Christmas Tree Ball Ornaments by Steve Good

[FrankEV]

I made these Steve Good Ball Ornaments for our Christmas Tree this year.  Steve designed them for a Laser cutter, but they were easy to cut on a Scroll Saw.

I used a lot of 3/32” solid core Maple ply cut offs.  Repeated pieces were stack cut.   

Small details were cut with Pegas #2/0 spiral and long curves and rounds cut with Pegas #1 MGT R blade. 

Images were hand painted with Artist Acrylic Paints after sealing with a Krylon Spray Sealer. 

I did a dry fit ups of each ornament to insure all fit before glueing.  Where some tab openings were too tight, I adjusted them with a small flat file.  I then used Locktite Superglue Gel for assembly.   

After assembly, each ornament was protected with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer.

A few personal notes here:  Using a plywood for these ornaments was OK as they are just for our tree, and only come out for the month of December.  However, they would look much better if a solid wood was used.  Also, I would have prefered Images that were viewable from both sides.  The word NOEL on two of the Onaments makes the opposite view read wrong, but that is just being very picky on my part.  And BTW, the center Image piece would make nice flat ornamentss just by themselves .  

Comments and critiques always welcome. 

[barb.j.enders]

Another perfect job Frank.

[Phantom Scroller]

Great work Frank. Roly

[scrollerpete]

These are very nice

[Peter N White]

Very well done.

[Dak0ta52]

Fantastic work, Frank. My wife is pushing me to do some ornaments. I might give some of those a try. Thanks for sharing.

[Scrappile]

Okay I gave you a "like" but had to come back and give you an "Awesome"!  I love the way you painted them.

[wombatie]

Lovely.  Everyone will be asking who Leon is. 

Marg

[daveww1]

awesome job

[Gene Howe]

On 9/22/2022 at 10:11 PM, wombatie said:

Lovely.  Everyone will be asking who Leon is. 

Marg

Love your humor. Keep it up!

[Lucky2]

Frank, those are some very nice ornaments, there can be an issue with making them out of solid wood. The solid wood has to be so thin, that the ornaments are very fragile. Whereas, the plywood ones can be thrown up against a wall and not break. I know this from personal experience, I've made both types in the past. What I found that works perfect, is, to glue up my own plywood out veneers. By making them this way, you don't hardly notice the cross grain of the center layer when finished. I have 9 different types of veneer, and I don't paint my ornaments. I like for the different natural veneer colors, to show off their natural colors. I usually finish my ornaments in a gloss finish, I find that the gloss look, looks better on the tree.

Len