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Just finished this beautiful Russ Beard Pattern, it was a double stack on 4mm Birch Plywood, cut with a Niqua 1 Pin Less blade, soaked in a BLO/Mineral Spirit Mixture, finished with a few coats of clear lacquer. Black backer and a second backed smaller than the original cut to give a shadow line effect. I cannot control the final colour appearance that the wood takes on, but I will accept it and am Blessed and Grateful that I am able to produce work like this.

This is a pattern by Steve Shears @Wood Logos Studio. He was the sponsor of last month's PAM project (FB). Although my project didn't "win" Steve generously gave all entries a couple of patterns. Woods used: Orange Osage, Spruce, Aspen, Canarywood, Quilted Maple, Wenge, Aromatic Cedar and the tip of a white pencil crayon. Finished with one coat of Osmo satin. I may mount it on a slab of Elm.

I tried something new for me. This is a SueMey pattern. I have been wanting to try some "relief" cutting. Where you cut part of a picture at an angle so it will stand proud of the rest of the picture. I started with the verse, then cut the tree with a 2.5° slant. When I finished cutting the tree and saw how it looked, I decided the heart should stand out proud, also. I had some bloopers, but nothing serious. My intent was to remove the tree and stain it, but the root area was just too fragile to mess with. So I removed the pattern from the tree and the heart and colored them, leaving the pattern on the rest so I would not get stain it. It Worked pretty well. Anyway, I am happy with it and will do better next time. It is cut in 1/2" Oak.

Barn and fence - I just finished cutting this scroll saw wood-art piece today. Lots of hours in this one.

This is a quick pattern to do. I had one at my last show that sold, yeah! Got this one done for the next show. Woods used: Pink Maple, Maple, Aspen, White Oak. Finish is one coat of Walrus Oil.

Hi all I got asked if I could build a farm this is what I came up with.

Pattern by Ridgeback Wood Lamp. Saw the pattern and had to cut it. 11 X 14 double stack 1/8 BB ply 140 cuts with Sawbird #3 full reverse. Jeff

Om a FB group for Intarsia they have a pattern of the month for everyone to do. October was a funky owl by Steve Shears. I did the owl but put a spin on the backer. Mounted it to a 15" round and added a quote by John Muir The letters are ½ high and ⅛ thick, and cut from Bolivian Rosewood.

I recently entered my Viking in the Royal Melbourne Show, and I got a 1st. I am so thrilled and proud. Marg

After cutting this I sat on my front porch and got still and quiet. My favorite squirrel got within a few feet from me. I can tell him apart because he's more brown than gray and has a skinnier tail. Lots of good things happen when we take the time to be still.

Just finished this Jewelry Box for one of my Grandkids. Made out of pine and Walnut. Measures 8 x 8 and 2 inches high. A Steve Good pattern.

"Contemplating life" 30cm x 20.5cm, backer board 4mm, Donald backer board 4mm, Donald 6mm, 'cheap' DIY store ply, done with a #3 blade.

Been a long busy summer and not much happening in the shop. Been camping a bunch this summer and gave a lot of pieces to unexpecting campers. Here are my 2 newest projects. The checker bowl is probably the favorite one I have made. Made out of poplar and walnut. The pipe holder is for my son. It was cut out of some old rough cut oak from the property.

just finished this evening. Lettering is cherry , back board is Walnut and I framed the walnut with oak on the back. I had purchased the walnut from a widow years ago and when I planed it down I was disgusted when I hit a nail I did not see , it’s the first nail I had ever hit with this walnut so I was not expecting it. I of course ruined my planer blades but in my mind as I looked at it , the holes and black spots in the wood reminded of the nails on the cross .

Quick story. My Lady went to NC to be with her daughter to help during recovery from hip replacement surgery. Her Granddaughter also came to help. Her daughter also has a son and their house has only two beds and a sofa for sleeping purposes. Fortunately, the next-door neighbor had a spare room and offered it to my Lady to use at no cost for the nineteen days she was there. This neighbor has visited Africa, and they have a collection of African Art pieces on display. Upon returning home, my Lady asked if I could make a Scroll Saw African Elephant, that she could send them as a thank you for their hospitality. I searched, found, and procured a ‘Woodenmann’ Intarsia Pattern of an African Elephant bust that I felt was appropriate, and I interrupted a Christmas project that was in progress to make the Elephant. A finished ‘Woodenmann’ piece was shown online, that was done in two contrasting, dark and light, colored wood’s. I decided I would prefer to do it in a single, “more” Elephant colored, wood choice. I had just gotten a few pieces of Teak in the box of cutoffs I purchased, and it seemed like it would be a good choice. Of course, the Tusks are Aspen, and the Eyes are ‘Sharpie’ Black - sorry, no Eboney in my wood collection. Due to the limited amount of Teak that was available, I was not able to arrange all the grain-direction as I would have preferred. However, the wood has enough character that it is not too distracting or noticeable to an untrained eye. As I’m sure you are all aware, Teak is quite hard, so the cutting was slow. I did a decent job of cutting as the fit-up was quite good, with just some minor sanding adjustments needed. However, even though I attempted to cut to the outside edge of the lines to maintain the pieces full size, due to the fit-up shrinkage of this “top to bottom” pattern, the length of the Tusks had to be adjusted significantly. Shaping and fitting of the two Tusks took more time than almost all the other pieces, put together. I did add a 1/8” thick shim to elevate the head and trunk. I tapered the shim towards the bottom of the trunk. The backer is 1/8” thick BB Ply with edges painted Black. The assembly was protected with five coats of Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish spray with light sanding and buffing between coats. This will be shipped out early next week with a thankyou note from my Lady. Comments and critiques always welcome.

Saw a picture of this sign on the internet several days ago. I modified it to fit my Nephew's Garage. He and his day drag race and build drag cars for some other people. I just thought it would fit he garage well.

In honor of Veteran's Day, this is my display at ArtCrafters.

I have several of these and make them different every time. The body I cut from 1-3/4 inch square poplar. The wings and tail sections are made from walnut. THe canopy and the engine nacelles are stained.

This is a Steve Good pattern. My 7 yr old Granddaughter beat me three times. Oh well, that's what Grandpa's are for.

A modification to a Sue Mey pattern

"Creature from the Black Lagoon" 40 x 67,5cm, backer board 8mm, lagoon 4mm, bottom overlay 4mm, backer board head 4mm, head 4mm, cheap DIY store ply, done with a fretsaw using a #1 blade. The thing is the size of ca. 4 A4 sheets. Everything is done by hand, as I don't have any power tools. I found the original pic at deviantArt, making the patterns required redoing every single line in CorelDraw, which took about 20 hours. Fretsawing is a very slow process, I guess it took about 30 to 50 hours for this one. Some details: the pattern for the head the finished head on it's backer the lagoon and the bottom overlay

Hi I made this before many years ago and was starting to look tatty so I took it down and made another with some improvements. This version now has a vinyl roof and plastic windows and doors no more rotten wood

Hi A friend has asked me to make him this for his girlfriend to be wife.

I have my first crafts show this Saturday and the next one on November 16, more stuff ready and looking forward to unload some material because my storage is pretty full. Alex Fox Christmas gnomes and Don in Brooklin hockey gnomes and I think the Charlie Brown Christmas tree is Sue Mey

Our club runs a 2 x 4 challenge each year. The objective is to use one 8 foot standard 2 x4. You don't have to use SPF but you are given special consideration if you do. This is my first entry. The pattern is by JGR. I resawed the 2 x 4 to 3/4 but by the time you joint and plane it end up at about 5/8. A number of pieces glued together to about 17 x 24 and the patterns is cut segmentation style and shaped. I then stained, dyed and painted. Some things like the straw are just burned. Because you are supposed to use as much wood as possible I also did the pumpkin (DIM) and the cat and dog (Janette Square design) as part of my entry. It came first in the scroll saw section

This my second entry to our clubs 2x4 challenge. It a standard SPF 8 foot. I cut to 8 - 12 inch lengths and then jointed and glued 2 pieces together. I then resawed one piece for the front and back. I then applied the pattern to front and the 3 - 1 1/4 layers. Cut out each layer accordingly and then glued the layers back together except the back. Then glued each drawer. Even though, I very carefully lined up the openings, i did a lot of sanding to get them to fit. Glued the back on and cut outline with the band saw. Finished with wipe on poly. Didn't win any awards but I had a hard time convincing everyone that firstly it was done mainly with the scroll saw any I did not use a 2 x 8 as the joint it the front and back you can hardly see.

This project was cut, but the shaping, finishing and assembly process was put on hold while I made the African Elephant and then the Cute Pink Jacketed Bear. I made this project for myself to join other SS Christmas pieces I use to decorate the outside of my home between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. This will be mounted on a common Mailbox structure located in front of my neighbor and my Duplex. The pattern is a coloring book page that is free to download from various sites on Pinterest. A similar, but slightly different, color image titled Noel can also be found but no specific credit is given. The pattern was cut from one piece if 3/4” thick premium pine, shaped and sanded like doing Intarsia, asssembled and mounted on 3/8" thk Plywood backer, then painted with my Air Brush using Artist Acrylic Air Bush paints and protected with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish spray. I made and mounted a simple wood stand on the back side, that will be screwed to the mailbox structure, that was painted Black. With this project finished in time to decorate for Christmas, I can now slow down and concentrate on what my next project will be…of which there are too many in the hopper. Comments and critiques always welcome.

A basket C261 pattern by Alex Fox. I used 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood 10"square. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1 MGT blades. Before gluing, an artist in studio at ArtCrafters wanted to stain it. After sanding, gluing, spraying with Shellac, another coat of spray Shellac. Comments welcome.

My Star Wars loving grandsons told me my truck looks like a Storm Trooper so I decided to lean into it. Guaranteed not to rust.

Done by request for a favorite niece.

Well my first show of the year is over, it was a pretty cool day temperature around 6C not too big of a crowd because it was in our community of 184 houses. My sales were better than expected $578 and another $80 for special orders.

Nothing like a hot cup of coffee on a cold winter's morning.

It's been a few weeks since I have been able to sit at the saw,, actually any of my saws! Between work and hurricanes it's been hectic. A couple of Steve Good designs that I modified. They are kind of plain and ugly looking in the daylight but they come alive in the dark. LOL I'll let my wife paint them up however she wants to make them look better in the daylight. I used some 1/8" BB ply, some nightlight kits from Amazon and some Vellum paper. Very quick projects that are actually useful. I think I'll tweak the design a little more on the Haunted House before she paints it. I've got 2 more of the nightlight kits left, I have a couple of other design ideas that I may try out.

This is the "Small Nativity Scene" from the Feinschnitt Best of Weihnachten (Fine Scroll Saw, Best of Christmas) pattern book. It is more than segmentation but not quite Intarsia; cut from different woods but no shaping. The pieces are not glued and fit together like a puzzle. Woods used include black walnut, maple, myrtle, yellow heart and red heart.

Had a lot of fun with this one. Pattern is in the library, I did some quick on-the-fly modifications as I went. Pegas MG#02 blades, Minwax Ebony for backer and frame, Natural for project. "Awesomeness" is rattlecan sparkly silver spray. I used some scrap cardboard to block off the areas I wanted left Ebony, sprayed, and I guess my measurements were correct.

I have another show on Saturday, this is a big one held in a Church, lot’s of vendors and shoppers. I have more stuff to add to my inventory, snow flakes from Alex Fox, hockey gnomes from Don in Brooklin, also ever purchases get eithe4 a “HUG” key chain or “Pocket Angel”

This is 40 or more years old. It has been hanging on the wall everywhere we have lived since. It was made from pallet wood and one of the first things I cut on a scroll saw. I'm living this today with my grandchildren.

I choose a Shiela Landry design. Cut in 1/4” cherry with an 1/8” Baltic Birch backer painted black.

In my exploration of adding color to my scrollsaw projects, and trying something new, I took an actual stained glass pattern and cut it with ⅛ ply and filling it with acrylic in place of the stained glass This time I stained one side darker that the other. So what do you think? Light or dark wood? Chris

Meet Mr. & Mrs. frosty.....something I dreamed up this morning....Mr. is 4ft & Mrs. is 42". made from a 8ft 1x6.....parts were made from scrap wood, Mrs. glasses were made from soft steel wire. Comments are always welcomed. Ty. God Bless Dan

Here are the finished bird houses. Thanks to @don in brooklin on for the #6 blades. Wood is spruce (?). Finish is Danish oil, Fruit wood colour. Bird is Walnut.

The truck body is cut from 2x6 pine and brush-painted with bright red acrylic. The wheels are finished with shellac. The hook is 1/2-inch baltic birch.

My latest - Christmas countdown calendar. I know such pattern should have been made earlier, but this year I have many ideas for Christmas patterns, this is 4th and I plan to make more. Project size 6,5 x 9 inches, 4 layers, 1/8 inch Video of making project Christmas calendar pattern

When you just finished what you were working on, it is too late to start on another project and too early to stop for the day.

Just got a picture back from the recipient of these coasters (gift for a high school friend). 1/4" elm laminated to cork coasters, one coat BLO, #1 Polar blades for most of the cutting, #2/0 Polar blades for the man. Thin coaster is the drop out from the thick. ( I love twofers ).

This actually doesn't mean "cozy" to me, it's a gift to my sister.

From a pattern from a book called scroll saw wooden bowls ,by Carole Rothman.

I obtained a ‘Limitless Lines Design’ Stained-Glass Pattern from Etsy that I thought would be easy to convert to a suitable Intarsia project pattern. The Heron is an almost a direct copy, but I modified the background significantly to work better in wood. In doing so, I messed up the perspective somewhat by lowering the land on the far side of the water. This was not obvious to me until the project was nearly complete. I’ll live with it as is, but I have already corrected the pattern, to be more in keeping with the original pattern, that I will share in Pattern Exchange. Woods used include Premium Pine, Blue Pine, Yellowheart, Cherry, Walnut, Aspen, Black Limba, and some 4/4” thick Sapele for the fixed Frame. The Cherry I used for the Water was too close in color to the Pink toned Pine I used for the Sky, so I enhanced the color with some Blue/Green dye. The Grey and Light-colored areas of the Blue Pine worked well for most of the Heron itself, but I had to darken a few areas using some very diluted Black dye. The Eye was painted with White and Black acrylic paint. Currently, my wood selection is limited, therefore so are my choices since I would have really preferred to use a different wood for the Sky. The approximate 80 pieces of this project was quite a challenge to cut and assemble. After all the pieces were cut, shaped, textured and sanded - knowing I was going to frame the panel - I first assembled the background, within a rectangular jig sized to the finish panel size, onto a 1/8” thick BB Ply Backer. The Blue Pine is only a scant 5/8” thick and I wanted the Heron to sit proud of the background, so I cut a 1/4“thick shim to fit the remaining area and then I fit the Heron into the area. The many small pieces of the Heron’s body proved impossible to assemble, one by one, into the open area. I was forced to use CA to edge-glue the pieces together and fit into the open area as one piece. Being very careful to fit the pieces together accurately, this worked out well. The 1” wide Sapele was rabbeted 1/4" to produce a 3/4" wide border Frame. The rails were mitered and cut accurately for a tight-neat fit around the glued-in panel. The completed Assembly was finished with multiple coats of rattle-can Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish spray with light sanding/buffing in between coats. Comments and critiques allways welcome.

Grew up with Duck Tales as my after-school unwind cartoon, Darkwing came a bit after I'd moved on to other things, but I do recall catching some of the shows and he was always funny. Besides, Launchpad McQuack was in it (dude sure made the rounds of Disney Afterschool cartoons), so it *had* to be good. Pattern was picked up on Google Images, can't recall which font I used. I can post the pattern in the library if anyone wants it. Minwax Natural and Honey stains, with some rattlecan Purple on the backer behind the lettering. Pegas #02MG blades on....3/8 bbply.