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These were a request from a shop owner where my daughter sell some of her jewelry. Both made from 3/4in pine with scrap booking paper on the front. It doesn't show very well in the photo but the love paper's got small hearts over it. The Love pattern is one of Steve Goods but I altered it a little. Marg

Jim Blume pattern. One for my brother and one for his gear head friend. They both have 69s

I made this for one of my granddaughters ( her choice) who loves butterflys. It is made from blue pine, Western Red Cedar frame, and stained BB background. Deft satin lacquer finish. Looks like the frame is smaller at the bottom and not at 90 degrees. It's just me and my picture taking skills that's off. It's a pattern from Wooden Teddy Bear

Several years ago I made 4 compass roses from various woods. I used one for a table top and one for another box. The other two had been laying around for a while and after finishing the previous black lacquer round box, it was time to find a home for these two Compasses. I wanted to try something different. I had several pieces of exotic woods, (Purpleheart, Bubinga, Brazilian Rosewood and oak) and wanted to do the 16 sided box again. I cut long strips 1.5" wide. First pass on the table saw was off by a degree on each side but second pass got me to the 11.25 degrees (78.75 deg. on table saw) to make a correct circle. I cut strips into 1.5" segments and laid them on blue tape for gluing. For the bottom, I double sided taped a long strip of wood to the lower segments and Routered a 1/4x1/4" groove and cut a matching disc for the base and glued the segments with titebond glue. I used 2 hose clamps screw together to form a circle to hold the 1st level in place. Glued up the other 2 layers with the blue tape to hold together along with the clamps. On the top I cut a dado rather than a groove for the compass to rest on. Glued all the layers together and double side taped to the top to the base so I could sand them all together on occillating sander. I cut 3 very thin strips on the table saw to form the insert lip for the top and glued together and sanded to fit in the base of the top. I cut 1/8" disks for the top and bottom and attached the felt and dropped them in place. Finish was several coats of clear gloss lacquer. Need to find another scrolling projects and give the boxes a rest.

What about the little pieces that get stuck between the table and the collector? I do love the new technology available to us. The 3d printers are great. The next thing I would do is make a reducer from the 2" hose to one that adapts to my Festool collection. Or re-design the piece you just installed to incorporate a smaller connection. OMG am I talking myself into a 3d printer

Finished this Black Lab, pattern is from Gayle in scrollers Cafe. Did this after my surgery. edward

This is an AFL Aussie Rules football team. Marg

i made This for my grand Child

Finally got my #3 blades in the mail and started on this. 3/4" Pine with the Horse letters of the pattern still on. Another Steve Good piece. This will add to our granddaughter's collection, who has a bazillion toy horses already. This was fun to do and I'm sure I'll be making more puzzles.

Hello to all, I joined the forum recently and I am very happy to show you my very first work ! It is of course not perfect but I enjoyed doing it. It is a light box based on the following https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2018/11/leaf-light-box-scroll-saw-pattern.html I modified it a little bit, I used plywood of 3mm thick and led lights replaced the classic bulb and cord. It was a great first project and look forward to my next one Thank you Stork30

I have the porter cable bandsaw and it works great for me. The motor rates at 1.5hp and built similar to grizzly or older Delta. Put a 1/2" resaw blade on it and go to town. I had the harbor freight 14" not a great saw unles they changed from what I bought 30yrs ago.

Me too! My wife has a smart phone and I figure one in the family is enough.

I made this one when I first got back into scrolling a few years ago. I'm from Illinois and was a huge Cubs fan growing up. I ended up giving it to my sister,,,wished I would have kept it! Maybe I can make something for my Tampa Bay Bucs next week!

Story time! When I first started scroll sawing, I started a blog called Scroll Saw Goodies where I posted resources and tutorials. I also started making a few videos on YouTube under the same name and sold a few patterns. Eventually, this lead me to creating Scroll Saw Village. I've always kept the two separate. But, as you can imagine, maintaining two websites is a lot of work. So I've been working on a new section on SSV where I'm going to port over some of these older projects. I created a few new areas: Project Workshop - These are project videos. These tutorials take you step-by-step as I build a scroll sawn project. I'm going to try to include written instructions as well. I'll be adding a variety of projects over time, too. Everybody has free access to this. It's also be posted on YouTube and probably FaceBook. Project Workshop Patterns - I used to sell patterns that I used on my blog. But it's tough to have the patterns in two places. So, instead of selling them individually, I'm going to give free access to SSV Patrons as a thank you for supporting SSV. Design Workshop - This area is is for design tutorials. Usually, these will be tutorials on how I designed the pattern used in the Project Workshop. But I'll also have other design tutorials, too. This is for folks who are interested in the design process. Access to these tutorials are for SSV Silver & Gold Patrons. Again, thank you for supporting SSV! I've been messing with these sections for about 6 weeks now, and I think I have it ready for prime time. This is an experiment that I'm hoping folks will enjoy. Anyway, here is the first project. I'll be porting over the older ones soon. Enjoy!

In another post under “Scrollers Q&A” I asked about what projects I should/could do with some beautiful Walnut and Soft Maple I just acquired. A box, made of a combination of Walnut and Maple, was suggested in a number of the replies. The walnut plank was 3/4” X 17” X 8’ but had a large knot hole in one end. I was able to cut about 14”off the end with the hole and cut the cut off up into a number of pieces. I was able to cut up the cut off into the various sized pieces I needed for this project and actually re-sawed them into 1/4” thickness on the table saw. (I do not have a band saw so, not the best way, but my only choice). This nominal 5" X7" Tribal Box is a Steve Good pattern which I followed, but not really. I did not cut the boxes from thick material but instead formed them from the 1/4” material I salvaged from the cut off pieces. I did use the fret work patterns except that I stack cut and only cut half of the top pattern and opened it like a book to apply to the top. I also stack cut the bottom scroll work also. The top projecting pediment was the only piece that was a single layer. I mitered the corners of the boxes and bottom fretwork at the vertical belt sander and used my strap clamp to hold it square while the glue dried. I rounded the corners of the boxes and the Maple top and bottom slabs at the sander. After some hand sanding with 100 and then 600 grit paper I applied a coat of Lacquer sanding sealer, then finished sanding with1500 grit paper and finally applied multiple coats of spray clear gloss Lacquer. OK, so does anyone know what a Tribal Box is used for?

To hide your wampum

Frank, Your box is outstanding. I really love that Lacquer finish. Another fantastic project!

All blades cut straight if the person behind the saw is cutting straight If you're used to the Pegas you probably wont like many other blades.. I know my previous post sounds like I don't like them.. but I do.. they are my favorite blade.. Now if they could make them all the same length I'd be much happier about them.. Maybe I just need to get rid of these Hawk saws as they are the only saw that gives me trouble about the blade length, LOL I do love the way they cut.. But it's really annoying that they are different lengths many times.. when other blades are all consistent in length..

Nice job. I can't wait until I can get back to scrolling. Haven't scrolled since August.

Very nice work. Glad you can be back on the saw.

I always find what ever you have you always want bigger I have a CNC shapeoko3 and a Laser NEJE master2 20w and I wish both were bigger but you buy cheap to test them out and once you know you can master them you want better but I must admit it's great scrolling while the tools work on there own. Roly

Beautiful work.... and fantastic car!

A lot of the 14 inch saws have a resaw capacity of 6 inches. If your trying to resaw 7 it won't fit, unless you rip it down to 6 or less. So if your getting a lot of wider boards and need the width for projects, I would keep this in mind. Get a saw you will be happy with and will do what you want and expect. If you have be patient and save up then I would bite the bullet and go that route. Saving money and going cheaper will cause you more aggravation and disappointment then the money you saved. Not trying to sound too negative but as they say. Experience is the best teacher. Good luck on your search.

fantastic job

terrific job

For resawing bigger is better.

Not recently but I will be retiring in a little over a year. I have started practicing for it!!!!!

Nice!

You did a terrific job. She will love it. Marg

That is the one you posted I have had it 3yrs. I added the plywood piece between the saw and cabinet so it was more stable. I didn't like just the sheet metal top of the cabinet.

Looks very good. You've done well.

Really, really nice. Love the pattern. Great Frame.

Great project and frame well done.

Truly amazing boxes.

Mission impossible for me! I would be exhilarated having results like this!!! Wow!!!

Okeedokee....THIS. IS. AWESOME!!

Now that is Down Right Awesome! Excellent job!!

You know he is working on it as we speak.

What a cool idea. Plus you did a great job, well done. Marg

I made these earlier in the year for my son a Man U fan, and his mate a Leeds fan, my sons is on his desk at work, I made detachable feet for it, and his mates is in his mancave at home, both are made from 1" thick Indian Rosewood from a repurposed table top, both finished with homemade Bees Wax

I hate finishing and sanding but, I was interested in your exacto knives. When I was just a young fellow I saw a little wooden case with those same knives in a store window. How I wanted that knife set. When I was a kid $5 was a princely amount. Sometime later my father and I walked by the store and low and behold my father turned into the store and bought it for me. I was ecstatic! One day my mom and dad were gone for whatever reason and I was home alone. My dad had a razor strop hanging in the kitchen pantry to be used for disciplinary purposes. I wanted to try out my new knives. Ah, the razor strop, that should work. I sat at the kitchen table and started whittling. I only wanted to just make a few slices but the little knives cut so well I could not stop. Ultimately I had nothing but a pile of tiny little leather chips. Oh my gosh, what to do? I wrapped them up in newspaper and burred them in bottom of our trash barrel. Some time later my dad went looking for the strop and could not find it. Good thing for me. He asked mom where it was and she had no idea. Long after I was an adult I told my folks the story of the missing strop. We all got a good laugh.

I do scrollsaw during the winter or rainy days during the summer. I play golf as often as I can and really enjoy the game and where I play. So most of my scrollsaw resolve around golf as far as sport design goes. Attached are a few pictures of some of the stuff that I cut and mostly gave away.

I made these last year, 8" wide and whatever height that gave me - Used 1/4" MDF , fun little project

Since we're getting close to Valentine's day, here is a new one. I did this in 2016 and is probably my most popular project I had to date. It's a fun project and super easy.

This was a Christmas present for my husband. He loved it.

I have shown this chessboard before. Made it for oldest son and two grandsons. As a side discussion, when someone makes big money being accountable an responsible. Like CEOs of big corporations, people think it is bad an being greedy. But let someone make $110 million over couple of years playing with a ball an they think that is great!

Made for my nephew

I'm not at all interested in professional sports. So many participants are paid obscene amounts of money and are elevated in many people's minds to being much more important and influential than they should be. I feel so strongly about this that I go to the opposite extreme and don't even read about such sports. Having ranted about that, I did and, in a few cases, still do participate in many amateur sports and encourage those around me to do so. My grandson Ethan is a good baseball pitcher and I made this 'Stickman Baseball' thingy for him: Steve Good designed the pattern for this. Another good competitive activity is Chess and that is regarded as a sport by many folks. I also made this Steve Good designed chess set and "stick" chess players for Ethan:

I am not a new user but I am new to this forum. Today there is a mega wealth of information available, and many years ago there was a wealth of information available online as well. Still upon making my first work to enter in a contest I clearly lost. Upon looking closely at winners and losers in the case at the state fair, I concluded it was two things in my work that was the weakest points. The finish out process of sand and file, and actual finishing. So clearly one can cut a beautiful piece of work and ruin it with failure to remove burrs and other irregular type cuts. So for me, what I wish I had known, and it is without doubt, I wish I had known much more about finishing off the work. I took a beautiful piece of work and ruined it by poorly finishing it out. Now I take as much time in finishing out a project as I do cutting it. I keep both my old work and my newest entry. A reminder of what I failed to do, and also of what I can do, with the help of knowledge from other users. I will post only one file. My loosing piece not. My winner last year at the IL state fair, first place. I show this to help others to know that your work is only as good as its weakest point. Sometimes it is equipment. Sometimes it is the user. I was the weakest point. I am a member on another forum as well, but I have found you can always learn. I first will study Inkscape on this forum to begin making my own patterns. So an advanced thanks to Scrollsawvillage for doing those tutorials. Note: You don't need a 1000 dollar Jet to do a 1000 dollar job. The sides of this box was done with a Delta. When my wife saw that she let me by a Jet with which I did the lid [much more intricate]. I concluded that with patience I could have easily finished this out on a Delta or even a Porter cable. So the saw is not always the key. It is patience. I look forward to talking to others here. And wish all happy scrolling.

Read a post here when I first started scrolling. Doesn't matter how complex the pattern is, they all boil down to: "one hole, one cut, move the blade." That's given me the confidence to try more and more intricate patterns, and pick up other skills along the way such as stack-cutting, corners, lettering, etc.