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I made this pattern and cutting from a painting by Missouri artist, Gary Lucy.

This is joint project with my granddaughter. I was her idea so I came up with a pattern and cut out for each of her friends. The inspiration for this was, at Halloween this year the 7 friends all dressed as a different colour M&M. Had sweatshirts with a big M and a matching Tootoo. Some had coloured streaks in their hair too. She wanted to come up with something to give each this Christmas and this is what she came up with. I cut - she painted the same as her friends costume.

Here's two of my latest pieces. Patterns by me. Cut with Pegas 2/0 spirals.

A pair of snowmen from Sheila Landry patterns, cut from 5/8" sassafras and finished with a couple coats of Waterlox. And a praying angel from an older issue of Scrollsaw Woodworking. Cut from 1/4" cherry and 2 coats of Waterlox. Love making Christmas ornaments!

Yesterday marked a year since I joined SSV. The year went by quickly and I learned A LOT here in The Village. Many thanks to Travis for maintaining it and all of you out there for sharing your knowledge and experiences. Without a doubt, it helped flatten my learning curve and continues to do so (Inkscape, finishes, etc.) Joe in Delaware

Hi all, Just sharing my first attempt at lettering fret work. I wanted a 20 mule team concept for my outdoor garden train. I wanted to generally keep the old wagon concept. I made a wood shell that slips over a flat car. So that made it wider than track, but still kinda resembles the old wagon. The wood is 6 inches front to back. This is a proof of concept. That is working out errors of the design and is it worth doing the 2nd one. wagon shell wood: red oak 1/4" wheels: dark walnut printed logo from borax laundry soap was used as cutting pattern. Black paper as backing for lettering. Those donkey no mule ears and legs were a bit trickey. The logo showed tails for each mule. I left those off. 2/0 spiral blade for both lettering and 20 mules with wagons. pegas #3 blade for wheels. stacked cut 1/2" walnut. Total stack is 1inch.

I built a gift shop in my yard last summer to sell my work. Thought I would take a couple minutes and show it to ya'll Lemme know what you think. (Video would not upload. My apologies)

There are some days I curse Harvey Byler under my breath while I'm cutting... Those days happen to be when I have to cut Shih-Tzu's... LOL His attention to detail is amazing... and infuriating at times. I just cut this one, still need to spray coat it and add hooks. This one will absolutely test your skills.

G'Day, Just finished two knife boxes - "The Angry Stockfish" and "The New Zealand Stockfish". Why Stockfish? In my country - Ukraine, dry salted fish traditionally eated with beer instead chips. This salted fish named "taranka". I didn't found the detail product in US shops, so Stockfish. Made from pine, 2 layers of black oil for wood. Walls - 10 mm, lid and bottom - 6 mm, the inner insert thickness - 4 mm. Made with hand tools only. The pattern was fretsawed with jewellery fretsaw, blades @Antilope, jewelry blades.

Just finished this board for a very good friend as a Christmas gift. Wood used Cherry, Maple and Walnut also epoxy in the middle.

I found this one behind a office building. They went out of business. But I looked the brand name "Office Star Ptoducts" up and they are really good. I have been using mine daily for 2 yrs. It did show signs of wear when i got it 4 yrs ago. Here is some pics. Bottom label.

Made from scraps lying around the shop. Designs by T & E and also primary design by Mother Nature too! Lightly torched on the leaves and then hand burned for the veining. Light coat of gesso over them to keep charring from following people around. Sized from about 4 inches for the small leaves to about 8 for the largest one. Fun to do. I did put felt feet under them so they can be used as small trivets to.

I submitted a photo of my finished model like they requested and was really surprised after a few weeks when I received a copy of their catalogue and noticed my model on the back cover. I added a few details to the model like doors that open and a different hub center on the wheels. beaver

If you like the chair you have, you can buy the pneumatic and fix it cheaper than a new one. It seems to me a long time ago I saw a YouTube vid on a cheap fix with a piece of PVC pipe.

That is known as a "Draftsman Stool", but since draftsmen all work at computers now, there isn't much need for these now. Watch the used furniture stores, Habitat, and Good Will. I bought 2 all black ones from Good Will 2 years ago for $10 each. I don't think mine had been used for draftsmen though, more likely for home hair dressing, since I keep vacuuming hair out of the seat cushions. Great stools at a great price though. Charley

Dave, I guess because I don’t move mine up or down is why it lasted, RJ

Dave, I have a craftsman stool, had it for about 4 years, works great, but I have mine set and never need to change height, RJ

I've completed the finish on this project today. It is a Jim Blume pattern cut using Pegas 2/0 and #1 spiral blades, 1/4 maple ply stained natural with a 1/4 pine ply backer cut 2 inches larger than the front and painted black. The entire project was sprayed with 4 coats of gloss poly with a light sanding between each coat. The frame is actually framing material I had on hand which I think turned out pretty nice with this piece. Thank, Jim, for the pattern. I hope I did it justice.

I've got one that we bought at Costco a couple years ago. It's comfortable and seems to be wearing well, but they never seem to stock the same things at times.

i have a craftsman also..........that is the one that the pneumatics doesn't work on.

Beautiful work, RJ

Looks great! You could make an outlined backer because it will be hanging! I think the name means "Mop without a handle"!

Well John B, my main computers are Windows 10, but I also have a Linux Laptop, and a Windows XP Desktop for similar reasons. Not everything plays nice together for me either. So we do what we must, when everything we like to use doesn't work on all OS. I'm a bit surrounded with what I have and use, and I will be adding yet another computer soon, mostly to support my video work in my photo/video studio (another out-of-control hobby, beside woodworking). Terabytes of storage and high speed computing are needed for video work. For instance, I recently needed to digitize some large movie theater coming attraction posters (remember them?) for a friend. Scanning them in pieces on my 8 X 14" scanner and re-assembling them in Photoshop was just too time consuming, so I hung my tripod and one of my cameras upside down from my studio ceiling, put blue tape on the floor for repeated corner alignment, and made digital photos of all 42 posters in one afternoon. Of course, it took me much of the morning to figure out how I was going to do what was needed (thinking outside the box). I had built a steel grid from 1 X 1 X 1/4" steel angle on my studio ceiling, so I could hang much of my lighting from it to get as many light stands and power cables off the studio floor as possible. The camera tripod was just attached to this lighting grid using an electrician's beam clamp, something like a C-clamp, with several 1/4-20 threaded holes in it. The base of the mast in the center of the tripod has a 1/4-20 stud sticking out of it, so the beam clamp was attached to the tripod there and then attached the beam clamp to one cross member of the grid. I then extended the tripod legs up against the ceiling to stabilize the camera, but I also used a Bluetooth remote control for the camera shutter, again to keep the camera stable during the shoot. The second photo gives you some idea of the main reason for this ceiling lighting grid. What shows in the photo are 4 of the 8 LED Light Panels hanging from this lighting grid that I use for most video work. Each one of these light panels has 480 LEDs in it, for a total of 3,840 LEDs. Can you imagine all of these panels spaced this close together, each on it's own floor stand? There would be no safe place to walk. Each light panel is separately controlled for on-off, brightness, and color via a cell phone App, so again, no wires on the floor. I have Wiremold power strips on the ceiling running down each side of this 10' wide ceiling light grid with an electric outlet every 6" their full length, so the longest power cable for any light in any location hung on the grid is about 5' from center out to an outlet, and all of the lights and power wiring are above head level on the ceiling. Charley

Nice. Another something for me to try next year.

I have always found the Dremel to be indispensable around the house for many tasks. I have had the same Moto tool for close to 40 years and just replaced the drive coupling. Amazon has a sale that ends tonight. Pretty good pricing and I thought some of you might find it useful. https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/C63941E6-2662-4B36-9F57-B76D7AD43972?channel=FeaturedDeals&sap-outbound-id=21E57286019E1B2801683567BF5C597A01645A29

It goes between the wedge and the lever on the back of the saw?

fantastic work

Great work. Now to use some of the styrofoam filler to simulate the borax load.

That's thinking outside the box!! LOL Sorry I couldn't resist. Great idea will look good. Thanks for showing us.

Really great work. Love the snowmen. I love the finish. Just trying to locate in Canada.

nice work

My Excelsior that I bought as a floor model was manufactured in 2016. That was the first year for the Canadian king I believe, so I assume the Chinese ex was later than that

Looks great. Do you open regularly? Marg

You did a terrific job especially with the smallest mules. Marg

Glad you like being part of the family. Marg

Love it! Looks like you may have spent a couple hours cutting projects to go into your gift shop.

The layer thing is exactly the way I do it Charley. That is main reason I have never upgraded to Windows 10, because I am quite comfortable with "Paintshop Pro" and Windows 10 does not support it I also make good use of Microsoft Publisher as it is easy to scale and measure patterns etc.

That's going to be really neat Mark. I love the G scale trains. When we had our Hallmark shop in Colorado Springs, we used to put up a train in our front window every years. The customers loved it. We had a tiny teddy bear riding in one of the open cars and one day we noticed the bear was gone and there was a baby bottle riding in the car instead. We had to hunt down the little culprit and do a swap. But, it was all a fun thing. I had a Z gauge setup in our jewelry case too. Needless to say, our Hallmark store was not the conventional one that Hallmark wanted but we never buckled under to them. We did it our way as the song goes.

Great job on that for sure. I have it stacked ready to cut and I hope I can do it as well as you did.

10"X8" 1/8" BBPLY cut with 02 spiral

Nice job. Jim

Another cutting board finished, the client did not want any epoxy, just different wood. Used Cherry, walnut, maple and white Oak.

You can do this with a word processor program like MS Word, Apache Open Office, etc., or a photo editing program like Photoshop, Paint, etc. If a word processing program, you can change the Font (style of letters) and size. Then just type the words and spacings as you want. If there is a way to select paper size, you may want to set a custom size of 10" X 8 1/2" so the sign is wider than tall. For a Photo Processor, you also set the image size and font, then select the lettering tool. Then just type your message. Using a photo program you then get to position your typed line where you want by selecting the Move Tool. The letters are on a kind-of invisible layer above the background, something like clear plastic in function, so the Move Tool will let you move your typed line of letters around the background to place it wherever you want. If you add another line of text, it too will be added as an invisible layer and can be moved to position in the same way. If you need to again move the first line of text, you will need to select the first layer again (layers menu) so you can again move it. Each can be selected via the layer that it is on. When you have selected the desired layer you can edit or do anything without affecting the other layers. Each layer is saved separately when you save the file, unless you choose "Flatten Layers". When you select this, all of the created layers get combined with the first Background Layer and you can't separately edit them any more, but it does reduce the file size. Whenever I want to place many small patterns on a sheet of paper, I use this Layers Feature to copy and drag duplicates of the first image, each on a new layer, and placing as many as possible on the page. This creates a whole stack of layers with one duplicate pattern on each layer. Each can then be moved or modified by selecting the layer that the image is on that I want to modify or edit. I always save the file with all of the layers, so that I can go back and edit anything on any layer. The file will print out showing what you see, with all of the images and edits as you see them on the computer screen since the many layers themselves are invisible. Only the image on each layer will show in the printing, so the end result is one page with many images on it. This is a bit tough to comprehend for someone new to this, so picture in your mind a sheet of paper lying on your work surface. Now print or draw many duplicate images, each on a clear sheet of plastic (layer). Place one of these sheets of plastic on top of your sheet of paper and move it around to put the image where you want it on your sheet of paper. Now repeat the process using another sheet of plastic with the same image on it, placing it on top of your previous plastic and background paper. Again, move it around until it is adjacent to the image on the plastic below it. Continue adding sheets of plastic, moving the image on it adjacent to the images on the plastic sheets below. You can continue this until you have as many above the sheet of paper as you would like. Then imagine being able to glue all of these layers of plastic in these positions so you can run the whole stack through a copier. The copier won't see the plastic sheets, but will see all of the images and their positions, so the printed sheet will have all of the images laid out on it in the positions that you placed them. In the photo processing program you are doing exactly this, but the sheets of plastic are electronic and completely invisible, except for the image that you place on it. Each can be positioned or edited separately with no affect at all on the rest. When printed, they all show up on the paper as you placed them. Charley

I think I need a life.....

They sure did Marg. We had about 6 kids from each class place X number of "Baubles" on the tree. I had to go around, on Thursday, and put a screw in everyone as the kids were a bit slow and the hot-melt glue had started to cool on 90% of the "Baubles" before they got them stuck. As I was wheeling it into the undercover area they dropped like autumn leaves

A while back I got into making military emblem plaques for members of my surrounding family that has served... I really enjoyed the little project and all that received them seemed to be really appreciative... I made 4 USMC ones because I wanted to ensure I had enough that I had one for myself... Well that did not work out.... next thing I knew all emblems were gone.. none for Papa.. So,, I made another just for me... Got it done today.. It will go on my wall above my computer desk... I made some enhancement for myself... I increased the size by 20%. The original ones were a little over 7" in diameter,,, mine is 10". I also I increased the size of the "Semper Fidelis" an additional 5% so I could scroll it. On the others I used decal because it was too small for me to scroll. On mine I have about 10 coats of "Gloss" finish on the center part,,, with sanding to 15K grit. between coats... I wanted it to shine. The reat is about 5 coats of simi-gloss. This is the results... First picture is comparison in size, not sure why the Navy one looks so out of round.. it is not... the second is a better picture of mine... I am thinking of making more as time allows, just to give out when the occasion calls for it.. Trust me.. they are well received... I don't think I have made much of anything that seemed to mean so much to the person receiving it....

Jim Blume pattern fresh off the saw

Jim Blume pattern

The cutting itself is actually 11X14. Thanks!