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Whew! Finally done. I took almost a month to do this Art Deco Weave Pattern Box. I used 1/4" Padauk and there are 200 holes per panel. I used a #2 skip tooth blade. Cutting Padauk definitely requires using a mask. It has a peppery smell but the fine dust can affect you. Finish is gloss lacquer. I had thought about doing another lamp but the pattern was going in the wrong direction. I like the feet. I mounted small blocks on the edges. I had left overs from trimming the panels and used my belt sander and set the fence of the disk sander to 45 degrees. I used the miter on the fence to hold it straight and ground down to the 45. Since it's only 1/4", it went very fast. Trimmed the pattern on the scroll saw and sanded a radius on the edges of each piece. I cut off the reverse excess trim on the long piece and ground off another 45 and repeated 4 times for for the left and 4 times for the right/opposite side. Laid down blue tape and place the opposing pieces down with the matching 45's, glued and squeezed together. I set the box on a flat surface. My 1/4" glass plate is perfect for that. I CA glued each piece to the corners and made sure they were flat. It definitely gives it a more finished furniture look.

Just finished this project for my mums birthday at the end of the month ,she loves Elephants and I saw this H Botas pattern and thought this would be just right. Made using 1/4inch BB Plywood using a # 1 spiral blade ,stained with danish oil then a clear varnish, Also made my first frame ,you think it would be easy to make a frame but it was a learning curve lol! My joints are not perfect but for a first attempt I thought it was ok. Frame made of oak also stained with danish oil and clear varnish then used black mount board for backer ,thanks for looking

Just off the saw, a Native American with a Buffalo Skull, pattern by Charles Dearing. I modified it because there was a structure in one portion that, to me, did not represent anything except to take up dead space in the pattern. This is approximately 15" x 14" and, since I use strictly flat blades and do not have a saw with an upper arm that lifts, and therefore bottom feed, this took me over 6 1/2 hours to cut. I m don't know if I am going to leave it as is or add something to take up some of the dead space around the Native American. Suggestions welcome. God Bless! Spirithorse

Three more out of the to-be-cut stack. Two more to go....these last two may take a while, though. These three were all taped up and pilot-drilled so long ago I'm not sure what wood was used, some sort of ply, seems about 1/2" thick.

This is the second Pink I have cut, but this one's got a softer pink not the fluro pink the last one had. Not sure what the wood is but it was nice to cut. Marg

S. Good 8X10 mutiple layer Pattern Modified. Three layers of 1/8 BB Ply. The pattern came with 4 layers, but I did not care for the 3rd layer. Seemed not to be needed Even my Lady said the same thing, so it wsn't just my opinion. All the cutouts in the Turtle completed with Pagus #0 spiral while all other areas cut with a Pagus #3 MGT. Then we both looked at it when it was just cut and in the natural wood we both said it needs to be painted. Did all painting using acrylic craft paints. Painting all the top layer holes in the Turtle was the hardest part of the project. Set in a store bought frame that can be wall hung on or use the table top stand.

Just having a little fun... And yes, it's spelled correctly. A Facebook friend of mine reached out to Progressive Insurance for me to confirm. And if you turn on Closed Captioning for the commercial. LOL

I am not into Halloween, so I don't make many Halloween projects. This is a project completed in 2014.

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

Here's a backlit ghoul that I made last year.

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

I made several of these a few years ago. I adapted a pattern from Steve Good. His had an open back, I wanted to close it in. I use 0.36 watt LED to keep it cool. They come in red, yellow, blue, green and orange. I just use printer paper to diffuse the light. It's 6" x 6" x 2-3/4". I think I'll give it to my granddaughter.

I just assembled my latest project. each panel is 7x10x1/8" baltic birch. Patterns designed by me. Backlit with LED light strip.

A friend of my son's wanted this for his wife. She is changing the decor in there house to owls. Sent me the picture he found on Google and I fixed all the floaters and cut it out. Got a little cross eyed but got it done. Thanks for looking and have a great and safe weekend.I Mimi

You are right about the pain level. I've been there too. I wrecked both of my knees when I fell 11' while fighting a fire. While wincing in pain, I continued to fight the fire, until they almost drowned me when coming to rescue me. This was in 1978 and I've had significant knee pain ever since then. I finally convinced them to replace my knees 13 years ago. I had both done, a year apart. The pain from the surgery is quite bad for about the first month and then it gets gradually less. Unfortunately, it was almost a year each time before I was pain free. Both were done at the end of October, and I made it to my son's house for Thanksgiving Dinner on a cane both years. I wasn't walking around much by then, but could do it whenever I needed to. For that first month, I lived in my recliner 24/7, then began sleeping most nights in the bed again. I also began going back to my shop about a month after the surgeries. At first I was just sitting there for an hour or so, looking around some, but not comfortable enough to do anything, and then going back to the house. Then I began organizing hardware and putting things back where they belonged, whenever I would go out there. Then I started using a round shop stool on wheels in the shop, at first at it's full height, but then each day that I could, gradually lowering the seat height a little whenever I found that I could get up and sit back down on it without excessive pain. I kept doing this until I could use the stool and get up from it at it's lowest position, but it took a couple of months to be able to do that. It's a tough surgery to recover from, but I'm very glad that I did it. The steroid injections weren't doing much for them anymore. If you want to chat more about the surgery and what lies ahead for you, send me a PM. It helps to be able to compare with others who have been through this. Charley

Sorry to hear that you have had to undergo surgery and it will keep you off your saw for a bit. As has been noted, work through the pain and do the exercises. Everyone I have ever heard of who did do had good results. Those who did not, did not have good results. Sounds like an easy choice, especially since you endured the pain of the surgery. prayers said that things go smoothly and pain lessens and clears soon for you and you can be back to your saw sooner then Later.

Very nice cutting Dan and the frame looks good considering it’s your first! The two most important factors of frame making is cutting exact 45° corners and each pair of sides must be precisely, exactly the same length.

Clock for friend.

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.

Weather here is typical fall weather, rain and not too warm, so in the shop we go. Some Christmas ornaments for COVID from Sue Mey, also a cube Kleenex box from Sue Mey, Steve Good new snow man for 2020. It has been a fun couple of days. Also I gave a try at Led Display light, patters by SteveGood also. Enjoy

Made this for a wedding that is going to be on Halloween. Each guest is to sign a bat.

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.

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.

Some Halloween Ornaments I make to hang on my tree or I will put magnets on the back and put them on the refrigerator

I’m afraid I did not recall either Linus and Lucy’s last name nor where Snoopy was born. I did do a google search and refreshed my memory though and also relearned that Snoopy had at least 7 siblings most of who, appeared at Various times with Spike having the most appearances. when I was little, I had one of those pull around dogs that I named Snoopy and then we also had a dog that looked just like Snoopy and we named him Snoopy as well.

Yes indeed, been there and know what you mean. It does get better lots of ice helps That and drugs.

Sorry to hear you are in so much pain and I hope it gets much better very quickly. Praying for a complete recovery. Everyone is different and everyone heals differently so, I hope you don't get discouraged. God Bless! Spirithorse

Look who,s showing off their lettering skills!!! Good one,s!!!

Wowzzer!!! That is amazing work.

very nice work

very nice job

Oh WOW !! That is an Amazing piece. !!

I love these. Great cutting. !!

Excellent work. Love the frame too. Marg

Love all of them. How about, ' Don't let me have to give you the mum look ', but I guess that's a bit long. Marg

I noticed he was mistaken for Charlie Brown. Linus is one of my all time favorites. I gave this one away on facebook to the first person who could tell me from their own memory, without Googling in other words, what his last name is. Do you know? Another good trivia question is, "Where was Snoopy born?" As a kid I used to buy books, the size of paperbacks that were full of old Charlie Brown comic strips and read them with a flashlight in bed.

A maintainable free wall aquarium!!! Nice handy work you too!!! Thanks for showing!!!

This. Is. AWESOME!!!! Where'd you find the pattern, if I may ask?

Very nice job.

OMG I can't imagine pain worse than a kidney stone, having had three of them. Feel better.!

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

I,m with you can I jump in your pocket an shiver?

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

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

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

BIG CONGRADULATIONS!!! great pattern and great cut!!!

nOW i AM GOING TO TRY CUTTING VINAL RECORDS, iT WON'T BE AS GRATIFIEING AS THE LIGHT HOUSE \. BUT IT IS DIFFERENT ike

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