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OK I finally took a couple of photos. I have no idea what any of the woods are except one is Camphor Laurel. I am really enjoying making these, I don't know what I was frightened of. I am using Flying Dutchman Polar blades #3 and #5 but one was so dense that I used 2 #5's so I had to get some #7's, they go through the wood like it's butter. (Thanks Dan) Marg My First. 3 New ones

A Steve Good pattern, a Charles Dearing and a Fiona Kingdin....Gave the garden sign to my neighbor and cut the wind swept tree and the winter farm scene just cause !...Comments welcome ! The tree is cut from spalted maple 3/4.

Finished today 72 olds cutless done on 1/4" BB pattern from Sam Custodio

Hot off the saw....lol

I have scrolled a lot of Charles Dearing patterns recently. Charles writes that he gets requests to simplify his patterns. I like his more detailed works. He has a simplified Willie Nelson pattern that, though I liked, I found it too simple. So, after I finished it, I randomly drilled a bunch more holes Willy-Nilly, and just free formed my way to a bit fuller finished product. As I often do, I reduced the size down to 9 1/2”x 6 1/2.” I’m pretty happy with how it turn out.

SSV nation, I joined in January and one of the first things I saw was a skull pattern. It reminded me of a good friend whom I have known for 20 years. I made a promise to myself that once I cut this skull, I have achieved my goal and I can cut just about anything. Below is the photo with 1/4 maple plywood and thin backing. The lesson learned here is to only have friends that like unicorns and not skull.

ok here are some things iv been working on and finished today, the first one is steve goods raiser holder.. I made several of these I use the woodflooring to make these as they wont warp in a steamy bathroom and are water proff… I did some with the design from the original pattern on the side and then I made some with an angle on the side. im not totally happy about the edges but couldn't think of any way to make them look better... the last onces are of the bulldog toothpicks. I made 2 of them one for me and one for my oldest daughter for Christmas...but I didn't paint it the brile color of her bulldog moose...because I didn't think I could make it look right...lol I took several pictures at different angles...the one with the plan purple collar is for my daughter and the one with the spikes on it is mine but I think I got a little carried away with the spikes lol it didn't look like that many when they were just holes!! lol oh well I will know better next time..and the reason I painted the collars purple is because purple is my oldest daughters favorit color...lol I chew on nicoteen toothpicks to help me cut down on my smoking so I used the old toothpicks to make the spikes...they were not easy to get about the right size and glueing them into to holes was not a whole lot of fun either but I don't think they look to bad here

THANK's Kevin!, I am fortunate that I don't have anymore space, because your short video makes me twitchy. What a great solution, removing the tedium of something basic to free up more time for the important and enjoyable scrolling parts. Remind me, what CNC router did you end up buying, and what software are you using? Regarding signing your work, the majority of mine will now be signed using my Laser engraver (not a cutter, not enough power for that) It is no different from using a hot stamp but I can easily make the signature as small or large as I want.

Nice piece Les. You had me a bit confused with "Lauan" as the stuff I have seen is much redder, however a little investigation reveals that Lauan is generic name for timber (especially ply) from a variety of trees. It was the 1st ply I used when I started scroll sawing, as it was all that was available, with the exception of MUCH MORE expensive marine grade, witch was also Lauan, just better grade. There is a face side, and this tends to be thicker and won't tear out near as much as the reverse, in my experience.

I prefer hand crafted. That said I will admit being in the same business that working smarter not harder is the way to go. Glad you found a solution to make thing easier for you and raising your production rate a bit.

I think the question has been asked here on the forum a couple times and if I remember correctly, the vast majority prefer the "deadman" type (momentary). I know I do, if I drop over dead, I don't want my saw to sit there running for the two weeks or more before my wife notices I am gone and come looking for me!

Was supposed to go to a wedding but things happened and couldn't go so. Hung out in the shop and got things done.Thank you Don for the Dorsey pattern. It turned out great. I am sure my friend is going to love it. Thank you for looking and have a good week and be safe. Mimi

I can't believe anyone sitting to have their pattern made would not take the time to do something with their hair! 1/4" BB, #2 Pike jewelers blade. Still needs a 50/50 BLO bath, a backer and a frame. Dimitri posted this picture a while back but am not sure if he is the designer.

I just realized that I never introduced myself -- I'm a former plumber in my professional life. Then just over 2 years ago (January 2018) I needed a secret santa gift. Being a bit broke I found a piece of cedar fence and made a box -- very basic. But then I was hooked. After that I worked with my Dremel for a year -- Was gifted my first scroll saw (Ryobi) Jan 2019 and up-graded to a Pegas earlier this year. No previous experience in woodworking beyond a little construction so I'm teaching myself as I go. My working name comes from combining the first initials of all my kids - their spouses - and grandkids and playing with them till I found something that made sense -- can I buy a vowel please?

Sue Mey pattern. My wife painted. The pink/blue is scrapbook paper sandwitched between the front and backer.

you did good !

When using these blades the way the grain is going will really matter. Notice its a lot of the across grain areas that delam. Great looking piece.

This is a project I started back in March just after this virus situation hit us and all of the craft shows upcoming was cancelled. I didn't thank I would be this long in completing it but I did take my time as there wasn't any rush. There was a lot of items that required the use of a lathe and a band saw, both of which i do not have so a little bit of working around some of those problems took some time! The tires was one of the items requiring a lathe but the scroll saw took care of that, the only thing that I couldn't do was a lighter small ring of wood that simulates the rim was to be cut and inlaid where the "lug" nuts are. It could also be painted while the wheel was still on the lathe. As you see the "rim" is black. There was a few other things that was over come by using the tools I had on hand! All of the wood that is painted either pine, ceder fencing, or poplar. All comments welcome. Erv

Nice work Steve! I love the garden sign but I sure don’t welcome rabbits though!

awesome job

Lovely pattern. Awesome cutting. Well Done. Marg

Some really beaut pieces Ben. The intarsia is fantastic mate. looking forward to seeing some of the new stuff you turn out. Cheers

Nice work! Several years ago I did this same basic thing.. and had the same results.. It's great cheap stuff to use for just playing around it the shop that is easier on the pocketbook.. but it's not something sturdy enough for my opinion to make and sell the pieces.. some cuttings are very fragile even with a quality BB ply.. and i don't think this stuff would be at all a good choice for those types of projects.. Looks like you had a good time cutting it and a nice experiment.. so that's a win win for you..

I prefer hand crafted too.. That is why it's still hand crafted.. I'm only carving the web address on the bottom.. then carving "most" of the material away of the profile of the base.. then I take it to my scroll saw and hand cut it the rest of the way out ( close to the edges of the profile ) and then hand sanding on my belt sander to shape the 1/8" small amount flush to the rest of the work the CNC did of the profile.. this gets almost a perfect rounded corners.. You see.. before doing it this way the scroll saw was never ( rarely ) involved with the bases.. as I cut the boards into 2" strips and the rounded off the corners with the disc / belt sander.. These cut out with a scroll saw a lot faster when I'm cutting 1/8" thick vrs. the 3/4".. I see this way no different than before.. other than I no longer hand sign my website on the bottom with a Sharpe.. I bought a high end wood burner set to sign with but waiting for it to heat up and cool down to put it away for 1 custom ordered piece was too time consuming to do.. I like doing things in batches.. but it doesn't always work that way when a made to order or custom order piece comes up.. The bases are almost always 8" or 11" so I made these two programs for the CNC to run.. I made 16 bases today just playing around testing things.. total time was probably around 1.5 hours.. normally I have 20 - 30 minutes per base the old way.. The CNC can run it's thing while I'm scrolling next to it to watch over it.. I also do not see this being any different than someone buying laser buttons from Steve Good and drilling a hole to put them in.. I just skip the outsourced piece to put in and carve it in with my CNC.. I'm getting busy enough that it's either this or hire a helper.. I don't want to get into the hiring business and the headaches that come with it.. I'd rather automate some of my process's to cut time down while still doing hand crafted.. The word Hand crafted can be defined in so many ways.. I mean in my mind.. hand crafted is just that.. doing everything by hand.. no power tools involved.. and last I knew a scroll saw is a power tool.. I bet the guy with a coping saw doing the same patterns we do with scroll saws had the same thoughts many others do about CNC stuff..

Wow that is awesome.

oh that looks great!!!

lovely projects

fantastic work!!! everything is beautiful!!! I hope I will be able to scroll as well by the time im 80!!! I do understand the coming back to scrolling after a few years off... I had to take 2 years off myself for health reasons and im having so much fun nw that I can scroll againl

I am glad you shared your beautiful work. I was late n discovering scrolling so you give me a lift thanks.

They've been having some issues like this for the last couple years.. and this time of year they are harvesting ( farmers also ) so it might be really tough to get through to them.. as far as I know they are in business still.. Odd though someone posted just a few weeks ago that they had called and left a message and they got a call back in just a few hours.. They have always been slow or completely ignored the email system so that is certainly probably a waist of time trying that way.. Sure be nice if they'd hire some customer service help.. they sure lack on that side of the business, LOL Keep trying is all I can say.. OH, it's been said they are best to catch first thing in the morning too I believe.. Good luck.. They are awesome saws... until parts or service are needed..

That would depress me, seeing the amount of money I'd spent on blades

Thank you. Off a hunting I go.

Yes, I did too. Bought 1 for $19. You lucked out. When I tried to order a second one they were out of stock for a long while. Now they are back at $40. Dont know what happened. I think if the plastic ones were not available I'd spring for the $40 model. I think they are that good.

Cut this puzzle today, dang near took a dozen blades and way too long to cut. Lesson learned puzzles from hickory is not a good time in the shop. Probably said too many choice words in the process too.

My wife calls that a "John look". The number of times I have lost something and gone back over everything methodically, then declare it lost and project buggered, the War Office will say, "Is this what you where looking for?" and yep there it was, any closer and the bloody thing would bite me.

Spring is when the elk leave our property and head for the back woods, so I made two boxes with elk images. The boxes were made by stack cutting walnut and poplar, then mixing the cut pieces up a bit. The elk images were cut on an angle so they would fit into each other without a gap due to the thickness of the blade -- a new technique for me!.

As a scroll saw instructor, I recommend starting with a skip tooth blade first. A skip tooth is a good general duty blade that clears dust away more efficiently than most others blades. Without reverse teeth you don’t have to worry about The the blade trying to lift the wood off of the table. Flying Dutchman, Pegas and Olson all have a good skip tooth blade. I would get sizes #1, #3 and ##5. Once you master those, then go on to different styles. When I teach a beginners class, I start the students off with Olson #5 skip tooth blades, on 3/4” pine. Personally, I use mostly Flying Dutchman Ultra Reverse blades in sizes 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. I also use FD Polar blades which is a skip tooth blade, and I also use Olson reverse tooth blades. I have tried Pegas Modified Geometry blades, and they are good, but not good enough to change over.

I made the infinity heart, I used poplar and stained black walnut.

Hi all , I am relatively new to scroll sawing and thought I would share my couple of projects recently finished during "lockdown" any feedback would be appreciated,I have just started using spiral blades a lot harder to control but I quite like them now,thanks Dan

Lockdown projects - I like this idea!! Actually, my year of new projects started long before the lockdown but I've managed to start/complete quite a few over the past few months. And now, with the latest complete, another is on the table with the first couple pieces cut already. First pic is what I've managed to complete, center & bottom is the new project and my progress so far. The American Legion sign was/is over 60 years old and was showing its age rather plainly. Looks pretty good now, restored to her original greatness.

I am working on intarsia project. Completed this one a couple of weeks ago.

Little something I cooked up in the scrollsaw oven yesterday.

I have done a number of scroll projects that I put in the bragging section - Happy Easter, Bear Walk, and more Bear Walk. But different for me in this time of isolation, I dusted off the lathe and participated in some club projects. Wig Stands for Cancer Patients - have done lots of these in the past and have got 3 done for this drive. Have wood for 2 more. Also, I am going to donate 5 pens for Health Care Workers. Haven't done a pen in a couple years. These are slim lines with a RN in clips.

I made an owl, from a photo I purchased. Now that it's hanging on my wall, I notice more and more mistakes I made. Smh at myself. @meflick my daughter is also sewing masks - so far she has donated more than 100 to charitable organizations who provide food to school children and to medical personnel.

Well, I haven't really completed any scroll saw projects yet. I've been working a little bit out there, but not a lot. First, I had both of my eyes lenses replaced in the couple weeks just before the pandemic shut everything down (think same surgery as for cataracts, but without the cataracts). Was having my one week checkup on my second eye about the time they started slowly shutting many things down. As a result, I have been out of the shop letting my eyes heal and staying away from saw dust. I have recently been out there for a little bit, wearing eye protection and face mask. Maybe I will have something to share wood related soon. I also have had my adult daughter home from grad school (physical therapy) for the past 3+ weeks. She was "passing through" on her way to a 10 week clinical rotation when she got word that it was being postponed "indefinitely". It was suppose to go until about the end of May, and so far its looking like she (and all of her classmates) will not get this one in right now. We are praying that she can start her next one in June on time. As a result, she has elected to stay here with us for now. I enjoy having her, she likes to cook! Anyway - my husband is in healthcare - not frontline, front and center like in the ER but still out there everyday so I made him and us and some extended family members face masks once the CDC recommended that we all wear them when we go out. The camouflage ones were for him - I thought they were fitting in that we are fighting a battle in healthcare right now! I used a couple of different patterns. I said its funny, i can saw a much straighter line on a scroll saw then I can sew one on a sewing machine. My mother was the seamstress, she sewed us barbie clothes, clothes for us when we were young, older, and for our children. She made baby blankets for ours and anyone else she knew expecting (including every baby in her church.) We lost her to Alzheimer's 4 years ago this week. I said she is either up there laughing at me, or shaking her head in despair at my sewing skills. She would have had 100's made in the time it took me to make 10! I used two different patterns. The second photo shows the ones that "fit" your face a little more then the first ones. The first ones are more like surgical masks that are not as form fitting to your face. Here is the links to where I found the patterns. This is link to the first one: https://www.joann.com/how-to-make-a-face-mask/042188731P321.html and this is the second one: https://www.craftpassion.com/face-mask-sewing-pattern/#face-mask-video

Been cutting these out of 3mm Aluminum

Since we had to self quarantine for 14 days upon our return from Florida, I had lot’s of time to spend in the shop. Weather here not the greatest since our March 17 return so the basement was my refuge. Here are some items that I finished. Enjoy and stay safe the scrollsaw or the wood does not carry the virus, I hope. ps The Kleenex box pattern is from Sue Mey (not easy) The bunny head pencil from Bagetta and the wolf from Alex Fox

I have been working from home, it’s been challenging so I haven’t had a lot of time in the workshop. Here is what I haven done. The vase is from Steve Good . Everyone stay safe.

I completed a couple of boxes using cherry and white burl oak, with the bows having paduk.