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Posted this in the pattern request forum last night. @Dave Monkcame through with a perfect pattern. Thanks again Dave, the wife loves it. 8 1/2 X 13 using more of my re-claimed laminated maple. Jeff

These are a few of my 4" x 12" signs I have cut. Most are cut from Red Oak. Duke

Made this one for the grandson who is right into Jiu Jitsu.This will give him somewhere to hang his medals. Cheers Peter

yall are some great people. i know i have not posted in a while dew to 12+ hours overtime a week for the last 6 weeks and spending days off at my saw. i learn something every time i come here and feel encouraged to keep cutting even though most of what i do is not "common" or traditional. please know that i feel you all have a positive influence not only on me, but each other as well. i guess what i am trying to say is, thank you for being here, you are more of a help than you may know. -chris

Walnut, poplar, padauk

hey paul, here is one of my fab 4... did it the first week of my OT... before i got too tired to see... lol

Well it's been a little while since I made any thing "NEW" and this was a request from a customer.. So I made the pattern last week and cut it out yesterday.. I've been trying my hand at making my own patterns.. After I made this and cut it I see a couple of changes I'll make on the next one I cut.. If this one sells that is.. Don't think it's a bad pattern but not much to really brag about either... Now today.. back to cutting stock in ornaments..

I make quite a few boxes. Process I use. 1. Miter and glue the sides together. 2. Glue the top and bottom on. 3. Sand the top and bottom flush with the sides. 4. Saw the lid off with my table saw. The problem I have is at times my saw cut is not perfect all the way around. I use my orbital to even it up as good as possible. It doesn't always come out perfect........I always strive for perfection. Any suggestions how I can improve my process is appreciate it.

Thanks, I started to make such patterns just a month and a halff ago, my next ornament pattern will be a batterfly

I always feel a bit off until i can get some saw time under my belt. Its a great stress reliever.

I agree with all that has been said.. Best place online and the best group of people..

Hi Chris: Well said...agree with you 110% Fab4

Probably the most outstanding part of the village. Met a great group of folks always willing to help or share an opinion. Hope you get to get some time in scrolling and posting again.

You are very, very welcome!

My first cross project 6 layers (5 and 1 background), painted MDF 3mm (about 1/8 inch), 7,5 x 9,5 inches, blades: NIQUA Top Cut #1 Pattern available at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexFoxUA

Well, I received my Pegas blade chucks today.. Ordered on Sunday night from qutena.com as they was on sale there.. came in the mail today.. I haven't installed them yet as I've been cutting orders.. I did take the time to open the box up and take the upper clamp out.. Appears very well made.. not all loose and sloppy fitting together like my original EX clamp where the one part slides on the other one.. I really half wonder if I didn't get a defective clamp with my saw.. just seems sloppy and not very well made... so this upgrade Pegas clamp should be a huge improvement Maybe I'll install it later tonight and give a couple of test cuts..

Dave there are many ways to make a box and yours is very much acceptable. I believe you saw blade is not 90 degrees to the table and or not parrallel with your fence. need to check these. Most people when doing boxes the way you are actually use a bandsaw so that they cut the top all in one pass. When you keep flipping the box over to cut another side, if there is imperfections in the set-up they get multiplied. To smooth things out the best tool is a nice 12 inch disc sander

That's what I'm thinking as well. If the blade has some run out or the fence is off slightly, the cut can be uneven. Solving the root problem is the goal, but a few passes with a well tuned and sharp block plane will likely work wonders as well.

Dave, I also make different boxes, both square, domed, box joint and 8 sided (22.5 degree cuts) . On the joint box, I always leave at least 2 extra pins for the top. Depending on the width of the wood, I may end up with short pin and I'll mount the top on that side. I have a 8" HF band saw and cut it on the 2nd pin. I have a Kreg fence for even cuts. After various attempts to get the cut marks out and even, I decided to "lap" the lower and upper edges of the top and bottom where they mate. I have a tempered 1/4" piece of glass that I carpet taped with sand paper. I also use it for glue ups. I pencil mark all edges to be sanded and proceed to figure "8" sand. When all the marks are gone, the surface is perfectly even. It can be tedious and time consuming but the effects are always the best. I need to find some sort of oscillating table to make short work of this process. On my 8 sided boxes, I make sure that all the side pieces are exactly the same height. I sneak up on my 22.5 degree cuts until my miter is set for the rest of the cuts. On glue up, there can be a slight miss alignment but since the sizes of the pieces are identical, the lapping is minimal. Hope that helps. BTW, paintings by my wife.

Dave I would build a jig ( sled ) for doing this. When you say your off I am assuming the cuts don't line up on the last pass through the blade. Have you checked your table saw blade for run out ? The other thing I would check is make sure your fence is adjusted properly.

I use my rip fence on my table saw as a guide. I feel my table saw is adjusted well. Set the blade to just go through the thickness of the side. At times the cut does not match perfectly all the way around.

I spent $400 on my like new 226vs. I could not be happier with it. So for my buck it is a great bang. But it all comes down the the saw's condition.

"The problem I have is at times my saw cut is not perfect all the way around." I'm going to presume you are referring to the table saw cut, that separates the lid from the box. If that's not the case, then please ignore the questions posed below. Do you have similar problems with other cuts on the table saw? How are you guiding the cut? Wth the rip fence or a jig? What kind of blade are you using? What is the specific imperfection you are experiencing?

Great sign Jeff, inj the last year and a half, I've had quite a few of those memories rolling down my cheeks. My wife of forty years left me, we were getting along fine, and there were no issues that I knew of. She comes home from work on Friday the thirteenth, and she states that she's not happy and that she's moving out. I haven't been right since, and sometimes the memories I have of us together gets to me. Len

thank you all so much for your kind words and proving my point.

Like this one a lot. Thanks for sharing this with us. DW

Very nicely done both of the pattern and the cutting..

Great cutting and a great pattern!

I always make a lot of Wedding plaques this time of year.

You did a very nice job on that box. I would think that would be a very popular one.

Mine are all gifts. It's a tradition that started about 25 years ago and has grown to the aforementioned 100+ annual qty. Some of them are given to family members for them to give as gifts, so there are many people who have gotten them for years that I've never even met. If I were selling them, I would do something like Rolf does and put them in a jewel case.

Bill I have had a few customers return after walking around a fair with broken pieces. I exchanged them no questions asked. All were told about how fragile they are. Guess it is part of dealing with the public.

I've taken to using a lot more BB plywood for Christmas ornaments the past several years. I prefer natural wood, but durability is a concern. I also like them to be thin. I think they look less clunky, plus I can stack cut more at a time. Sure, I can carefully and successfully cut and give out 100+ ornaments without any casualties, but these ornaments become keepsakes and are intended to be around for many years. I'm always sad to see one of my ornaments has gotten chipped. I've offered to re-make a few, but the problem is I can't control how the recipients handle and store these ornaments. I usually try to give special warning of their fragility, when possible, but the BB ply seems to offer the best compromise. If I think they need jazzing up a bit, I will use dyes, paints and even spray glitter to lend some color to the otherwise bland look of the BB ply.

Great step by step video, looks like a fun cut. jim penquin

Terrible corners with a Harbour Freight saw and round blades... Also no clue about wood, so it's spray painted MDF: The sawdust gave me 6 weeks of bronchitis!

I really enjoy this type of project , seeing the layers turn into a piece of work is very enjoyable......All are cut from 1/8 BB using a #3 FDUR blade...finished with shellac and spray poly...Takes a little patience but I like the results...Hope you like them as well...Thanks for looking !

These patterns are from bobscoll. Thanks Bob 2.sig

This was one of my first projects. Don’t on cheap plywood. I did a lot of small projects just to learn how to turn the wood, which never worked out for me. I didn’t think I was ever going to get it, then I learn to use spirals. Everything got easier for me. Then after listening to some of the YouTube shows, I found that I was not alone and others used spirals too. Then I got a better saw, dewalt, which changed the whole game and really made it easier!!!

This was the project that got me hooked last November and my first project.

This Christmas box was the first project I done on the scroll saw and now I am hooked. I try to do a project every couple of weeks. I would do more but too many other woodworking projects on my plate.

This was the first project I used a scroll saw for. Made three for Xmas presents back in 1998. Jeff

I grew up around tools, my dad was a machinist. I did some hand fretwork as a kid. but my first use of a scroll saw was making some gingerbread for the gable in the shed that I built. I used an inherited Craftsman saw, and it made me realize how much fun scrolling is and it also the Saw taught me that If I wanted to continue the hobby it was not going to be with this saw. It took minutes to go from one hole to the next and only seconds to do the cut. My wife then bought me a Delta SS350 significantly better saw. and I did the small eagle. Lessons learned, don't use crap wood. I then started stack cutting small ornaments. like the one attached.(4") A year after the Delta I bought a Hawk G4 26. I now do a fair amount of work with SSWWC magazine as a test cutter and other challenging projects. I did a presentation at one of the Fox Chapel open house events on "Advanced Scrolling" . My first comment was that there is no such thing. Once you master the basics. Jerry1939 really said it perfectly "To you nice people that hesitate to start what looks like a challenging/difficult piece, just remember it is always 1 hole & cut at a time. It doesn't make any difference if it takes 7 months (as this did), or you start 1 or more projects per day. The amount of sawdust is the same either way." As soon as you tell your self " Oh I can't do that". In reality you don't know that until you try. It is only wood.

This is the very first one that I did, just recently. I used a #5 Skip Tooth blade on this, cut out of a 16"x12" piece of 1/4" underlay. Loved it so much, that I can't wait to do many more.

I don't cut anything exotic, just things that I happen to like. The star of David was the first piece I cut. It was for a little friend for Hanukkah. She could paint it. She is a beautiful Chinese little 11 year old who was born missing one chromosome. This leaves her a little slow. Perhaps like a six year old so she is in special ed. She loves little puzzles so I cut little things for her wile my wife supplies her with girly things. The second photo is more of an example of what I like to cut. I don't sell anything and my shelf is getting crowded. I'm probably the only one around here that likes them. They can be given away when there is a sale of my estate which I hope isn't soon.

Well seeing as this was my idea I had better show you my first 'project. As you can see it was a small one. My husband had just got himself a scroll saw and I had asked how it worked, he showed me and I was off cutting 'straight' and squiggerly lines. The next week I came across a book of patterns by Patrick Spielman and I loved the penguin, so off I went. I did a couple of others that day, a Scotty dog which I gave to a Scottish girlfriend (she's still got it) and a cat will a ball but unfortunately that disintegrated into about 6 pieces when it fell off the fridge. My little penguin still sits on the fridge and he is 19 years old now. I did some woodburning on him as you can see still no better at it. Marg

This was my first ever scroll saw project, but it needs to be explained. I have worked with my hands most of my life. Built 2 motorhomes in my earlier days, as well as various machines and/or improvements. Took a woodworking class at a trade school & built an oak desk. Time & patience mean absolutely nothing to me. The clock was cut with a $69 Performax saw from Menards. Not visible is the pedestal that made the total height about 6 1/2'. It was given as a housewarming gift to our son in Des Moines, Iowa. To you nice people that hesitate to start what looks like a challenging/difficult piece, just remember it is always 1 hole & cut at a time. It doesn't make any difference if it takes 7 months (as this did), or you start 1 or more projects per day. The amount of sawdust is the same either way. jerry

Not too much scrolling involved, I mostly used bandsaw for these, but they were the very first things I cut with the scroll saw, right after I bought it. They're cut out of old weathered fence paneling, with a back cut the same size as the frame then glued/nailgun'd together.

Well this is not really my first, scroll project, don't really remember what my first was but this one of my very early ones. It is the first Cigar Box Guitar I made, only I didn't have a cigar box at the time so I made the box and scrolled the two eagles in the top for decoration.

I'll start off. This was my first project. I probably made this around 2007-ish. This was originally a pumpkin stencil that I put onto wood. Cut on birch plywood from Lowes. I don't remember if I used a spiral blade or a flat blade. But this was my maiden voyage. I wanted to get into woodworking, but woodworking can be expensive since you need so many tools. Then I discovered the scroll saw and realized I can do quite a lot with such a simple tool. And thus began my journey.

recently started a thread on making some little items from scraps and carry around to as giveaways. I made some little "Care Bears". I kept looking at them and thinking they need something a little bright to liven them up a little. I experimented with some 15 minute epoxy colored with paint mixed in. They will set over the weekend while I am gone. Hope the epoxy cures well and I hope it is thin enough that when held up light can shine through. Just having fun playing, but if this works it is very quick and easy so doesn't add hardly any work to the bears. Here is before and after looks. Yes or no?