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Freshly cut this morning... I think this could be a popular one. Iggy

There are twelve in the set, patterns by Keith Fenton and found in CWWC June 2013. I had a lot of tear out as seen in the first picture, so next time I will use a backing. I used 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood and FD UR #1 blades. I may make a mobile out of these. Comments welcome.

I just posted this on the SSWWC forum. and will repeat it here. If you are new to scrolling joining a club can really accelerate your learning curve. It did mine! It also gave me the opportunity to try different saws before investing in a good one. We all have our favorite things that we like to cut a club can open your eyes to many other challenges. Another plus, whenever I think I am getting good , something that another member made is just a bit better, It keeps me humble and continuously trying to improve what I do. Just like the work that is posted on sites like this. Just think how much fun it would be if we could meet once in a while. Here is what I posted. I belong to a local woodworking club Long Island Woodworkers http://liwoodworkers.org/ . Within that club we have what we call SIG's (special interest groups) Scrollers, Turners, Cabinet makers and Carvers. The main club The main club meets once a month as do the SIG's.I was president of the scroll saw club for three years meet in an Old restored barn. We used to bring our saws to the meeting but they seem to be getting heavier every year? So now we have someone do a presentation each month. It is challenging to present something of interest to a group where we have members that have scrolled for over 65 years without scaring the crap out of newbies. But our main focus is the newbies.Our current members number about 25. The turning SIG is the most active, probably because it is much more difficult to become a good turner without hurting yourself. Not to belittle scrolling, but once you understand the basic operation of your saw and can follow a line the rest is how much you want to challenge yourself.I will say the both the scrolling and turning SIG's reduced my learning curve dramatically. So much easier to watch and learn from a master.

I am just not a club person. Well I guess you could say SSV is a club on steroids.

I stay very busy making things for other people.....either to sell or give away. Occasionally I make something for us. This is also a good project for me to take to the Farmers Market to show a personalized project. Made of red oak stained Special Walnut.

You'll see green Alligators and long neck Geese some humpty back Camels and some Chimpanzees, Cats and Rats and Elephants but sure as you are born your never gonna see no Unicorns . It really scares me that I remember that!!!!! Great job Scott I love it.

I've often thought about how it would be fun to belong to a club. But first I would have to find some scrollers. I know of none in my area. Other than meeting a sharing, I think it would be fun to come up with ideas of projects to donate to activities like toys for kids in hospitals, or for needy children.

I made this Toy Chest for my Great Grandson, Jason

How many of you folks belong to a scroll saw club? If so, how active is your club? What sort of activities do you do? How do you recruit new members? How do you keep existing members active and interested? Does your club have a website or Facebook page? If you don't belong to a club, would you join if there was one local? What sorts of things would you want to get out of being a member of a scroll saw club? I'm not really conducting a poll, just looking for ideas and to generate some conversation on the topic. Thanks!

Hi all I just got done cutting the pattern made by Gayle

Fretwork tray designed by Steve Good cut from some rimu tongue and groove from the back of an old wardrobe and a piece of drawer side for the base. One coat of 50/50 BLO and mineral turpentine. I will give it a coat of beeswax once it is fully dry. This was fun to cut and I was able to stack cut the sides and ends which saved time. Rob

I can't see the benefits of a scroll saw club, unless it was helping the school shop class is in some way. Sounds more of a social, gabfest kind of thing. I've met three scrollers living fairly close, each has his own "specialty" and seems unable or unwilling to even talk about another aspect. And as you can tell by my post count, I am not a garrulous type, I prefer to sit back and watch and listen. Partly because my sense of humor does not translate well to text, and takes some getting used to in person.

Like Wayne said, this is a Steve Good pattern. Go back to his sight and reload it, that should solve your problem Dick heppnerguy

I take special orders for my puzzles putting pet names or kids names in various animals. At times folks order one for a pet that has passed away having the name put into the breed puzzle. Well, our local TV weather guy recently lost his dog to cancer so I had Harvey Byler draw a custom pattern for me so I could make one and send it out. Here is Godric the Rottweiler. I'll mail it to the TV station in a couple of days.

The weather guy was on vacation and just got back today and opened my puzzle. I had sent it to the TV station. He posted a Thank You on Facebook. I may need to hire him as my puzzle photographer. LOL

They would run around free while the earth was being born,but the loveliest of them all was the Unicorn. Nice one Scott

Great work as always Dave. It looks so fragile in places and yet the inner circle round the initial is so well cut it is perfectly round. Very well done. Rob

I am impressed. I have found walnut to be very unforgiving of fine cuts. I tried to cut one of Shela Landry's plaques in walnut but the drop-outs broke with the grain at the bridge. Great job!

Terrific!

Started in 2015, completed today. I started this got it cut out, did lots of sanding and them put it in a cardboard box and set it on the "Unfinished" shelf. Last week Heppnerguy and his wife came to visit. He brought me a box of nice veneers. Some were Mahogany, just perfect for lining the "Five Dragon Box". Last weekend I glued the box together, today I lined it with the veneer (thanks so much Dick). The box is approximately 17"L x 6"W x 7"T. The pattern came from "finescrollsaw.com" a place of beautiful patterns and great friendly service.

Mine is level with and about 2 feet away from my saw. When I am in the workshop scrolling I leave it on the whole time I am in the shop. Does not hurt anything and does continue to remove dust even when not scrolling.

When we lived in a different city, a Lady at a community college started a wood carving group. My impression was that she was trying to show the school "how busy she was." You do learn a few things from the other people, but I soon felt that I was driving 4 miles in the dark just to sit on a different chair to carve. After a couple of months I lost interest and quit going. At anything, people will reach a certain plateau and that's as good as you will ever get. My carving was only "fair." I would venture to say that nobody on this site could ever improve enough to be a major league baseball player, qualify for the NFL, the Masters, etc. etc. Would guess that people would soon tire of sitting in a different location to scroll. jerry

You can try to un-install the program and then re-install it. Hope this helps. Not sure what font Steve used in this. Best of luck.

Pushing side ways is so easy to do. Just slow your feed way down and let the blade do the cutting.

WOW !!!!!!!

Now that is a very clever idea. The possibilities for Christmas ornaments. Great job.

The work of a "pro". The attention to small and important details always makes you pieces a cut above. I would not have thought of insetting the circle piece with the initial, but it adds so much class to the overall piece. Great job.

Looks like a lot of fine cutting, love red oak wood, I really need to try the inlay thing. It really looks great, hope to do something similar one day.

Really look well done Frank.

Really great job, never done puzzles myself but in future plans, still in learning process.

I use the zip lock type bags. IKE

amazing job

very nice job

great job

I've done this on several of the clocks I've made. I typically take it to my copy store to get it close. They are willing to work with me to get it right and it's cheap. One thing to consider is that the clocks usually come with a spring loaded expansion ring or rubber ring that can be added to. Since you are cutting the hole for the clock, you can compensate for any minor difference in the dimension. Use a compass to make a size that will fit. The tower clock I made had an outer ring that was part of the design. That hole was an exact fit and the inner hole was close.