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I thoroughly enjoyed cutting @lawson56's excellent pattern. I used to watch MASH reruns on Sunday night after the news with my parents. Dad was a Southern Baptist Minister. I remember my dad said he preferred Colonel Potter to Colonel Blake because Blake was too silly to take seriously. Another memory was watching an episode where Hawkeye was about to leave in a jeep with Colonel Potter and was acting like they were taking off in a plane. He said, "Kick the chocks out from under the wheels. Flaps up! No offense Margret." My mom laughed. It may have been the only off color thing I ever heard her laugh at. I think it did me good.

I just love making bowls

I wanted to try to make a football bowl. So I made an oval about the same size as a football. Outer ring is about 11inches. I chose Myrtle for the wood. I wanted about 1/4 inch thick walls. So it comes out to 22.5 degrees angle. So I drilled the holes and cut the rings. Glued the rings together but left off the bottom. That way I could sand the inside of the bowl. I used a foam pipe cover to hold sandpaper easier. The outside was sanded with palm sander. After is was all glued up, I used butcher block conditioner which has Carnuba wax. Here is a youtube video that shows before oil and after oil. Here are pictures. I think it looks more like an egyptian boat.

I watched this video a month or so ago. There is a great tip in about 5:55. I finally got around to taking the wax paper to the workroom. Wiped my table down before starting work on another layer of the mandala. Wow! It was so easy to spin at the corners. I have waxed the table before, but this was so easy to do as a touch up. Also did it between blade changes. Wax paper will be a fixture in the workshop now.

I converted this decal pattern I found on-line, called “Animals Upon Animals” by Peter Goes, to a 10” diameter scrollable pattern. His work is referred to as Yugen Kombucha Art and is associated with Yugen Kombucha, an organic fermented tea drink, skillfully brewed with powerful herbs and fresh pure juice to create wildly inspiring flavors. I actually had to add the perimeter circle border to allow many of the parts to connect as well as adding many bridges. I cut the pattern in 1/8” BB Ply and had to take a few liberties because my blade was larger than some of the details, but I think I did justice to the original Art. I used a Pegas #2/0 spiral blade for all the interior cutting and only use a Pegas #3 MGT R blade to cut the outer perimeter. The cut panel is affixed to an octagon 1/4” thick BB Ply backer painted flat black having a 12” dimension from flat to flat. I was unhappy with the appearance of the un-stained BB Ply cut panel and decided to stain it a deep Minwax Barn Red to create better contrast. Of course, if there is an octagon backer, the frame must be an octagon also. I used my usual wood choice, 1 3/4” wide poplar, but added a profile using a frame making router bit. Glue squeeze out at the many joints is very difficult to prevent, and sanding the frame at the joints to remove the glue was very difficult because of the profile. For regular flat frames I always tape the corner to prevent the glue from getting on the surface, but the profile made that impracticable….I have to find a better way. I protected the panel with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Lacquer. I stained the frame Minwax Sadona Red and finished it with clear gloss spray Polyurethane.

This is fun thing intended to bring everyone a smile. I designed and made this backwards wall clock to give to my grandson Ethan for his birthday next month. I purchased the clockworks from a company in England that makes such a mechanism for clocks that work by projecting a mirror image. I very much doubt that this mechanism was intended to be utilized as I have done. Should a demand arise, I have enough supplies to make three more clocks. I've decided that I like it enough that one of these clocks will be for me. I cut the clock face from two 6mm thick layers of Baltic Birch plywood and used paint from a bunch of different cans in my shop in order to come up with 12 different colours with sufficient contrast.

6 puzzles made for the Granddaughters.

Following up on your suggestion, I took a photo to show how the clock does look in a mirror.

The guy in the middle was our leader rusty rankin. He lived on his property which stretched back to the original Spanish land grant. Was 7 miles by 7miles. Originally it was down to 5 acres on the neches river in Sweeney switch Texas. We lost him 2 weeks ago. Got to go down and say good bye to my best friend in the world the day before he decide to turn oxygen and antibiotics off double pneumonia. Other guy is Bob. We spent years cooking on the Chuck wagon at Dollywood. Silver dollar city rodeos. Best times of my life outside my kids I ever had. End of the trail. Fixing to take this to brother Bob in Tennessee. for those that got there picture 10 years before last year Rusty was Dollywood Santa also. my tribute to my friends. Love miss you rusty.

I did this out of cherry, and I have to say hanging it was the biggest problem. I ended up using the command adhesive hangers, not my favorite but I could not figure another way to get it close to the wall. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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!

Simple project for cat lovers, pattern inclues both variants Video of making project Cat pattern

Yes, by golly. We went to Home Depot and invested in 6 8 foot 2 x 4's. We're going to put them away until he graduates high school in 3 more years. They should cover college tuition by then.

About getting used to it: The clock is, temporarily, sitting beside our TV and both my wife and i can easily tell the time by it.

I have waxed the table, this is just a great top up in between full waxing.

I have waxed my table. This is just a quick way to "top it up"

I'll second the Johnsons paste wax.. Bought a can back in 2007.. and I'm still using the same can.. I not only wax the scroll saw table with it.. but also the table saw the planner bed bandsaw table the jointer top etc. and every summer I clean my shop real well and actually wax the machines and stands.. Saw dust doesn't stick to them so bad and it keeps my tools looking new. My can is getting pretty low now as the last two years I've been seeing the bottom of the can but still plenty in the edges of the can..

fantastic job

Why not wax your table? Johnson Paste Wax is what I have used for years. When I was a kid we used wax paper to make sliding boards slicker.

finally done with this one other than still not sure of what color background. light blue, some kind of sunset, etc. any ideas?

Finished this up today Steve Good pattern

I finally got this done, or I should say as far as I can go. I used all hardwoods, wenge-cherry-walnut-tiger wood, and was really challenged. I think intarsia must be a foreign word that means taking good square and flat wood, cutting into odd shapes and then trying to piece it together in a pattern! Anyway I learned A LOT

I made one of these a few months back and sold it to a guy at work. I'm making items for an upcoming market and thought that I would make another one. On this one I added a little hangover on the backer board and painted it black along with the outside edge of the front piece. Front is 1/2" BB ply, backer is 1/8" BB ply. Cut entirely with a spiral, I'm starting to get the hang of the spirals I think. I'll post a pic of the 1st one I made also, you will be able to see the difference that the black "hangover" makes. Well, after posting I realize that the second one was laying on something black when I took the pic so you can't see that there isn't a black hangover on it. I was also able to save the pattern this time and added it to my door. New one First one

It is good idea Make people think what they are get used to it Great work

I ran across a laser pattern and decided to give it a try. This is the prototype. Many lessons learned. The next one will be better. I used 5/16" b/bb that I had. Not the best stuff. Anyway, here it is.

Thank you TD painter for the pattern

Great work

Great work

Awesome work

That's lovely. Plus I like the shape of the frame. Marg

Thats great Charlie. My favorite episode of Mash is when Radar is holding a bear and pointing it at a patient and there is a bang and Radar looks at the bear and says "My bear went off" Marg

Nice job! I love scrolling but try to avoid things like octagon frames. A man's got to know his limitations.

Very different ,nice to see, well done frank!!!

I wanted to make mailboxes, an birdhouses look like the customer's house!!! Very cozy home you did LarryEA!!!

WOW!! A Most Excellent job.

I have heard this before. I am gonna have to give it a try.

it looks like I need to go buy another one for in the house. They work good for removing cat hair in hard to reach corners.

harbor freight $8.00

I've meant to post this the last time I used spray glue and got side tracked and forgot.. 6 months later here I am doing a larger pattern so I need to use spray glue instead of printing the pattern on a peel and stick full sheet shipping label. SO here is what I've been finding.. The shelve liner has always worked real well for me... never had a issue with it being stuck too good and peeling up pieces of the wood fibers like I have seen others post about from time to time.. BUT, when I use the spray adhesive ( in this case I used 3M 45 but has done the same with most other brands I just never put it to thought that it was the adhesive ) I find that the liner comes up harder.. I do place the pattern on the liner / board while the pattern is still somewhat wet.. maybe next time I'll let it somewhat dry out more and see if that affects it. I notice that the liner looks like it gets soft looking if that makes sense like maybe the spray glue chemicals is softening or melting the liner some.. which maybe bleeding through the liner and making the liner stick to the wood harder? Anyway, just thought since I've just peeled off the pattern and it came off hard.. reminded me that I've been going to post this observation for a long time.. I just keep forgetting. Okay.. better get back to work..

I love it. However I am easily confused so this clock would really do my head in. Marg

I like it a lot. Very well done. From what I see, you did not use a backer behind the cut panel. A contrasting backer would make the cutting read better and would provide you with a way to make a hanger system. Two small "key holes" could be located in the backer behind solid areas of the cut panel which would allow the shelf to hang flush to the wall using small brads with heads. I made a small business card holder with a similar vertical cut panel with out a backer. I simply drilled two very small hole in the vertical panel and use small brass brads to mount onto the wall. The heads of the brass brads are visable but they look OK for what I use it for.