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Hey everyone! In this scroll saw project video I make a beautiful Life Story Scene with some powerful imagery! The design is by pattern designer Neptun. Hope you all like the project! Heres the link #ArtisanPirate

From the Daddy Do-List Hi Dad, Is there a chance you could make me any of the animals attached so I have a place for my glasses at night? My Version

H. Botas pattern Coloring done with watercolor crayons, available at Amazon.

This was a gag gift from the guy who just loves chocolate chip cookies. My wife makes the best. Made with Cherry 14 x2 filled on front with Sculpey clay

I found this online. I don’t remember where. Shudderstock maybe. I made the oak frame myself. I liked the way it came out. Comments welcome.

Last Thursday (4/21/22) Bernd (munzieb) posted his very nicely done Tissue box Cover that his wife had asked him to make. I mentioned that I have cardboard cube type tissue boxes all over our house and I would like to make a box cover for them. However, I also mentioned I would have to make them with a Hummingbird design as my Lady loves Hummingbirds. This led to discussion and searches for Tissue Box Covers with Hummingbird designs. Steeve Good, The Wooden Teddy Bear and Sue May all have patterns for Tissue Box Covers with HB designs, but I just was not happy with any of them. Also, I’m not a fan of Steve’s joinery, and Sue Mays pattern is just butt joints, a not so nice look. Then, there is another part of the design for these box covers I’m not fond of… the open fretwork. I don’t really want to see the cardboard tissue box at all. Using ¼” thick material and adding an interior backer starts to make the cover bigger and heavier than needed. Also, making the covers out of solid wood can get very expensive. Soooooo, I thought why not create my own version, in this case, of a Cube Box Cover with a more attractive HB design, AND, why not think about adding color as well. My design uses a double layer of standard 5/32” thick solid core ply to effectively create a five-sided, Cube type Tissue Box Cover with ¼” thick walls. Just like doing my Art panels, each side is comprised of a cut panel and a backer, as is the top. Of course, the top needs to have the tissue access hole in both the cut panel and the backer. Each panel, again like my Art panels, is Hand Painted prior to affixing the cut panel to the backer. Simply using contrasting color panels would also work if painting the backer is not your thing. The typical Maple/Walnut, or Walnut/Maple, combination would look very nice also. Now a little about my actual HB design. I freely admit to having found a nice abstract image on-line that included the HB and Flower. I had to modify the Image considerably to make it scrollable and do a little resizing to make it fit the 5” wide cover side panels, but now it is not just a Tissue Box Cover, but a Piece of Art as well. To make this HB Cube Tissue Box Cover, you will need to think small. The side panels are easily stack cut. A #2/0 MGT R is best suited to cut the HB, and a #2/0 Spiral works best to cut the flowers (I use Pegas blades). I tried a FD #3/0 spiral and even though the smaller size was better, cutting was much too slow in the stack of four panels. Also, it should be noted that, unlike the simple pattern such as Steve uses, this Tissue Box Cover will take a lot more time to cut (as it very delicate), paint, assemble and finish. But, in my opinion, worth the effort. My design uses mitered joints so there are no visible plywood edges unless you look closely at the tissue access hole. Never to be seen while a tissue is popped up during use. However, I do need to talk about my construction execution on this first attempt. Even though the pattern is delicate, it is scrollable. When assembled, the cover does fit the standard cube tissue box nicely. My mitered joints do work and would have looked better if I was a little bit more careful. I used a 45degree chamfering router bit to bevel the edges but my set up was not as accurate as it could have been. As a result, I did not get the real sharp edges that is needed. After the box was glued-up there were slight gaps along each joint. I decided to hide the gaps by rounding over the corners but made the mistake of using my bench belt sander and took too much off exposing the solid core material. I’m happy with the overall look, and my Lady loves how it came out, but the corners could have looked much better. My final finish is multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. Sorry for the long read. For those who might like a challenge, I will post the Pattern in the New Pattern Announcements for your use and enjoyment. And you all know the drill, Comments and critiques are always appreciated.

Okay, I admit it. I am a string saver - or in this case a scrap saver. I have a box full of little scraps of walnut, cherry, curly maple, etc. They are just too nice to toss out and besides I just might need them some day. There. I confessed. I have taken a break from scrolling as I am building a jewelry chest for my granddaughter with plus a month of wintering in Florida. So it has been months since I scrolled and I am out of practice. So I thought about creating a pattern that would work with some of those scraps and resharpen my scrolling skills. Here's the result - cut in, as yet, unfinished cherry. This was before I added the oval seen in the attached pattern and added a bit of safety allowance for the dropouts in the word "Peace". This particular stock was 3.5"x 4.25" was and required me to use a Flying Dutchman Ultra Reverse 2/0 blade. That took some real getting used to. Man, those blades are thin! I will be finishing this in my new "home brew" Danish oil/ then Shellac sealer and finally, lacquer. (By the way this formula for Danish oil dries much faster than Watco. Odor free in a day-and-a- half and safe to finish coat in 3 days.) If you missed my post on that here's the website where I found the formula. https://vanduynwoodwork.com/2018/09/18/danish-oil-finish-top-3-reasons-to-mix-your-own/ MASTER single belzeir dove final.pdf

My wife asked me to make a Charcuterie Tray with those extra pieces of wood I had in my shop! I am still processing the concept of "extra pieces of wood". But she humors me, so I try to humor her. I finished it in time for Easter and you can see it loaded for the Easter family get-together. So, here it is. It is approximately 18" x 24". The sides are 1/2" black walnut. The bottom is all 1/4", several species including bubinga and black walnut (the extra wood I had lying around). We finished it with Boo's Mystery Oil and Boo's Board Cream. We had a great Easter get-together. Hoping you all had a good Easter.

i love it!! could you tell me how you colored it to make it look so realistic

Great job,Chuck. Love they way you color your projects.

Bocz Bearings. They are in Fl but no shipping. Call them and give them the numbers and they will help select the best for your application

Very nice!

For a change I thought I would do a Intarsia pattern and then cut it ....

Just finished this one, I saved all the dropouts and put all of it back together. I'm planning on this being a display at my booth this summer. 1/4 Inch thick material, FD Polar #1 blades, no finish yet. no idea what the wood is.

An Alex Fox Basket C-12 completed yesterday. I used 1/4" solid Hard Maple. Cut on the Pegas scroll saw using Pegas #1R MGT blades. Actually, only one blade. The finish is two coats spray Lacquer Clear Gloss with sanding between coats. Comments welcome.

Here are the two Hourglass's I made. As I noted in the original post, I was considring darking the wood a little with Mahagony stain. And, as you can see in the photo, I did just that. Not sure which one we like the best. My Lady is leaning toward the original lighter one while I kind of like the darker a little better. Staining the wood, did add some time to the build to allow for drying time and it was a PITA to get into all the fretwork because I only had Mahogany in the Gel Stain. If I had the regular type it would have probably been a lot easier to dip the fretwork pieces.

Finished this today, cut from 1/4BB with a 1/8BB backer. I made the frame from poplar and stained it. No more large projects for a while!

I like that a lot! Beautiful! A++++

Pattern from Wooden Teddy Bear 8x11

No plan...just winged it as I went...... it's an Amish horse drawn hay wagon....made from scraps in my shop....1st toy like item I've ever made

No matter how well I cleaned the tips I was always fighting plugged nozzles. Then I read to not use the caps. I’ve not had a clogged tip since. And it does Not harden in the bottle.

Stack cut the white layer, 1/8” Baltic birch. The back layer is 1/2” maple that I glued and planed. After cutting, I gave them to my wife for painting. She is keeping the blue rabbit. The pink rabbit is going to one of our grand nieces. Sue Mey pattern.

Olivia Newton John and John Travolta as Sandy and Danny.

I ran across an Judy Gale Roberts intarsia pattern that I purchased some time ago and never got around to making it so I decided I would give it a try. I decided as I was cutting it, to put it into a frame with a painted backer board.I showed it to my neighbor as i was part way through the project and he suggested that I place a bead into the center of the eye instead of a dowel. I liked that idea and did that. I liked the results of it right away. Also I was wishing I had a Wonder Wheel so I could emphasize the hair in the lions mane. I decided to give my Dremel tool a try and see what I might be able to do it using it. It worked pretty well and I am happy with the results from it too. So overall I like the finished project fairly well. Still struggle with gluing and finishing my intarsia projects but a little happier than I normally am. Dick heppnerguy