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Steve Good mentioned that HD had 2x2" clear pine. I bought a length and it is exactly 3/4X3/4. Eight footer was about $12 with tax. So this is my first try with a Steve Good pattern. Started with an Olson #5 skip tooth but switched to a #7 Pegas MG. Still needs some sanding and de-burring.

About 1 1/2 years ago I went through a phase of finding and cutting the Last Supper. See photos below of the seven I cut. All have been gifted to family and friends. LS #1 - Wood is 3/4 inch walnut, pattern by Steve Wilson and purchased from Wooden Teddy Bear LS #2 = Wood is 3/4 inch walnut. pattern by Sue Mey and purchased from her website LS #3 = Wood is 3/4 inch cherry. pattern by Sue Mey and purchased from her website LS #4 - Wood is 1/4 inch maple with walnut backer board, purchased from Scroller website LS #5 - Wood is cherry plywood(12x16), pattern is by Fish and available on this forum's patterns #6 - Wood is 3/4 inch cherry, pattern by Steve Wilson and purchased from Wooden Teddy Bear LS #7 = Wood is oak plywood(12x24), pattern is by Wildwood Designs and purchased from Cherry Tree Comments welcome

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After six months of learning and practicing with my scroll saw, I decided to tackle a big project and a Chritmas gift for my wife. My concern was cutting straight lines. For my previous projects I milled my own wood to size. For this project I wanted to use 1/2" Cherry with a Maple base. Right off the bat I started dealing with cupping which made it a lot more difficult to cut. Lessons learned from that. My best decision was to try the Pegasus modified reverse tooth blade. I cut the entire project with the 0/2. They did a great job of tracking a straight line. Anyway I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

I am fortunate to have a neighbor who has a business that builds exotic things for very high end houses. The make curved staircases, arches and other things. His dumpster is full of various hardwoods. He brought me an armload yesterday.

My first hanging Christmas ornament. This is a FREE Sue Mey pattern that I have wanted to try for some time. I stack cut 2 out of scrap mahogany. Thought I would try some painting of one to see how it would look. It is about 6" x 6", and I reduced it to 75% of the original size. Still a little big for a tree ornament maybe, depending on the tree. My wife is going to hang it with her Christmas reef. It was a tedious cut at this size. Not sure I could accomplish it any smaller.

Address of the dumpster?

Do you think you could convince your neighbor to move to the house next to mine?

A new one I tried out.

Just 3 layers (one of them background), but it has nice 3D effect Size 8,5 x 5,5 inches pattern is available at https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexFoxUA

Thanks for this Jerry, I need practice and I am not creative at all. And obviously looking at this effort - I need a lot more practice [smile] I doubt it is scroll sawable with the lettering so close together, even if you cut inside the red lines, but thanks again. Jim EDIT: So the first image is a png file cause that is all inksscape exports to when I click on it to show the pic here in the community forum, it displays a black background ???? I loaded the png into PS, and saved as a jpg, that should display correctly

This is Steve Good's pattern that I painted with glitter paint and blinged out a bit!

Thank you Paul for the pattern. Its 2ft wide by 3ft tall

I have no interest in this, but does anyone want to make this into a pattern & cut it? jerry

Les, back in the days when I was seriously competing in 3 gun military shooting, I had earplugs that were molded to my ear canals and then I used a good pair of muffs designed for indoor pistol shooting. The combination of the two worked very well. I had pretty good hearing until one night when my reserve outfit was out on maneuvers at Fort Irwin, Ca. We were supporting a tank outfit and it was after dark when they started firing. I was standing behind and to the rear of two M-48A1's and they fired simultaneously. The sky turned bright yellow. I couldn't hear for two days and I have tinnitus ever since. I sold tools in and around body shops for 40 years, I wore headphones to listen to the rock and roll music up close, I hung out at the drag strips when Art Arfons ran his jet dragster and then all the pistol shooting (500 rounds of .45acp) every Sunday for practice, I have done everything in the world to ruin my hearing. But, I still hear fairly well. Except for when my wife speaks to me. For some reason, I just can't hear her. LOL!

I have a clamp made from Steve Good's plans but I did not use it. Since there were no cuts going to the outside of the blank it was not needed. I normally drill my holes with the Dremel router attachment but discovered it would not drill deep enough so I used my drill press. 1/8" drill.

That was my first compound, too! Its a fun cut! Steve's site recommends leaving the cutouts in place when flipping the piece over to cut the second side. I found that, for me at least, taking the cutout scrap OUT makes the second side easier to cut. I was worried about structural stability and my jig crushing the piece like an eggshell, but even with some of the very thin pieces (more scrap removed than wood remained) I've done, I never found that a problem. Never had an issue feeding my blade through the guide holes, and the reduced amount of wood to cut through meant that the second side was actually easier.

just in time as the TOM foundation- a non profit organization helping people named Tom in my shop further their woodworking skills- is accepting TAX DEDUCTABLE donations to help other woodworkers in my shop with names other than tom! excellent score and im sure you are going to find some awesome pieces to create with all that.

great neighbor

free wood is great, good neighbor.

Wow, lucky you. That lot will keep you going for a while xx

Wished I had a neighbor like that. Such is life.

The thing about this forum is I am always getting inspiration to learn more Inkscape. When I saw this post my first thought was to recreate the pattern but I did not know how to "warp" the text. After watching a few youtube videos it is actually quite easy. The video that made it clear was https://youtu.be/ldbdhVWaT20 You have to down load an extension called Bezier Envelope Extension and I also downloaded his svg for the the warp shapes. Follow the links After a little experimenting I create a pretty good replica of the pattern. I am quite sure I am going to use this technique in the future.

I agree,Fantastic job.My tree is full of my homemade ornaments,I know what ya mean about painting.

So... Overall a simple project. Tools i used - scrollsaw, bandsaw, jigsaw, router, orbital sander, drill and mini grinder. Material - 10mm birch plywood, 3mm birch plywood, little bit a cord, led bulb and bulb socket. Lamp shade i did stack cutting. First try ever.... Somehow i broke the top of the shade. Birch plywood 3mm. The bottom part... Rough cutting on bandsaw, then i used router and little imperfections removed by mini grinder. Yes i did a stencil for router. Leg joints i did cut on bandsaw and suprisingli well.

I have offered to cut portraits of his youngsters. He also gave me some bog oak. I made him a pen with it.

Nice lamp and I bet it was fun to make. Great job.

Great job there Les!!! Is it for the Wife? Thank you for letting us see, Bob

Came across this Russian scrolling site. https://vk.com

Hi everyone, I just finished this portrait for my nephew that Mahendra was able to make for me. It wasn't to bad to do except for the mustache. I think he;ll like it.Thanks again Mahendra for your help.

Ray many people use denatured alcohol to get a feel for the color the wood will be if oiled. Some people will use mineral spirits. If you use rubbing alcohol it has more water in it and could raise the grain of the woods. I won't go into the many varieties of basic shellac, dry, liquid, flakes, wax unwaxed,. But again if using for food you may want to consider it for your final finish. Good luck and if there are other questions I can help with I will try.

What a wonderful neighbor.

Just seen your post Judy, They look just perfect! Great job, Thank you for posting, Bob

Great projects! I like to make patterns and cut bowls. I have one more new pattern, but waiting for 6mm plywood

Nice work Dick and your daughter will be very happy. Thanks for showing.

Well found something interesting, The PS Wood web site only shows a few parts when you go to "Scroll saw parts" just the things that have normal wear and tear, bellows, belts and blade holders. The does come with a 5 year warranty. So I was wondering what if I needed a bushing... I checked out the 'exploded' diagram of parts and under that listing they show pretty much every part on the saw available! I'm posting this here because I found information hard to come by for this saw. I'll try to do a more in depth review when I get it cleaned up and running. NONE of this is a review of the saw it's self, other than it has the feel of a good piece of equipment. FWIW - I may be sort-of given a DW788 so I'll have a standard to compare it to! http://www.pswood.com/all-21-parts/

I was not opposed to the belt, I had quickly learned that a table saw had much less vibration working off a belt or at least I found switching from a direct drive to a belt drive made a huge difference. I think that was the norm. The changing speeds is done with the saw off, but is simple, just rolls into place. and is accessed from above the base. I guess there is a 2nd pully at the bottom to give a wider selection of speeds. PS Wood was very nice and has parts at very reasonable prices and 'too cheap' shipping. I can tell they will be great to work with. They sent me a PDF of the manual for the asking. A replacement urethane belt was $9, 'V' belt was $9, Bellows diaphragm $4.50, spare lower blade holder $6 and shipping? $3.50!!! http://www.pswood.com/scroll-saws/

I saw a similar posting earlier in this thread. Just to put this to rest, this is certainly a stand alone tool! The motor is in the section under the base. I had thought/hoped it was a section that the legs were mounted to, perhaps to make it a table top unit. I wanted to take the legs off for transport, but what looks like a rectangular base, actually used the legs to 'build' the corner. It uses the same parts as the Sakura or PS Wood saw, so I'm sure it was some kind of relabeled situation.

Last one for the day.

Welcome to the Village

Judy,They are Fantastic!!! Love the wood.

Thanks for the tips! Wiping the blades is a good one, never thought of that. When I’m in a 90 degree corner I can handle it ok. It’s the turns that go backward greater than 90 degrees that get me. I will back up and turn in to the waste area and cut to an uncut line until I have a chunk of waste that pops out. Then go back to the corner to clean it up. Time consuming but until I get better it works.

Yes , welcome to SSV. I will warn you it's very addictive. You start sawing then you saw some more lol

Welcome Jake. You’ve picked a great place to come to.

The gnomes are all wrapped up and under the tree, waiting. Fabulous work Steve. Marg

This little lantern I made as a gift for my wife. I am a completely new scroller. So i was very proud of me for being able to complete this.

A present for my Mom, who did American Sign Language interpretation for the deaf for MANY years. I never inherited her knack for languages, so I'm pretty much stuck with the alphabet and a few choice signs usually reserved for driving. A couple of ornaments, the snowman was for my wife, and the Christmas tree went to a friend. Some more ornaments, Steve Good 3D patterns I thought would be a fun and easy cut. They were. Alex Fox pattern, a gift for my sister to go on her Wall O' Crosses. A gift for a friend of my wife's, sorta a memorial for her friend's Mom.

And a partridge in a pear tree! Trivet.

This is a piece I just for a lady for her office wall.