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Not a whole lot of woodworking here. I just used a jig saw to cut out patterns from a 1/2 sheet of plywood. A little primer and paint finished the jobs. I attached 2 conduit clips to the back of each character. Hammer a piece of rebar into the ground, slide the character over the rebar, go back inside and watch football. Holiday decorating made easy.
I’ll continue to add a few each year until I get the entire set.
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Karson
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posted 342 days ago
You going to make one for football season also.
Looks great. Nice job.
-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com
cajunpen
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posted 341 days ago
Very clever and well done. Bet it was a hit in the neighborhood.
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
rikkor
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posted 341 days ago
Charlie Brown Christmas. Neat idea.
-- Maplewood, MN
MsDebbieP
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posted 341 days ago
“made easy”—well you made it SOUND easy… but I’m still back at “jigsaw” ... well done!
right out of the comics.
-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
Critterman
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posted 341 days ago
A Chistmas Classic! Looks great and very classy unlike the blow up yard junk freaks around my house…LOL The characters look very, very good. Excellent job.
-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA
tjscott
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posted 341 days ago
These are great pieces. Just curious, did you find plans for the characters or design them yourself? I would love to build the characters from the traditional Grinch story, but cannot find any plans.
-- Tom, Charlotte, North Carolina
rooster
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posted 341 days ago
Tom,
I found simple pictures on the net (simple as in not a lot of colors or odd angles). I imported the pics into Autocad and adjusted them to be about 3 ft tall. I then used the spline function to trace the pics. I took the file to Kinkos and used their plotter to print out the characters. Then I traced the patterns onto the plywood.
tjscott
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posted 341 days ago
Excellent. That’s what I needed to know. Now I can plan my next steps.
-- Tom, Charlotte, North Carolina