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Hi all, I saw a technique I wanted to try. So I made a cowboy boot. Can any shape be a vase? But first, I resisted the idea of having the title being.. "She got the boot". Ok so this is a cowboy boot DRY vase. Like for utensiles. The local restauraunt is called Country Rose. Her menus have cowboy hats and boots. She has lot of cowboy stuff on walls. So I gave the owner, Sharon, the cowboy boot vase. I put roses on each side of the boot. I decided not to have the roses the same color. Not a great painting job. I probably had too much coffee.

Pattern available at scrolleronline.com

These are for lasers but many will work as scroll saw patterns too... Run across this page when they offered free giraffe cell phone stand on a laser group on FB that I'm on. Thought some of these would work as scrolling patterns too. https://k40lasercutter.com/product-category/free-laser-cut-files/

I recently received an order to do a Thank You gift for a graduation speaker. So I did another Montana barnwood wallhanging, with the county highlighted. One logo the speaker's alma mater Bluejay (that school is no longer in existence), and the other is Graduating class's Wildcat, which is where the speaker had his first job before moving on to becoming an amazingly successful collegiate basketball coach.

A gift for my mother in law: her yorkshire

I know most of you already do something similar or know this, but for those that don't, just thought I'd mention it. I always sand both sides of my wood pieces - puzzles, hangers, portraits etc. When I cut out some puzzles however, the pieces can be quite delicate, small and easily broken if I'm not careful (see a few of my past posts LOL). What I do to avoid that now is, I cut out the profile of the puzzle and retain the outer cut. I try to keep it as a single piece, but if not I will glue it back together - I call this profiling. Once I have all the puzzle pieces cut out, I place them back into the outer cut (the profile) and sand the whole thing as if it were a single slab just as it was before I cut it out. The pieces stay together very nicely, there is very little if any breakage ever and I can get the fuzzies out of the back very easily. Just thought I'd share that

I am but don't tell anyone.......................... Lol

@john nelsonThanks John. I agree with you about Dianna Thompson and her skill with creating compound cut patterns. I am very familiar with her from the older magazines where she regularly had articles as well as own several of her books. Unfortunately, it seems she retired from creating patterns a few years back and no longer has her website. What I saw, it seems she got a bit burnt out with it all. A loss for all of us, but definitely can understand for her. what I have been wondering about, and believe to be correct, if you were the John A. Nelson who also has been published and printed in magazines and your own books (at least 10 I think I saw) with Fox Chapel. i have read many of your articles and some books as well if you are the same John Nelson (and I believe that you are one and the same.) it is great to have you here and sharing your knowledge (whether it is the same John Nelson or not. ) Thank you for all you have done for the scrolling community as well. When I got interested in scrolling about 6 years ago, I purchased the Scroll Saw Workbook to help get me started.

Hey everyone! In this scroll saw project video I make a beautiful Train Themed Desk Clock for my Train Room out of a beautiful piece of oak wood. The pattern is available on Scroll Saw Village, hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

Hello everyone, I redid wolf for the second time, but it's the last time. Frame or no frame? That is the question! Eric

I posted this on the FB Scroll saw woodworking group. If you want a quick project that will amuse most that see it. this a quick one to make. Balancing Skateboard.mp4

Done with the technique shown by @john nelson. Saved me so much work and the girls are happy with it. 8"x5" I'm doing 10 of them, one for each table.

My big three other than baltic birch are Cherry, Walnut and Maple.

Typically with long boards, you want to lift up the trailing end of the board as the leading end enters the planer and then lift up the leading end, as the trailing end is passing through. This helps prevent the ends from lifting up while in between the rollers, causing snipe. This is a little harder to do with short boards, which may be why Ray's observation differs from yours. With properly set up infeed and outfeed extensions, you can accomplish the same thing. The ends of the extensions should be slightly higher than the bed of the planer.

Hmm, didn't know that. Has not been my experience with my old planer and that was why I went with a little extra cash for the extended infeed / outfeed tables so it'd help support the lumber better.. I'm more of a scroll sawer than a person that works with larger projects/tools like the table saws and planers etc.. so my experience with the larger tools is limited. So far I love my new table saw.. even though I have not went through the tuning process yet.. it's much better and powerful than the old one.. I know everyone likes the DeWalt planers so I'm sure I just need to dial it in and I need to take the time to tune both the planer and table saw.. I did adjust those extended tables on the planer and it's much less snipe.. but it's still more than that of my old planer.

Curly maple, curly cherry, gummie cherry and poplar for puzzles.

They are probably trying to get away from all the Californians, Oregonians, and Washingtonians moving in here!

Joe and @BrianAthe old man in the rocking chair one was just posted earlier this week by Steve. This one of the skateboarder was one Steve put out a couple months ago now (March 2022). It can be found on his blog here: https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2022/03/balancing-skateboard-guy-scroll-saw.html

Thanks Ray, I think it's more of an adjustment as I'm only running 4ft boards through it and I have the extended infeed and outfeed tables on the planer, My old Ryobi had no tables whatsoever and if it did snipe it wasn't bad and it usually only did it on 6ft + boards.. I normally cut down my longer boards because it's easier to do that than move my big heavy bandsaw that's in the way of the outfeed end for long boards. One of those temporary shop layouts that I did 10 years ago and still haven't rearranged things so they all can work well together and for me .

Make a planer bed our of melamine. There are videos on how to make one. You need more support than what the planers give you.

Thanks Kevin...Not long got a laser Sulpfun S9 and just last night ordered a Rotary Roller for it...

Thanks for posting this, I haven't watched it yet but I finally just yesterday run the first board through my new DeWalt planer and it snipes worst than the old cheapy one I had. Makes nice clean job other than the ends.. I knew there was ways to adjust but haven't got into researching yet..

I realize this is an old post, but I have been researching woodworking equipment lately, in anticipation of relocating most of the stuff in our garage to a new shed we are getting. Anyway, I came across this video and thought I'd share it for others who may be interested.

I spray them seperatly , it took a little longer, but they didn't stick together.

The inlays on the frame and the blue embellishment really dress up the wood-cut portrait. Well done! Bruce

That makes sense. I have cut both quarter sawn and flat sawn cherry. I have not had any problems nor noted any real differences in preventing dropouts nor grain following. I have encountered problems with quarter sawn walnut. I wonder it the open grain of oak and walnut has something to do with it.

One of the problems with using a wax or oil finish on toys, puzzles for kids etc is that they do very little in way of protecting the wood. They can actually make dirt stick to the object.

It is VERY difficult to create a compound cut project .......I have tried many times and ended up with animals with two heads and 6 legs........Lol. Dianna Thompson is a genius at this. Check out her name on the web to find her work and books with Fox.

Next week my great grandson will be celebrating his 2nd birthday and he is so excited about dinosaurs. So I talked with his mom and ask her if she thought he would like a room plaque with his name and a dinosaur on it. She told me he would be so excited to have one. I saw a post of someone's dino plaque and liked the way he designed it so I sort of took off on his fun idea and made this one. I used a different dinosaur so that it would not be an exact copy of his and I painted it to stand out a little more. I am pleased with this one and it only took about 15 minutes to cut it out. so, easy it was and hopefully it will bring a smile or two to his face. Dick heppnerguy

He is such a fun little guy. I love it when I am around him because he is such a smart and funny little one. I hope for a big smile and a little hug from him. Dick heppnerguy

One of my neighbors has a '67 Camaro that is in beautiful condition but is considering selling it. Found a pattern in the pattern library and started cutting. I'll give it to him next week.

Wow! That is beautiful work! The only advice I could possibly give is, I have heard people mention that they had problems using purple heart with poplar because sometimes any sanding or any liquid from glue or anything will make the purple heart bleed into the poplar. Be extra careful! You certainly don't want to ruin a great project like this in the final stages! God Bless! Spirithorse

I decided to try bevel cutting the "fossil" pattern by Steve Good. Then I decided to take it up a notch. Instead of clear coating or staining I sprayed it with "stone" paint to give it more of a look of being excavated from rock.

Sheila Landry pattern, cut in 5/8" Red Oak.

Farm - my new project and pattern. Making this pattern took more time than usual - I wanted to make view of classic farm scene. I have never been at such place, but I looked through many photos in the Internet and came to this conclusion: it should contains barn, tractor, windmill and granary. I didnt added animals, because pattern consists of many small details, maybe later I will make one more similar pattern (barn with animals). Aslo I made 2 variant of size: 10,5 х 5 inches and enlarged 15,5 х 7,5 inches (pattern includes both sizes). I hope it looks natural, what do you think? Video of making Farm Farm pattern

Great Idea. There seems to be quite a few newer people from Montana here or I just may have just gotten more attuned to Montana because my granddaughter just moved there. Nice project to receive from you. Dick heppnerguy