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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.

Hello fellow Scroll saw Villagers! I'm Jim from California, reintroducing myself to scroll sawing after 40 years (high school) with a Jet JSS-26 26" 2-speed scroll saw. I've been woodworking since my dad let me cut a 2x4 with his ALL METAL Black & Decker circular saw at the young age of 7 (with a little help). I was already hooked just by watching the things he and his handyman friend Orville could do in a weekend. Anyway, I took woodshop from 7th grade through 12th grade and even a year in Junior College before I went into the Navy. I continued woodworking even in the Navy since my home port had a huge woodshop and a huge metal shop too. When not on deployment, I usually got 5 hours or more a week at the 'shop' - both wood and metal shops. After 8 years, I left the Navy, but the sawdust continued to flow through my veins and I quickly tooled up the garage with the essentials - table saw, miter saw, circular saw and a variety of accessories. Fast forward 28 years from leaving the Navy and I am still at it, playing with sawdust. And, I recently acquired a few more machines and tools this past weekend, including the aforementioned Jet JSS-26 26" 2-speed scroll saw. Oh, you want to know what else I got, huh? I picked up a 100% complete Walker-Turner 6" jointer (pre-Kearney & Trecker), a Porter-Cable dovetail jig system, an oxy-acetylene torch set with tanks and a nice carry cart + 3 sets of regulators and 3 torches, and a few other doo-dads and thingie-ma-bobs (clamps mostly). But, what I am here for is welding advice... JUST KIDDING... I'm here to reacquaint myself with scroll sawing and to find other owners of the Jet JSS-26 26" 2-speed scroll saw. OK, that's probably more than you bargained for, huh? :-) Photos of the scroll saw are attached - it runs perfectly, cuts very nice, and it came with a custom made stand from the previous owner. Sadly, the guy did not have the manual for it any longer, so I am looking for that as well as a source for parts, just in case I ever need a part, maybe like the bellows to blow the dust aside??? :-) OK, that's it ----- for now. ~Jim

This wall art is 28" tall and 18" wide and this time of year I really miss the changing colors of the trees, since I live in the Sonoran Desert.

We finished our Halloween cuts and decorated the office door Thanks as always in advance for reading

"Trained a Wife" you guys do live on the edge!

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 saw this pattern in the Scroll Saw Woodworking and Craft, magazine and showed it to my wife. She said she really liked it and so did I so I cut it about a week or so ago. I have just not got around to posting it until now. The pattern is made by Fiona Kingdon and is on page 36. She had a better wood choice then I have but I cut mine in BB PLY with a Pegas #3 blade for most of the piece. I did, however use a #2/0 spiral for the vaining. It was an all evening job in my shop to cut it out as it went pretty slow, but I am satisfied with the results. Dick heppnerguy

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

Very nice indeed...Thanks for re-showing.... Merlin...

Sparked by the recent passing of a famous guitar player, I came up with a few more... Rock stars of Heaven Country stars of Heaven Jazz stars of Heaven Crooners of Heaven Actors/Actresses of Heaven You can even break some of them down further Rock Guitarists of Heaven Rock Singers of Heaven Country Singers of Heaven Female actresses of the golden age of Movies Geez, I can go on and on and on.... LOL

When I think of October in Ontario, I think of the leaves and changing colour. We get a great display even on our street but the best display that I have seen is along the Ottawa River east of Mattawa. Most years I take that route at least once in Autumn but, alas, not this year. Back to the topic at hand: We have a set of seasonal Welcome signs for our front door. I cut the original from Sheila Landry patterns and have, since, augmented those with some of my own design. One of my designs features Autumn leaves.

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

As others are doing I'm getting a early start on making some planned give aways for Christmas. I looked for a pattern that could be hung eiither inside or outside and found this S Good 7 1/2 x10 1/2 Merry Christmas/Cross/Oval that I felt fit that desire. I wanted to make six plaques for my neighbors and family, so I decided to attempt stack cutting. Cutting stacks of 3/4" and 1" was not difficult but was a lot slower than what I am used too. Also, dulls the blades real quick. The Oval is 1/2" Sanded Ply that I stack cut two at a time. I rought cut the oval with a #3 Pegs MGT blade staying on the waste side of the line and then used my bench mounted belt sander to true up the oval eliminating the typical marks from starting and stopping. The ovals were then sanded to a fine finish with 1500 grit paper. The Crosses are 1/4" thk BB Ply stack cut three at a time using a Pegas #1 MGT Blade. After cleanup the crosses were painted rattle can spray Hunter Green. The final coat had green glitter applied while still wet.. I did brake a small bit off in one of the stacks and had a beast of a time getting it out without destroying the stack. The paint and glitter hides the mess in one place. The words Merry Christmas is 1/8" BB Ply stack cut all six at one time using a Pegas #0 spiral blade. After clean up the Merry Christmas was paintd rattle can spray Bright Red. And Again, the final coat had red glitter applied while wet . Waiting for paint to dry and then glue to set takes a lot of time. I first glued the crosses to the ovals and then glued the words to the cross. After which I added a picture hanger on the back side and coated the entire assembled plaque with multiple coats of clear polyurethane. . Dusting the glitter onto the wet paint made it them sparkle and added another dimension to the plaques, but it is a messy job. I'm goning to have sparkles in my workshop forever .

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

well done, looks great. jim

ONYA Barb

Beautiful piece of work. Well deserved recognition.

Welcome to the Village. Great to see new faces here. Hopefully you'll fine some answers here.

Welcome to the Village. Good to have you here. You will find a lot of information and (mostly) good advise here. Tom

Neat one Marg. Love the use of colour

I took the photos down because of privacy reason I didn't want to leave them up forever because of peoples names on them.. I'll the pictures back up for a couple days again..

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.

"Trained your wife"? Tell me how you managed that. I've been trying to "train my wife" for 50 years and have not done it yet.

Beautiful piece.

Here are my 2.

Here's a picture of a beer tote with zombie dust as a theme.

Just a could of ideas that I had would be musicians. I like the idea of different animals per month as well. You could do something like flying vehicles, road vehicles, or one month, just have a "anything go's" month.

Pencil wood burning if you like,simple mountain silouwettes would be easy but you did well ,extra well considering all the extra work involved!!!

terrific job

Hi Kris: Coming from you, I'm not surprised how cool these are Outstanding job on these Fab4

Awesome. Great work Kris. Marg

I love those

Beautiful !

That is so cool. I love it, bet your wife did too. Great work Dick. Marg

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

Boxes or bowls. Can be really simple to extremely complex .

Kitchen gadgets

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

I really like that Dick. Nice job!

I'm going to go Geometric: Square Cuts Round Cuts Rectangular Cuts Triangular Cuts 3d Cuts Compound Cuts (same as 3d?) hexagon Cuts pentagon Cuts Octogon Cuts Etc. Etc.....

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

The first thing that popped into my head was Thanksgiving. We have tons of Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day, Halloween etc. but Thanksgiving seems to fall by the wayside. Not just pumpkins and Turkeys but pilgrims, scenes with pilgrims, Harvesting scenes, Scarecrows, children dressed up for Halloween. Gnomes are big right now as are pickup trucks (especially Red ones) with pumpkins or trees or dogs in the back. Big foot is also popular not many designs of him. Lots of silhouettes of him but that is pretty much all.

Completed yesterday to give to my neighbor.

Here are the 2 ornaments I finished this year, both by Steve Good. The 1st one is for my son and daughter-in-law for last year. They bought a house last November but were in the middle of fixing it up and didn’t have a tree so I didn’t finish it. It’s 1/4” BB sealed with a couple coats of Danish Oil then 3 coats of semi-gloss poly. I’m OK with it but think It would’ve been better if I stained it first. The second one for their daughter is 1/2 inch oak, again sealed with Danish Oil then a few coats of semi-gloss poly. Luckily she has an easy name because the pattern is Baby’s First Christmas and I was easily able to cut and paste the A’s in the pattern for her name. My wife wanted me to paint it, I liked the oak grain but compromised with painting the bow and cap. I really like how that contrast turned out.

I'm still working on several gifts of Christmas stuff. Seems like I have too much started and not enough getting done... I did finish this one which is a gift.

I've made many different kinds of these German style woodcuts. This I kept for our own to display on the mantle at Christmas.

I did 6 of these nativities by Steve Good. Now, I need to do two more.

Ok I will start this