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A mix of wildlife scroll saw projects. Wolf , antelope and moose and a few wood burning projects

Both of the cuttings pattern was also made by me.

Bloomington, IL Farmers Market starts May 6th. I am anxious for the start of a new season. I have got Mother's Day gifts covered. A few of the patterns are by Steve Good.

Last Fall my pet dragon and book Guardian Bibliophiline escaped. Apparently she mated with a Parrot-Dragon somewhere in the jungles of Tennessee. Now that her offspring have hatched and matured, they are ready for adoption - I can't keep them all - I don't have enough book worms. Adoption Fees vary depending on the color (exotic woods are harder to cut and up to 5 times more expensive than poplar). They have been treated with Walnut-Oil; so they have no fleas! More here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10211488317474946&type=1&l=d5b8b354d8

I just finished cutting this. No finish yet. 1/8 Baltic birch ply. Pegas 2/0 spirals. 8" x 10". I posted this photo taken from an odd angle, because other people will often steal the pattern, and I might want to sell it to other scroll saw hobbyists.

I guess it's a basket. A pattern from a book by Patrick Spielman.. Done in Poplar with a 321 finish.

I designed and cut these 2 door hangers this morning.......will be Mothers Day or Fathers day gifts......hearts are 1/2" sanded ply......logo is 1/4" ply......rattle can paint......comment with your honest opinions.....thank you.

hey everyone just wanted to share this with you. This is what my buddy todd a.k.a newfie cut for me a few days ago. This is my own cartoon character that I've been drawing for the pass 4 years, and I thought it would be cool to have it cut out wood, so I done the pattern and sent it to him. I think it came out great. I also attached the drawing that it came from, i just added the guitar after. Thanks again I Love It. TDpainter

I dont make things for others or take requests. i make what I want to make for my personal enjoyment. This is why. 99% of the people have no idea of the complexity of the process.

most in ply wood some in poplar fuil of termites that moved out i had to keep cuting all sides till i found no more tunnels from them like the last cross i did

I have been busy. I just finished this cross for a friend of mine to put on her cross wall. She has all sorts of crosses on her wall and now she has one from me. The pattern is a Steve Good pattern.

Rectangular trivet cut from reclaimed rimu but as yet unfinished. 29cm x 14.5cm or 11.5" x 5.75" approx. Pattern is from craftsmanspace.com

That's why I don't do it. Don't like it don't buy it!

I too very rarely take an order that has specifics in it. Not worth the effort. I have been left with product that I could not sell because people pull out of the deal. Yes you can keep deposit but still not enough to cover time and effort and then materials you have a hard time reusing. If someone wants more than one of something I make is much different because even if they pullout I can resell easily. Putting names on things is something I have stopped doing also. I will not personalize. I leave that to others. Again just no money in it and not worth the time.

There is no satisfying some people and you can only try till you have to give up...I only wish they came with a sign so you could avoid them

I had a chance to get back into the garage this evening and cut this out and will be taking it to the race track to show the motorcycle racers what they look like. I didn't have time to put a backer plate on it so I found some fabric my sister had and took pictures of it with the black and the red. Hope you all like it. Thanks for looking Jim

Roly, I bout fell out of my chair laughing!! Good one!! Steve

fantastic job, I'm sure they will sell

nice job

Steve they are Super Cool.Love The Scarecrow. my Favorite.Dorothy is Awesome

Monti,They are Fantastic.Love the colors and the woods.Some strange things happen here in Tenn,

Fantastic cutting Dan. Well done. Marg

They are great and very colorful. Well done Dan. Marg

A really mean looking dude. Looks great Frank. Marg

I have my name in large red letters in the signature and I still finish my posts with Marg out of habit more than any other reason. I like it when people use their names it's more personal and family. Marg

Never fails ,you have always come up with very desireable project that sell like hotcakes!

these are so good it almost made me cry from the fond memorys ,your good buddy buddy!

these are tops ,well done friend!

Gaty,your store is heart felt.show me the money ,what a game.it's best to keep your money in your pocket .I've try consigning things three different places and everything disappeared and no body knows nothing.Well actually that was a compliment .if my work was good enough to steal its good enough to sell .hang in there buddy things will get better or worse nothing stays the same.Welcome friend.

Nice cutting thanks for sharing

Kevin, what you need to do is show them the pattern and what it's going to look like and write out a contract and let them sign it. Also get half down. If they complain or don't like it, show them the pattern that they agreed on and that's that. If they don't want it, keep the deposit and send them on there way.

Great job on both cuttings and patterns, you did good. jim penquin

Spooky but great work!

Great job. Nice wood.

Like the man said you did a great job all the way around. Really an A+.

Very nice project. Thanks for sharing this with us. DW

Looks great once again Frank..I don't know what is more scaredy looking that skill or your avatar lol

My honest opinion,,,,, the Cubs got lucky.... Just kidding, I don't even follow baseball. Great job on the plaques.

I like them both good job on the cutting of the heart shape I struggle cutting hearts for some reason not sure why lol Thanks for sharing Frank

Great looking cutting. You did a great job on Don's pattern, thanks for posting and showing it to us. jim penquin

In another world, I dealt with quotes and written estimates and initial deposits. I know this may not be so sophisticated but something on paper eliminates the " he said, she said" and a deposit on the work says they have skin in the game and will think twice before backing out. An old sales and marketing adage says that 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers. Focus on the loyal 20% and you will have less head aches and more reliable revenue.

Well done. IKE

Nice one thanks for sharing

Great work Marg thanks for sharing

Had a couple more address sign orders

I know just what your talking about Kevin.I have only ran into that a few times in my 15 yrs of selling,but that is plenty.Like turner stated wish they wore signs.

Love it. Looks good too. Marg

Nice signs Gordie.. They all came out great. Thanks for sharing them with us. DW

Very nice. He will love that. Great work Dan. Marg

Howdy all. Here's a little update of where we are. I've been trying to track down the login issue for the last couple days. What I think is going on is when you click a link, the web server is returning a cached version of that page. When it does that, the cached version does not have you logged in, and may not have the most up to date posts. I found if you click the Ctrl+F5, it forces the web browser to retrieve a new page, not a cached page. It works for me (I'm using Google Chrome and Firefox on PC, and Google Chrome on Mac), but other folks are not having as much luck. So the solution is to have the web server stop cacheing the pages. There's the rub. The hosting company put a restriction on SSV because we're using too many server resources. During this lockdown, a caching system kicks in on the server to save CPU. That, in turn, causes all of our problems with the logins and webpages go haywire. Once we are no longer using too many server resources, the caching stops and I think our login problems go away. That's great! Let's do that! Well, we go back to our original problem: using too many server resources. I thought updating PHP, optimizing MySQL tables, and updating the software would help. While it helps, it turns out it's not enough. So we gotta reduce our load. SSV is a great place. We all know that. We have a great forum, tons of information, and a huge pattern library. As such, lots of folks like to stop by. At any one point, we have anywhere between 40-120 people browsing the website. However, the vast majority of them are not members of SSV. They pop in to read the forums and grab free patterns. As of this writing, we have 100 people online. Only 15 of them are signed in as members. Everybody else is browsing as a guest. Here's the difficult part. When I started SSV in 2009, I wanted to share as much information about this wonderful hobby as I could. Share patterns to anybody who wants them. All of this for free, without registering or logging in. I was really in love with the idea of a free society and wanted to help as many people as I could. That mission worked great, up until last week when we hit critical mass. 85% of our traffic is taking up valuable resources. And the 15% of us who care enough to register for an account and participate in this awesome community are paying the price. That doesn't seem fair. In order for me to bring down the server load so we can get SSV back on track, I have to limit what we can share with Guest browsers. It pains me to do this, but here's what i'm going to do. The Gallery and Pattern Library will no longer be browsable unless you're logged in. I think this will make a big difference on our server load. Guests will be able to see the forums and the topics, but they won't be able to read the topics unless they're logged in. The blogs, chat room and articles will also be for members only too. I'll bring back some of the other pages on a case by case basis. I still want to share information to the general public, as long as it's not taking a toll on the website. Eventually, I'll release parts of SSV to the general public. I still think it's important to serve the whole scrolling community. But we gotta get our house in order first. SSV is still free! You can still register for a free membership. You'll just need to be logged in to access all the great stuff SSV has to offer. If we reduce our server load, the hosting company will lift the restrictions. Once the restrictions are lifted, SSV will operate properly. Once SSV is working the way it needs to, we can continue to share and chat and enjoy eachother's company. And hopefully, everything will be back to normal.