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Boy fishing from a pattern by Grampa. Reclaimed rimu finished with two coats of tung oil. I love this pattern and have cut it before. Thanks for looking, Rob

Hey guys this is 1rst few projects on my scroll saw......well the ones the kids didn't get and paint up. Lol I let them paint all over a bunch I cut on luan when getting used to the saw. My son did paint this fish. The baseball glove is for my daughter's t ball picture.

Made a few of these in the past few years but this was the first one in a long time. It's 12" round made from 3/4" pine. The name and cards are from 1/4" birch plywood stained for a nice contrast. Not a lot of scrolling but a ole lot of drilling lol.

I pulled this pattern from Steve Good's site as I wanted to test my skills.

I made this basketball player. I used beech wood.

Made of red oak stained Special Walnut with a walnut inlay.

Now that my daughter's senior night for her College Volleyball has concluded I wanted to share the "trophies" I made for her and the one other Senior we had on the team this year. I got the original "hitter" pattern from Steve Good late last year. He didn't share the pattern on his blog, but he showed a picture of a volleyball team with their trophies from his pattern. When I emailed him and requested it, he kindly sent it to me. I just had to add the player's name, and then the college - It's Maryville College Scots - so I went with MC Scots. I also added their numbers to the jerseys. He had noted that the ones that the girls in his photo had received were cut from 1/4" red oak on the top and walnut for the base. I decided I wanted them a little more "hefty" - given the fragility of the arms so I cut mine out of 3/4" walnut for both the top and the base. My husband helped me with the router along the edges of the base to give it a little more "polished" look to the bases. My original intent was to cut the same trophy for both girls. However, my daughter is not a hitter. She is the Libero on the team which means she is the one on the back row (in the different colored shirt) throwing herself around all over the floor trying to get that "dig" and keep the ball alive. She presently has 1300 digs for her college career (which is a great number.) She still has at least 3 or 4 more matches left so she could get close to 1400 - depending on how they do in their Conference Tournament. So I decided that I wanted her's to more accurately depict her career "digging" the ball. She has been doing that since she was 12 years old or about 10 years now. As a result, I took the "base" idea of the trophy that Steve created and took a different volleyball file I had already created previously and took a photo and created the silhouette of the back row player digging the ball and created the second trophy. While they many not be perfect, I found them acceptable enough to give away - especially when you consider this is truly the first time I have cut lettering and kept the project. (I have run away from lettering previously. ) - But I had been cutting a lot of the animal puzzles and practicing on my cutting on the lines and I think that helped me a lot (Thanks Scott and Harvey )- that and a lot of prayers while I cut them out! I put lacquer spray on to finish them off. Thanks for looking. (Cross posted on here and the SSWC Forum.) Maybe I will try some more words at some point sooner then later now!

Some halloween lamps. Have to finish two of them.

Spend a few hours in the shop lately. Puzzle patterns from Scott K-9 from Steve Good - same pattern different wood

My next puzzle was made from a photo of the T-90 tank. I thought of making figurals in the form of a parade of tanks and other armored vehicles from the early 20th century to the 21st century. I guess I should have added the very first tank, painted by Leonardo da Vinci. I forgot! Here you can see: * Mark I Male, United Kingdom * Schneider R-16 and Renault, France * M3A1 Stewart, USA * King tank by designer Lebedenko with huge bicycle wheels, Russia * and other tanks, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled guns. In addition, at the request of the customer, I drew several silhouettes of tanks from one computer game. I selected the figurals by a water stain. 18*11.5" 582 parts I reflected some photos of the back side of the puzzle that you could read the text. All the silhouettes I made on one scale, so you can correlate the real dimensions of these machines.

Birch plywood 10mm flat blade #3 of LuxTools letters- pyrography finishing - gloss varnish

Young owl pattern by grampa, Thanks alot for this great pattern Paul.

A present for my wife's cousin. She's a Waylon Jennings groupie Cut by me / pattern by me.

When I called and ordered mine I asked if they had any used machines and she told me they had two. I think they only offered a 60 warranty on them. I think I could have saved three or four hundred on a used one once I bought all the extra stuff. The funny thing about the one I got was that it has a 2016 sticker on it. Once I have it a few years that won't make much difference.

Got this one under my belt as a demo ,just to see how it goes before i switch to hard woods.I'm liking it!Funny how i cut it with a #9 scroll reverse in 1/4 plywood and i cut the heads of the photo and stretched out an ink pen spring to make it a bobble head .Worked out good and i did a movie of the action but when i try to download it here or send it tho the folks it won't go???

12 Days of Christmas pattern by Birchbark used #1 blade on 1/8" BB Standing Bear pattern by Neptun Used #1 blade and a spiral blade in spots on 1/8" bb and 1/4" BB backer. Materials out of the scrap pile.

My next event in a couple of weeks... Port City Ribfest... here in my town. It's a 3 day event. I had Harvey design 4 new ones for me and I cut a set today.

Excellent workmanship, Dave, I envy your work on every one of your projects and can't wait to see your next post. Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

awesome job

turn the blade over and try it. We all put blades in upside down occasionally, okay at least I do, others will not admit it.

Very true, but Kevin has a whole graveyard full of these. Have you seen his videos on youtube? I suspect you could probably reach out to him for advise via email. If anyone is in the Atlanta users group, you might give us some insight.

Came out great. All you have to do now is frame it.

Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing this with us. DW

Rob,you did SuperBeautiful cutting with a Beautiful pattern.

Look great Terry. Marg

Dave, that is a tidy bit of work, the inlay work is perfect. Len

Christian, can you not just lay a piece of paper over the top of the existing piece and trace it? Len

Nice work thanks for sharing

Nice work thanks for sharing

Dave, I guess the most we can hope for and be thankful for is we can "meet up" here everyday.

Rob, you certainly did that great pattern proud! The cutting is perfect and the way the grain is around where the line goes in the water really make it look like water... Nice job.

Super duper pattern and cutting.

Great pattern and cutting.

Good work. Roly

Another understanding project Dave. I'm like Paul, I want to come visit and watch and learn. Trying inlays is on my "someday try list". thanks for sharing.

That is truly outstanding, Dave. Bruce

They ALL came out nice. Great work. Thank you for sharing Sam

very nice work

Very nice plague you did not there.

Those turned out great !

Well, I'm perfect in every way, so I don't make mistakes. But then again, I can tell the perfect lie (or not).

Awesome workThe Ornaments are Fantastic!! as is the Bear.

Nice work Thanks for showing us

Wow those came out great! Will you sell them, give them as gifts or keep them for yourself? A couple of afternoons well spent, thanks for sharing those with us. Russell

Cool! Nice work!

Two and a half ago my best friend, Mike, died unexpectedly in his sleep at age 73. This was Mike's "life verse" and he genuinely lived it. I decided I would design and make a plaque for his widow. To keep it from being grotesquely large the letters had to be quite small. The plaque measures 14" x 8". (The second photo shows a dime in the picture for size perspective.) I made it 1/2 way through the first attempt in cherry before losing a "drop out" and creating some firewood. This second attempt was in Jatoba wood (AKA Brazilian cherry) which has interlocking grain and is less inclined to fail at one of the bridges. This was cut with Flying Dutchman #1 Ultra Reverse blades and I went through 12 of them for this piece. (Jatoba dulls blades incredibly fast.) I found the small letters to be extremely challenging. It is finished with Watco oil and wipe-on Poly.

My brother past away last Saturday and I'm not able to make the funeral, don't have the money right now to fly back to the States. I cut this for his youngest daughter and his grandson.

Sorry for your loss. You did a great job with it I'm sure it will be gladly received. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the ideas and thoughts - may have already been done but a thread devoted to space-saving ideas might be one well worth doing - I've posted before about a "lazy susan" I have that hosts 3 benchtop tools - wouldn't give it up for the world - but otherwise my workshop competes with equipment needed for snow removal, grass cutting, gardening, camping, boating and the provision of emergency power - I guess in truth my "Shed" has a tough time calling itself a "Workshop" - maybe its more suited to the title "Garage" ....... Thanks, Jay