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Here you go Paul, Jan finally took a break from quilting and painted the burrowing owls. She also did a few of the other recent projects. Enjoy. Jeff

Showed Dad a pic of this pattern and he rattled off what year the truck was and how the scene reminded him of growing up. It is his birthday on the 20th of this month, so decided to cut it for him. Alex Fox pattern, stack cut three 1/8th BB ply, 11 X 14 using mainly #3 Sawbird ultra reverse blades. Jeff

Figured it was time to do some small signs again. Always like to have a few of these around for laughs and smiles. Hope you enjoy them. jim

Alex Fox @alexfox has come up with a few cool basket plans recently and I decided to cut 2 of them. I used 1/2" cherry for both baskets. Since Alex's plans called for 1/4" I only cut every other ring. From making other baskets I know that too many rings makes a funny looking bowl. Anyway, the fewer rings does loose some of the spiral effect, but I still like it. Katie

Cut from Red Oak.

I'm experimenting with some new projects to make for this coming Christmas Season. One of these is the mailbox attached. The pattern is a slightly modified version of one by Dianne Thompson. I made a few small changes, but it's mostly the same as her's.. It is about 3 1/4" tall and was all cut from one piece of wood, but the flag and shaft were cut out separately from the same piece of wood and then attached with a small spot of glue. No other glue joints exist in it. The original pattern has the flag sticking out of the top center of the mailbox, which allows it to be cut as all as one piece., but it just didn't look right to me there This mailbox was cut from poplar, but I have made a few others from pine. The red flag and the leaf color was done with marking pens. I'll be trying to find a better way on future mailboxes. I used a Flying Dutchman #1R blade for this. I'm also trying different cut sequences and blades, hoping to be able to cut it faster and easier in the future. It took about 50 minutes to cut this one. Line following accuracy is absolutely necessary for this to look good. Making these is quite challenging. Charley

I'm recouping well from my neck surgery but will still be out of the shop for a while. I made this some time back. I worked on a farm for several years during high school and college. I recently saw this cool picture of the wife of the farmer that I worked for on her facebook page and surprised her with this. The layout of the picture made for a fun wooden 3D representation of it. Hope to be back in the shop in a few weeks.

Finished my chess set after starting on it about two years ago. Set it aside doing other projects knocked off the dust and finished it. Made with cherry, walnut and poplar. The pieces are from Diana Thompson's pattern. They are made out of poplar and the dark ones are stained walnut. The board pattern came from Woodworker's Journal, Rick White. I made every thing 3/4" bigger to go with the bigger chess pieces. The size is 4 1/2" x 21". I think I will make a table for it. May take another two years LOL.

This is my latest project. I thought it turned out pretty good. The pattern was from Wild Bill 2011

The easiest way I found and quickest is to cut the miter on one end. I go back to my bench, lay the art work on the frame upside down and mark the corner of the art work. Take a small carpenters square and bring that mark up to the top, line up the blade on my chop saw then make the mitered cut. Seems to eliminate getting measurements wrong and does not take much time to do it this.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LVXE98H/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 i made my own holder with wood i took out of a bed boxsprings to keep it within the 2x4 construction of my portable building. -chris

I have always used Sloans for my Olson blades, you can't beat their service. I use Klingspore for all of my sanding needs.

I started out with the thin wall plastic tubes, they all cracked over time. So bought these from Spangler science a few years ago. Pricey? $11 for fifteen is only .73 cents ea.

I fixed the tension last week and planned on ordering new part from porter cable if possible. But i think I like this set up better I just loosen and tighten to wanted tension works better. IMO

I just can not see that being walnut and if so the closest that I know is Wattle black and not easy wood to get. There are about 5 or 6 varieties of walnut but black walnut is the American choice. Just need to clarify some points in this post. Kiln dried wood does not darken at all. Just dries wood faster that air dried. What people and manufacturers will do is take walnut wood that has alot of sap wood in the board and because walnut is expensive they will "STEAM" it to change color of the sap wood and darken it some. But what it does is wash out the heartwood and make the entire board look close to the same. If you let walnut air dry over time the heartwood becomes a very deep and rich color and the sap wood will darken also. Air dried lumber will be darker than doctored lumber. But people are in a rush so the steam and then kiln dry. I prefer air dried walnut any day. Yes walnut can have streaks of color running through it and you see reds alot. As far as that project all I see is the nose can surely be walnut but the ears and rest are a different wood if there was no staining involved.

like this pattern and decided to cut it. Had fun doing it. The lettering was a bit tricky but went slow and all was good. Got some folks I know who fit right in with this group. jim penquin

Anyone have a guess on what this is. I thought it was walnut before I milled it down now I’m thinking maybe not. I know a photo is tough but his has grain of oak but has more of a green color than brown I would say a little softer than cherry to work with. Not soft but pretty easy to sand thx for help it’s not critical I’m just curious

My 6 year old grandson has been spending his Spring Break with us. We have been working on this ALex Fox pattern of the Humvee. I stacked cut two, this one I will keep, the second one will go home with him for him and his dad to put together. We had a great time with it. It took me two days to cut all the parts out. Putting it together was easy, just following Alex's video. Thanks Alex for the nice free pattern.

That is well done! Thanks for sharing this with us. DW

Geez, they look incredible! Thanks for sharing them

That's very cool - thanks for sharing

I always stack cut at least 3 portrait type at a time.

Looks amazing. Great job!

Thanks Charley. I'll keep my eyes open. If I don't see it locally, there's always Amazon.

Love them all the native american is great

That is some mighty fine work all around !

That came out great. I love it. There's a lot of detail there. I was wondering about stack cutting a portrait of my three cousins but wasn't sure how it would come out. I need three of them to so I will give it a try once I get the pattern made.

Here you go. lol. The last couple lights not so good. The true color is that green tint.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner right there Charlie. The mailbox looks awesome.

This one. There's even a picture of the mailbox on the cover and a bunch of easier to make patterns for other projects n it too. I had to turn the photo sideways to get it to post the whole image. SSV kept cutting the top of the image off when I tried several times to post it upright, even though I had reduced the resolution, size, etc. The title is " 3-D Patterns For The Scroll Saw" by Diana Thompson. The picture should make it easier to spot in the book store. Charley

Klingspor’s Woodworking Shop is my go to place. They do mail order too.

Kevin you will enjoy tomorrow as well, then the rest of the week stinks. The weather goes back to being cold.

Those are great. As others have said, the background on the Hendrix one is perfect. Rob

a couple of responses to the advices, tips, etc. the main reason i went to using tape was i had read it helps in lubricating the blade while cutting. as for spraying the pattern directly on i never even thought about using mineral spirits to get it off afterwards (i'm still new to all this woodworking world). the other suggestion of using sanding sealer prior to cutting is something i've not done before either. will also try using a shellac prior to painting also. Thank you! thank you! thank you! one last question: if i start applying my pattern directly & then using ms to get the pattern off afterwards is there a waiting period before i can stain or paint since ms is a dissolvent?

Got mine from Amazon as well

Just had to add this post to the topic. I have been using this New set up for controlling the excess dust and let me tell you all something. NO DUST GETS AWAY FROM MY Dust Sucker Tubes. Using a Vac named BAD ASH.... It is about Half the Loudness of my normal Shop Vac. Very tolerable to me. Still able to enjoy my Background Music. I don't know how I have been Scrolling for over a Decade without knowing about this set up. Been using the Square box fan with Filter along with the lil fan blowing across the table for Many, many Years. This set up does work Good, but not all the Dust is contained on that filter. Anyway this just be my 13 cents worth of thoughts. Danny :+}

Nice work thanks for sharing

I've played chess since my stint in the Navy. I play every Wednesday with some old farts. And I try to get in one game at chess.com each week. I love chess sets but I rather play chess than make a set and while your set is extraordinary I prefer plastic pieces and a vinyl board - that way if I spill beer or coffee on it I can rinse it off and it's good as new. Congrats on completing a well crafted project.

Very nice projects, glad to see you are making sawdust for inventory, RJ

Nice work. I'm still waiting for the weather to warm enough to get out to the shop.

I would agree with Dan, looks like poplar!!

Looks like oak.

The sapwood in walnut is that color.

I will go with oak (white or red) or ash because of the grain. There are many varieties of oak too so always tough to nail down to one photo. It definitely is not walnut.

This photo shows the color better

I used 3/4, just don't glue the all of the joints, I have had stuff get stuck in the elbows. Regarding the trap I used 3" pvc and drilled holes in the sides for the fittings. On a wood lath I turned the bottom plug and the lid. But you could just use the regular endcaps for that size pipe. I put a piece of screen inside to catch the bits. If I had thought about it a bit more I would have made a mini cyclone. You can see all of the stuff that got caught in it.

Good info!....but more importantly you got your wife to buy lunch?!...I always seem to pay! Hopefully you got the Lobster and crab!!!

We have a place called Cheap As Chips down here and I can get frames for $2.50 and better quality than some $10 - $15 ones. Marg

I get it!