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We were married on July 2nd in 1966. Steve Good has an anniversary pattern for most years and I made one last year. This morning, I relpaced last years plaque with an updated one. The plaque is located on one of our kitchen widow-sills The foreground is made of 6mm thick Figured Maple and the background of 18mm thick Baltic Birch plywood treated with Light Green Saman stain.

Made this for a friends wedding. Interesting pattern. The flowers, names, and date are cut into the main piece which is Aspen. The dark frame and words are cut from walnut and glued to the Aspen. And a 1/4" BB backer painted black under the Aspen. Turned out to be tougher than I thought it would be.

I purchased this vector file from Etsy of a cartoon Cockerel by LaserDesignBel. I did not know what a Cockerel was but, after looking it up on Google, I found the it is a British English name for a young Rooster. I though the image was something different and looked like a fun piece to make. I found a number of colored images of a Cartoon version of a Cockerel that I use as an aid to adding the color. Cutting was quite easy even though the pattern was designed for Laser cutting, I used Pegas #2/0 spiral blades throughout. I sized the pattern to fit on an 11” x 17” backer. I cut the image in 5/32” solid core Walnut ply that I enhanced the Walnut color with Minwax Dark Walnut Stain. The cut panel is affixed to a hand painted 1/4” BB Ply Backer using Acrylic Art Paints after which the panel was finished with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Spray Lacquer. The panel is mounted in my usual simple 1 3/4” wide Poplar Frame that was stained with Minwax Aged Oak and finished with two coats of Minwax Satin Wipe-On Poly. After you stop laughing you are welcome to critique my work.

A couple of mine. Saw the waves in an article about Fiona Kingdon in SSWW magazine, always wanted to cut one of hers, and it looked like a challenge. Hint....it was. Viking ship was an H.Botas pattern, as was the pirate owl (cuz, c'mon, who DOESN'T need a cutting of a pirate owl?!?), picked those up from his Etsy shop. Nautilus gears were from Steve Good, working gears are always fun to cut.

A guy showed me a photo and asked if I could make something like it. He LOVED the finished product!!!

I did this beach scene back in Feb of 2019 and is posted on the site. The design is based on a paint by numbers my wife did and also a puzzle. My wife converted the picture in Photoshop to greyscale. The design took quite a while because I wanted to get the beach and light house right. We gifted the paint by numbers and puzzle to good friends that live by the beach.

My most popular item with the locals and the tourists... wall mounted sea turtle key rack and someone asked for a larger version for towels/coats. Carolina Beach is the town I live in.

I just finished cutting this one.

Hi I have done another steve good pattern. Surprise for my girlfriends mum who is into a card game called Skipbo.

Hello friends, here in Mexico we are in the middle of Summer and the rains and cold are at their maximum. For the moment, I show you the last work I did. Thank you very much in advance for your comments and greetings to all.

I purchased this vector file from Etsy of a Horse by DuglyGraphics. I had looked at this image for a long time and finally decided to cut it. The image was a little different and is intended for laser cutting, making it a little challenging to cut with a scroll saw. I’m kind of thinking the Image that was used on Etsy was a photo rendering as the final cut image does not quite look the same or, IMO, as nice as what was advertised. Here is the image that was shown on-line: I sized the pattern to fit on an 11” x 15” backer. I cut the image in 5/32” solid core ply that I painted Black. The cut panel is affixed to a 1/4” BB Ply Backer left natural. The panel was finished with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Spray Lacquer. The panel is mounted in my usual simple 1 3/4” wide Poplar Frame that was stained with Minwax Ebony and finished with two coats of Minwax Satin Wipe-On Poly. Now the Photo of my cut: Critique is always welcome and appreciated.

Hi to All.... I have been Scrolling All kinds of Crosses in my time, but as far as color goes Its Always the Black as a Backer.... A Good Friend got me into Color and a New Way.... Here is one of Crosses with Color. Look forward to replys. :+} Pretty sure this is a Terrence Thomas Design. Danny :+}

Out there, yes. The humidity is low, so adding some more moisture to the air is a good thing. We, our wood furniture, and our tools are quite comfortable working in 30-60% moisture, but it is "relative humidity". As the air temperature changes, the amount of moisture that the air can hold changes, even if you aren't adding moisture to it. This 30-60% is right when the temperature is around 70 degrees F. Cool this same air and it can hold less moisture, so this same air will have a higher relative humidity reading of likely 70% and higher as the temperature goes lower. Go low enough and this same air will begin to condense water droplets on your metal tools. As the air outdoors heats up during the day it can hold more moisture, and will collect it off evaporating lakes, trees, grass, etc. Then as the Sun goes down and the air cools, this air temperature to moisture content ratio will reverse, and the cooler that the air gets, the less moisture the air can hold. What it collected during the warm day is now too much for the cooler air. Dew falling and collecting on surfaces as the air cools is this excess moisture that the air can no longer hold. 100% relative humidity is the dew point. Keeping the relative humidity in your shop well below 100% will prevent this moisture from rusting your tools. Dehumidifiers and AC units cool the air enough to get the moisture out of the air by lowering the air temperature and getting this moisture to collect on the cold coils inside. Then the air passes through the warm coils (in a dehumidifier) and is warmed back up. An AC unit condenses this excess moisture out, but also cools the air by moving the heat from the inside of the shop and releasing it outdoors. It does not do much cooling until it can remove much of the humidity in the shop, but then can become quite effective at cooling the shop once the moisture has been removed. If you can learn that there is a relationship between air temperature and the moisture that this air can hold is relative to each other, and that cooler air cannot hold as much moisture as warmer air, all this becomes easier to understand. 100% relative humidity is the maximum that the air can hold at any given temperature. Cool this air and the moisture in it can no longer fit in it, so it will become dew and fall or condense on things. This 100% humidity is also called the "Dew Point" - the point at which dew (excess moisture) begins to form as the air cools. Keep this dew point relationship well below 100% and both you and your tooling will be happy, with 50-60% being the most comfortable levels. This is also why your shop and home have lower humidity in them during the Winter. The air outside is cold, so it has very little moisture in it, even though it's relative humidity may be 80-90%, but when this same air comes inside and is warmed up to 70 degrees or so, the relative humidity becomes very low and you become uncomfortable because it's too dry for you at 15-25%. Cool this inside air back down to the outside air temperature and the relative humidity of this same air will increase back to what it was when the air temperature again matches what it was outdoors. When the relative humidity of the air increases above 100% at any temperature, it's going to rain or condense on the cold surfaces because some of it no longer fits inside the air. This is a bit long, but I hope it gives you all a better understanding of why your tools rust in an unheated shop as the shop air temperature falls, why it rains at the beginning of a Cold Front moving in, and what dehumidifiers and AC units can do to help us and our tools remain rust free and comfortable. Don't open your shop overhead door to the outside when it's raining or very warm and humid outside. Charley

Can you post a picture, it is always nice to see how innovative folks are with their dust collection.

This is my take on the nativity scene that several of you have also done. It measures 17x22" in 1/4" baltic birch. The backer is also 1/4" that is painted black with acrylic paint. The frame is chair molding from Lowes that is glued and pin nailed from the back onto the baltic birch. The frame is stained dark walnut. Everything is sprayed with shellac and then top coated with satin lacquer. The pattern is a Sullyscroller pattern. Everything was cut with spiral blades. The tiny details like the eyes were with a 2/0 blade. The largest blade I used was a #3.

Living here in Southern Tn, the weather is always changing, Having a bad back bad feet I get down to my shop early in the A,M, suffer from sleep disorder as well. I do what I can when I can. Once I get to my shop I try to stay as long as I can.

I cut some of everything. positive, negative and mixed. It sort of depends on what the project is, what materials I have on hand and how I want to finish it. If it is a project I am going to paint, it is typically cut positive. Also, most ornaments that I cut are positive because I think the show better on a tree.

A Puppy Coin Bank finished for a great grandchild. The pattern is by Paul Meisel and found in one of the issues of SWWC. If you want to know which one, message me. The body is 3/4" Pine and the ears are 1/2" Walnut. Finished with one coat spray Shellac and two coats Minmax spray Lacquer Clear satin. Comments welcome.

Finished these 16 name puzzles this morning that I cut yesterday.....painted 93 letters in all......have to say my brain is a little fried......but I'm happy with the results.....thx for looking

Here's a few beach type things I've done. Guess I'll have to cut something else "beachy" this month. The two lighthouses are window shutters I did for a lady last summer. I made two panels from Poplar, about 16"w x 26"h x 1" d

Both Congratulations to you and your lovely bride.

Congrats!! And nicely cut!

We were married on July 2nd in 1966. Steve Good has an anniversary pattern for most years and I made use of it last weekend. The foreground is made of 6mm thick Figured Maple and the background of 18mm thick Baltic Birch plywood treated with Raspberry Saman stain. I took a photo of it on one of our kitchen widow-sills sitting beside a Valentine gift that I made earlier this year.

That's the plan.

Congradulations on a terrific milestone and a great daily reminder. Lets plan on you having to cut many more!

With the marriage or the plaque?

excellent job

beautiful job

awesome job

That is great!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it. Marg

Beautiful. Marg

Pictures. Need pictures. We all need to see your dust sucker thingee!

Great job. I believe you are a bit more patient than I am.

The heck with critiquing it, I will just like it.

Its a tray to put like your wallet, keys and knife. That is the logo for some knife company.

Beautiful work with a beautiful piece of wood.

Frank, WOW!! That is just Super!!!

You did an Excellent job!!

I also have my saw in a spare bedroom. Very nice not having to go up and down stairs. Last night I finished a new dust sucker thing-ee for the saw, so the little vacuum I use will grab both the top and bottom dust. That keeps the wife happy.

Ok I know this isn't Scrollsaw however it is Beach themed. I also do mini Scenes. Here is some I did for our Master Bath which is Beached themed. Cup 1. Boat, surf board, seagull on pier and whale are from E-Bay, Rocks are aquarium stones, coffee cup is from a yard sale and blue is spray foam painted blue. Cup 2. Lighthouse is from Hubby's collection, Rocks are aquarium stones, flowers from Dollar Tree. Coffee Cup from yard sale and water is spray foam painted blue with white painted waves. Cup 3. Lighthouse is from Hubby's collection, Rock if out of farmers field next door. 4. Whale is from E-Bay, shell is from a beach in Florida, stones are aquarium stones. 5. Fairy is from E-bay, Shell is from a Beach, Whales and starfish are from E-Bay and stones are aquarium stones. Ray, I hope this helps.

My saw is in the spare bedroom, so heated and air conditioned! Makes for lovely sawing all year long.

I made this for a Friend that has a 65 Corvette That he shows.

At 82 I'm not only done but can't. I can't walk across the lawn as any slight variation causes me to loose my balance. I have to use a walker. We hire a lawn service to cut, fertilize and do weed control. My wife goes ballistic if the yard is not pristine. Fortunately we have two daughters and sons in law who do a lot for us. We will never move to a retirement place. We are not willing to give up our home. Neither would our girls allow it. Would be different were they living a long ways off. We may be old but we are blessed!

My basement shop is warm in the winter and cool in the summer... But those stairs are the beast, and to think i used to fly up those stairs 2-3 steps at a time.

Thanks for that and you are correct re looking for additional barrel clamps, regards the spring do you know if there are supposed to be one or two in the head, and I have 2 and the parts manual shows one, hence wondering if spring has broken, although it does appear to be two whole springs. Have found a US source but postage is rediculous, especially given cost of spring only $5 postage nearly $40

First let me provide "my" definetion or these terms. In scroll saw fret work we cut away areas in a wood panel to expose a recognizable image to the human eye/brain. In some patterns we cut away the wood around the image - with or without an inclusive cut frame - where the cut panel is a "positive" image (my definition) and the background is just that, a background. The image is a projection above the backer. In other patterns the wood that is cut away creates the image, where the cut panel is a "negative':, again my definition, with the backer providing a contrasting color that produces what the human sees as an image. In this type of cutting the image is only perceived and alwasy has a lot of gaps that are filled in by the brain to form the image. BTW, there is also another version where both positive and negative is done on the same piece...I've don a few like that. I'm hope my definitions are making sense and y'all understand the difference I'm describing. There are no real Q&A here. Maybe just a little discussion, comments, opinions, likes, dislikes about these different methods of image creation. Or maybe a better discusion is, which kind of "positive" of "negative" image creation is found to be more appealing to those who view, and/or comment on our. work? I'm not really considering Plaques or multiple layer pieces for this discussion altough there may be some revelance there also. In this virtual meeting of the membership the floor is hereby open for discussion.