Nostalgia - Scroll Saw Challenge

[Travis]

Last week, I headed back to Montana to visit my family.  It has been awhile since I've been home.  We had a great time reminiscing about the good ol' days.  So I think this month's scroll saw challenge is about nostalgia.  Post a project that brings back memories of the good ol' days.  This is pretty open to interpretation.  Old cars, trains, farm houses, scenic, etc.  When you post, let us know what kind of memories it brings back for you.  It will be fun to see what people come up with.

[flarud]

This is a fairly new cut,, but my Dad in the pic has been gone for 8 years,,,,, Good ol' day's. 

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by flarud

[flarud]

This was my first band saw box.  I made it for my Mom.  I asked her what she wanted for Christmas one year,, she said "not a thing".  So in the drawer of the box I wrote on a little card, "Not A Thing".  She's been gone now for 3 years.... The Good ol' days. 

 

 

[Jronn65]

When all the grandkids would get together back in the day, this is where we would hang out.  This is a Charles Dearing pattern but looks so much like the barn at my grandparents farm.  It was the most fun right after the hay was cut.  

[heppnerguy]

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This takes me back about 8 years when I was trying to think what I was going to give to my wife for Valentines day. I was looking through some patterns and found this one a on a CD I had purchased and decided that  that my wife might enjoy having this one for her decors. I hit the target with it, as she loved it and has it now in a prominent place in our home to this day. I also had a request for one of these from my grandson, for their wedding gift. They did not need anything for their wedding, in the way of gifts,  except to maybe one of grampa's tower clocks. So this clock with always have a special place in my heart.

Dick

heppnerguy  

[Rockytime]

What a gorgeous clock! What wood did you use, BB? Also is it stained or painted and who makes the pattern. Sorry for all the questions but that clock is special.

[ben2008]

On 8/11/2021 at 8:05 PM, Rockytime said:

What a gorgeous clock! What wood did you use, BB? Also is it stained or painted and who makes the pattern. Sorry for all the questions but that clock is special.

Hi Les

I believe it is this clock on Scrollsaw.com. They have some really nice clock patterns at very reasonable prices.

Click this link below, and it is the 4th picture down.

https://www.scrollsaw.com/collections/clocks-for-the-scroll-saw-sure-to-become-a-family-heirloom/fretwork

Ben

[Rockytime]

That's it. Thank you very much!

[Rolf]

My first Serious Fretwork challenge. I had only been scrolling for a couple of years and it was my first ribbon presented to me by Wes Demarest who was an editor for Creative woodworking and crafts magazine back then.  2006 It was a Jeff Zaffino design. It was also my first homemade frame and attempt at matt cutting. the frame is Cherry.  Baltic birch stack cut 3 up.

Edited August 13, 2021 by Rolf

[Scrappile]

On 8/11/2021 at 5:05 PM, Rockytime said:

What a gorgeous clock! What wood did you use, BB? Also is it stained or painted and who makes the pattern. Sorry for all the questions but that clock is special.

One thing I can tell you about that clock,,,, do not try to build it out of Cherry!   I did, and the 1/8" thick pieces broke every time they were touched...!  Mine ended up on a bond fire!!!

Edited August 13, 2021 by Scrappile

[Frank Pellow]

Canoes on Lake Pivabiska:

Some of my happiest times have been spent in a canoe.  The photos are me canoeing with my Granddaughter Isla and my Grandson Ethan; both photos taken 17 years ago.

I designed the frame, the layout and the matting.  Timothy (worbler) designed the pattern for the scroll saw portion in the middle and I made a few modifications to his design.

This is in the predominant place for art in our home, that is over the mantle-place in our living room. 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by Frank Pellow

[Rockytime]

4 hours ago, Scrappile said:

One thing I can tell you about that clock,,,, do not try to build it out of Cherry!   I did, and the 1/8" thick pieces broke every time they were touched...!  Mine ended up on a bond fire!!!

I'm starting the Rhinelander clock from The Art Factory. I've ordered Cherry and Walnut. The Cherry is for the 1/8" parts. I guess I had better go with something else. 

[Scrappile]

6 minutes ago, Rockytime said:

I'm starting the Rhinelander clock from The Art Factory. I've ordered Cherry and Walnut. The Cherry is for the 1/8" parts. I guess I had better go with something else. 

One thing, I am not good a paying attention of grain direction and on fragile pieces that is important.  That could have been the problem, I don't know, but cherry if fragile in thin pieces...

[FrankEV]

My Black Panther cut, that I just completed and posted in Bragging Rights, was actually cut because it was trully based on a nostalgia memory/reason.   Back in the fifties my High School Teams were called the Panthers and this particular pattern is almost identical to the Black Panther Images use on the team jerseys and jackets.  None of my other work fits the challenge criteria.

Edited August 13, 2021 by FrankEV

[Rolf]

The Panther really pops. !

 

When doing fretwork like that magnificent clock grain direction is not very helpful because of the design. If you strengthen one direction you will have just as many weak areas in the other direction.  Cherry is such a beautiful wood. 

If you have the capability to glue up Veneers. you could make your own cherry plywood. 

Edited August 14, 2021 by Rolf

[RabidAlien]

Summers spent camping and hiking with friends, way back in the day.  Dad was in the Air Force, stationed down in South Georgia (fart, and they smelled it in Florida kinda South).  We'd get away to go camping as often as we could, and once we had access to cars, we started driving up to the Appalachians to camp.  Mountains will always hold a place in my heart.  We lost track of each other after highschool, I went and joined the Navy and had a stroke or something that caused me to volunteer for submarines.    Qualified on three of them before getting out in 1998.

My Dad, who passed in 2009, was a big fan of Texas history, and grew up on Westerns.  He knew every John Wayne and Clint Eastwood western by heart.  First time I saw "Outlaw Josey Wales" was sitting on the sofa, watching it with him.  Still love that movie.

 

 

 

[FrankEV]

2 hours ago, Rolf said:

...If you have the capability to glue up Veneers. you could make your own cherry plywood. 

FYI, you can buy the solid core Cherry plywood through HD.   However, for such a beautiful project as that clock, solid wood is IMO the only way to go.

[don in brooklin on]

This is project number 1.  

I went to a course at the Durham Woodworking Club put on by Don Gaudet and we cut this Wolf.  

I had an old Craftsman single speed with pin blades.  Never knew about patterns being available, pin less blades, threading the blade, or why the table tilted.  We where using DW788 that did not vibrate like crazy.

That was on Saturday.  I researched machines  and ordered a EX-21 on Tuesday - delivered Friday and as they say the rest is history. Best $4 I ever spent.

 

[Frank Pellow]

Hey Don, that was my first project too.

I also cut it at a course conducted by Don.  My course was conducted at Lee Valley Tools in Scarborough.

 

[Jim Blume]

Remembering my first day in Basic Training with the promise to get my first clothing issue the following day. And then the Sergeant saying, let's see how many of you will walk the walk, so you can have the right to talk the talk.

I made this pattern for all of those who have earned that right.

[Hudson River Rick]

Great pattern Jim, especially with what is happening in the news today.

So many young kids killed in vain.  My niece was over in the desert for 2 tours, THANK GOD she came back in one piece .

 

Thanks for sharing.

[Kris Martinson]

I was introduced to fishing by my grandparents, and I still love it. I got to teach my own grandson to fish, and it is an absolute joy to spend time with him out fishing at a nearby lake.

[heppnerguy]

On 8/13/2021 at 6:40 AM, ben2008 said:

Hi Les

I believe it is this clock on Scrollsaw.com. They have some really nice clock patterns at very reasonable prices.

Click this link below, and it is the 4th picture down.

https://www.scrollsaw.com/collections/clocks-for-the-scroll-saw-sure-to-become-a-family-heirloom/fretwork

Ben

yes that is the pattern.. if you have any questions when you start to cut it, just PM and I will help you. there are some pattern parts that are a little difficult to understand.

 

[Fedido]

This might not look like much, but it is cut out of Western Cedar on a 1990 craftsman scroll saw and it was my first real fret work attempt. Did it with pinned blades and three weeks of sanding and filling. I guess I was doing it like the older days. Okay, might be a reach. 

[OzarkSawdust]

On 8/15/2021 at 1:01 PM, Jim Blume said:

Remembering my first day in Basic Training with the promise to get my first clothing issue the following day. And then the Sergeant saying, let's see how many of you will walk the walk, so you can have the right to talk the talk.

I made this pattern for all of those who have earned that right.

Love it Jim! It's one of the patterns I will do when I get my shop put together. We just moved from MO back to the border in Mission TX, movers have not delivered yet and I'm expanding on the casita that will become my shop. I was issued my first pair about 50 years ago!