach another copy of the squirrel pattern to the top of this sandwich and cut out just the perimeter staying inside the lines by about 1/8” so that you can’t see the backer around the edges.

Then you glue the squirrel pieces to the backer piece with a clear drying glue applied rather sparingly with a very small, dampened brush. If you get glue where it can be seen it will prevent the varnish from penetrating so you either have to be really careful or you can put a coat of varnish on the pieces before assembling.

Then you can varnish the squirrel assembly and it can be glued to the (preferably already varnished) main plaque piece.

When we put together our pattern packets, we include full instructions. We try our best to write the instructions in enough detail that somebody relatively new to the scroll saw can follow them.

-- Scroll saw patterns @ http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com ... Pens @ http://www.finestylus.com

I will still do a more comprehensive explanation with progress pics in the next couple days

-- Scroll saw patterns @ http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com ... Pens @ http://www.finestylus.com