This is more of an "arts and crafts" thing than woodworking, but this might be a fun activity to do with your kids...
After discovering that the desert air destroys pumpkins in 2 days, I decided to try making something a little more resistant to the dry air and came up with these Halloween luminaries.
Basically I stack cut some pumpkin carving patterns on the scroll saw, routed slots on two sides of a post, and slid the cutouts in into the post. The light is difused with a sheet of plastic light covering (the kind they put over flourescent lights at the office) that was cut and glued behind the cutouts.
It seems like cutting patterns on the scroll saw is 1000 times easier than using those silly little pumpkin carving tools!
thanks for looking,
--tlt
After discovering that the desert air destroys pumpkins in 2 days, I decided to try making something a little more resistant to the dry air and came up with these Halloween luminaries.
Basically I stack cut some pumpkin carving patterns on the scroll saw, routed slots on two sides of a post, and slid the cutouts in into the post. The light is difused with a sheet of plastic light covering (the kind they put over flourescent lights at the office) that was cut and glued behind the cutouts.
It seems like cutting patterns on the scroll saw is 1000 times easier than using those silly little pumpkin carving tools!
thanks for looking,
--tlt
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