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Made this one just before breakfast... LOL, anyway the size is 7 x 4 and 2” high. Done in Blood wood and Holly and finished with Minwax wipe on poly satin and buffed with cabinet makers wax.

Been busy lately shows every month here's a couple of pics of my table from yesterday and it was a good day.

Made a couple of intarsia ornaments.

A few projects related to farms along with some pics of a real farm The photos are of the farm I grew up on. A dairy farm with pigs, sheep and pigs. We never had electricity, but we had a great life. I even have some pics somewhere of Mum in a hay wagon, pulled by Price, a draft horse.

Had my show yesterday and it could have been better if they advertised in the local paper, crowds were light I did manage to sell some Christmas items totaling $176 which is a little better then last year. Now I have to get ready for the next show on Saturday which will be bigger and well advertised. sorry no pics

I have been gone a lot lately but I also have had some time to make a few items in my shop. I got permission from Dan to copy his wonderful butterfly pattern and make that plaque for one of my greatgrandchildren. She told me butterflies are her favorite 'animals'. So she will be getting this plaque for her bedroom wall. The tiger is for her sister who told me that was her favorite animal. The owl will go to one of my daughters. Yes I cut one of these earlier and she liked it so this new cutting will be hers. Then the cowboy roper is for my grandson who is a professional cowboy and a roper so I thought he might enjoy this one for his wall. I also made a new born cross for a brand new great-grandson that who was born the middle of last month premature by 2 months and will should be home now from the hospital. I forgot to take a photo of it so I can't share that one with you. More coming up later Dick heppnerguy

Let me know what you think of it. I got the pattern from scrolleronline.

Two boxes from one block of Mahogany. Hogged out inside with a trim router. Laminated ⅛” African Padauk onto ¼” Mahogany for lid. Sides areYellow Heart and African Padauk laminated and doawled into body. Back and inside trim parts done with Aspen veneer. Size of each is 9 x 3 ¾ x 2” high. Finished with Minwax wipe on poly satin and buffed with cabinet makers wax.

While I never lived on a farm, I was fortunate to work on one during my high school and college years. I'm so happy I got to experience something that is rare these days, the family farm. I did this piece after seeing a cool photo of the farm owner's wife horseback riding.

I grew up on a series of Air Force bases, but the last base was in south Georgia, surrounded by tobacco farms and all sorts of camping opportunities. I do recall wolves and bobcats in the area, too, they both loved raiding chicken coops and small yappy-dogs left to run unwatched in the neighborhoods (even in base-housing). I made a strong effort to do all my jogging during daylight hours. Steve Good pattern.

Thanks Ray, Yep all from Our farm at a little place called Caterick, 10 miles from a slightly larger place (pop 300) Greenbushes, where I went to primary school. In the Western Australia's South West. I learnt to drive on that old Fordson Major, ploughed a lot of paddocks and carted a lot of water and hay.

I did a tissue box over the weekend. Steve Good has a couple of these square boxes on his site. I did this one first in Poplar...ran out (thought I had another piece) so I used Oak for the top. Some Minwax Shades in Pecan. I'm with some of you...tab joints are a pain, may not do them for a while. I'll try the other design soon. It has a box...then several different sides you can choose from. I'll do several boxes, then choose a couple different side panels. I designed a standard tissue box last night and cut out solid sides. If it works OK I'll try to design some fretwork to either cut on the sides or make glue on panels.

Well I made this time.I was trying to upload earlier,and was having problems,come to find out my pics were to BIG, After resizing Heerrree they are!!! The Final 3.{unless I find some more }The Humming Bird my Wife found for me on pintrest I believe,as she did the Christmas Cross,She must look at different places than I do.I could not find these 2 on pintrest,but that's where she said she found them.After 43 yrs I've learned not to argue with her,

ANGUS was a Black Lab who was born to hunt. He was owned by a very good friend of mine, but thought he belonged to the world...if you pet him once, you were there for a long time. Angus was an incredible bird dog who we swear could tell when Joey was getting the shotgun out, he sat right next to the tailgate of the truck until they left for the field. I am not a hunter, but to see him work a pheasant field was unbelievable. The base and the frame are made from recycled poplar, the hunter is cherry and the pheasant is 1/16 inch sapele, his name is Black Walnut, the darkest wood I had. We all miss ANGUS, but Joey is devastated, I made this for him to remember his best friend.

I've tapped out the Auburn, Duesenberg, Cord library by finishing up this 1936 Cord 810 Roadster. Plaque was 16 x 12, 1/8" BBPW with 1/4" backer. Finish of shellac and lacquer. Design (pixel gobbling) took, on and off, about 4 days but cutting about 1 1/2 days. I only broke 4 #02 puzzle blades. The Cord was a very unique car for its time. It was the first front wheel drive car with independent suspension and hidden front headlights. Too bad the company folded in 1937. There have been recreations of both the Auburn and Cord back in the '70's. More info on attached site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_810/812

This is my setup for a two day show this weekend. I don’t share a lot during the year so I though I’d take a lot of pics of my setup. I use no stains or paint except for backer boards. Everything is natural wood.

I had a banner show! Two day show at a local church. It was their 35th year! Thirty vendors, mostly hand crafted items. One of my good friend was there selling wooden toys. Lots of customers and buyers! I was surprised Saturday morning most buyers paid by cash. But by the end of the day it was 50/50 cash and credit cards. I broke my all time selling record for a two day show! I’m still deciding if I’m going to do any more show this year. After spending so much time in the hospital and three surgeries, I found I am still very weak and extremely out of shape. I am hurting today! I have pictures of my setup in the Bragging Rights forum.

Grew up on green and yellow

Check the wood, the down side of what you are cutting, it it is cupped or just not flat with the table you can get that type of noise.

OK Karl you have piqued my interest. What do you cut? What kind of projects would you like to see.? Don and Ray, Not sure how much influence I have but I will send a note to the editors about putting a letters to the editor back into the magazine. But in the mean time feel free to send an e-mail To e-mail editors@scrollsawers.com Let me add this. There are several folks that are very negative about the contents of SSWWC, it reminds me of some of some of our club members that bash every thing we try o do or suggest, but if asked for suggestions or ideas to make things better, God forbid you ask them to step up and run the club it is always total silence. MY POINT is if you don't see what you want Please send them an email with ideas they will listen. It is not easy writing and publishing a magazine and the editors are not clairvoyant they can't read our minds to see what we want. And yes I have written articles (thanks to the editing team they have been readable) and I am the current president of our local scroll saw club and that is a blast but not easy trying to keep all skill levels entertained. I guess this is my week for rants. If any of you are in the New York Long island area Our woodworking club is having its annual show Nov 9-10 At the old Bethpage restoration Village. You can come and say hello or yell at me politely.

I've done a couple that are farm related. I was raised in the country, not a farm though only 2 acres, but my dad made sure it kept us busy. He was a firm believer that if he kept his boys busy, it would keep them out of trouble. It worked, and we worked hard, but we got to play hard also. As soon as I could after I got married, we moved to the country. We have five acres, not a farm but we stayed busy and I think my kids enjoyed it. They did 4H with sheep, had the chickens, goats, horses, dogs and cats... I also use to go to my cousin's that had real farm and worked for him on weekends when I was around 14. I love it, sit on a tractor all day, do farm cores. I really liked every minute of it and would have done it even if he hadn't paid me $.50 an hour... Like Trackman said it is all big corporation farms now, the little guy is gone around here.

When I was in third grade I started helping my Uncle farm. This was about 1957. Had me on a 8N Ford tractor with two bottom plow. Uncle had a bigger tractor pulling a three bottom plow. Farmed 300 acres this away. Sun up till sometimes 10 at night. Loved every minute of it. Now around here farmers have 4,000 acres and are done before dinner lol. This project I did for our country fair 3 years ago.

Whenever I think of November, I think of farms and their harvest, and the ranchers getting things ready for the winter ahead. I think of apple orchards, pumpkin patches, and tractors plowing the fields. So this month, our scroll saw challenge is about the farmer. It's open to your own interpretation. What does it mean to you? Do you think of the animals, old tractors, beat up ol' trucks, old barns, farm house decor, or a lazy Sunday afternoon fishing at the creek? Post a project with that theme. Did you grow up on a farm? If so, let us know when you post a picture of your project, and tell us a little about it. I look forward to seeing what y'all come up with. And while you think about it, I'll leave you with song.

Repurposed Oak from center leg of a wood table I managed to make two boxes. Both hogged out and lined with Alma wood and accented with Holly, Mahogany, Walnut and Ebony. Size is 6 ½ x 4 ½ and 4” high. Finished with Minwax Wipe on Poly satin and buffed with a cabinetmakers wax.

I came across this site with quite a few free plans. There is a whole series on Canadian cities plus other stuff if you want to fossick through the projects. https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/search/node/scroll

Thanks for the link. I have been a member on Canadian Woodworking forum since Feb 2006 and never knew about this. I dropped my subscription a number of years ago when I started wood turning and scrolling, Frank -- there is an Haida eagle https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/plans-projects/haida-inspired-eagle Thanks again,

Welcome to the forum. My store, ArtCrafters, is a distributor for Pegas so I may have a slanted view. My go to Saw is the EX21 and I found the Pegas similar. I completed several test cuttings on the Pegas with great results. My next test cutting will be compound cutting Miniature Birdhouse Ornaments.

Wow excellent, Dan. Sales at ArtCrafters are picking up too.

Thanks for the reference John. I just might saw the one that you showed above. I see that there are patterns for every Provincial Capitol City. The one you showed is for Toronto, Ontario.

Great photos! I like the scroll saw work too, but I really like the photos. Thanks.

At last the clock is finished. It is being fine tuned with the Oscilloscope and keeps good time. Now on to another page in the book. lol Don W

I hear different sounds as I move through and across grain, but never to the extent the original query was about. Without driving the saw myself, my guess would be some sort of oscillation being amplified by the blank and the table acting as resonators. Is there a difference with slower blade speed or different tension on the blade? Lots of things to chase here.

Cool pictures!

Coincidence Paul. I’ve done the cabin and just completing barn and truck. You’ve done an excellent job on both. I’ll post when done.

I envy all of you "farmers". I always wanted to live that life but never got the chance. A few years ago our neighbors retired and bought a place in Tennessee that had been a tobacco plantation a century before. They bought 11 acres with a gorgeous restored farmhouse. It also included a 9 car garage/shed/lean-to. They are in " hog Heaven" and now have a bunch of critters and a wonderful garden. So I made this for them. It's really the first finished project I did so it's not very intricate. You all humble me by your work. This is a great topic Trevor. Thanks.

Thanks Denny. I was making so many frames for myself and my wife's paintings, I decided to make a miter sled for my table saw. Found the design from Woodsmith? I buy the trim moulding from Lowes. I flush mount it to the plaque with CA glue and use 1/2" pin nails from the back along with a sawtooth picture hanger. The trim is 5/8" wide and always figure that into the cut dimension of the board. I always sneak cut for a good fit.

My Brother & I, plus the 2 wives had an Agri-business Corp. in NE Iowa for most of my working years. When Dad was living, he also had a sawmill. People would bring logs & we sawed them. In his wisdom, he realized that if we worked darn hard all day & ended up with a lot of sawdust in our eyes, we were glad to quit for the day, & not go out and raise h____. Powered the mill with a John Deere 820, and also farmed with it. jerry

I love all of these projects from you all wonderful work!! This is a great theme.. I live out in the boonies and there are plenty of dairy farmers and fields of corn, hay, and many other things.. This should have come up when i'm not too busy.. I have a old John Deere tractor patterns I've wanted to cut for a while now.. I just don't do much for portrait work anymore.. I'll show a couple cuts I have that are farm related but for this theme I really like the portraits... Sorry I posted so many, LOL Couldn't decide what ones I liked best for this theme

I did this a few years ago when Kenny Hopkins put out this free pattern. The wood was something I found and chipped some when I took the tape off. I believe it captures farm life as I remember from my childhood.

I've not done anything really farm related and I made these a long time ago. I remember as a kid I spent summers on mu uncle's farm/ranch and my job at milking time was to feed the calves. I had to teach the very young calves to drink from a pail by putting my fingers into the bottom of the pail of milk, curl my fingers up and let the calves suck on my fingers. I'd slowly let my fingers out of their mouth and the would discover they could drink without my help. Those were the days my friends!

Another of the ornate, Charles Hand pictures. Just finished.. I enjoy cutting these, but it well be a while before I do another.

Love the display. Doing shows are definitely draining. I would love to know where you got the nativity scene puzzle?

More great boxes Ron. Are there plans for these boxes or are they your own design.

Nice looking display and all your items are really nice, should sell very well. Good luck on the up coming shows.

Nice looking box, I like how you did the splines on the corners.

Yeah Me too.. I need to put them on eBay one of these days.. I always say they may come in handy though.. never know as they all do cut.. just not as good.. There have been a couple times where blades was back ordered and I needed blades.. those blades came in handy a few times when this has happened.. But now.. I order a few gross of each size and style I use.. when I get down to my last package ( gross ) on hand.. I order.. so I'll likely never get into that situation again.. LOL

Wax WILL EFFECT many finishes. IT WILL EFFECT any glue up you happen to do.

I have to ask, why would you need to carry eggs? Or maybe I am missing something.

Thanks Gary. Yes, this is about the fifth or sixth year. I was in the hospital last year. My wife did the show for me and she did very well.

Canadian wood plans. Is USA wood going to work? RJF