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The original pattern was clockmans. Jim Blume revised it to cut 8.5x11. it pushed the limits that small

About 10 or so years ago I had a customer request a special cross for a remembrance piece for their father. I made one of these crosses for each of the kids whos father had passed.. At the time they was cut from spalted maple as shown in the photo.. I had a large amount of it given to me.. and still have most of it left.. Beautiful wood but for fret scrolling the light and dark streaks takes away from the cutting.. Anyway the customer contacted me a couple weeks back when I was on Vacation and said sadly her brothers house had burnt to the ground and he lost everything.. asked if I could make another one similar.. Fortunately I save ALL my custom order patterns.. well I save any patterns I have cut and sold in a special folder and back it up onto thumb drives and disc etc.. so I knew where to look for the design.. Talk about customer service... I made the piece for them and mailed it out totally free of charge and thanked her for doing business with me back when I was first starting my online selling venture.. First picture is the original.. second is the replacement I made.. Due to the spalted maple wood grain I didn't cut out the leaf decor on the originals.. I cut the second one from a piece of Poplar.. Kind of wish I had done it out of cherry but that poplar board was just staring at me like choose me me me.. LOL Turns out his favorite wood is lighter colored wood so it all worked out great in the end.

I thought I would post this group of cuts so you did not need to read the same thing over and over. These are all patterns converted from ZM Creations Illustrations. All of these portraits were completed in a similar way with a smaller sized 5/32” thick solid core plywood cut panel affixed to a larger 1/4” thick BB plywood backer. Each backer was sealed, then coated with the white Krylon Spray Gesso (Acrylic Paint primer) and the 1” borders were painted in various rattle can Krylon Fusion All-In-One Matt colors. The areas under the open cut areas were colored with Acrylic Art Paints, using the original illustrations as a guide. As usual, each panel was protected with multiple coats of clear gloss spray Lacquer. Each cut, being quite simple, was completed in less than one 3-4 hour session. That was a one per day but painting and framing added many hours to each. Cuttings were completed with Pegas #1 MGT R and/or #2/0 spiral blades. Each panel was set loose in a simple 1 3/4” wide Poplar frame that I applied a coat of pre-stain conditioner followed by a coat of Minwax Brazilian Gel Stain and protected with coat of Spray satin Polyurethane. Peacock: 9” x 10 ¼” Maple Toucan: 9”X12” Maple Birds3: 9” x 10 3/4” Maple Birds4: 11 1/2” x 9” Birch Bird5: 9” x 9” Birch Bird6: 6” x 11 3/4” Maple The following .zipx file contains all of these patterns including the Simple Eagle. Birds - ZM Creations.zipx Hope you enjoy!

Hi all Someone asked if I could do Ipswich town FC. This is my work in progress

Just a reminder, please not to share patterns you didn't design yourself. If they're from a book, there are copyrights attached to those patterns. Instead, point them in the direction where they can obtain the patterns for themselves. This is also true for patterns from other websites and digital products. Even if they're free patterns, many times the artist wants to control how their hard work is distributed. We want to respect the designer's wishes and support the artists that make these wonderful patterns. There are times when the designer has passed away and the patterns are no longer available for purchase. It may seem like copyrights no longer pertain or we may want to extend their legacy by sharing their work. Unfortunately, copyrights still do persist 70 years beyond the designer's death. The rights are transferred to his/her estate. It is up to their estate as to what they want to do with the designs. Also, please remember that I'm just a solo guy who runs SSV on the side for the scrolling community. I try hard to make this a friendly place with a ton of great information and resources. We have a fostered a group of really great people who want to be helpful. Sometimes we don't think anything of sharing a pattern with a fellow scroller. But please keep this in mind. We can't use SSV as a platform to share patterns that don't belong to us. A single letter from a cranky lawyer could potentially shut down the whole website. So I try to be diligent about protecting copyrighted works. SSV is a big place and I can't see it all. If you see something that doesn't belong, please flag it for review (the 3 dots under the upper right corner). Clayton or I will take a closer look. Thank you for understanding.

So the other night we had the neighbors young kids over and I tried to lay hands on my Penny Drop game I made a few years ago (BSS - Before Scroll Sawing). Not to be found, we went with a card game instead. After searching the house twice over to no avail, I remembered a Penny Drop pattern on (you guessed it) Steve Good's website. Shocked and amazed, I got this cut out and assembled in what seemed like only 2-3 hours. But who knows how long it took - when I get cutting, I lose all track of time and the clock is behind me. If you've never played the game, give it a try. You can even make up your own rules to include your favorite beverage (wink and grin). On a side note - I'm thinking this could be a money maker for those that cut for a living with stack cutting 3 or 4 at a time. Thoughts?

I am so excited, It has arrived, Ryobi now goes into the cupboard lol. I just had my brand new Carbatec 2 arm Scroll Saw arrive. Now for a lot of learning ahead of me. Not really sure were to start as now I can use so many different blade types. But that is so confusing to me what ones to use for on what type of woods and diff thickness of woods. I want to learn how to do fret work eventually as I havnt been scrolling for that long. Lots of different number blades its like going through the alphabet lol Can anyone help me with this or give me a bit of a idea on were to start and what sort of thing to start on with trying to learn to do fret work or any type of detailed work eg portraits, 3D Shadow light boxes. What would be the best thing for me to start doing?

Now, I know absolutely nothing about bikes, but a friend asked if I could do this for him. I've never painted anything before as I prefer plain wood and plain backers however I said I'd give it a try. Just hope he likes it as it's going to the USA and I don't want it back. It's a gift so he can do with it as he wishes. It was, to me, a pain in the backside to get right, so I doubt I'll do another one

Fancy hardwood base,1/2" thick 1/8" rose, & 5/8" name. Rattle can spray. Dollar tree sheet bling, captains varnish on just the base to hold pink walmart fine glitter powder. Blue bling was attached with titebond 2 glue.pattern was made on microsoft office word, not sure where the rose came from but my guess is Steve Good.

I made this for Julia, as it's our 32nd wedding anniversary today, it's funny but it only seems like 99 years ago we tied the knot lol Steve Good pattern once again, altered it from filigree top to inlay, wood 1 1/4" Mahogany body and 1/4" inlay, and 1/4 Oak for top and bottom P.S. the bonus with this is the Mahogany I cut the inlay from will make a filigree top for another box.

I have all of the content available, still. So that's good news. I just have to rebuild everything from scratch. The written tutorials will take some time. The videos are still available on YouTube. You can check them out here in the meantime: Making Scroll Saw Patterns with Inkscape Creating Scroll Saw Portrait Patterns with GIMP

Four Miniature Birdhouse Ornaments finished and ready to display. The birdhouses are Ash and the little birds are Purple Heart. I used Pegas #7 Skip blades on the birdhouses and #5 Skip blades on the little birds. The finish is dipping in Shellac further diluted with 50% denatured alcohol. Comments welcome.

You will never know how much your work is appeciated. Thank you.

I made a couple. one derived from a quilt pattern, one a Judy Gale Roberts pattern

Travis, I sympathize with you in your dilemma. We've all had that sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach, when we suddenly realize we've goofed on something important. Just be reassured that the work you do for the scrolling community is very much appreciated. You've made this website a fantastic resource and I'm sure folks will be patient. Good luck with the repair job.

SO sorry to hear about this. Things do happen and not always good. Glad to see your making progress although it has to be heart wrenching to have to re-do the school. I'm sure I speak for others when I say thank you for all the work you do here at the village. Patience and perseverance will pay off.

Backup, Backup, Backup! I am sympathetic. I've been there, done that, and watched many other people go through it. In 35 years of working with computers and disaster recovery, I have heard this sort of story repeatedly. If it is important to you, back it up. My business and photos get backed up off-site as soon as I make a change. They get backed up to a system that does versioning. If I change a document it now has two versions that are both offsite. If your backup isn't offsite, you don't have a backup. If you haven't successfully restored a backup, you don't have a backup. Backups are a thankless boring job that no one cares about until disaster strikes. Suddenly, the guy with the backups becomes the most important person in the room. Monitor your backups. I have been given a stack of tapes to restore when a server failed to discover that all the tapes were blank. They had been changing the tapes every day, but no one had monitored the be sure the scheduled backup was running.

Oh Travis, my heart went out to you when I read this. It's gut wrenching when something like this happens. Take your time and don't panic do a little bit at a time when you feel up to it. All in the Village are behind you and will wait patiently I'm sure.

Never heard of...Looked on Steves site must have missed it ...Google was my friend... https://www.stevedgood.com/pennydrop.pdf

Did this during lockdown

Hi Travis: "IT" happens to all of us in one form or another Take Care Fab4

I love big cats ,tigers are my favourite here is a few I have done cheers Dan

It happens to the best of us, that's not counting me where it happens all the time. We have every faith in you Travis. Marg

OK...I have the written instructions restored. I'm glad I had some copies so I didn't have to re-invent the wheel. They need a bit of help, so I'll polish them up over the next few days to make them look nice. Unfortunately, the comments are gone. If you enrolled in the class previously, you'll have to re-enroll to gain access to the lessons. /sigh

My latest cutting and pattern. I made Koi fish at Yin Yang symbol style. Video of making Koi fish project Koi fish pattern

I purchased your CD's years ago and still have them. I guess you do, also. At least that part is good Dick heppnerguy

Made all kinds of cats through the years. Here are a few samples

Bummer...but it sounds like you have it under control.

Oh Travis.... so sorry to hear. I am always concerned about hitting the wrong key. As a former boss said, "at least you did kill someone. This too can be fixed!!"

I cut this a few months ago, but compared to all the others posted I think I will use it for firewood!

A few I have done...

Here are some of the big cats I've done over the years

SUMATRAN TIGER cut from a slab of natural edge tiger maple. Finished piece is 31" x 11"

This project of LEOPARDS was cut from a large piece of natural edge hard maple and the finished project is 36" x 15"

This Steve Good pattern grabbed my attention as soon as I saw it. And it was surprisingly easy to cut (I really shouldn't have said that out loud - Murphy never sleeps around my house). Now to find a place for it.

Your work is stunning!

fantastic job

This is my first post, sorry for the english, I don't speak very well! These is my old works, they are subjects found on the net but still made by me. I hope you like them

So did cutting this take less time than looking for the previous one? Sometimes I look for hours for something my wife threw out years ago.

Very nice!

Very Fine on both counts, the work & the show of humanity too!

Firm believer that everything happens for a reason.. many times we look back on the bad in life and actually see why and or what good came from that bad.. God works in mysterious ways. Yes - I got a dose of that yesterday - breaking a couple blades from using too much tension. Switched from a larger blade to a much smaller one. I am learning something new every time I sit down at the machine.

Beautiful, very well done. You must have nerves of steel and over the top cutting skills in order to cut those narrow parallel cuts.

Dan that looks so good. I love the font and resin fill really makes it stand out. Well done.

That turned out really cool Dan.

awesome job, your the master of names

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:

Welcome friend !!! Keep coming back as there is is a wealth of usefull scrolling info here everyday!!! Welcome again!!!