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Straight off the saw. No finish, no frame. Just glad to have him done An H Botas pattern. Niqua #3 blade for all except the 'feathers'. 3mm B/B

It has been a long time to say hello to Village members I hope you all have stayed well I made first book with the Foxchapel foe a while, And new patterns I began to make 26 dog species from last week, This is Miniature Schnauzer

Bodie is my grandson's dog. The pattern is by Paul aka Grampa. The completed piece is 8X10, 1/8" laminated BB and cut with a #2/0 Super Pike blade. Frame is courtesy of Wally World.

Working on a bunch of new designs by Keith. This are about 9" wide and 6" high. Made from Red Oak, cut with #5 Pegas MGT blades. .

Ordered the saw 3-17, delivered 3-23. Under a week, holy cow!. Assembled and running on the 23rd. Finally had some time to start cutting test patterns. I didn't have the table squared to the blade, but fixed that tonight. One of the things I cut uses a sliding dovetail 1 1/2 inches thick, so I cut some test ones in material just under an inch. Stacked 3/16" 4 in the stack so 12/16". The curvy thing is a "sky hook" a balance toy to amuse the kids. Some pictures:

Beautiful pattern by @Helder Botas Cut in some old 1/2" pine, 5.5" X 8".

My second portrait. I take my time doing these, I could not make a living on scroll saw work, it is fun as you know. If it was not for my pension I would be a starving artist.

My wife works from home and we were joking around one day about me being in her office. She jokingly said my office was in the garage. This is the results. She was sending a little sign to the landfill when I saw it and stopped her. I'll take that and anything like that. When pealing off the pattern I saw the letters and left them the way they were. I was going to paint them white.

Well, with all that, I was finally able to move the Village University. The software I bought to run the classes became broken and useless, so I built my own version. At the end of the day, I think this will work better, look nicer, and you won't have to "Enroll" to view the lessons. I'm a little sad that we lost all the comments, though. There was good discussions in there. Anyway, check out the new University. Let me know if you see anything odd or missing. https://www.scrollsawvillage.com/village-university/

I made these awhile ago but though I would show them here

Thanks Jim Blume for the pattern.

Family birthdays coming up and what to do? I know - look over scroll saw patterns and find something the ladies will like. Decided on this one and the sister-in-law liked it, so I made this one for our daughter. And learned another something in the doing - to get good joints, cut outside the lines and not on the line (at least it worked for me). The tissue holder has enough space inside to insert a colored backing of your choice for the cutouts to showoff the cutouts. 1/4 inch wood, so next time I'll try my luck at stack cutting 2 or 3. Still have to touch this one up and as usual can't decide on the finish. Luckily, I have wife who is full of those kinds of ideas.

The sheet of 1/8th inch has been staring at me for too long, so I found this SG pattern and went for it. 7 layers if you count the backer (Steve did, so I'm going to too). For a change I timed myself on the top layer and it took just over an hour to cut it out. A little under 8"x10" Learned some more in the process . . . A torch is nice for burning off the fuzees, but be sure to clean off the ash/carbon left behind. I had to adjust the feed rate and saw blade speed - that took a few minutes to get used to. The plywood wants to bow - and that's not a bad thing as it gives more depth to the butterfly. But it complicates things a bit when it comes to framing it. Ah, the details never end, do they? Looking at it now makes me wonder how it would be to cut it out using 1/4" wood. Hmmmm.

My wife found my pattern file folder. Now every holiday is a reason to scroll. The Momma rabbit is 1/2 inch oak 5 inches tall. Eggs are 7 inches tall and 3/4 inch pine. Rabbit with flower is 8 inches tall and 3/4 inch pine. That was a big cutting change going from my last project using 1/8 inch to 3/4 inch for these. Got out the magnifying glasses for the lettering - lettering is time consuming for me - hope there is a tip/trick out there to make it easier, but I haven't found it yet. Started with #7 for lettering and quickly moved to a #5 and then to a #3. Still, it was slow going, but it turned out OK. Happy Easter everyone!

This Jeff Zaffino pattern is from the Sept/06 issue of CCWC, so it is probably the oldest one of my to-cut list that I haven't done. Stack cut 2 1/8 inch BB ply, 16 by 20 inch. Used Niqua #1 and #3/0 spirals, only 525 cuts. Jeff

Hello, I live in Nashville and I excitedly just got my first Scroll Saw. It's a $90 unit that does take pinless blades. I'm starting out there until I can try out some of the more expensive units. I make and paint Warhammer figures as well and like to make them into Diorama. To that end I'm going to try my hand at some plastic scroll sawing as well. So far I've made a Basket, done some practice sheets, and made a cat cut-out. Watched a lot of Youtube on Scroll saws and I'm trying to go through Scrollsaw Workbook 3rd Edition (which I promptly drilled 3 holes through and cut the binding off to put it into a notebook.) Currently challenge is finding reasonably priced 1/8 and thinner wood I don't fill guilty messing up and not snapping blades at the lower clamp. I'm going to tool around here and hopefully find some interesting items.

Hi everyone I have just joined here about 1 hour ago. I live right down the bottom south of Western Australia. I am new to the scroll saw. I have only been cutting out the basic animal shapes so far but now I am ready to take myelf to another level. I am only starting out with a Ryobi scroll saw RSW124G it will do me for now. Once I know what I am doing then I will upgrade to a good one. I have been watching scroll saw village videos on utube all day eyes glued to it lol and also a lot of Steve Good videos. I am really enjoying the scroll saw village tutorials using Inkscape. I also do Wood burning Pryography art and I am wanting to in time incorporate the two together. I would love to learn how to create my own 3d layered light shadow box designs using Inkscape. I havnt yet to find any tutorials on how to do these using inkscape but im still looking. Here is my very fist cut out I did the other day first time in taking my blade off and on and having to do the tension of the blade to cut out the inside parts. Its a bit rough as Im still sanding the edges down smooth. I am going to do some woodburning quote on the bottom of him. So far im feeling pleased with myself with my fisrt one like this. I really enjoyed doing it. One lesson I learnt was dont have a coffee to close when cutting, floating dust in coffee is not nice hahahaha. I am looking forward to learning heaps from you all in here. Have a fun everyone as thats what it is all about

Hi Apart from wood work. My main hobby is computers / Retro. For those that can remember the Amiga maybe surprised by my latest project. If you dont know what it is google it you maybe in for a shock...

Quick, fun cut. Not a lot of sharp angles, he's mostly flowing curves. Probably not one to hang up in the kids' room. 1/4" bbply, Pegas #2/0 MG blades.

Had the grandkids over last night and did a fun craft with them. My 17 year old daughter is a good sport and usually plays along. I cut them out of the cheap treated pine dog eared fence boards.

Seems to me like I spend a lot of time in my shop, but get very little finished.... Well I did finish one yesterday. It is another Fiona Kingdon pattern. Called "Foliate Crucifix". Cut in maple, 10" in diameter 1/2" thick. Finish is dipped in BLO/MS then sprayed with 4 coats of Deft satin lacquer.

Congratulations on your new saw.

fantastic job

Great cutting. The Duke is one of my favourites.

What a layer work I can see many layers, great work

This is another free bird pattern which I found on the Craftsmanspace website. I used Inscape to resize and convert to a red line with light grey Pattern. The cut panel is 5/32” x 10” x 14” Birch solid core Plywood affixed to a ¼” x 12” x 16” BB Ply backer. And, although the site stated that it was a scroll saw pattern, it was a very difficult cut as many of the lines were very close to each other, just about touching, even at the larger size I chose to make it. Also, this pattern was different in that the cuts created both a “positive” and “negative” images making the coloring slightly more difficult as both the backer and cut panel required to be painted. After applying a coat Gesso to the backer and areas on the top panel that was to be painted, all the painting was done with Acrylic Art paints except the border which was painted with a Blue rattle can spray paint. The final panel was protected with multiple coats of clear gloss spray Lacquer. There was no colored illustration available, so after looking at some bird photos, it seemed to me that the birds looked a lot like Black Cap Chickadees, so it was yellow for the birds with red flowers and green leaves. And, once again, the panel was set loose in a simple 1 3/4” wide Poplar frame, which after treating with a wood condition, was stained with Minwax Honey Maple stain and then protected with spray clear satin polyurethane. I’m thinking this will be the last of the “birds” I do for a while as I’m sure most of you are bored with these posts. I have to find some new different challenges.

They look having a real funtime and really pocus on their job

Well done I am thinking to change Ciga to a lollipop for kid

That is beautiful work Love this frame too

Beautiful schnauzer you have created. Sounds like you are busy. Welcome home!

Beautiful and I love the color of the wood! Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

Amazing piece of work.

Beautifully done!

That is some precision cutting! Excellent work!

Nice job and nice likeness!

Very nice, excellent cutting, RJ

What a cute dog Great work

Very well done! Botas pattern of the wise bird is really nice.

Thanks, a great informative article. I sure wish he had finished the youtube series that he started. He left many people wanting more but it never came.

awesome job

Great job.

WOW, only 525 cuts? You must have finished that in about 30 minutes or so. Great work.

What I use for hanging heavy items is called a "french cleat". It's really pretty simple as the attached video will show. The pix is of a sign at our club. It is an eight footer made from 4 sheets of ply! Quite heavy but it made the hanging a snap. Russ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFvced0deZ8

Well Marg, you know how it is, once ya get started ya can't stop. I will be posting some more in a few days.

Hey Everyone ! I'm The Artisan Pirate ! Primarily I am a Scroll Saw artist but I dabble in all forms of woodworking and just enjoy working with my hands ! I am from Burlington NC, a textile town and I started learning woodworking from my Grandfather on my Mother's side over Christmas Break when I was 14 (32 Now) and the scroll saw was the tool I took to the most !! Just upgraded to the Delta 20 inch scroll saw and I love it ! I have social media and a YouTube channel (links Below) I am friends with Steve Good and he has given me permission to film alot of YouTube content around his patterns that he makes, and before covid, I used to dress up like a pirate and do birthday parties and community events where people could get photos with me ! thats about all for now ! Anything else you wanna know just ask ! And please follow me on Instagram and Subscribe to me on YouTube !! And most importantly, please stay safe in this world ! Also, I love to sticker swap ! Contact Me At These Links; - E-Mail; artisanpirate@gmail.com - Instagram; https://www.instagram.com/artisanpirate/ - Twitter; https://twitter.com/artisan_pirate - Also, contact me through Social Media if you would like to Sticker Swap ! #ArtisanPirate

I thought that you were going to start slowly????????????? Great work Bobby. I bet the smell of saw dust was heavenly. Marg

Thank you for all the Wonderful compliments. They do mean a Lot. They are 4 layers. I have printed off some letters from Steve Good. Going to start on the today.

Nice job! I'm not much of a painter but I bet the train would look cool in lots of black, gray, silver, red etc.

If you have a table saw with a real good glue line blade, you might want to try gluing up some smaller 1/4" boards to get the width and length you need. I just did that to get a piece of walnut about 13" wide for a fretwork clock I'm making.

I haven't bought thin wood in 8-10 years.. since I got my own planer and bandsaw etc.. BUT, when I did buy it I got it from this place.. Not sure how they are to deal with these days and to be honest I only bought from them a couple times because I can get 1/8 + inch locally.. I was getting 1/16 and 1/32 from them for a certain project I was doing... https://www.ebay.com/sch/deer56hunter/m.html?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEFSXS%3AMESOI&_trksid=p2053788.m1543.l2654