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Deer is 3/8" thick and rougly 8x10 inches, and made from QS Red Oak with a ply backer. Cut with Olson #2/0R blades. The humming bird is from 3/8" curly maple and about 5x7 inches, with a ply backer. Cut with Olson #2/0R blades. The Rather be fishing is about 3/8" thick hard maple with a ply backer. It measures about 11x9 inches and was cut with Olson #2/0R blades. All 3 are Sheila Landry Designs.

Folks ask me if I could make patterns fit pieces of wood they have available. Of course scaling or changing the size of the pattern is one option many folks use. But here are some other options to consider. Taking a portion of a pattern and cropping it so as to fit a narrow board, or even making it into a circle or oval using your own thought processes and individual creativity can multiply all the patterns you have collected into many more options. Or how about liking the Indian woman in this pattern and wanting it to stand alone? Just crop out everything you don't want. Use your imagination and enjoy the journey.

Dragon is about 8x10 from about 3/16" thick cherry.. Cut with Olson #2/0R blades, with a ply baker. The sign is about 7x9 made from 1/4" ash with a ply backer. Cut with Olson #2/0R blades. I forgot where I got the dragon from, but the sign is from Sheila Landry Designs.

Took a week off from work, since it was pointed out that I had to "use it or lose it" by Dec 31. No prob, more sawdust!!!! So I start in on a multi-layer project when the wife mentions that she was serious when she said she wanted me to make a large sign for the tortoise enclosure. Oh, and the daughter wanted one for her bearded dragon terrarium. Me pointing out that signs wouldnt' do much good, as neither tortoises nor beardies are noted for their reading abilities. So Sunday was spent making signs. Nugget is the Sulcata Tortoise, and Yuki (Japanese for "Luck", I'm told) is the beardie. Yuki: Nugget:

The family tree is roughly 20x12 inches. It's made from 1/4" cherry, with 5mm ply backer. It uses the same ply painted black for the strips that hold it all together. Sheila Landry design. The dragon is 9x5.5 inches, from 1/4" curly maple, with a 5mm ply backer. Both were cut with Olson #2/0R blades.

Thank you all for such good advice! I went with a Delta 40-694.

Late to the party I know. The only 'beach' thing I've ever done.

What a coincidence! We were just there last month visiting the kids. We had lunch at a pizza place that was really(x3) good.

They all look great. Personally I would do anything rather than fish. Marg

No, any and all painting must be done before cut panel is affixed to the backer. I use the cut panel or a copy of the cutting pattern to act like a template to outline and then paint the backer. Very imortant to extend the backer colors beyond the cuts so there are no visable unpainted areas showing. If the cut panel needs to be painted, I do that also before attaching the panel to the backer. When the cut panels needs painting, the vertical cut edges of the cut out areas also need to be painted or the edges show up dramatically....not good. A very tedious job, but very necessary. Shading and blending of colors is the most difficult part of the painting process. Something I'm trying to learn to do better. Just let all paint dry completely before clamping the panels together or the surfaces can be marred very easily. Hope this info helps.

Hi Kirk: Are you one of those LONG HAIRED FREAKY PEOPLE (as the song says) who make signs These pets are awesome - Ugly but cute at the same time - Now get on with your multi -layered project P.S. Reading abilities, great comeback Fab4

Got this pattern from library by Neptune made out of 1/4 inch BB plywood A4 in size using a #2 spiral blade 2 coats of danish oil a spray of clear lacquer and put in a shop bought frame with black mount board it’s a present for my brother in law not my cup of tea lol but he likes skeletons skulls etc so I think he will like it ,thanks for looking comments welcome

Hello from AZ !! I have been scrolling off and on for probably 30 years and got into wood carving about 15 years ago. Now because of some arthritis issues I have decided to just scroll saw. I have an interest in doing portraits , and just finished my first pattern of my grandson when he was a baby. I have a DeWalt DW788 version 1, and also an old Dremel that I mainly use for straight cuts. I look forward to meeting all of you.

Got em' finished. Walnut and Maple. Final finish, Krylon or Rust-oleum, I forget clear gloss enamel. One for each of my girls but they can't get them before Christmas. Now for the next one. Just waiting for the lumber.

Haven't been doing much cutting this last couple of months but was asked to do this. I'm not a religious person and it's something I've never attempted before. It's 11"x 6½" + ¾" thick. Done with some pine wood. A Terence Thomas pattern.

I don't much portraits. As for the solid wood, I have the tools to resaw all my stock, so I cut the amount needed in half really.. That also lets me do book matching on the glue up.

Very nice scrolling! I can definitely relate to the sign.

I do this a lot.. in fact.. not many patterns these days that I use where I don't modify them in some way.. sometimes I take several patterns and combine them to make up a completely different design. Or adding text, sayings etc. I'm not super great at actual designing.. but I can modify existing designs so that's what I do to try to make things that nobody else is so to speak.

Awesome Work. Your cutting skills are top notch. Very crisp and clean. Nice to be able use real solid wood for projects. For the quanity of portraits I do, the cost factor for solid wood is just too prohibited.

I went the route of a 20 inch box fan and HVAC filter placed as close as possible to the saw - was AMAZED at how much and how fine the sawdust was that it collects. Reminds me of flour. I also periodically vacuum the buildup of sawdust that falls to the table and floor.

That is an original I like. Looks like a best seller to me.

terrific work

Than I don't know if we can be friends.. LOL

To me this is one of Steve's best pattern ever. Everyone seems to like it. I cut if out of 3/4" Red Oak.

Your lettering is spot on. Well done

Very nice work

Hi from Barbara Beautiful work

Was asked to make for this company in Colorado. I made the wall plaque and after looking through some of their photos I made the Desk plaque from a photo of the entry way to the ranch.

It looks perfect Brenda, your customer will love it. Marg

I decided to add more features... laser for hole drilling. 2 inch deep. index circular turn table for clock gears. also an adjustable Threaded pivot point for circles. 20ft of blades in a roll so we can have automatic blade feeding. self clamping and cut from bottom.

Congrats, I think you'll love using the saw. Hope to see some of your projects in the future.

I love the turtle.. do you do your painting after you have applied the cut to the backer?

I like the signs and the pets.. Merlin says "hello" to Yuki.

Not my kind of pets, but very nice signs.

Cool pets and excellent cutting!

Nice job. Now that the women in your house are happy you can get on the saw and cut what YOU want to cut. Good luck!

Neat work. Freehand signs are fun! I get to make horse stall signs occasionally for a boarding barn. They just email me the manes and say GO! That makes avery enjoyable project.

Made this one from a sign I saw on a street post down the way from me. made it a few years back.

Sorry I've not been on the forum of late, but I'm afraid as with all of us life gets in the way at times, these are a couple of cuts I've managed in the last couple of months, I've tried to make them posher by putting them in box frames (shop bought sorry), the small one is for our kitchen and the larger one was for the Daughter-In-Law who has a small cupcake business that started off as a hobby, they are both cut from 10mm Maple, I brought that after advise on the forum about "white" woods for inlay, I like cutting it so much I'm using it for other things as well

I finally got my hands on some quality 1/4 inch BB and wanted to try stack cutting. This is a Steve Good pattern and was cut with #3 MGT. I finished them with natural and red pine Minwax followed by 4 coats of clear gloss with light 300 grit sanding between coats. I wanted to keep the thickness to a minimum so the backer board is actually heavy card stock that has been lightly painted (which seem to work fine). Hope you enjoy.

Let's start an assisted living home for scrollers. What a hoot.

Swordfish Puzzle from the SSWM (this year - don't remember which #) We took it on vacation and my grandson has a blast putting it together again and again.

Freestanding Seahorse Puzzle made several years ago.

Living in a beach community, many of our customers want beachy items. They don't really go for things with the area name in them but they do go for Sea oriented items. Some of our best customer are little ones and often know what they want and what they don't want is what their parents want them to want LOL. Here are some of our little ones most popular items (unfinished so they can color them) And one of our colored samples the kids love The adults go for other items however

My array of Beach/Nautical/Ttropical cuttings is quite extensive. Some are from way back when I had first started up to my more recent work. Most of my latest work is intended to apeal to the Beach Community here along the Atlantic Coast of Central Florida. A lot of what we call beach side home owners love to decorate their high cost homes with a lot of beachy things. This first piece was one of my very early attempts at creating a pattern and then adding color to the finished piece. This last one hangs in my living room and we call it our aquariumn:

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.

Also, a big thanks to all your welcoming replies. I look forward to learning from the masters of the art.

Welcome to the forum, lots of good advice here from those in the know. They have kept my wood butchery to a minimum!

Welcome to the forum... hope we can help. Well, you measure end of blade to end of blade... I just measured several of mine,,,, pinless blades and all the "5 inch blades I have purchased all these years are more like 5 1/8" long... I have been getting a real bargain and didn't know it!!

Ok. I'll do tomorrow it's almost midnight here. Yes it is a pin blade. Cheers