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This was 70+ hours of planning, cutting, finishing and framing. Simply put, Waluigi is a bad form of Luigi (one of the Mario brothers). In this scene I created, Waluigi is having daydreams about destroying the Mario Brothers. I used a variety of hardwoods to pull this off. I did use a touch of paint to airbrush the eyes, the blue pants and the Green clothes for Luigi. The LED light is mounted behind the stained glass and it allows the user to control the color of the dreamscape. Let me know if you have any questions. In what is becoming standard practice for me, here is the build album https://imgur.com/gallery/8lPxDJ1

Hey Folks, Don't often post things I've made, I'm but kinda proud of how this baby turned out. My daughter is a US Federal Probation Officer in Iowa. I wanted to do something for her to celebrate her accomplishments. I saw a number of members on this forum posting military type plaques of various styles and that got my thought processes going. She showed me what her department seal looked like so I took all the tips and ideas gleaned here and came up with this representation. It is about 16 inches in diameter. The bottom layer is 1/2" Walnut, middle layer is 1/4" Sycamore and the top layer 3/16" Walnut. I milled all my own wood. I used Inkscape to come up with a cutting patterns. The color picture of the flag is a blowup of an image I found on a photo web site (royalty free). To help mitigate wood expansion the bottom layer Walnut is cut in an octagonal shape and then splines used to join it to a 1/2" plywood backer. The middle and top layers are loosely screwed to the layer beneath so hopefully there is enough room left for any movement of the wood. I used a FD UR #5 on the bottom layer, FD #3 on the middle layer and a FD #2/0 on the top layer. For all the veining I first cut the vein with a flat blade then came back and recut with a FD #2/0 spiral following the initial blade kerf. Finished with a Deft Satin Lacquer spray. I have 16 hours in cutting time on all the layers and probably another couple hours for assembly and finishing. Thanks for letting me share. Larry

Mahendra ( @multitom ) made this pattern as a request for someone else and my grandson saw it and of course he wanted one. And it being his 16th birthday tomorrow I just had to do it for him. Do thank you very much Mahendra (meant in a nice way not a bad. ) The wood is 2.5mm Bamboo and put in a shop bought black frame, I put the glass back in after the photo was taken. Apart from the eyes it was an easy pattern to cut. Marg

"What Do I See" is another Aniki Lykke Sorenson pattern, 11 X 14, 1/8 and 1/4 inch BB ply. The blessing one is by @don in brooklin onthat @Scrappilerequested, liked it. Jeff

I finished these this past weekend. Sue Mey designs. These are very popular, 2 of the 3 were sold within 30 minutes of posting them on FB and the other is spoken for. Made of 3/4 Poplar.

We finally got it, snow that is. Balmy 24 degrees outside. I am unable to shovel and altho my wife has always liked snow shoveling, being Canadian, we just paid someone to do the shoveling. The snow looks nice and fluffy but it is remarkably heavy. Being retired is nice since I don't have to go anywhere. Nice thing is we will be in the high 50's this coming Saturday.

Use a pre-stain conditioner on it. It won't be so blotchy and evens the tones out.

I’ve got an old beater truck that I put new speakers in. Today I made speaker covers. Sketched it out in about 2 minutes. Spent about 10 cutting it out. Another 2 screwing them on. Badda bing. Speakers are protected! Literally did not care what they looked like since it’s an old beater - 1997 Ford Ranger. I’m the only one that drives it and it’s got a few other cosmetic issues. It’s just my “fun” truck do anything to truck. My goal was to get them cut and put on as quickly as I could. New Pioneer speakers and stereo are LOUD!

Every once and awhile I like to turn a few items in order to keep up my skill. A couple of weeks ago when I was giving a talk on enhancing your items with clay inserts. I only had one example of a turned item where I put a strip in the lip. There was a question about doing a pattern in the bottom of a bowl and then enhancing. I took up the challenge and came up with the attached bowl.

I did this for my grandsons birthday tomorrow, he will be 16. He loves American basketball and as you can see his favorite player is LeBron James. The pattern is by Mahendra ( @multitom ) Marg

This is one I started early last Spring. Then in June, my eyes got so bad I had to quit scrolling all together. Finally got my eyes fixed in October, in December I got back to being able to actually scroll again. Completed it today. It measures 31" x 24". 21 lines of text. The hardest part of the whole project it gluing those lines of text to the board. This may be going to a Church in Memphis, Tennessee. If that doesn't work out I will try to donate it to something...

My wife does some sewing and other crafts and I recently made her a craft area. I am gonna let her decide the finish on it. I was also able to save the cut out pattern when I was done cutting. Maybe I can use it as a spray paint pattern.

Well I decided to give Steve Goods circus pattern a try. All made out of 1/8 B/B ply. 90 % of this was made from scrap ply that I had left over from a lot of my portraits and other stuff. I did add a couple more horses to kinda of balance it out. It is pretty long, maybe almost 4 feet. Not sure where I will put it. Already have a few offers for it but I have no idea what I would have to charge and I'm not sure if I want to make another one. Took about four days on and off. The glue and activator he recommended really helped with this project.

Well, I have been informed that the saw is finally here. The only think that separates us is my evening commute, -20 temps, and vicious winds. Other than that, I should be unboxing it tonight. And since I have off tomorrow, I might even get the chance to try it out! Ha!

I was honored to have a friend purchase for me, some of Alex Fox's baskets. I have made one of Fox's basket that I purchased from his wed sight and posted it here about a couple of months ago and my good friend saw that I liked to make them for my wife, who by the way really loves them, so he bought several basket patterns for me to enjoy making. Here is the first of the them but with a little twist. I asked my wife if she would enjoy is with the top two layers left as one or by following the pattern all the way. She told me she would like to see it with the altered way first. So here is her request. When I complete the next one in it's original format, it will be like a new basket all together. I enjoy cutting and putting these together because they are quick and easy to cut but more because my wife likes them so well. Dick heppnerguy

With BB and stain I found the best way to prep the BB is to first wipe it down with mineral spirits, let dry, stain Be sure you are wearing those latex gloves, the oil on our skin when transferred to BB seems to make it splotchy sometimes

I made 2 of these this weekend for a silent auction for my Grandson's AAA hockey team. I will be interested to what they go for. I have made lots of hockey but also other sports over the years. I just have a Lacrosse in the "Papa do list"

Just a note about the Festool....it is not two speed but variable speed so you can dial in the speed you need.

Yes, the Festool vacs are not cheap. BUT, they are quiet, variable speed, HEPA rated and comes on when my saw comes on. I use it on my Scroll Saw and Sanders. It was a great addition to my shop.

Playing card box by Steve Good. I tried my hand at epoxy inlay. Glitter for the red, coffee grounds for the black. Not perfect, but not bad.

What's not to like about snow if you don't have to shovel it or drive in it? Shoveled my 5" today. It was about 5°. It's warmed up to 12°, but it supposed to get really cold tomorrow. I was walking through the woods with the dog last night and with the desiccated snow it sounded like I was walking on Styrofoam. Just loud 'squeaks'. So much nicer to walk on new fallen snow when the temps around 25°, nice and quiet with just a 'crunch' sound. Always amazed at how loud it is to walk on snow. You'd think it would be quiet?

Well I made this for the shop walls. This is the first time I've ever used Doug fir for anything other than framing. I had some 4x4's 2 feet long left over from building my shop cabinets a few years ago. Glad I saved them and the frame turned out pretty good I think. I used redwood for the splines. About half way through this I had an "Ah ha!" moment where it clicked for me. Turns and pivots became easier and less stressful, blade choice improved and finally did a project without breaking it. A lot of you have cut this already but I enjoyed it. Oh and if you look carefully you'll still see some dust on the saw. I remembered to take the pic before I cleaned up. Ha ha.

The last thing I did before I sprayed finish on my 23rd Psalms piece was glue on the medallion on top of the piece. I put glue on the back of the medallion, and put it in place. As I was getting ready to clamp it my wife called down to me to go open the gate, we had company. I hurriedly clamped it in place and did as I was commanded (as usual). I did not notice until much later, that the medallion had moved as I clamped it. It was around 1/8" off center..... Glue was set. I thought, well no one will notice,,,, but I knew, and it drove me crazy. I did not sleep last night, thinking about how I could possibly fix it. I thought of two options. 1: try heating and see it the glue would give before I scorched the wood, or 2: sand it off. Start with a belt sander until I got it very thin, then switch to a random orbit sander to finish it. I just knew there was a good chance I would slip with the belt sander and destroy something, but worth trying. I took some scraps of the same wood, glue it to a piece of BB, even sprayed it with the Deft finish I used on the piece and tried the heat gun on it. It worked, so I decided that is what I would do. I used a putty to pry with. Laid other pieces of BB around the medallion to protect what was close by and went to work with the heat gun,,,, very slowly and carefully. It worked great! got the medallion off with nothing burning or breaking. Sand the old glue off, cleaned everything real good, re-glued the medallion back on where it belonged... LIFE IS GOOD!

About two weeks ago, i asked in the General Scrolling sub-forum for advice/info/help on cutting delicate, thin lettering patterns, wood choices, blades, etc. That thread with its great advice, helpful tips and more can be found here: http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/32260-how-would-you-start-cutting-this-pattern/ - There were quite a few of you who offered helpful advice, encouragement, tips, and information to help me in trying the pattern in question. It was a free file created by Keith Fenton at Sheila Landry Designs site and can be found here for anyone interested in it: http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com/free-pattern I took on the challenge to cut it and decided to try it first with 1/8" baltic burch plywood (some 12" x 12" sheets purchased from Michael's). Since I was cutting thinner sheets, I also stack cut it and cut three of them out at one time. This was probably my first time in truly stack cutting something (or at least one i did successfully.) I think I used a #3 MG blade for the thinner lettering and a #5 UR for the bigger letting and the outside cuts. I slowed down my saw, took my time, and took breaks from day to day so I did not cut it all out in one setting. It is not perfect, but it looks good enough that I plan to finish them and keep one for myself and give the other two probably to my children for Christmas gifts. I am presently trying to decide how I want to finish them. The plan calls for a smaller backer behind. I am thinking of cutting a backer bigger then they are from maybe barn wood from a 100+ old small barn torn down on my inlaws property last year by my husband and my son. Some of the wood we salvaged still has old red paint on it so am thinking of using some of it. Figured it would give "Home for the Holidays" special meaning with that wood for my kiddos. Still trying to decide so not finished. Will share picture when I do. However, I wanted to go ahead and show my cutting and say thanks to all of you who took the time to give me help and advice in that thread. Can't say that I will be out hunting down thin lettering projects to do regularly, but I don't think I am quite as afraid of them now. Thank you all.

Just because I wanted to see if my pattern worked, I did this in ½" mdf on my pin-end saw. I'm quicker on that than on my Axminster. LOL It would definitely need painting ( Matt Black I think) and for me it's perhaps a little 'plain' in it's outline, but hey ho it's a start and I already have dozens of thoughts about what I could make into a napkin holder as there are thousands of vector graphics out there. !!!!

Wow !....Just WOW !

That being said, scroll saws should come with backup power systems!

Here are a couple of pieces I have made for a Valentine day swap in one of my Plant groups. One pattern is Russ's(the flower pot) and I don't think he put it in the Library (I really can't find it) and I really need it, and the cupid is Bobscroll, sorry I don't remember who did the heart. Thanks guys I love your patterns.

I tapped an old one 1/4-20. Worked good for me. It was a little bigger than the original so it had more surface for the blade.

beautiful work

We are experiencing 5" of snow temperature got to 35 today and Wednesday it will be a balmy -17. But my shop is 68 so I can still work. I love winter.

Exactly why I was considering the Festool vac that you have... most vacs even the Fein doesn't have the High and Low feature.. I almost bought a Fein as they are quite a lot cheaper than the Festool... but I also thought having the low speed would be quieter in both vac sound and the sucking sound that other speak of.. I never did end up buying because I was trying to determine if that theory was true.. I'm glad you mentioned this.. as this is one thing I want to do is hook up some sort of dust vac..

I don't, by any means, consider myself an expert on the range of Scrollsaws that are available - I've owned only two - a Craftsman and an Excalibur - but the only real shortfall that I think would be great to improve is to design a saw with an easily adjustable table angle from front to back - I have some miserable back issues and it really helps to be able to "change things up" on a regular basis - in other words - what works now may be painful in an hour - and what works today may not work tomorrow ..... . I don't think an adjustment of this kind is a big deal - and - at least for me - it would be well used. Thanks, Jay

One thing that IS different is the pin that snaps into the most used degree locations when tilting the table. From what I have read you square the table precisely to the table, once that is done you can tweak the pin location to pop into the 90 Deg hole. No more fiddling when returning to the 0 deg mark after an angle cut.

We lived in it long enough to realize that it's really only good for skiing and now we are too old for that.

Thanks. I have done these in so many various woods and color combinations over the years. Have not done many in a few years now but it maybe time to find that thing again and break out some new designs.

Use a pre stain wood conditioner. There several types available, just ask your friendly hardware man. Poplar is not the best for staining but great for painting. I usually buy wood dowels that are the same type of wood I am using.

I was able to open it.. I'll try to post it for him

found a new use for them, well new to me anyway. fill them with saw dust, label it, and anytime you need to make wood filler for that type of wood you have saw dust available

OMG .... what i am done .... because of me now the napkin/serviette holder mania is set free ...... Great job done! I like it! Napkin folding - 1.Top edges must by closed. Also the vertical line. 2. Bend top corner all the way down. Both sides 3. End wiew. All the closed sides must by now vertical. I think so looks the "skirt" better .

New to scroll sawing so I took a shot at a Steve Good pattern

Finished the Alex Fox pattern of Barn and Pickup for my B-I-L. He should get it in a few days. The pickup and Barn cutting was not too bad but the blade pulls for the bushes and the meandering lines for the pine trees got to be a little tedious. Lots of traveling with the blade(s). I used a 2.0 puzzle blade and went through 8 to finish. They are very fine and wear out pretty fast but I can make some sharp turns. 10.5 x 14 1/8" BBPW on 1/4" backer. Shellac/Lacquer finish.

I got a replacement screw from Grizzly several years ago it is a single sided handle and as I recall it is Metric. If I can find the number I will post it.

Technically, I think this may be my second for the New Year, but the other one was one that spread its self out over about 3 years! LOL Anyway, I had asked for help, information and tips on cutting thin lettering in this thread: http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/32260-how-would-you-start-cutting-this-pattern/ and received lots for which I am thankful. I finally cut it out and have added it to my gallery and to the sub-forum bragging rights found here:

I would eat this if I was a fish!! great job.

Finished up a POW*MIA sign to replace a damaged one at a Facebook friend's VFW. Letters/star/filigree(?) and POW/tower are done out of 3/8" BBply. The backer is 1/2" rough ply scrap that I found at Lowes, a cutoff piece I got for free. It sanded smooth, so I'm happy. Frame is....pine? 2x2 I ripped in half(ish) lengthwise and probably took about 6' worth of wood to make. Frames always seem to surprise me with how much wood they consume. Also with how high my blood pressure gets when making those friggin things.

My first project for 2019 is a rather simple one. I am recovering from hip joint replacement surgery and, next week, I will "graduate" for my Physio Therapy sessions with Jane. I made her this plaque which I will present at the end of my last session: This was designed by Chachi and it is the second such plaque that I havemade. The foreground is 3mm thick cherry and the background is 7mm thick Jatoba.