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It took all year so far to choose and make a project. Any shape can be a bowl. So I decided to make a boot bowl. More specifically a desert boot bowl. Bowl: Wood is from a free source of discarded wine aged oak slots. I had to glue up 3 slots to make a boot. The cactus is Baltic birch plywood with a really thinned down green acrylic paint. The white oak slots were 0.3 inches thick so I needed a few rings around to make a decent height of a bowl. White oak is a bit different than red oak in ways of grain structure. The glue up of oak slots was bad because not all slats are the same thickness. I don't have a planer so I attempted with palm sander. Lot of work. Hard to get a straight edge without a table saw. Anyway not having a perfectly flat wood to start with causes issues when gluing the rings together. This bowl will NOT hold liquid. I had to use baking soda mixed with saw dust any instant glue to fill in big gaps. The cactus had some really sharp turns. I had to go very slow around the tight turns since I was using stack cut inlay technique the thickness was 0.55 inches. With really tight turns I decided to use Pegas #1 mgt. Some of my learnings from this site was to make super high tension on blades and go slow. General Finishes finish "Armor R Seal" was used. I still have 2 more coats to make it shinier. Bottle stoppers: Niles Bottle stoppers web site has a gallery of customer art work. So I noticed that some of the turned pieces look like bombs and missiles. Of course you get other ideas in the middle of a project. So I came up with a play on words "Lets Get Bombed" and used that idea on 2 bottle stoppers. There was no "bombers" on her gallery. Since these stoppers are used for alcohol consumption. I had to play with words "How can you get bombed without a bomber" ? So I had to make a B2 bottle stopper. Oh your doing shots !!!! Then the A10 is the best. Ok someone else can make the AC130 gunship. Actually this would be a great theme for military bars. B2- wood black walnut. Armor R Seal for final finish. Since this was a quick 1 day project. I only did a silhoette. I needed thickness to mount the bottle stopper. Since you getting higher I wanted to point up. So thickness on bottom does not match the actual thin wind trailing edge. A10- Red Oak shows some good grain that indicates wind around the wings. I should have made dowels for the engines. But this was a quick get it done project. Again thickness of the wood is needed for bottle stopper usage. I don't drink but I can always find someone that likes the stoppers. For once I already know what my next project is. It will take a long while to make. I only have weekends to play. And it will be something I have not done. I know there will be re-starts. My order of wood from "Cherokee woods" gets here tomorrow. I am getting excited. Me. Mark Eason

Been playing around with modifying existing patterns to make them into things that others are not doing.. seems everyone selling the puzzles so I make clocks, LOL Also shrink them down to make ornaments.. Did a larger wall clock design but I broke it trying to cut the hole for the insert, so might try redesigning it from thin stock and adding a backer for strength.

This is a Steve Good pattern. I've seen @smitty0312 work with crackle paint and wanted to give it a try. I'm surprised at how easy it is. It took a few tries to get the crackle like I wanted it but I like the outcome. This is not yet assembled but I wanted to share it because I'm bad at showing my work. This will go in our kitchen.

I frequently peruse clip art on the internet when creating scroll saw patterns. Recently, I was looking for four similar but different Christmas trees to attach to the doors of boxes that I made to hold ceramic trees. (see: Box for Ceramic Christmas Tree - Other Woodworks - Scroll Saw Village) I quickly found just what I was looking for, cut the trees out of 3mm thick Baltic Birch plywood, painted them with acrylic paint, and glued them to the doors. Here is a photo of the four trees:

Just finished cutting this piece. A big shout out to Don for doing this pattern for me so quick. This is for my grandson who's getting married in a few months. It's about 10 inches long and 4 inches wide.

Dan, Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. Got it. First one post repair, second pre repair. Graduated to the 4th grade. Thanks again, Jim

I ran across this line image on-line and just had to convert it to a Scroll saw Pattern. I sized it to fit centered on a 5/32” x 12”x 12” Solid Core Maple Ply panel that I affixed to a Hand Painted ¼” thick BB Ply backer. The Tree of Life pattern needed a bit of work to eliminate a lot of dropouts. Also a lot of bridges added to the font letters. The lettering font of the lyrics to the song “Trees of Green” was very irregular shapes which made cutting with a spiral blade simple. Pegas #2/0 and #0 blades were used to do all the cutting. The Panel is set loose in a 1 3/4” wide Poplar Frame stained with Minwax Dark Walnut Stain and protected with multiple coats of Minwax Clear Gloss Wipe on Poly. Comments and critique welcome.

This was a super fun one to cut. Took me a few sitting at the saw.

Sue Mey pattern Colored with epoxy resin

Thanks Joe...I fit in spaces where topics are focused on complex political issues - like why is a #3 blade more popular than a #5 blade and the #12 blades feel such discrimination.....lots of turmoil in the Scroll saw corner of my shop.....

Well, I think I figured it out. Yes, you can take the pieces from the pentagon and arrange them in the star. One piece from the star will need to be flipped over to finish the octagon. I printed the star and octagon and cut them out. Now I think I will make one. Thanks for all of your thoughts and inputs. And thanks Jim for the pattern. It's pretty cool. I'll post a photo of the paper cutout, but first I'll let you guys try it.

With a very nice gift card from Woodcraft and a nice check, I was able to purchase a Laguna 14/12 band saw. The two deciding factors on this saw is 12” resaw capacity and it runs on standard 110v. I ordered the mobility kit and and a Laguna ResawKing blade. Still waiting on the blade. Looking forward to re-sawing my wood on this!

The one with the Lavender backer is Spray Painted. The other is My attempt at Painting with a lil brush. So what u think? Danny :+}

Kind of depends on the size.. for the most part I drill.. and I typically cut a batch of clocks at a time so I'm not setting up the drill press all the time. I need to get a dedicated drill press for the forestner bit I mostly use since I do so many clocks. IF I'm making the large clocks that take the 3" forestner bit.. then I pretty much just cut that out. I either bought a cheap bit or it's just that slow with the big bit like that I don't know. I will say there is a huge better experience in using a quality bit.. not the cheap sets of bits you get at the box stores.. I've not found a good sharp bit outta those sets yet and trust me, I've tried several different brands.. Pay the big bucks for the single bits is way cheaper in the long run. I had a bit that was getting real dull and needed to send it out for sharpening ( I sharpen once or twice myself but you can easily get it way off wack with them and it only $5 to send it out to be sharpen ) so I bought a set ( my first full set ) and the new one in the set was duller than my old one that needed sharpened, LOL The brands Amana and Freud will be your best friends.. not cheap friends but ones that work hard.. I don't even recommend buying those cheap sets just to use one time, LOL

very nice work

Smart thing Kevin. They all look good. Marg

Wow that is awesome. Marg

Looks good Kev. I love mucking about with patterns etc and using them for what they are not intended

Not sure Santa was that nice, but pretty nice. I mean you coulda gotten a new Jeep Wagoneer or something but besides that I think you need to donate that great new gift to me since my Jet bandsaw is giving me alignment problems...Merry xmas lucky guy!!!

Always a kind of Master Piece there. Love the Words and You put them to Perfection. Love the Song too. Great color and Scrolling. Danny :+}

All, Thanks so much for all the replies. Got it done. Easiest thing was to follow suggestions by kmmcrafts and dgman. I had forgotten the trunion has slots in it. Loosened the bolts aligned it up and blade is very near center. Tighten bolts and all is good. Thanks again to all. Next time a problem arises, I'll pester y'all again. I truly appreciate the comments and help, Regards, Jim

This is segmentation. Painted with my new air brush!

It is 8x10. 1/4 inch Baltic birch. 1 inch thick pine backer Magenta, lime, and golden epoxy colors.....enjoy. Here's how it looked before I added epoxy

Wow is all I can say

Neat cut . Roly

WoW Frank, that is just awesome. I would love to try and cut that but i'm not sure if I do that.

Came out great Kevin.

Sorry about that, forgot the bottom image

Fab4 I just Enjoy All your Posts. Thanks for your kind words. Danny :+}

When I was thinking about my next pattern I noticed that my cat was watching birds outside the window, so my choise of new pattern was easy, here is the result. Making of cat project Cat pattern

You have been super busy getting good with the saw!!!

That's to funny... mystery solved

I know right..

Stunning - love the colouring.

Welcome from Montana, I have the same issue in the winter, do I let the warmth out or keep the fumes? I need to build a box with a fan and small pipe but I will forget as soon as it warms up here

OK, that pic is the cuttings made by frankarona. I believe it his thumb holding the top. He sent me the original pic of the sculptures from which I made the actual patterns.

@rustynail So I just opened up a different pdf. The phone says it was opening with google pdf viewer. Then when I clicked it the ball went away. The big blue logo of the software. Now was that what you saw?

https://www.scrollsawvillage.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=105891&key=97d82c81e5c921bbeecefc039a025741 Frank, Here was the one pic I was talking about, it looks like the top was add from the origenal pattern.

Not sure what pic you are looking at. The PDFs show the cutting patterns.

Thanks Frank, also I was looking at the one picture is that a ball or round object above the couple as well? The picture cuts it off..

Those are nice and also unique looking. Great work guys. I was just wondering how thick of wood these were made from? or is being used ...

Hi Don, it looks like it was FrankEV. Here is the link I found. https://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/44200-two-heads-and-entwined-bodies-pdfs/#comment-476296 Jim