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This reminds me of a couple of churches my daddy pastored. I enjoyed cutting this pattern by @Whitley WoodWorks

8x10 1/8" BBply #1 Spirals No finish yet.

Steve Good pattern, I believe. Not a difficult cut, just time consuming...and we've got one of our daughter's friends staying with us for the week, so instead of one moody 12-year-old, now there's two giggly 12-year-olds with no volume control. LOL Pattern called for 1/4" bbply, I used a piece of 1x8 I had left over from building the tortoise enclosure. Used 2 Pegas MG #3 blades, stained Minwax Honey.

Time for a landscape scroll project. My sister reminded me that back in ’68 that the family visited Lichtenstein castle for my parent’s 25th anniversary. It’s located south of Stuttgart and is still privately owned. It has some elements that are similar to Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria and would make an interesting project. My wife and I had just finished a 1K piece puzzle of this castle. The puzzle was square and included lots of vegetation and didn’t add to the design so I decided to try something I hadn’t done before. I wanted to do an oval picture and frame. I've made an ellipsograph and looped string method but MS 3D paint has an option to use a 2D circle tool on the pattern that can be stretched to make an ellipse. That was the easy part. I found a very good video on Youtube to make an oval frame. It involved using lots of tools in the shop. I used a 6’ ¾” x 6” piece of poplar and cut into 4 segments and mitered at 45 degrees. I needed to make a template on the scroll saw (#7 blade ) I also used my router to make assorted detail edge cuts. The attached video was very helpful. The plaque was 1/8 BBPW with ¼” black acrylic paint. Finish was semi-gloss lacquer. https://www.castlesworld.com/castles/lichtenstein-castle.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WkzRH-Up8&t=31s

My latest cutting (USA flag with Eagle on stand) and some more patriotical projects Patriotic patterns

I need a bunch of these so I can start up a gym .. People can pay me a membership plus make inventory for me to sell... https://porthuron.craigslist.org/tls/d/port-huron-antique-fret-scroll-saw-1880s/7342015397.html Seems like a great buy actually.. a lot of these are over $1000 !! I'll upload a photo too just in case the add is gone.

The plans came from Scroller Unlimited. ( I hope I got their name right). I just finished a 3d picture of the Last Supper, the table and figures are cut from 1/8" birch plywood and stained with diluted craft paints. I copied the back ground from the famous painting of the Last Supper. I used Pegas 2/0 reverse tooth blades to cut it.

i see some characteristics og Hegner. 3 leg stand. Then put a flywheel on it to help power thru the hard spots in the wood. put a crank handle on it to work your arms. You could get a tesla car battery and make it a hybrid. Charge your battery at the same time you scroll saw. Great work out.

It looks like it has front tension release. Make a set of adapters to use 5" pin less blades and some good tool less clamps and you are all set.

If it were near me I would grab it in a heartbeat!

What type of blades does it use? Pin or pinless? 5"?

I saw one of them on an Episode of Tenn, Crossroads, a show here in Tenn, which travels all over the states of Tn, Ky, Al, Darn good Educational show.

Beautiful work on it all. Really like that oval frame.

Well done...very well done. The pattern and cutting is great. And the frame is just wonderful. I've done an Octogon Frame but not an Oval yet. Will be on my to do list.

Liking that! well done..

That’s really cool well done it looks great even with all the distraction lol!

nice job

I don't have the "proper" room to display a piece like that or I would consider buying.. It'd sure be interesting to toy around with.. I'd put pictures of me using it on my website.. people probably would think I do all those woodworking items on that old saw.. ... If I did work that hard I'd have to eat a bigger bowl of Wheaties breakfast

My wife is a PK. Her father was an evangelist and her brother was a missionary in Spain for 25 years building church congregations.

Beautiful pattern, beautiful cutting and beautiful wood, love it. Marg

I would guess pinned.

Thanks. Yes, it's red oak planed to around 1/2". My favorite wood and thickness to scroll. I used a FDUR#1.

Great job, Charlie E. Is that red oak? And what was the thickness?

I'm really questioning if they meant $1500 as that is the going price of many of these old saws like that.. and just think.. all that money and you have no motor or electronics to go bad on it, LOL

Thanks. I agree it's a wonderful pattern. They did a great job putting in just enough detail, but leaving the right amount to your imagination as well. I don't have that skill.

This was my weekend project. This is for a friend of mine.

Very nice, looks peaceful.

Gorgeous cutting on a really nice pattern. Who is the designer? I'd love to cut that.

I can understand why you enjoyed cutting it. Just wonderful pattern and cutting.

Puzzle guy, Could you take a couple of pictures of the saw with closeups of the bottom and top clamp areas. The vibration issue, Being a 4 legged saw. whenever I move my G4 26 (2005) I have to kick the legs a bit until all four are solidly planted on my not so level floor. But it may still have a spot in the speed range where it may vibrate. I was never happy with the plastic lower clamp retainer and the replacement from Bushton was not flexible so I made my own from some beryllium copper.

Might depend on if your DW was a type 1 or 2? Remember all the topics of people drilling oblong holes on the front brackets to move the linkage so it was less aggressive? Remember reading about shimming the table to make it less aggressive? A lot of folks hated how aggressive those saws were.. Mostly started out with the type 2 saws I believe.. I had a type 2 but I guess as you all stated I never knew any difference.. did take me some time to get used to how fast it cut when I got it from the old Delta and Dremel saw I had before the DW.. took some time running the speed dial slower than I normally did with the other saws.. DW may have fixed this as there was a lot of complaints about them type 2's It doesn't affect everyone the same way.. and a different choice of blades can slow the saw down some.. ( ie some people say the Pegas MG blades are too aggressive.. while many others love them.. could be just the difference in the saw set up rather than blade. ) I used to use only FD UR blades in my old DW.. but when I went to a Hawk it seemed slow going.. mainly because the DW I was used to was a aggressive cutting saw and the Hawk not so much.. can get way better detail on the Hawk than the DW even though projects looked good on either saw there was a noticeably better crisper corners etc from the Hawk.. So using a slower blade isn't going to change the better detail of sharp corners etc.. However you can go into the corner and back out etc. and still make a nice corner.. just takes a little additional effort.. Many people go into a corner and back out and inch their way around to make a nice sharp corner on the DW type saw.. but with the Hawk you just go in and turn the corner.. My point in my last reply is more about having a saw that you can adjust the aggressiveness is a nice option for a newbie to help them learn control and also help with either making it more aggressive or less aggressive for the projects you make..

I put this pattern in the library if anyone's interested. I added a couple of things afterward before cutting it. Is anyone familiar enough with the song to notice a couple of symbolic things I included?