Spring - Scroll Saw Challenge

[Travis]

Holy cow, it's May already!?  This month's challenge is celebrating Spring.  This is my favorite time of the year.  The shop warms up, birds are chirping, and things are turning green.  What does spring mean to you?  Post your project that sings Springtime: birds, scenery, Mother's Day, flowers...it's up to you!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

[BadBob]

[dgman]

Springtime brings lots of birds to our backyard. I made this for my wife who is the bird lady of Moorpark!

[Scrappile]

I have shown this before but it is sitting close by and I thought it really looked like spring.   And I have a real urge to make some birdhouses of I purchased some cedar boards a couple days age.  Little late for this years brood of babies but start for next spring.

 

[Wichman]

With spring comes working in the yard, as we get older it sometimes is a pain, literally, to get up.

Here is a new pattern from Al Baggetta, his "Umph Bar" a devise to help you back on your feet.  

7/16" Elm, #1 Polar blades for the details, #3 Polar for the outside cuts. Detail "leaf" from a Steve Good Pattern.

 

[Kris Martinson]

[RabidAlien]

Lots of construction going on around us these days (yay, progress...?), so its harder to hear the owls and coyotes at night, but we still have plenty of little critters, and the hummingbirds remember where my wife keeps the feeders.  Oh, and let us not forget the Texas springtime thunderstorms....

[rjweb]

Excellent craftsmanship, RJ

[Dennisfm56]

 From Wikipedia: The Green Man, also known as a foliate head,^[1] is a motif in architecture and art, of a face made of, or completely surrounded by, foliage, which normally spreads out from the centre of the face.^[2] Apart from a purely decorative function, the Green Man is primarily interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of new growth that occurs every spring.

[OCtoolguy]

On 5/7/2024 at 6:25 AM, Scrappile said:

I have shown this before but it is sitting close by and I thought it really looked like spring.   And I have a real urge to make some birdhouses of I purchased some cedar boards a couple days age.  Little late for this years brood of babies but start for next spring.

 

Very nice Paul. I want to make bird houses too.

[OCtoolguy]

On 5/15/2024 at 1:52 PM, Kris Martinson said:

All beautiful.

[OCtoolguy]

On 5/18/2024 at 7:54 AM, RabidAlien said:

Lots of construction going on around us these days (yay, progress...?), so its harder to hear the owls and coyotes at night, but we still have plenty of little critters, and the hummingbirds remember where my wife keeps the feeders.  Oh, and let us not forget the Texas springtime thunderstorms....

Gorgeous!

[barb.j.enders]

This is my latest Intarsia piece.  Pattern found in the issue # 54 of Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts magazine, designer Gary MacKay.  Woods used Tigerwood, Maple, Canarywood, Quilted Maple, Sapelle. One generous coat of shellac.  Used many #5 MG blades.

[Norm Fengstad]

great piece thanks for  sharing

[OCtoolguy]

4 hours ago, barb.j.enders said:

This is my latest Intarsia piece.  Pattern found in the issue # 54 of Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts magazine, designer Gary MacKay.  Woods used Tigerwood, Maple, Canarywood, Quilted Maple, Sapelle. One generous coat of shellac.  Used many #5 MG blades.

Beautiful work! 

[joel brinker]

This is a Sue Mey pattern a bought awhile ago, several people like it before so i stack cut 4 more, painted with mica powder, then put  alcohol ink colored epoxy resin in the cuts I made

[Randyw81]

Spring means butterflies and picnics. Started another butterfly project but not finished yet.  The picnic basket was donated to a local veterans support organization for a silent auction. 

[joel brinker]

Just finished today, got the pattern from a pic in a group I go to, "Scroll saw works and free patterns" from a picture posted by John Chestnut. This is made out of 1/2" reclaimed Oak (maybe red Oak). It's 12" x 7 1/2", with a poly seal on it. I used Inkscape and what i learned here to copy pattern

[RabidAlien]

11 hours ago, joel brinker said:

Just finished today, got the pattern from a pic in a group I go to, "Scroll saw works and free patterns" from a picture posted by John Chestnut. This is made out of 1/2" reclaimed Oak (maybe red Oak). It's 12" x 7 1/2", with a poly seal on it. I used Inkscape and what i learned here to copy pattern

This.  Is.  AWESOME!!!!!  If the pattern was posted freely, would it be possible to share it here, as well?

[jerry walters]

WOW Joel, that is very nice and I might add very unique.  I really like it.

Jerry

[Cedric]

Birds on a wire

[barb.j.enders]

3 hours ago, Cedric said:

Birds on a wire

Do you have the pattern source for that?  I have a great live edge slab that might work as a backer.

[sydknee]

On 6/13/2024 at 8:19 PM, Cedric said:

Birds on a wire

That’s a real beauty.  I’d love to have a go at cutting it sometime when I finish about 10 or so of my unfinished projects.

 

[Rolf]

Some really beautiful work. It would be nice if everyone added the Artist pattern source.

[barb.j.enders]

On 6/25/2024 at 7:30 AM, Rolf said:

Some really beautiful work. It would be nice if everyone added the Artist pattern source.

I agree!  It is such an easy thing to add to the post.