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I converted these Spotted Leopard and Cute Kitten patterns for the scroll saw from free images found on-line. The Spotted Leopard cut panel is a 5/32x11x17 Maple solid core ply attached to a painted black 1/4 BB backer. The cut panel was Hand Painted with Artist Acrylic Paints. Cutting was completed with Pegas #2/0 and #0 spiral blades. The finished panel was protected with many coats of Deft Spray Clear Gloss Lacquer. The assembled panel is set in a custom Poplar 1 3/4” wide Frame finished with multiple coats of Minwax Pecan Poly/Stain. The Cute Kitten is 5/32x11x14 Walnut solid core ply attached to a Hand painted 1/4 BB backer. The Walnut cut panel was darkened with Minwax Dark Walnut stain. This pattern was very challenging because of the many very pointy cuts. Cutting was completed with Pegas #1 and #2/0 MGT R blades. The Backer was Hand Painted with Artist Acrylic Paints. The assembled panel is set in a custom Poplar 1 3/4” wide Frame finished with multiple coats of MInwax Dark Walnut Poly/Stain. As always, critique and comments welcome. I'll post the PDF Patterns in "New Pattern Announcements"

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

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.

Hello everybody, My last job, I found this model from Steve Good and motorcycling is another of my hobbies so i tried to cut this model but i don't like plywood. Eric

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.

My wife decided to downsize decorating for Christmas this year. Luckily she kept my Christmas lanterns.

My latest project - a helicopter made out of basswood. Used a mahogany stain on the propellors and Watson's Golden Oak on the body. Applied a satin gloss finish on it when done. Who knew I had all these toys justing waiting in my basement woodpile!

Packing orders in the nice warm house. About half done with the overnight orders in the top box. Bottom box is yesterday’s orders. Then I get to pack the boxes that contain larger items like clocks etc. So during the holidays I spend most my time packing orders or making custom / personalized requests orders. Usually turn those away the 1st of December. I have a dozen to make now so that’ll take me up to the delivery deadline. Many folks will order even though they won’t get it until after the new year. Then I spend a large part of January doing bookkeeping for tax season. Mid January- February I get to go back to production cutting and starting to restock next years sales.

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.

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!

Update.. My sister won the illustration category..... Search for Rhea Eason https://earthobservations.org/artcompetition.php?t=winners

Sounds like you're too busy to even get into trouble Kevin. Jim

Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing.

fantastic work, they're both beautiful

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

I'm gopmg to have to try that. Thanks.

It did occur to me last night to look at the inkscape program,thanks.

Ok, I guess I should have pasted the link the first time.... https://www.officestarstore.com/products/osp-dc940-231 Since we are drafting our design in wood, we need a drafting chair. Or some of us might use drafting chair to enjoy a draft drink.

I'll be interested in what you find as I need another stool as well.. I need a taller one.. Both I have are adjustable height.. but the one is at least 12 years old and the padding for the seat has been about shot for a couple years now.. as well as the adjustable height thing but on the lowest setting is perfect for the one saw.. The other one I think is about 4-5 years old and I think it was from Harbor Freight.. It's still working great but sits a tad too low for my Hawk saw.. so I use it at my Excalibur.. Edit To Add: I might just buy a cushion for mine actually since it works well at the lowest setting for my Hawk.. and it's got a backrest etc.. Love it other than the padding is about gone.

Joe, it's been 7 years for me. Not a day goes by that I'm not thankful I found scrolling and Scrollsaw Village. All of the great folks here are like family for me.

I cut two of these for son in laws. they both enjoy their beer and it is difficult to not see an open one in their hand at any time. Luckily they don't ever get obnoxious or irritating in any way when they are drinking but when I saw this Steve Good pattern, I just knew I had to cut one for each of them. The other one I cut with an orange background, just so they would not be exactly the same. I cut both of them from BB Ply was surprised that they did not take more time to cut as the font of the letters is fairly delicate but I was happy with the way they turned out, and I hope they like them as much as I enjoyed making them. Dick heppnerguy

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

Yes, lots and lots of spining. I first tried with a spiral blade but just could not get the points and pointy interior intersections sharp enough. Using the regular blades, in some areas I did the double cut to get into the interior points, but mostly cut spin cut spin, etc.

Great job, Michael. I'm sure there will be some happy kids somewhere in your life. Or, you may be the happy "big" kid!

No, none are painted on. The leopard wiskers are all cut outs. The Kitten wiskers are surface mounted. I did lose one that I did not bother to try to fix. Another is actually broken but glued into place. The Kitten was a difficult piece to cut.

I use the menu activity, all activity. and still miss some. It depends how many updates happen. I might not want to scan thru 117 updates. Oh , My artistic idea I could not get it done in 6 weeks. I had this vision bigger than my immediate capabilities. But next september it will be done. I need to learn lots of stuff. Which in progress. Some new technology was just announced this month. I will incorporate that also. It will use scrollsaw items. It will be fun project. Anyway might be a bad time to "follow" this topic.

Don't see the seat height. Am I missing something?

Been on here a few years now lois of goog patterns, information and a few laughs as well

Oh with some more thought and imagination, I can see how a spiral blade needs to be used.... Keep letters oriented bottom toward you. Angle the table to left or right. When cutting the sides of the letters without spinning the wood, the letters will be angled. When cutting the top you don't spin the wood. You just use side of spiral blade to go across top and bottom. Thanks you got me thinking.

Excellent work, John. Cutting fretwork as thick as those snowmen can be a pain but they sure are nice when they are finished.

Do you have a word processor on your computer? I know it sounds silly but anymore you have to either dl and install free or pay for the big boys. I use Libre Office (free). In the word processor there is a section to format the text, among the options is "outline text" Instead of the typical block text this option takes any font and makes it an outline (so you can follow the outline as a pattern). As for sizing, in Times New Roman font 1 point of font equals .01 inch in height (25 point font is 1/ 4 inch high, 100 point font is 1 inch high) Not all fonts follow this rule, but TNR does and it's a starting point.

I sure like the height range it has. Price might be a bit high for me.

Thanks I'll try a photo program I have. And fire up my windows xp.

I love it. I'm sure you did Jim proud on this one. I especially like the frame, as it doesn't stop my eyes from seeing the subject first. Well done

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

Yes, fortunately I still have a picture from the ad for the saw I just sold..

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 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

Hello everyone, Isn't our tradition in France but, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving! Eric

I did try that for my mining cars, gold ore. The afternoon breeze blew them all over the place. I just swapped some of my rocks with the neighbors white quartz rocks and painted them with viens silver and gold.

Great job overall. You are very fortunate that you can do something like that on your own property. Most of us cannot due to the expence, space and mostly local restrictions. Seems you have a sizeable investment in the structure and the vast quantity of stock, both monitarilly and in time. Was wondering if you would be willing to provide some general information about the business and how it is doing (not looking for specifics of course). .

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.

very nice

Just a few....lol

Very impressive work. And congratulation on your photo being added to their catalogue. Marg

Thanks Travis!! Looks like it'll be another fun place if we can get some activity going on it. I'll join up later, probably won't be all that active on it until after the holidays when I get back to playing on the CNC / Laser machines.

All I can say is WOW!

It's been a while since I've posted in Village. I've been drawing new puzzles over the past few months. and traveling around This is 12dogs out of 25 dog breeds puzzles made a while ago 1.Australian shepherd, 2.Beagle, 3.Boston Terrier, 4.Bulldog 5.Chow Chow, 6.Collie, 7.Doberman, 8.Moltese 9.Pembroke Welshcorgi, 10.Pointer, 11.Poodle,12.Rottweiler Christmas is coming I think I need to make some tree now

2021. Finished projects ,all made from Hardwood various oaks finished with four coats of Danish oil