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I'm putting this post in Bragging Rights though I'm certainly not bragging. I'm not happy with it for a number of reasons. One the bright side I learned from each of my errors and my DW likes it. First off it was a difficult cut with the wood so hard. It had 110 years to harden before I repurposed this old Singer Sewing Machine cabinet. There are a few really well cut lines. Otherwise it is comprised of curves with flats or with curved straight lines. Seems like everything I tried to salvage the project and make the letters "pop" didn't work and I had a better idea after I had burned a bridge. The bright white background did help with the letters and features a bit but only if looking straight on from a distance. The photo was taken fairly close and shows how the letters fade away with anything but straight on. I may try to hand paint the inside of the letters white. Would have been easy to spray before I glued the backer on. Could also have made the backer 8 x 10 and put in a frame. Lots of Oh Duh moments and lots to learn. Thank you to those who helped me with my printing problems early on and to those making suggestions on finishing. Tom

Finished another Christmas gift. This is one of Pedro’s designs from finescrollsaw

Hi everybody. I just wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas. Thank you for being a part of Scroll Saw Village. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. I'm continually amazed at what you folks come up with. It is truly inspiring. I hope 2019 brings you happiness and everything you hoped for...and maybe a little extra shop time, too. Happy Holidays, everybody.

I received my new Dewalt about a 3 weeks ago and finally set it up today. The wife told me to open it several days ago, figured that I would wait until Christmas. My daughter got me a lighted magnifier for Christmas, so I set them both up this morning. Out of the box set up was fairly simple but trying to get the blade in brought out some cuss words and some bloody knuckles. Not sure what part of the saw cut my knuckle, Saw 1 Me 0. Finally got the blade in both the top and bottom and not to be beat by the saw, took it back out to see if I could do it again. LOL I was planning on trying to remove the blade from the bottom on this saw as apposed to removing the top of the blade like I have done on my Porter Cable. But I will have to get used to it more before going that route. For now I will stick with removing the top of the blade for interior cuts. I looked around for something to cut out for my first cut and saw some Christmas gift tag pattern laying on the bench. Saw is pretty smooth until about 80%. I was cutting some 3/8" cedar with a #2 Olsen reverse cut so I had the speed around 1/2 maybe. Cut pretty good I thought. Here is a pic of the new set up.

I have been making these personalized Christmas bells for the last seven years or so.I make them from1/8th birch ply,paint them white and spray them with glitter.sell at flea narket,local buy and sell and word of mouth for $5 each.Each year I figure sales will die off but people love their names...this year I made and sold 236 bells.

The Big Canoe (GA) Woodworkers Club donated 200+ wooden puzzles and toys to the Pickens County, GA Toys for Tots program for the 2018 Christmas Season. Attached is a photo taken at our packaging event in late October. Pictured from left to right: Claude Drevet, Brian Beals, Malcolm Halls, Cecil Schneider, Grant Grimes, and Ken Kidd. Tags: None

I love mine. Every router bit has a safe run speed. Each good quality bit will come with a speed marked on the wrapping and some are imprinted on the bit shaft.

I have to admit I like the natural wood look, but it's what the customer wanted and she loved it.

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Soon as I saw Kirk's aka Rabid Alien I had to cut it. I had the pattern printed in red for these tired old eyes. I used 1/2" Cedar cutting it with a #3 Pegas MG blade. Now that it is cut I don't know what to do with it. I'll glue it to a backer but have no idea how to make a frame. I'm thinking of just getting some door trim and staining it. Hopefully I can make an adequate miter cut.

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

Well, the wife was out of town visiting a friend, and took the offspring with her to visit Grandma...so someone had to valiantly stay behind and make sure the dogs didn't get up to any shenanigans. And keep the saw from getting lonely. Finished up a Steve Good pattern (at least, I think its one of his) for my wife, not sure where we're going to stash it Tried an idea I had for some scrap 2x4's I picked up at Lowes (yay free scrap wood!!!). Trimmed off the rounded edge of one side, to give myself a smooth, flat face to work with, then set my table saw fence for 1.5" and was rewarded with two 1.5"x1.5" lengths. Perfect for compound cuts...such as the 3D chess set pattern I just bought from Sue Mey's site. Just wish she'd included a separate page of nothing but pawn patterns. Finally, a nifty little cutting (if I do say so myself) of a pattern I did the other day, because truly, Mondays suck. My wife may have squee'd a bit, she likes the little grumpy guy. We're off to grab dinner, I'll finish cleaning up the feathers and staining it later tonight, maybe tomorrow morning before yet another long drive to visit family 4 hours away so that nobody's feelings get hurt....yay. Seasons greetings and all that humbug.

The factory stand and light came with the saw from Grizzly, I just don't have room for the stand. I have the saw clamped down with 3 clamps, it should be just as sturdy the way I have it as it would be with the stand. I have had that 3 sided Craftsman table for prob 25 years. I do like it,, I only have tools mounted on 2 sides so that I can use the 3rd side for a worktop. Only bad thing about it is that if you are working on something you have to clear it off the table before you can spin it to another tool.

ive read a lot of people happy with their bosch 1617 routers. the VS comes in handy when using larger diameter bits. they like to run at slower rpm's.

Thanks everyone. Guess I needed to vent a little. You'd think that at my age I'd get past that perfectionist curse and accept that it was my best effort at the time. Tom

Thanks Melanie, I just ordered the patterns for the gnomes.

Thank you Travis for all you do to keep the zvillage here and up and running for all of us to use, enjoy, and communicate with fellow scrollers all over the world.Merry Christmas to you and yours. Merry Christmas to all our Village friends and May Santa have been good to each and everyone, I look forward to sending 2019 here and seeing what you each are crafting and sharing and learning. God bless .

Mondays are the same as any other day now that my husbands retired we just don't get weekends any more. Great work and I love your little grumpy guy too. Marg

I wanted to try something different the other day so I made these. The anchor and ship are on one block.

The next day or two will be hectic for everybody so in order to give everybody a chance to see it, I extend this greeting from Barb and me. Merry Christmas to all of my wonderful Scroll Saw Village friends. Thank you all for putting up with me for the last year. Have a wonderful and safe holiday season.

I'm guessing these are the last three ornaments for the year. The name ornament is one my wife saw online made from metal and wanted me to try and duplicate. Not as hard to cut as it is to remove pattern and then sand, very delicate pieces hanging in there. I don't mind being fussy cutting without breaking, but then breaking trying to remove pattern or sand.

I finished the Christmas Bells that I am going to go hang on the door knobs some of my family members. The bottom two are Mahogany and the top three are BB, two sprayed with gold color paint and backed with felt. The other stained and painted. These were really fun. I will hopefully get started earlier next year and give to more people.

You sure got "blinged up". Just about any young girl would love to have it, I'm sure

A few Christmas gifts for family and friends made up from left over wood from my intarsia projects over the past couple of years. Amazing how one can loose the knack for word art and fret work. Patterns are basically Steve Goods but with modifications to all with Inkscape. Actually that was a good in understanding Inkscape better.

Watching Bush 41's funeral inspired me to design and cut his Grumman Avenger TBM. Lots of very fine lines and rather than trying to recreate the prop blades, I had to make a ellipse sweep of the blade arc. The canopy was tough with all the intersecting frames. I did have to deviate from my original pattern in some areas to create more bridges. Lots of blue tape to hold it all together. 1/8" BBPW on 1/4" backer. Shellac/lacquer finish. Time to put the airplanes in the hangar for a while.

When I saw this pattern posted, I reacted to it with, "I guess I will have to get on this one fast" and Sam replied that he would be waiting to see it cut. So I got it cut and finished last night. My wife really liked it and so did I Dick heppnerguy

All I see is the dog saying "What you got for me",lol Great looking work, Keep your work coming!!

I used a pattern I'd gotten from Scroller Limited years ago. It was supposed to be mounted on rough cut wood, I had made some of projects of this type before and the rough wood is a dust magnet. I used 1/4" plywood for the background and used stencils to spray the snow and sky along with the clouds. The Santa and other things in the picture are cut from 1/8"BB plywood. I used diluted acrylic paint to stain the various parts of the picture. The frames are made from 1x2 pine, I cut a rabbit in the back for the plywood and a 1/8" groove to put glass in the front of the frame to keep dust out.

Finished this Firefighter Plaque, Sue Mey pattern.

I remember when you intrigued us with your band saw boxes! you were the talk of SSV with your work. Now here you come with a surprise visit with more handy work That bar none is fit as a fiddle!!! AS always keep your work coming!!!

OK ok, there is a man version of this. Jeeeeeez lol

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.

Nice work. I love these types of jewelry boxes.

I made a portrait of my mom's German Shepherd, George. She sent me a picture of him enjoying a boat ride and I created a template and went at it. I used Maple, Walnut, Mahogany, Blood wood (tongue), and paddock (collar). I made the frame using Cherry with Walnut trim. Enjoy, Dan

A Couple sets of ornaments I cut yesterday & today.....red elm for the wood ....I’m done with orders!! Yippi!!

That looks great.

When I seen this pattern from Alexfox I said that looks fun. By the time I got all the pieces cut I was saying why lol. Wasn’t a hard project but I couldn’t find 4mm plywood that the pattern called for. So I got 5mm an run it through drum sander to take off 1mm. You have to be very close on your cutting for the pieces to fit snug.

Rolf, not Steve, but I believe those are Bruce Worthington’s Designs found on his site here: http://intarsia.hostcentric.com/home/homepage/newpage16.htm Pattern number is CH137 - Gnome ornaments.

A few of this years ornaments. Marg

Oh wow that is defiantly blinged. Terrific work by you both. Marg

I just completed this Guitar Clock for a Christmas present for my son who plays and repairs guitars. The pattern is by Steve Good. The wood is a beautiful piece of 1/2 inch Persimmon that I purchased from Richard’s Craft Wood this fall at the Woodworking Extravaganza in Hickory NC.

So being new to SSV, I haven't had much chance to post my "brags" in the Bragging Rights folder. I thought that I would post a few pics of some of my past scroll saw projects. Most of them, if not all them are Steve Good designs. Made this recently for a friend's Dad. Been a Cubs fan since I can remember, I had no choice but to make this. Made this rose for my Wife Navy Plaque for my buddy's birthday

I've got a new pyrography machine and I'd like to be able to do 'nice' pieces for myself and friends, so I intend practicing lots over the holidays. Although perhaps this forum, being dedicated to 'woodwork' and 'making' things isn't the place to be with this hobby I may have to look see if there's a 'friendly' forum for 'burning' although I can't see that anywhere is going to be as good as this place

They are So Cool!!!My Granddaughter would Love it!

My daughter would love that! Wrong letter though... Rob

Back to doing Aircraft again (Lawson's taunt!) Always liked the Corsair. Aircraft went through lots of variations like regular canopy and bubble canopy and 3 and 4 bladed props. It was still being used by several countries into the early '50's. Cut on 1/8 BB with 1/4" backer. The design and lines are very thin and cowl flaps had me a little perplexed. It would have been tough to connect all the lines. Lettering went quick. Not sure what's next. They are predicting heavy snow in the upstate of SC this weekend so the car will go into the garage and I'll be out of the shop. Time to start hunting for some new patterns to cut.

For outside finishes I use Spar Urethane. Works well and helps prevent uv fading. Hope this helps.

First pic is of me holding my grandson. Second pic is of my son and his family. I just moved from Sacramento to Kansas City, so I could live near them. I love living here!