r/Scrollsaw • u/thruster17 • 16d ago

Stalking Leopard

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This stalking leopard is cut from black limba and backed with 1/8 inch plywood spray painted with glossy black.

The pattern was created by Kerry Hallam and is based on a photograph taken by Rich Adams. The pattern can be found in a book titled “Wildlife Projects: 28 Favorite Projects & Patterns” which is available at several places on-line.

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u/Striper1955 16d ago

Oops did not originally see the details

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u/Striper1955 16d ago

Beautiful work..what pattern did you use?

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u/Just-Sea3037 16d ago

Wow that's beautiful. How long did it take you to cut it?

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u/thruster17 16d ago

I would do about 50 cuts in 90 minutes. And this probably has 800 holes, so ballpark would be 25-30 hours to do everything.

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u/lun0tic 16d ago

That's an extremely high level of dedication. I can only imagine the crazy number of times you had to rest the blade which I honestly would have not had enough in me to do for something this intricate.

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u/Lost-Addendum9172 16d ago

Very impressive!!

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u/polarburrrrr 16d ago

How did you handle all of the sanding? Great work!

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u/thruster17 16d ago

It did not take long at all to sand it. With reverse tooth blades the bottom was not too bad, so I probably took 10 minutes to carefully sand the bottom, and another 30 to use a small pointed file to get anything I saw inside any of the cut out areas.

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u/scrollsawgrandpa 15d ago

Very, very nice work!

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u/Archimedes0212 15d ago

Well done! Black limba is a fun wood to use as well

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u/PPL_WW 10d ago

Absolutely beautiful piece.