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These were made from 1/4" oak a pattern from Gayle in the scroller cafe. Roly

Every year (excluding this year) I exchange ornaments with friends around the world. This year I set up a few on a shelf on the middle landing of our staircase. These are just a small sampling of the ornaments I have! The stand was made to display Mini birdhouses at craft shows. It is made of solid Mahogany, including the dowels which I made.

Its been a rough month and a half for our family, but I've managed to chisel out some sawdust time. Finally finished another mandala. 1" whiteboard, stained Minwax "Honey", used a couple of Pegas MG #3 blades. Good project to put on an audiobook or stream music and set the rest of yourself on autopilot. I started with the inner circle of smaller triangles, then worked my way outward, saving the inner spiral for last. I have some epoxy that I picked up over the holidays (Amazon), and am planning on giving it a try with this one. I'll post pics if it turns out.

A co-worker and his fiancé' recently had a baby boy together and asked if I could make something for them. He has a son from a previous relationship and she has a daughter from a previous relationship. I decided to make them a Family Tree. I showed him a few ideas and he liked them. One of the things that he requested was a little black heart on each name. He is the customer and the customer gets what they want! LOL I used 1/4" BB ply and the wife cut the names out on her Cricut. A couple coats of spray finish to top it off. Really wasn't any room for a metal hanger on the back so I gave him a Command Strip to use. He could use one of the "loops" to hang it with a small nail if he chooses to.

My wife gets angry if you don’t use a coaster. You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry. (Hulk joke)

Hello friends, good start to the year for everyone !! I show you my work, I made it from a Steve Good pattern I just changed the sentence and put it in Spanish "I love you! I hope you like it, I send you a big hug.

Graham Greene and Kevin Costner as Kicking Bird and John Dunbar from Dances With Wolves. One of my favorite movies and one of the most beautiful scenic movies I've seen. Can't believe it's almost 32 years old. 1/2" Red Oak with a light stain, about 9" by 11" cut with FDUR#1. Not my pattern, I bought it on Etsy.

Started my inventory for next year, pattern from Steve Good

Sorry about this folks but Scrimperuk has now morphed into scrimper. Unfortunately I am a bit dopey, I thought I already had an account here but could not find any record of it so I joined up as scrimperuk. once a member I looked at the members map and surprise there was scrimper listed as a member and of course it was me. I could not access the scrimper account but I contacted admin and Travis has very kindly amalgamated me with the scrimper account. It all sounds very complicated but basically if you see reference here as scrimper or scrimperuk it's me. So sorry for a second introduction, actually I think it's my third!

After roughly a year of being only to use the meme’s to respond to posts, I am finally once again able to respond via typing. Apparently, if one doesn’t do updates on his iPad, he won’t be able to interact with others. I thought for sure I would have to buy a new iPad, but I had someone do a force update and it worked! And it only cost me $40.00.

Stunning piece, can't wait to see how it looks with epoxy. I'm not brave enough to try, although I've had some in my cupboard since last year

Beautiful piece. I would be afraid I would ruin it if I tried to go further with epoxy. My husband and I had a conversation just yesterday about my “over thinking” too much and worrying about messing it up so instead I just “think” on it for ever rather than just trying it and throwing it away if it doesn’t work. I really have tried to work on it and do do better sometimes. only those afflicted with the same issue will understand though. I’m sorry your family has had a rough time for a bit but am glad you were able to find sometime to create saw dust and this beautiful piece. Prayers said that things have turned the corner for your family and are getting better.

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Hi All this is two projects one is one of my first one that I can say I was really starting to get into the hobby. The other one is peace on harder and thicker wood I was lucky to get. Did it over the holiday was worried my machine would not take it as it was my first peace of hard wood. It was a champ was worried for nothing. The first one I used old X ray film and carben paper to put it on wood and drew the pattern on paper by hand. Then came the computer in our lives with the internet and all ye ha then the fun really began. Barbara

I always used spray-on glue for pattern attachment but never was satisfied by the process, simple though it might be. I took a gamble and tried a Xyron Creative Station as an alternative. The pattern is placed into a printer-like feed tray. A hand crank moves the pattern into the machine where it passes through a set of rollers and is affixed to a removable adhesive backing. This backing is very easy to remove manually. The entire process takes a few seconds. The cost of the machine was $58. Spendy for a "toy"? Yes indeed. But hey, I'm 73. I get to play a little, too!

I think I am Well into using Acrylic Paints on my Projects lately. Was Only a thought to only add A Color with mostly the wood showing. Anyway here is a Couple Wishing Wells. And As Usual.... Pros and Cons Always Great to read.... Danny :+}

Not much of a back story with this one, but this was something I did when I started scrolling - the pattern just made me laugh, so I had to do it.

I'll jump in. This project is a grasshopper pull toy I made several years ago. It was a big hit with the kids that got it. Primarily, it was a bandsaw - drill press project. The wheels cut with a hole saw. The axles, 1/4" dowel stock. The joints for the legs, eyes and ends of the antennas were all from a craft store. The antennas themselves were electrical wire left at the garage when we purchased the house 32 years ago. The concept was from a woodworker on another site. I'm sure there will be some great items from the intarsia, segmentation folks.

I love inlays and do not do very many, as I should so that I could master it. Fun items Dick heppnerguy

I make many boxes, and now mostly make them with box joints. I have made box joints using DIY jigs, purchased jigs, table saw, and router tables. I now use an Incra I-Box jig, my Unisaw, and usually a Freud SBOX8 box joint blade set for 1/4 and 3/8" box joints. For 1/8" box joints I found a Freud ripping blade that has a FTG (Flat Tooth Grind) on the teeth that makes great box joints for tiny boxes. For box joints larger than 3/8" I use my Freud Dial-A-Width DADO blade set. It doesn't make great flat bottomed cuts, but on these larger box joints, it isn't as noticeable in the finished box. The I-Box jig makes it easy to change from one size box joint to another because as you change the width of the cut, it automatically changes the width of the pin to match. The second feature in the I-Box is the sacrificial strip that minimizes chipping of the cut edges. Each time I am about to make a new box joint size, after making all of the adjustments to the saw and the jig, I make a test cut to be certain that everything is right and then I move the sacrificial strip to a fresh position. Then I proceed to make my box joints for as many boxes as needed at that setting. The sacrificial strip is just a piece of 1/4" MDF with 4 screw holes in it, so the original can be copied to make many spares, but Incra sells them in 3 packs for about $10 plus shipping. Since this piece can be moved and used again for each use, and flipped over to use the top edge too, many box joint cutting sessions can be done before this piece needs replacement, but I found it easy to just get a 2' X 4' piece of MDF and make a bunch of these by copying the original in a little over an hour of shop time. I doubt I'll live long enough to use all of them, but it was fun shop time at a cost of about $6 for the MDF. I think I've found the ultimate way of making chip out free box joints with this combination of jig, saw, and blade. I was once told "You can't cut box joints in plywood", but I do it frequently in Baltic Birch plywood and solid wood with no problems. Attached are a few photos of some of the boxes that I've made. Most are just to contain tools and jigs that have many small parts that would be easily lost if not in a specially designed and built box to keep them together. I have more photos, but want to keep this post short. Charley

Dan: What is your display setting set at for your computer - just curious - see my post about changing my setting - thanks

I'm going to add something else that's weird about printing the right size When I was following that video, The only way I could get the correct size after trial and error was to change my Display Setting. Apparently Inkscape was being stretched with the setting I had and not giving me a true measurement went from 1152x864 to 1280x720 (for those who understand this) Make sense??? All I know is that I can print from Inkscape size for size when I set the Zoom at 64% - I don't pretend to understand but I'm happy with the results Fab4

I can certainly see some of mine on there. Unfortunately I did not put up my tree for my exchange ornaments this year, have no idea why, just run out of time I guess. Marg

That's odd. On my computer changing the percentage made no difference in the printed pattern. Hmm. Well, I'm glad it's working for you.

Dan, I played around with the stroke width and for me, the line "thickens" toward the inner part of the circle and doesn't make the outer diameter grow or shrink. But after viewing the Youtube that was posted above by Fab4, I played with that setting also and it seems to make sense. On my monitor if I set the zoom at 97% the circle is right on the money at 4.5" both on screen and printed. So that may be the determining factor. Time will tell.

Thank you, Ray!

Welcome back Matt! I use my iPad for everything too. I do have a laptop, but I haven’t turned it on in at least two years because I hate Windows!

Welcome to the commenting world, Gonzo. I remember when they used to call computers "labor saving devices......." Bruce

Lovely work never tried it.

Yeah still getting orders for Christmas ornaments. This one the customer sent me a clip art image of a BMX bike rider and asked if I could make an ornament. I thought it might be cool to put the image into a bike sprocket shape so this is how that came out. Cut from 1/8 BBply with a #3 Pegas blade. These measure about 3.75 inch diameter.

Been working slowly but steadily on my cutting skills. My new Delta came in and it makes a world of difference in both quality of cuts and quantity when the blades are pinless. Here are a couple new projects that I have been working The first photo show some Tiny cars and small animals. The second has a couple of cars that based on the Aeroflow designs of the 30s and 40's More to come..... and thanks for letting me show off my improving talents (I hope)

Did you check under Document properties to make sure you are printing US letter. If I have it set to A4 when I print it will be just a smaller( about 1/4). Not sure if it is Inscape or my Lexmark printer. Don

Reading this makes me sad knowing that Brad is gone too. Between Brad and Les Grenz (Rockytime) I've lost a couple of great friends. So sad!

Patterns from Sheila Landry, it was nice to be able to cut sitting outside in the sun.

Nice job, and good verse.

Beautiful job!

Full 3/4" thick. I did mine from Walnut and Maple.

Cute, Dick, and well done! For some reason I did not see your post until today! God Bless! Spirithorse

Neat work Dick! Very well done. Next time you are in Aloha--let me know and I will buy you a BEER!

They will love them and laugh. Great work Dick. Marg

The only time I use painter's tape is if I am stack cutting... and even then I usually only tape around the edges to hold the stacked pieces together... I use spray adhesives like 3M 77. I spray the back of the pattern and attach it directly to the wood... To remove after cutting, I wipe Mineral spirits over the pattern and them lift the pattern off. Use some more mineral spirits to wipe off any glue residue.. I scroll Baltic Birch plywood except if I am using solid wood, not plywood.. You cannot get Baltic Birch plywood at most big box stores like Home Depot or Lowes... I get mine at the local Windsor Plywood or an unfinished furniture store amd lots of lumberyards carry it. It is getting hard to find Baltic Birch, you can order it off the interne from places like Ocooch Hardwoods, Cherokee woods and lots of places that carry scroll saw patterns, and supplies..

Finally cut this one. Pattern by @neptun 18 inches tall, 1/2 inch birch plywood.

Must be a Goldwing?

Here are a few I have done lately..the beware of dog and home is where the cat is are my patterns and the other three are Steve Good patterns...all very popular sellers.

Wow John they are beautiful...

Dragons look much better holding crystal balls. Check out Steve Good's site, he has a "Dragon Pendant" pattern that's just AWESOME as-is, or even cooler when enlarged.

Dang, some really neat stuff here. I don't have much in the line of critters. I have made my grandson a couple wood trucks, not critters. I did make him this dragon, he likes dragons. It is called the Time Keeper or something and was suppose to hold a clock, but for some reason I pictured him holding a crystal ball.

These bunnies are Steve Good’s pattern. Made with red oak. My wife found 10 wooden eggs already colored at Goodwill for 50 cents each.

The Yorkie I made for an aunt, for Christmas. She's always got an emotional-support-Yorkie. The Dane, made him for my wife after we lost our first Dane, Rebel, to bloat. Smartest dog I've ever met (including the Husky we fostered....that dog was smart, but had to be part weasel, too, so Rebel the Dane took first place in my heart). Both have an open section on them, but were cut on my first scroll saw, the weekend I picked it up from a yard sale. I hadn't looked up the manual online yet, so wasn't really sure how to change the blades or what size hole to drill. The rusty blade in the saw still worked, though, and didn't break until my next project. The flying unicorns, I'd figured out blades, found a local source of 3" pin-ended blades (Ace Hardware), and figured out which drill bit to use for pilot holes. These still hang on my daughter's wall.

A selection from my toy making days. I used to see yellow, my hair would be yellow, my clothes everything was yellow when I made the ducks. Besides the ull alongs like in the photo I used to make flappers that had a handle that you'd push and their feet, made out of vinyl would flap on the ground. I'd do dozens at a time as I just couldn't keep up with them. From memory they sold for about $20 each. All the googly eyes are recessed and superglued in place