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The wood portion of this is the leftover part of a shield I cut for another project. It is just dipped in 50/50 BB. Red backer is 3/16" underlayment. The heart is 1/2" Poplar. The heart is the only thing that is scrolled. I shaped it with a belt sander, flap sander and a bit by hand. The shaping is very crude. It told me that I should never attempt intarsia. I abhor sanding!

H. Botas pattern called Horse (not toooo imaginative name) resized slightly to suit a standard 11X14 frame. Cut from 1/8 BB Ply and affixed to a 1/8 BB Backer painted dark brown. Cut with Pagus #0 spiral blades (more than a few used). Panel set loose in a Custom made Poplar Frame stained with Minwax Early American. A fitting color, I thought, for the subject. This project had its fair share of "You Just Can't Fix Stupid" happenings. First after applying the shelf liner as normal I used spray adheasive to affix the pattern to the panel. It then sat on the bench for a few days while I finished up some other work, Now it was time to start cutting only to find I applied the pattern to the back (wood) side, not on top of the liner material. OK, so I cut it anyway as is. The bottom side with the liner on it did not cut clean and hung on to every fuzzie. Messy to say the least. Finished the cut and now had to remove the liner and the pattern. The liner came off fairly easy but in the busy areas it was hard to see if any liittle bits remained. I use clear liner I get at Walmart. Took a lot of time to make sure it was all off. Now it was time to remove the pattern. Used Mineral Sperits as some on here have said they use and yes it released the paper pattern but it was difficult to get all the adheasive off. The wood soaked up the MS and it took a few days to dry so it could be sanded. The remnant adheisive gummed up the sand paper and had to use a razor blade to scrape off the residue befor it could be finally sanded. Then I made the Frame. Needless to say "Stupid" just kept happening. Won't bore you with that story. This, what appeared to be a rather easy project, took about 4 extra days to complete. All in all I'm fairly happy with the final results, but I have to keep "Stupid" from taking it toll in the future.

I was going through some things I downloaded some time back and ran across this piece. I believe it was a paper cut someone had done and posted somewhere. I remember when I saw it, I thought it might make a fun scroll saw pattern so I put it on Inkscape and made a pattern. My wife liked the pattern too, so I cut one for her. This is the results. I used a piece of wood I had laying around and cut it with a Pegas #3MG blade. Dick heppnerguy

Thought this was appropriate for Halloween 2020. It's made from some 1X pine I got from the inside of a cable spool so it's a bit convex and works nicely for this kind of thing.

My quarantine project was one of the featured projects in the winter 2020 issue of Scrollsaw Woodworking magazine! So proud and humbled! Thanks for all the support from the group.

While waiting for another project to dry earlier I decided to make the wife another cutout for her LED base. Some may remember that I made her a butterfly last week for the base. I made a ghost this time, after all Halloween is just around the corner. I found a pattern for a Scarecrow that I may cut also. I used 1/8" acrylic sandwiched between 2 pieces of 1/8" BB. This way you get the decoration for the LED base and 2 more to hang on the wall or window,, I just cut the rectangle bottom off of the wooden ghosts and made them come to a point. I used my go to blade, Olson #2 reverse. I actually had to go around the whole cut twice because it "fused" back together this time. It only took seconds to go around it the second time. On the butterfly I think I used a FD UR1 and didn't have that problem. I have 2 different blades made for acrylic but didn't use them. These are very simple and easy cuts that you can find patterns for that you can display all year around.

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Hi Travis: Word art from one of your favorite songs inside a heart, circle, rectangle triangle... whatever Fab4 P.S. Here's an oldie/sample If I had Johnny's Cash and Charlie's Pride I wouldn't have a Buck Owen anywhere

Some of the lesser celebrated holidays, such as Labor Day, St. Patrick's day, Ground Hog day, etc. Tom

October - it is time to start making Christmas patterns, here is my first one, I plan to make at least 5 new Christmas patterns this year Christmas snowball pattern Video of making project

Wanted to do a cutting of her. Asked Mahendra to kindly help me out and he came through greatly. Felt she was a needed foil in the supreme court to help balance it out. Felt it was important that she was there. Thanks Mahendra

Trying to get a few things done so Christmas won’t be such a rush. All are Sue Mey patterns 84614EAD-A6B2-40A6-BD1F-0B8A3C3F9016.MOV 8BECA112-9B6D-4B7E-A100-FA480D038968.MOV

I am allowed one stupid a day, I am now at the year 2087 IKE

Here's a few I did back in March, before all the quarantine stuff, to get a head start on Halloween: 1. Ash ("Evil Dead" movie series) 2. Alfred Hitchcock (writer/director of horror movies such as "The Birds") 3. H. P. Lovecraft (early 20th century horror author, creator of the 'Cthulu' and 'Elder Ones' mythos, inspiration for many modern horror writers) 4. Edgar Allen Poe (horror poet, author) 5. Oogie-Boogie Man ("Nightmare Before Christmas" movie villain) 6. no idea. Found it on Google, thought it was a wickedly cool creepy smile. 7. All of them, stained and framed.

Made door hamging Pumpkins for the naeighbors on each side of me with their names in them, Then made a "Happy Fall Y'all" sign for the front of my house.

Cowboys and Indians...excuse me...Native Americans

That's Awesome! I love it when our friends get the recognition they deserve. Congratulations!

Firstly, I must apologise, I'd had a bad morning and was a little tetchy. So my answer to your post was quite unwarranted. Sorry. All I saw was, 'you lot could do better' and guess what ? I'll tell you how. I will from now on heed my own advice and if I don't like/agree with a post, I'll just scroll on by.

I generally shoot a picture of my work, with a sexy woman draped over it. No one seems to complain about the photo. RJF

First, I don't post photos directly from my cell phone. I email them to my computer and edit them with a photo editor. Knock out the background, adjust lighting intensity etc. I don't have room for a tripod or a blank wall to hang cuttings on. However, if you do by all means use them. Those are all good suggestions from Frank.

I'm guilty of that. I'm a hoarder and I'll give you a million dollars if you can find a place to set a glass of water in here. Well I spent 5 minutes and made a light box from spray glue and paper towels and I must say the difference is night and day thanks this is the second time someone has mentioned it indirectly.

These are strange times, indeed. Stay-at-home orders have been issued around the world as they try to wrangle this pandemic. I had to get myself and my team to work remotely, which was no easy task. Non-essential offices, stores, and services have shuttered their doors. Now we're at home hunkering down with some time on our hands. Luckily, as scrollers, we have no shortage of projects. So, what have you been doing with your time at home? Post your Lockdown Projects. While we usually ask for scroll saw projects, I'm going to open this to whatever project you have going during your home quarantine. Scroll saw project, home improvement, cooking, exercise....it don't matter. Show off what you're working on. Also, post a nice thing that happened to you this week. I'd like to see some happy news.

Sold one today for $10.00 the Didy one.3/4" plywood cleared. The horse cell phone holders are going up for sale in a shop and the "Scrollers on line" go to the shop lady and she will paint and then have me put it together.thevhorses are bamboo and the basses are various hardwoods

Clock for friend.

This subject is not about doing Scroll Saw work itself. It is about taking photos of your work to post in this forum, especially in the Bragging Rights Forum. I love looking at the work of others. The photos can be as informative, if not even more so, than the write up about the piece. However, when the photo is taken on a busy cluttered background, too dark, skewed, or shown in an unfinished condition, I just want to scream. Please do not think I’m on a rant here, but would just like to offer some suggestions for consideration: 1. You can easily and cheaply purchase a large plain white poster board to use as a background or a roll of white backdrop paper. a. Most of our projects will fit within the size of a large inexpensive poster board. b. If possible hang the poster board so the wall hanging projects can be hung vertically, without any tilt or skew. c. Before posting, crop the photo to eliminate any excess area included in the original photo. d. White roll backdrop paper can be found in places like Hobby Lobby or Michaels and is used to shoot photos of projects that sit on a surface by draping the paper over a combination of a vertical and horizontal surface (like a chair). 2. Try to shoot the photo with indirect natural daylight if possible. a. Don’t use a flash as you will get to much bounce back. b. Don’t use a household incandescent light source as this will change the color of the wood in the panel. c. You can use the ISO setting to shoot the photo in low light situations. 3. Most of us will use the camera on our smart phones, but if you have a digital camera and tripod the quality can be much improved. a. Taking the photo with a smart phone is OK, but it is very difficult to frame the image and keep the camera lens square with the project panel in order to prevent skewing the panel in the photo. b. Taking the photo with a digital camera mounted on a tripod will make framing the image and keeping the lens square with the panel much easier. 4. I would much prefer to see finished projects, rather than just a cut panel, in the Bragging Rights Forum. a. A cut panel without a proper backer is not really much to see or admire unless the piece is intended to be open. However, this is most often with thicker wood, not ¼” or less ply. b. Again, even without a frame, if the project will be framed, it is not much to look at. c. There are other forums to show work in progress rather that in Bragging Rights.

I have tried spirals a couple of times over the last few years, never could get the hang of them. I decided to try again. I used a FD brand, can't remember the size. Now I know what everyone is talking about when talking about the fuzzies! I didn't have many, a little sanding knocked most of them off of the backside. I have also been wanting to do a Tiger or Leopard or some kind of big cat with spots/stripes. But I try to stay clear of patterns with an obscene amount of holes to drill! This one only had about 90 interior holes to drill,, so wasn't too bad. I feel that I did ok with the spiral but I also feel that I didn't have to be perfect while cutting this pattern. I take pride in being dead on the line with my regular blades. I imagine cuts with more straight lines would be more difficult with spirals. I don't know if I will attempt anything like that. The top part is 1/2" BB and the backer is 1/8" BB cut with an Olson #2 reverse blade. Remember, go easy on the reviews this is my first spiral cut! LOL

very nice job

You are absolutely correct...as I said you just can't fix stupid. When it gets on a roll it just keeps on going like the Energiser Bunny!

Looks good! I have never and will never try intarsia, I know I do not have the ;patience levels for that!

Cute little project!

Nicely done, Dick! Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

Fun little piece. Perfect for this Halloween Dick heppnerguy

Good for you. A lot of people try the spirals and most people do not have a great experience the first time them use them, but a lot people also have a problem staying on the lines when they start scrolling also. Time and effort is the key to success for most things, including using spiral blades. I find them really perfect for a pattern with a lot of very tiny fret cuts because the spiral is less apt to brake the piece as you are not really making turns with the blade, just changing direction. I watched with awe when I saw pieces with numerous small fret and soon discovered that people who like doing those patterns are often spiral users. That inspired me to try and learn how to use them. When I go a long time without using them, I find I somethings struggle with them too. As far as straight lines go with a spiral. try cutting the straight line with a flat blade and them go down that cut line with the spiral and it will widen it without the little ripples one often will get with the spiral blade. Keep up the good work and remember the more you use the spiral, the better you will be with them. They are the same as anything else......practice makes perfect Dick heppnerguy

This is a backlit Voodoo Queen that I made a few years ago.

This is my big cutting of the year it took me the bigest part of the week with about 250 piolet holes I finely got a frome made so as I promised here it is A H. Botas pattern

Now idea if you've done it yet or not, but here are a few: Pets Movies Songs Family Buildings Skylines Favorite city National parks Your other hobby

Nicely cut & painted too.

Nice job! I like him black and I like him green. I don't like him when he's angry.

Congratulations!!!

No need to go easy on you. You did a beautiful job. I really like the irregular outside. Looks great!

It looks Awesome!! I have tried Sprial's several times. just can't get the hang of them.

That is one Awesome job!!!

Looks great! On a pattern like that no one will ever know if you stay on the line or not.

Nice job, all I use now is spiral blades the main thing to remember is that it's your drawing so if you go of the lines no one knows, maybe that's how your design was, you did a fantastic job keep on with the spirals, don't try the long straight cuts it will on depress you like it does me try doing the leaping tiger in the pattern library it looks great with a black backing Gordon

Send her over...I need to take a few pictures...LOL

Looks good Dick. I use a 3UR blade with no problem.

Yeah, aren't the Pegas MG blades the cats meow. Nice looking piece!

A very humbling group of projects that everyone is doing. I've departed from scrollsawing a bit and am on a major restoration and refinishing of all our old furniture - (started long before the coronovirus crisis started) - the project on the go now is our dining room set - it's claim to fame is that we purchased it as an "antique" at the beginning of our marriage - we married in 1973 and think the set was probably made somewhere around 1920 - 1930 (ish) - in our almost 50 years of marriage since we've added a whole lot more "patina" - and decades of family memories. So far have the table is done - 3 chairs now on the go - all at different stages - after the chairs (6 of them) are done - then the hutch - and then manufacturing leaves for the table that disappeared long before we ever acquired the set. This project has introduced me to the world of HVLP spraying - not a tool I have ever used before - and - so far - a tool that I am having a tough time mastering ..... The work so far .... (chairs and hutch not yet started in these pictures) . Jay (EDIT: not sure why my pictures aren't showing up properly - they seem to be changing format from a JPEG to a JFIF file on their own when I try to attach them - no idea why .... so if you can't see them you'll just have to imagine they look GREAT!!)

The smallest brad point is probably the 3mm, which I guess is a hair smaller than 1/8". The reason I mentioned them is when I was cutting out the parts for a wooden gear clock, I needed some precise holes in several places. I started buying good Brad Point bits, from Lee Valley, buying individual bits of the size needed. Now I add to that collection from time to time. If you get into things that work with gears, like the clock, robots, etc. you will need to have some good bits to drill the holes in the wood.