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This was a real challenge, I did not think I was going to get through parts of it with the repurposed ash 3/4 inch flooring intact

I make lots of these, they are popular. These are cut from asain acacia engineered flooring samples

Don't know what to call this but I like how it turned out

Elizabeth Olsen delivered a few new patterns. The Cats I'm pretty happy with. I upload the pattern for that as soon as I get the illustrator files for it to convert to pdf. The Airforce design needs a little work. The text was initially too small to cut, so I tried to enlarge that part, but I still had issues cutting it. I was off on the entry holes, throwing some of the letters off. For this kind of pattern, especially at this scale, I would rather have the inverse for the letters, so I'll see if she can come up with the design in the inverse. Her original design would work well if it was expanded and cut in wood at a much larger scale. I've converted the source vector file to PDF, so in that format, you can be scaled to any size, without losing detail. Here is the Original AirForce Pattern, you may have to enlarge a few of the bridges: AirForce_ElizabethOlsen.pdf AirForce_ElizabethOlsen.pdf

Back to work tomorrow after 17 days off Got these done in the last week. The nativity scene caught my interest and Paul came up with pattern by Sullyscroller, thanks again Paul. Stack cut three, 1/8 BB ply, 11 X 13. Will post Jan's painted one when she is done painting it. The cowboy is a Charles Dearing pattern cut in 1/4 BB ply, 7 3/4 X 14. Jeff

Finally got round to finishing this one

2018 begins with the stockpiling for the upcoming year. First event is March 30 & 31, need inventory... and I had one last custom one to cut. Meet Peyton the Unicorn.

Finished this on New Year's Eve. It was a Christmas present for my wife. This is only the 3rd intarsia project I did. My wife collects nativity sets and this one will be out year round.

This is a gift a made for my youngest daughter. Unlike the nativity I posted above. This was done on time. This is her favorite song.

Designed by my son from photos of his siblings’ dogs, cut by me. 12” diameter, each of 3 layers is 1/8” Birch ply.

This mornings play time.

6.25" Wide x 8.50" High x 3/4 " Thick You can purchase pattern from: www.WoodcraftByScott.com

Hi Tyrone Welcome to the Village For me if it is a taller cut I like the grain going up and down If it it a wide cut I like the grain going sideways.

HI, My name is George and I live in the Island of Guam(U.S. territory). I am a Navy retiree of 21 yrs. and now contractor. I still recall till this day, my first Craftsman 16 in.scroll saw when I was 19 yrs old just a rookie .I did some name plates, Christmas ornaments , and several animals. It's very rewarding when you see the final product is complete.I had stopped for a long period of time(28 Yrs.) and now I'm back again trying to read up and see what the latest technology on scroll saw. I look forward in gaining and sharing information to the group. I'm leaning towards a Dewalt 788 scroll saw and getting some flying Dutchman blades too. Thank you. Happy New Year

My workshop is small. 8'X14' 112 sq ft I have a radiant heater sitting on the floor. It is very ineffective. Natural gas and propane are not an option. Also I cannot justify the cost of overhead infrared heating. I do have a separate 220v box in my shop. I'd like to know if any of you use a small 220v heater and what kind.

Hi Everyone Compliments of the Season!! I hope 2018 is your best year yet. I hope I am not opening a can of worms by asking a question that may invoke a split of opinion. However, I would like to know the "best" way to have the grain direction of plywood 9or any wood), when cutting silhouette portrait style cutting. I cannot decide what will be best. Thank you for the input. Kind regards Tyrone

I just wanted to take a quick second and wish everybody here on the Scroll Saw Village website a very Happy and prosperous New Year. And also to say thank you to all who have answered my many questions and put up with my nutty sense of humor. I love you all. Ray

I had been planning on making lots of things this winter. And guess what? I've made nothing for several weeks now. There was the cold, there was the weather, there was Christmas, there was good things on the telly, there was the cold, there was several episodes of me and the sniffles, there were several episodes of others having the flu and the sniffles etc. I was using any excuse. I have a granddaughters 1st birthday, an 80th birthday, 2 wedding anniversaries all getting closer so I went out to the workshop this afternoon for the first time in weeks and I got productive. I feel like writing this on Bragging rights (not the items I cut, just the fact that I got off my backside and switched things on). I even used the new table-top belt sander (that I got 2 months ago) for the first time. Bob

My worst dewalt i scavenged a motor from will get a bearing re grease and then i can just switch the complete top arm assembly with lower mechanisms to save down time.It will be a type 2 to a type 1 mechanism transfer.Its a job i can and have done but do not look forward to it,better things to do like keep scrolling.

I was back in my shop today. Starting a new line of products and wanted to get started on them. That led into a little bit of cleaning and picking up ( much needed ). It is 6 degrees outside, no direct heat in my shop and was a comfortable 52 degrees. Thankfully it's the whole bottom of my house and the hot water pipes run across the ceiling which helps a lot.

Yes i have a jet saw with the barrel clamp, and i also made my own jig like steve goods, perty easy, RJ

That's how I got mine. Low-balled an offer to someone who bought it new 25 or so years ago and then never used it. And this may be sacrilegious but I use JET lower blade holders instead of Hawk brand. About $20 for 3 on Amazon. They work fine and there is no evidence that I am wearing the aluminum arm with the steel blade holder. And I built my own blade holder (as seen at Steve Goodes site http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/search?q=jet) instead of buying one from Steve.

I look at the grain and the pattern at the same time One above the other then turn the wood for different grain and go with the one that is most pleasing to my eye. There is really no Right or Wrong just what you like. Fredfret

I like the grain to go up an down for a portrait, even if the art is a landscape oriented

Beautiful job.I went to one this past summer on my way to the SmokiesThe Harrisburg Bridge.My wife took a pic of me and my Daughter and my 2 Grandaughter'sWayne you did an Awesome job with you plaque.

ThanksI Hope you have a Fantastic New Year.

Thanks Ray and Happy New Year back at you. Jeff

Really some fin cutting. The cut I did of that Nativity is hanging in a church down near or in San Diego. At least that is where it went a couple years ago. I really like the cowboy. Great picture.

Nice, cutting. This is how you spent New Years Eve? I went to bed.

click on a theme you are interested in such as animals plaques and so on. Usually a few pages in each. pretty easy.

I actually shut down my tools today in my garage cause me hands were getting too cold....bugger off cold although in Vancouver we can't complain when the rest of the country is in a -30 deep freeze... One of the reasons I moved out to the left coast of canada

Smitty I'm all eyes to see what you come\ up with this year out of your shop,of everything.Happy new year friend!

awesome work, great detail!

Both pieces are excellently cut! I agree wit A.K.-- looking forward to the painted nativity.

Ultra I think just is a name they came up with to change from the VS.. But.. the I.D tag will still say VS.. as mine says 226VS.. but it's actually an Ultra.. The Ultra saws was a redesign with a different lower blade clamp and... the the lower arm has two positions for the blade aggressiveness.. otherwise.. I think it's probably the same saw.. I'd like to have a BM226 simply because the blade can be fine tuned exactly how you want it.. ( variable adjustment rather than the two positions ) I think I read somewhere about the G4 being variable adjusting? anyone?

Happy New Year Ray. May your year be happy, healthy and safe.

Thanks, that's what I was wanting to find out. I may just have to throw a crazy offer at the seller. It's been there for a while. Ray

An optical hallucination?

Nice job Marg. Jeff

Great job! I enjoy cutting Sue Mey patterns. BTW a good white paint can nicely cover a cheap piece of plywood! Happy New Year and make more saw dust in the new year!

Those came out super Marg.

Nice work Marg!!

Nice job Kevin. Guess it warmed up a bit for you to do some scrolling. Happy New Year to you and everyone here in the Village.

The ornaments at the top are from this years Ornaments for Charity collection, as soon as I saw them I thought of my youngest daughter and her family so I just had to cut them. The gingerbread men and the other two ornaments were part of an ornament exchange with dgman (Dan). Marg

Box for Chef's Knife: This box, a Thiers-Issard chef's knife, and a sharpening stone will be a gift for my 15 year old grandson Ethan who is well on his way to becoming a very good chef. Thiers-Issard is the French company that makes Sabatier knives among other things. First of all, here is a photo of the completed box with its lid off: The box is made of Pau-Ferro wood and is finished with several coats of polymerized Tung oil. Below, I outline the steps I took to make the box. (1) Outlines slightly larger than the knife and the sharpening stone were marked on a board of Pau-Ferro which is slightly thicker (14mm) than the thickest part of the knife's handle. Half circles were added to allow one to easily lift the knife and stone. A thin perimeter (3mm) was also all around the outside of the board. Once cut, the interior of this board will be the middle part of the box and the thin perimeter will be glued to the top of the box in order to form the box edges. I designed patterns for Ethan's name and for the Thiers-Issard logo and glued them to a 2mm thick board which is going to be the top of the box. (2) The two boards were cut appropriately on my scroll saw. (3) After gluing a 1mm piece to the top, I pushed FIMO bake-able clay into the cavities: This was baked for 30 minutes in a 265 degree Fahrenheit oven. After cooling down, the clay saw sanded off to the level of the wood with 120 grit sandpaper. (4) The edge was glued to the top and the middle was glued to a 3mm thick bottom. (5) The edges were roughly sanded with a belt sander in order to make everything uniform and rounded. (6) All parts were further sanded down to 320 grit using both a rotary sander and hand sanding, as appropriate: (7) Several coats of polymerized Tung oil were applied:

Two orders I did for gifts. One for customer and one for my son in law.

Passive Amp for Mobile Phones: I found the design for these on Steve Good's Scrollsaw Worshop. Here are four different views of one such amplifier. Steve does't mention it, but the design only works for phones that have their speaker(s) on the bottom of the phone. This does seem to be the case for the bulk of recent brands and models that I found. The sound from the bottom is passed into the large hollow area withing the disk and then comes out the top. I made one modification to Steve's design. I increased the phone holder part of the design so that it could accomodate the plugs and the bases of the myriad phone brands and models that I looked at the five phone retailers that I visited when doing my research. I made good use Baltic Birch plywood scraps of three differnt thickness (3mm, 6mm, and 18mm). They were sanded to 320 grit, then two coats of satin spray varnish were applied. I made 7 of these, mostly for my children and grandchildren. I don't own a smart phone, so it is no use making one for myself.

Made this for a disabled lady who this year lost her husband and then recently her little dog too felt she needed a pick you up.

Out of a ornament pattern book.