2024 Year In Review - Scroll Saw Challenge

[OCtoolguy]

On 1/5/2025 at 7:57 PM, wombatie said:

It's been a hard year for our family and these two cutting took my mind of things even if it was only for a little while each day.
I saw the Viking pattern and immediately wanted to cut it for our grandson but my daughter convinced me to enter it into the Royal Melbourne  Show, which I did and miraculously won first prize, still can't get over that.
The second one was a Columbo portrait that I did for my daughter for Christmas, she is a hugh fan.
Both were a giant surprise and warmly received.
Hoping 2025 is a better year.

Marg

 

Fantastic work!

[RabidAlien]

Some of my favorites from last year.  John Wick is always a fun pattern to cut.  The two lovers is one I'd wanted to do for a long time, and I had been wondering what to do with a small scrap of live-edge.  And The Shadow...move over, Batman, the original brooding detective is back!  The Shadow knows...

[Roberta Moreton]

I have two favorites.  One is a Carole Rothman bowl I made. NEVER thought in a million years that I would make one! The other is a Jim Blume pattern that got a blue ribbon at the state fair! 

 

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[Gonzo]

21 hours ago, Roberta Moreton said:

I have two favorites.  One is a Carole Rothman bowl I made. NEVER thought in a million years that I would make one! The other is a Jim Blume pattern that got a blue ribbon at the state fair! 

Bowl looks great! How about a closeup of the piece that won you a blue ribbon.  Congrats ny the way 

[barb.j.enders]

Last year I started, in earnest, my Intarsia journey.  These are a couple that I was particularly proud of. 

The Pelican was a pattern by JGR and one of the PAM projects.  I found out I won that month a few days before Judy passed.  The duck was a custom design, by me, for my baby sister's 60th birthday.  The bouys and koi just "spoke" to me. The hummingbird was a prize from Steven Shears.  He said it was an unpublished pattern and I was the first to cut it.

[Mike Crosa]

Wonderful work everyone.  

 

Mike

[ChelCass]

The one project that was special for me is finding I can get two or three images from one pattern, depending on how you cut your pattern. The rabbit was my first experiment and I was really pleased with it.  The girl with the watering can and the witch were two others that worked out well. I have this thing about wasting wood and this works well for me.

[alexfox]

Last year I started making boxes. I tried to add something new or unusual. For example, a hidden opening mechanism: to open a Christmas box you need to turn the bells. And for a Halloween box you need to move the "Trick or Treat" sign up. This year I plan to make a few more boxes.

 

[Scrappile]

@alexfox I used the Halloween one this year, even my older grandkids (In their 20's were excited with them).  I have the Christmas box to do for next year.  

[MarieC]

 

 

On 1/11/2025 at 6:40 PM, heppnerguy said:

As you may or may not have seen, I posted a photo of a shirt my granddaughter was wearing on Thanksgiving and told her I would attempt to make a pattern from it and then attempt to make her a wooden plague of it, for her.

 I am posting the picture I took of her shirt and followed by the end results of my effort to make her a plaque. It did not come out exactly as I had in mind but I still felt pretty good about the end results and she said she loved it so it does not get any better than that.

Dick

heppnerguy

 

Dick, I like your intarsia piece better than the T-Shirt!  Really nice 

[heppnerguy]

On 1/15/2025 at 3:45 PM, MarieC said:

 

 

Dick, I like your intarsia piece better than the T-Shirt!  Really nice 

thank you.. I was pleased with it as I was not sure just how I was going to go for the end results.  Not exactly what I had in mind but it worked for me.

Dick

heppnerguy

[Dak0ta52]

My year (2024) has been rather busy. This was the first year I really got involved in vendor shows and attended a little less than a dozen. As most others have experienced, some shows I did well, and others were a flop. But something I enjoy more is getting commissions from customers who come up and seen my work.

The black lab (pattern is in Village Library) I created for a lady who had a vendor booth set up across from mine at one of the shows. She had recently lost a black lab and unfortunately didn't have any pictures. I was able to find a picture, create a pattern and make the cut. She was extremely pleased and said the piece did look like her dog.

The Silky belonged to a lady that is in a dog training club with my wife. This was a champion dog in both conformation (Best In Show) and obedience training. I made the pattern from a picture she had and if I remember correctly, the pattern has around 650 cuts. It was tricky, but a lot of fun to cut. The heart was added at the request of my wife. Unfortunately, the dog had passed just before I got the commission.

The two cowboy pieces are patterns by Jim Blume. I love his patterns and have cut many of them over the past couple years. The most challenging was the six team stagecoach going through water. That piece had a few cuts short of being 1500. These pieces didn't have near that many, but they were challenging because of the delicate places with small bridges. I guess the reason I like Jim's patterns is because they challenge me.

The last piece I cut for a local restaurant chain. Obviously, it is a Mexican restaurant, and I cut it at the request of one of the wait staff. When I finished it and brought it to them, the manager seen it and had a fit. (Good fit.) He had to hang it up right away. The young lady that asked me to do the cut was pleased and had intended to hang the piece in the restaurant anyway. I felt kind of bad for her, so I cut one of the 3D bird houses and gave it to her once they had their Christmas tree up. She did hang it on the tree but once they took it down, she kept it and hung it in her car.

[Hudson River Rick]

@Dak0ta52 Rodney, great work on all of your cuttings, I agree, that Jim's patterns are very challenging. 

Your pattern work is great, I will attempt to find the Black Lab pattern for a good friends birthday.  Thank for sharing.

Rick

[rjweb]

Excellent cutting, I really like the lab, will have to cut one but make it chocolate, RJ

[Dak0ta52]

4 hours ago, Hudson River Rick said:

@Dak0ta52 Rodney, great work on all of your cuttings, I agree, that Jim's patterns are very challenging. 

Your pattern work is great, I will attempt to find the Black Lab pattern for a good friends birthday.  Thank for sharing.

Rick

 

3 hours ago, rjweb said:

Excellent cutting, I really like the lab, will have to cut one but make it chocolate, RJ

Here is the Lab pattern. Making it a Chocolate lab shouldn't be any problem. Just stain or paint your backer brown. Glad you like it and I hope your piece turns out as nice as mine did.

[rjweb]

Thx for the download, will get busy on it when the weather warms up, RJ