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I decided this year that I would give Gifts of my cuttings for Christmas to some local friends and to also send them to members of my remotely located family. Because I made this decision early, I also decided to interrupt my regular work and spend some dedicated time doing Portraits of Santa. I’ve spent more than the last two full weeks cutting and finishing this grouping of portraits. I obtained great patterns from Botas and Fox along with a few stencil patterns I found which I converted to work as Scroll Saw patterns. I had previously cut the Santa Portrait by Fox last year which had been given away once already. All cuttings were done in 5/32” thick Solid Core Maple or Birch panels using mainly Pegas #2/0 and #0 blades. All cut panels were affixed to 1/4” thick BB ply backers that were stained with Minwax Barn Red and as always protected with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. The Frames are simple 1 3/4” wide Poplar and finished with Krylon Hunter Green all-in-one primer and paint. Santa 1 is an 11” x 14” Botas Pattern Santa 2 is an 11” x 14” Botas Pattern Santa 3 is a 12” x 15” conversion Santa 4 is a 11” x 14” Blume Pattern Santa 5 (Father Christmas) is an 11” x 14” conversion Santa 6 (Merry Christmas) is an 11” x 11” conversion Santa 7 Is an 11” x 14” Fox Pattern I plan to gift these pieces to all by Thanksgiving, so they only need to be hung for display for about a month and then put away with their other Christmas decorations, maybe to be displayed again each Christmas thereafter. Hope you enjoy. Comments and critiques is always welcome. PS: If you are wondering where Santa 4 is...it is J. Blume's recent offering which I msay still add to the group, but these had been started beforehand. Santa 4 Added. Watch New Pattern Announcements. I'll post up PDFs of the converted patterns shortly. Posted.

Just playing around in the shop this morning…..

Decided to add Color to this Craft. So far I have Very Positive Reviews. Lets see how is goes over here............. Danny :+}

Last year I cut over 150 of these critters and since we still wear masks I thought maybe they will sell again. My wife is the one that paint them, this is a big help.

I like doing these, do the color as well as these new black and gray ones.

10" x 8" 1/8" BBPLY cut with 02 spiral Got lots of practice drilling holes and putting the blade in and clamping it.

A tribute to those who continue to fight. Don’t ever give up. The original quote is from a lady named Tiffany Kairos. Thanks for looking.

Nice little surprise when I opened up the most recent edition of SSW&C this weekend. It's funny that they call out the YouTube channel, when all the good stuff is here on the website. But I'll take it! We're also on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest for those interested.

Nice to be mentioned by others on the WWW. So that's only 16 years for you to be an overnight success. Keep it up Travis. Bob

You can print small patterns on it too, but unless you print many copies, it just isn't worth the wasted paper. I actually have two of these that I obtained as partial payment for repairing a 5 color offset printing press (about the size of a semi trailer). I have plans to restore one of these to be able to print large signs and life size stand-up photos like they do of race car drivers, etc. that you see in stores, usually next to the beer fridges. I will be adding one to my photo studio to add this capability. I don't have a plan or space for two of them, so the second is surplus. If someone wants to come with a trailer to get it, I will make you a fabulous deal. Charley

I have owned several small planers and continually wanted a better planer. I ended up getting a DeWalt 735 because you can put pieces as short as 12" through it, and snipe is almost non-existent, if you keep the work level both in and out of the planer. I now waste much less wood using this small planer (small? It weighs 95 pounds, but has handles). It also has a built-in blower, so a shop dust collector is not needed, but it does require a chip collector bag or barrel. The first board that I ran through it was a scrap of 2X4 with no dust collection hooked up. The chips hit the shop wall 14' away at almost the same level as the planer. I have a plastic 60 gallon drum and DeWalt's accessory barrel cover and attachment hose to keep the chips out of my neighbor's pool and I always use my 735 outside the shop in the driveway. It's just too hard to clean the shop when the collection system develops a problem, like the cover coming off the barrel, or a leak develops. My shop is small and I don't have a large dust collector, but probably wouldn't use it for this planer anyway, because I can nearly fill that 60 gallon drum with chips in about an hour of planning. Snipe problems were my main reason for buying the DeWalt 735, because it was always a major issue with the other planers, and they didn't work well with short boards either. I had some tricks for minimizing the snipe back then, but even with those tricks, snipe was a problem. Snipe occurs when the feed rollers tip the cutter head as they ride up onto and off of the board. This causes the cutter head to tilt and take a deeper bite (snipe). It can ruin the first and last 6-8" of a board, and when you are planning a board of 1-2' in length, you can have nothing good left to work with. You can frequently find the DeWalt 735 on sale for in the mid $500 range, but they usually sell for over $600 and they are sometimes coming up used for as low as $200. I almost never buy used because of a lack of warranty, and who knows what the previous owner has done to the tool. Charley

Had to grab his pattern to be sure. They will work well with it.

looking on bushton website they have lowered the price by $25 on each saw. the bm20 was 1200 last time i looked and is now 1175. most companies are raising the price. just looked at laguna bandsaw model 1412 and they want $1599 when they were $1079 about a year ago! would like to have a bigger better saw for resawing but not for $1599 plus tax! i will end up buying a used bandsaw one of these days. just have to wait and find the right deal. doug

They are great saws, and with all these other saws keep raising their prices it's making a Hawk look more desirable.. that is until Hawk raises their prices.. Funny but, back in the 90's they was $1000 for a 20" saw.. they've improved it greatly since then and only have increased the price by $200 in 30 years.

We also had a Cardinal at one time, but a 40 footer. It was a great 5th wheel! That was 3 RVs ago...lol. We just sold the last one, a 36 ft. Keystone Sprinter. I believe that's the best size if you're going to travel as you can get into state and national parks that you can't with 40 ft. We even looked into a 40-44 ft. toy hauler, I was going to build a wood shop in the "garage" , and travel around doing shows. But we love the Rio Grande Valley and we have a bunch of friends here. I do 12 shows a month during "season" from November through March and a few car shows extra. I figure 62-65 shows a year is enough!

I am in the middle of a new project I am making for my son for Christmas. I have the white pieces cut and looking for wood for the black ones. I choose to put this photo up to show you how I made the decision to go ahead and try to make this chess set. You can see that one of the Knights is smaller then the other one. I cut it first to see if I could do it with all the turns and in and outs on the different ones. I know that bigger is easier and found I could handle it OK and proceeded. The taller one is the size I am making for him. The pieces were designed by John A. Flaig and are obviously compound cuts. I am using a piece of wood I have had for several years and never got around to using it. Not sure of the tree it came from but I believe it was retrieved from a saw mill that cut the trees for paper making. I have found the project to be easier to cut then I anticipated. The smaller piece is just under 2 inches Dick heppnerguy

Each panel is about 3.75 x 12.5 inches. Total size is 12.5 x 17 ish.. cut from 1/4" maple using Olson #2/0R blades. Has a painted backer and strip. Sheila Landry dedign.

I had looked at Pedro's finescrollsaw.com several times and wanted to try one of his patterns. Purchased one of his patterns called the Wiseman Coffer. (9 euro) It was great working with Pedro and he did give suggestion that I either use European "A3" paper or have it converted but retain the original size. My local UPS store made it happen with 2 sets of 17 x 12 prints. I decided to kick it up a notch by going with Bubinga wood $$$. It requires both 1/8" and 1/4" wood. I had some of the 1/8" but I needed 2 pieces of 8" wide and the 2 sq foot packs were only 5.5" wide. I contacted Richard at Richards Craft wood in Clemmons NC. www.richardscraftwood.com. He was able to mill up the pieces I needed and had them in a few days. Lots of cutting and lots of broken blades (Bubinga is hard !) It took about 3 weeks to finish. I used a Lacquer finish and it really brings out the color of the wood. I did used a temporary light wood backer on the inside to accent the fretwork for the picture but removed it afterwards.

Great work!

I guess I was lucky, or the Delta I received was really tuned in... In all the time I owned it,,, I only got snipe a couple times, and that was trying to plane a short piece of wood.. I have read about it from a lot of people with planers... but I did not experience it to any extent... I will be anxious to see on my DeWalt 734.. although in my current mode of wood working I doubt if it ever gets t the use my Delta did. I would love to experience a 735 with a spiral head on it to see it it is worth so much money,, I have always been satisfied with the finish I received from the Delta... The few boards I have put through the DeWalt 734 with straight blades have been even better... WIth a spiral ,,, wow,, must be ready to finish right off the machine.

I love my DeWALT 735!

I like all of these very much! Excellently made. I agree they are "art" quality. I think most people are happy to pay craft prices for art pieces.

They didn't even list their own forum and social sites.

Amazing precision, as always!

I have the Dewalt 735. I buy all my lumber rough cut, accept a small amount of pine. I had it for at least 10 years, love it.

Fun piece. Just proves it doesn't have to be complicated to be a great piece .

JFYI: As many of us do, we buy BB ply panels that are 12” x 24”, or in my case I also purchase the Solid Core Plywood that I get from HD that is 12” x 19 ¼”. Although one of the standard Photo sizes is 11” x 14”, which I frequently use, the extra inch that is trimmed off is a waste (but they do make good stir sticks). I have had more than one occasion when I would have liked to make my cut panel the full 12” wide, but the largest pattern I could print was 11” wide. Previously, my Inkjet printer was an Epson that was capable of printing 11” x 17” paper as well as the other standard letter and legal sizes. It was a quality printer but as we know, Inkjet cartridges are quite expensive and doing many patterns was using up lots of ink. And, If I wanted to do something wider than 11” I would have to make split patterns that I would have to tape together. So, I recently opted to purchase one of the new printers that uses ink tanks that are supposed to last a long time, and thereby reducing the per copy cost significantly. My research led me to buy another Epson, this time a Model ET-16600, which has the added capability of being able to print up to the Super B size, 13” x 19” sheets. Works nice for the Architectural B size 12” x 18” listed in Inkscape. This printer is quite expensive, but compared to online and other sellers, I got a very good deal at my local Office Depot, including an extended warranty. However, I was not able to find 13” x 19” paper at my local Office Depot and wound up having to order it on-line. I found a 500-sheet ream of Hammermill Premium 28# copy paper (a bit heavier than standard copy paper) for about $33 on Amazon with free Prime shipping. I believe, 500 sheets will last me a very, very long time. I had recently received the ream of paper and today was the first day I had the opportunity to make a large pattern. S. Good, just included a nice Christmas hanging plaque called “This House Believes in Santa” in today’s E-mail, that I was able to enlarge it to fit on a 12” wide panel. I wanted it larger as it will hang outside. Even though the large paper is a one-at-a-time feed, printing was a snap. Many years ago, when I worked in Engineering, we had printers that would take around 20 minutes or more to print out large drawing sheets. This printer prints the large sheets just about as quickly as a letter size. About ten seconds or so. Of course, this printer a full four function machine including: Copying, Printing, Faxing and Scanning.

I like it too.

You always seem to create some fun projects when you are playing around in the shop.

Hi Dan, you did a nice job there, I like the rustic look of it, Thanks for showing, Bob

Nice job Ray. Your a better man than me.

An amazing body of work. Love your comment about it being an art. That feeling puts one in a Zen place.

I love it. Great paint job too. Marg

So Santa's little elf's been busy cutting Santa portraits. What a good little elf you are, you did a mighty fine job. I love them all but the second one is my favorite. Marg

I like the idea of a screw top. Marg

You've been busy, Frank. Great job on all of them.

Still cost more though I believe to the end consumer anyway.. as they raise the shipping cost from $150 to $200.. ( I had heard... not confirmed ) probably because of shippers raising prices as they have skyrocketed shipping cost in the last couple years.

Those look like the right ones. I found a set of 60 with a stand on Amazon for under $20.

Just biding my time away . Waiting for the big one! Still scrolling but found other things to occupy my time.

For the new girl at the grocery store

Just got word that my new saw, a King 16", to go with me RVing. Should be here Wednesday. My first new saw since I bought my P-20 back about 1997 near as I can remember. I do plan to get the Peges clamps for the blade holder. I'll have a couple of weeks to "tune" it up before we head out for a week on the road. Chris

My son's school has "houses" that compete against each other for points throughout the week. His house if the Odwaga Bulls. He asked if he drew a bull could I cut it out. I said sure, thinking he was going to come back with a Chicago bulls logo. Instead he drew up the Lamborghini bull. Well the boy has got style I'd say and a definite knack for reproducing what he sees. He's quite good at free handing pictures of characters. 1/2 in birch ply. #5 Olson reverse tooth. Base apple red with metallic gold on top

Two other jobs that I have done, the images were taken from google photos. Well, I hope you like the result. Thanks in advance for looking and for your comments.

Again nothing to brag about as I have made over 40 of these through the years. The big difference, the customer wanted names rather than initials. Special request "Wedding Rings" designer unknown. Made from 1/2" Cherry. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1R and #3R MGT blades. The finish is two coats MinnWax Clear Satin Lacquer.

Have not posted for a bit, finally got health back enough to get back to saw and finish this, made it from 1/4BB with a BB backer. Biggest project I have done. Thank goodness for FD New Spiral 3/0 blades

Okay I am pretty proud so far.... Not finished, need to take it back apart, for final sanding, and fitting, then apply a finish.. Finally re-assemble with glue. But I thought I'd show it now... gett'n old, you never know.. The cutting was pretty easy, the getting assembled took as much time as the cutting, well not quite ...But I it took some time. Just one I have wanted to do for some time... I purchased the plans a couple years ago from Pedro in Spain... (Finescrollsaw.com). It is called the Cremona Wall Clock. The clock is 31" tall, 12" wide.

Finally got down to cutting Steve Good's compass pattern. Not a difficult pattern to cut, unless you hate angles. 1/4 bbply, #2/0 Pegas MG blades. Didn't stack-cut this, as I had to wait for my next trip to Lowes for wood for two of the layers. Ended up using 1/2" ply for the blank backer, I was worried about hangar nails/screw breaking into a cut part, but its thick enough where a hangar would naturally fall that I shouldn't have worried. Dark layers are Minwax "Honey" and the light is a new one for me, "Early American".

Since joining a few days ago, I have been filling my spare time prowling and reading what folks here are doing. I am having a good time seeing your projects. I also like to see what saws folks use and read their tips. I decided to post a picture of my saw; it is rather old but still chugs along and problem free.

I did the washer trace backer and my daughter is going to do one of her funky paint jobs on it.

In another thread, folks were discussing the hardness of various woods. I have this chart saved to my computer and if I remember to look at it, it helps me determoine which blades to use, and also if I really want to use that wood at all. Hope this chart helps. https://woodandshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/janka-wood-hardness-wood-and-shop.pdf