Scroll Saw Shell

[britetomro]

Got started back in November on something a little different. Making Scroll Saw Shells. The one below is my 4th one. The first one was cut and assembled without any sanding or finish. The second one was a Christmas gift and this one sits on my office desk. This shell is made from a simple 2x4 which was about  21" long. This is then cut into 3 7" long pieces. These pieces are then cut at an angle to yield 6 wedges. This shell uses 5 of these wedges. The 5 wedges were then cut with the scroll saw and provided 57 individual segments. The hard part now starts with the assembly, shaping and sanding. The finish is approx 5 coats of hand rubbed Tung oil. The stand is a piece of a Palm tree with dowels to support the Shell. Hope you like the results.

[jerry1939]

BEAUTIFUL WORK SIR!! I could only dream about having 5% of your talent.

 

jerry

[Bandito]

That looks really neat, looks like it would take a lot of work.

[DWSUDEKUM]

Very nicely done.  Those shells are a lot of fun to make.  Thanks for sharing them with us.

 

DW

[Dan]

Fantastic work Ron. It's so clean and has a great finish.

[Fish]

That is awesome ! Beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing.

[Scrolling Steve]

Sweet !...Nice work !...Is the pattern yours?...Is it available ?

[britetomro]

Thanks for the comments. The shells are really somewhat easy to cut. I purchased an e-Book from a guy named Steve Garrison a few years ago about the Shells. Did not get started for one reason or the other. Found a few months ago that he had created a facebook account dedicated to the Scroll Saw Shells. There are also a few videos he and others have posted on youtube about making the Shells. If interested I would suggest checking these areas out. I took the wooden one to our Scroll Saw meeting in November and was asked to be the guest speaker during our January meeting which is this Thursday. I have cut two other Shells since November and will post photos of one of them probably tomorrow and have not taken photos of the latest one since I have not finished the stand. These are a lot of fun however if you do not like sanding do not go down this path. They do tale quite a bit of sanding but the results are worth the effort.

[Scrappile]

Very, very well done.  Like you, I have, somewhere on my computer, the instructions on how to do these, but have never gotten around to giving it a try.  My wife reminds me every once in a while, because she really wants me to make one.  Hope to try it this year.

[newfie]

WOW that looks great thanks for sharing

[wombatie]

WOW THAT IS AWESOME.  What a beautiful piece of art work.  You took to making them like a duck takes to water.

 

Marg

[dgman]

Beautiful work Ron!

[Sorcier]

Beautiful work.. I am envious!!!!!

[Lucky2]

Beautiful piece Ron, I've intended to make one myself for some time now. Just haven't gotten around to it as of yet, but, I will someday.

Len

[penquin]

That looks super, can see all the work that went into it.  Well done and thanks for the tips on where to find information to try it.

jim

penquin

[LarryEA]

You have talent, vision and patience. Beautiful shell.

[britetomro]

Many thanks for all the great comments. Will be posting another shell later today.

[amazingkevin]

Got started back in November on something a little different. Making Scroll Saw Shells. The one below is my 4th one. The first one was cut and assembled without any sanding or finish. The second one was a Christmas gift and this one sits on my office desk. This shell is made from a simple 2x4 which was about  21" long. This is then cut into 3 7" long pieces. These pieces are then cut at an angle to yield 6 wedges. This shell uses 5 of these wedges. The 5 wedges were then cut with the scroll saw and provided 57 individual segments. The hard part now starts with the assembly, shaping and sanding. The finish is approx 5 coats of hand rubbed Tung oil. The stand is a piece of a Palm tree with dowels to support the Shell. Hope you like the results.

Your quality minded to have one come out so good looking .Thanks for showing ,keep them coming

[Young_Scroller]

WOw those are some of the best scroll saw shells i have seen, I need to make time to try this

[bobscroll]

I can see you've put a lot of work into it Ron! Thank you for letting us see!

Bob           

[rjones]

I really like the way these came out and think I just added another thing to my long "to do" list

[rdatelle]

Ron, those came out fantastic. You did a great job on the finish also. I didn't know you could hand rub tung oil that good. I,ll have to look into those and see if I can do that.

[heppnerguy]

absolutely gorgeous. How can 2 X 4's become such a thing of beauty ?  i really like them a lot and admire the great job you have done with them

 

Dick

heppnerguy