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My daughter is in a wedding next month, a girl she grew up with is getting married. My wife asked me to make one of these for her (him). I have made 7 or 8 of these in the last few years but I'm really digging the live edge's on this one. All of the others that I have made were clean cuts with no live edge. I just couldn't let myself cut this natural edge off. The bottom is Walnut and the top piece is made from Cherry. My wife cut the name's and design out on her Cricut. A couple coats of General's Arm-r-seal.

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.

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:

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

Sue Mey pattern Colored with epoxy resin

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 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.

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 :+}

Way past my skill level !! I'll just use the shadow effect text, for someone as hamfisted as me it's an easier alternative.

You won't recognize this unless you're a pretty big Lord Of The Rings fan. It was an Inn/Tavern in the first movie. I cut it from an image I found on Google. *Decided to add a little brass and hang it on our barn quilt.

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.

I have relief carved patterns that size, but never cut them on my scroll saw. I don't care for cutting with spiral blades, except when clearing out areas difficult to cut with a blade. I have made a few things where I combined both carving and scroll sawing, but these were small and less than 50 hours to complete. The cross below was cut from one piece of mahogany using my scroll saw and then the face of the leaves and vines carved and shaped with an air powered carver/repurposed dentist drill and 1/6" diameter bits. The finish is poly and Rub-N-Buff antique gold on the leaves. About 12 hours total to make. Family demand has required the building of many copies of this. Sixteen have been made since this first one. Charley

I think this might be what you are talking about.

I was thinking of using the technique on ornaments. This technique, at present, cannot be done with a laser, so, no competition for this style.

Getting the "gearbox" out looked impossible from the exploded view in the manual. I kept looking for a way to take the side frame off - nope, not going to happen. The original owner was a middle-school where the kids just made curved pieces for the other projects. Always with a 7 or 9 blade and never releasing the tension lever except to change a broken blade. I thought it would be OK, but started hearing more noise and then I noticed a lot of metal dust back by the gearbox. All should be good now. Between what I paid for the saw, adding Pegas blade chucks, and now this, I think the saw will out last me (I will turn 75 this spring).

Kev, You are 100% correct, the instructions are crap. I just finished the rebuild of my old EX-16. I ordered the whole assembly from Seyco. I did a lot of hear scratching at some parts of the process - like what are they talking about?? LOL But it was still easier than the rebuild of my Dewalt.

Here is what I have done so far this year. The two bears are for the grand-kids for Valentines day. Steve Good pattern cut from Sapelle, Maple & Aspen. The Gnomes are from Gayle at Scrollers Cafe. Cut from an old MDF baseboard, and sapelle for the heart. The segmented rose is from Steve Good as well. Cut from pine. Tried a couple of different techniques. Overall, please with the results except the backing. That was a big fail, but shushhh, no one needs to know!!!

The gnomes and the bears are adorable. I love the rose. Fabulous work on all. Marg

1951 Bullet Nose Studebaker Champion I keep getting drawn back to the Studebaker car series. I have done a 57 Hawk and a 54 Champion (thanks to Charles Dearing design) The ’51 Champion and Commander models were one of the more innovative post WWII designs coming out of Studebaker. Raymond Lowey offered some interesting design elements to make it stand out from the Ford and Chevy models of the same year. The wrap around rear window and the “bullet nose” on the front grill gave the appearance of a recip. engine reminiscent of WWII fighter aircraft and added to the design. The Champion coupe model had a straight V-6 85 HP engine and the 4 door Commander had a V-8 120 HP engine. 1951 was one of Studebakers better selling year but their focus was changed with the Korean war that redirected production from commercial vehicles to military trucks and equipment. The Commander, with its larger 232 cu. Inch engine was later modified to become one of the earlier “Hot Rods”. The design is on the SSV library but I decided to do my own. I did my “paint in” technique on the tires and certain bridges. The grill was a challenge, more so because the size of the pixels didn’t allow for even holes and I had to draw them in and to nibble them in to even them up. Pattern is 1/8” BBPW on ¼” PW backer with shellac and Gloss Lacquer finish.

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

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.

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!

It's an image I believe I found on Pinterest. I'll look for it. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/760193612081212308/

I had to look that term up. Yes it is. Sorry.........I didn't understand the original post.

I too made "The Keeper of Time" some 25 years and three saws ago. His pattern was in "Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts" back about then. He kept me busy for quite a while. Mine is made from two pieces of red oak slats of a pallet, joined side by side. I matched the grain as best as I could, and now can't tell you where the seam is, but it's horizontal and about in the middle. The base is mahogany. Since then, my wife has forbid me from making things that require intricate dusting. With him, I just take him out to the shop and blow him off with compressed air about once a year. I wanted to make a grandfather clock, but since I wouldn't be able to do the same with one of them, I never cut one out. For about the past 20 years or so, I make smaller things, and give them away, so she doesn't have to dust them, and I don't either. Charley

Dave Monk is that a relief technique? That looks great.

All of my bits but one are Freud Precision Shear bits. The one is Steelex D1019 2-3/8" I purchased for the clock. I could not find a 2-3/8" Freud bit. I don't think they make one that size. The largest Freud I could find was 2-1/8. The Steelex worked, but I was not happy with the hole it cut. Next time I will buy clock movements to fit the bit I have or can get. I had a set of the cheap Forstner bits for years and barely used them until I started making toys. I soon discovered that they drilled ragged holes. I did a test where I purchased one of each brand I could find and bored holes in the worst piece of softwood I could find a "whitewood" 2x4 from home depot. It was not a contest. None of the tested bits came close to the Freud Precision bits. I did not test Fisch forstner bits because, at the time, I could not buy them in the US. I suspect the Fisch bits would work very well.

Yes the 25 deg gives it a better emphasis of 3d. You can use it on letters on plaques. Left side of plaque with right tilt, and on the right side of plaque left tilt. So when viewing the plaque the viewer see emphasized perpective. How are you going to use this technique? Me. Mark Eason

I finally got a chance to work on this. The angles do not show up well in the photos, but here it is. 25*angle, 3/4 maple, 2/0 FD new spiral blades:

Great project! The epoxy really did make a lot of difference. God Bless! Spirithorse

Buying the whole assembly makes it much quicker since you don't have to fool with pressing bearings etc.. I kind of think the instructions were the hardest part of the job and probably would have been easier to just wing it without them, LOL They make it more confusing that good, Glad to hear you got through it alright, and should be good to go for several years now..

Thank Joe. This village has taught me well. I am getting more comfortable doing bowls now. Also you guys taught me inlay techniques. Pretty good tips got me this far in 1 year.

Looks great! I am going to have to try epoxy sometime. Thanks for showing it!

Yes it is a Steve Good pattern

That Rose would take me all year. Great job. Pink rose is my wifes favorite. Intarsia just takes a lot of time. Me. Mark Eason

Methinks someone is prepping for Valentines Day! Nicely Done All (and I really like the flower).

enjoy

I know its been a long time since I posted any of the things that I have made so I will rectify that now. They are all Christmas gifts or ornaments. The 2021 ornaments the pattern is by Scrolleriffic. They have each families motto for the year written around the outside. Mum pattern is a Sue Mey and made from 1 inch pine. Animal print ornaments are by Roly. Sweet Cheese is by Roly. Marg

It's been quiet around the house and got some time to finish a few more projects. A couple of "Magic Dinosaur Buddies", a mother and baby frog puzzle, a T-Rex puzzle, and a couple of compound cut band saw reindeer. The reindeer were both done with 2x4s - amazing woodgrain in both!

That one would be very easy to photograph and trace over. Nothing but straight lines.

A few months ago, my grandson asked questions about the 30x173mm round from a GAU-8 I have sitting on my desk. We watched several videos of the A-10 firing at ground targets. Since then, he asked every time he was here: When will you make one for me? So I did. Burrrrt! My 30x173mm practice round. Disarmed of course.

The concept was pretty cool.....but they turned out butt ugly, in my opinion.....lol

Hi Bob, looks good! I like the way you used different types of wood and shaping, Thanks for showing, Bob

Super nice toy Bob. So great to hear of a nipper actually wanting something to play and use their imagination with that's not digital. that's one that will be passed along.

Grandchildren always get what they want... Good one. Marg

Heirloom piece for certain. Well done.

Very very nice. The alternating slats give it a farm feel. Then the trees just add to it perfectly. Two thumbs up.

It's hard to tell from the picture, but, how well did the slant show up? Does it need to be more slanted? What size spiral blade did you use? Thanks in advance.

Could be you are pushing too hard, trying to cut too fast. Try slowing down a little and see if that helps. I stack cut three of these. They are 1/4” plywood and I can cut it out with only two tiny 3/0 spiral blades.