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I am the new tooth fairy. The teeth are for my dentist. The pattern is a modified Steve Good pattern and the are made from 3/4" pine. The skate border pattern is by Tulsa Scroller and is made from 2.5mm bamboo. I gave this one to a restaurant owner who only does gluten free food, my daughter is a coeliac and can only eat gluten free food. Marg

Jim Blume's Americana 12 pattern cut using 1/4 Oak ply stained with Minwax natural with watercolor on the truck. The backer is 1/4 underlayment simply painted gloss black. The cut piece and backer were sprayed with 5-coats of clear giving a light sanding between coats. The frame is a rough-cut gray wash which is actually picture frame material I've had for some time. I stack cut this using Pegas #2/0 spiral blades. The second piece just needs a couple more coats of clear and I should post a picture of it tomorrow. Thanks, Jim, for the fantastic pattern! It was really a fun piece to cut and I'm looking forward to cutting more in the Americana series... but first I have a few commissions and I plan on tackling the six-team stagecoach. I will add that if anyone hasn't tried to cut a complicated piece such as this, I would highly recommend using this pattern. There were only a couple delicate spots and they were not bad at all.

Here are my first attempts at inlaid patterns on my scroll saw.

Finished the Yoda’s very happy with the results. Made the frames myself The cut was done using #1 & #0 Straight Niqua Blades that’s all we can get in our country.

This is a guestbook for my nieces wedding that she requested me to make for her wedding in August, it will be signed with a sharpie by the guests…it has 4 coats of poly on it….weathered grey stain….30” in diameter. God Bless Smitty

My Wife knows someone that is retired and works at the local Ingles supermarket as a bagger that recently sold his 1969 Camaro Supper Sport. He says he still misses it. I found a pattern on the internet and added some bridges and cleaned it up and started cutting. Definitely have to sequence my cuts because things can get fragile and a little floppy. The cutout of the Camaro and SS text came out in one piece and attached it to a board. We’ll surprise him next week when he's back to work. Go figure, 2 Camaros in the last 2 weeks!

I have a good friend that I met shortly after we moved to Southern Arizona. He has purchased several of my wood projects and he had his 82nd birthday this week. One time while in my shop, he saw a plaque I had made for myself and mentioned how much he liked it. so for his birthday, I made one for him too. He had it hanging on his wall the same day he received it. If you are old enough you may remember these greyhound scenicruisers. Dick heppnerguy

So I finally finished these up last night. The cuttings have been done for a while now but I struggled with frame design / material / backer etc. Everything I tried I just didn't really care for. Last week @Old Joe posted in the "unframed projects" topic in the business section about how he doesn't use frames and showed his method, Thanks Joe for your contribution. I like this way better than being framed, at least for these two projects. I cut these from 5/32" Maple project panels from Home Depot, BTW Thanks @FrankEV for your topics mentioning these panels, I like them much better than the BBply that I normally would use. I bought a pack of these panels some time ago and these two projects are the first time I've tried them. Very stable quality ply without the bland grain of BBply. I think I'll buy some Walnut panels to cut and use a solid maple backer to see how that backwards from my normal looks. Used a Pegas MFG #3 blade to cut these. Cut at 11 x 14" so they could go into a standard sized frame in case I wasn't successful at frame making, LOL. The backer panel is a glue up of 5/8" Walnut lumber, was hoping for 3/4" but by the time I planed glue up down to rid of a blemish in the wood I was left with just shy of 5/8" The finish is semi gloss polyurethane from a spray can, can't remember the brand off hand but it had a good spray pattern but the can tilted much it would suck some air and spit.. so not too happy with how the finish came out.. not horrible but not great either. Probably should have used a satin finish but this is what I had on hand.. These aren't perfect but they are also just going to a friend for free because he loves his tractors and a thank you to him for his serving our country. Almost forgot to mention ( shame on me ), Thank you to @TDpainter for creating these patterns for me. Patterns are in the pattern request section if someone is wanting to give them a try.

Dave, just another method of fixing entry holes and small blemishes is wax sticks. I use them routinely on my jobs and the fix is invisible. You can purchase them individually or in a pack of various colours. I have about 10 and I honestly can not remember the last time I bought any. The soft ones are better as they do not require melting to use. I typically apply them after the 1st coat of finish.

Made this for my grandson for Christmas - it's Queenie, his Bernese Mountain Dog. Also made a couple of Christmas paw prints - one for Queenie and the other for Eddie

When I gave it to the restaurant the owner was not in. Waitresses were really busy. So they were going to give it to owner later. When I go back I will take a picture of it, unless she took it home. For wearable wooden cowboy boots I might need to go visit the old dutch makers and get some new methods. Maybe keep the wood wet so it is flexible.

Being you have a wearable wood cowboy hat I think you need how to make wearable boots to go with it.

Looks great! I wish my first were that good. You should be super proud. I would like to make one suggestion. Work on covering up your entry holes a bit better. There are two different methods I use although there are many. An easy product to use is Timbermate Filler. If I don't have the correct color I use shellac and sawdust. Without me blowing them up they look perfect.

A gift for my mother in law: her yorkshire

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/

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.

They look great Ray.

Awesome job. I really like the middle one!! lol!!

Great idea and lovely cutting

Neat work. Keep um comin' Roly

Great work Kevin glad I could help you with your projects. Thanks for sharing your work with us. Travis.

Very nice Ray, I see you have your blades well organized, RJ

nice job

Super nice job. I love inlays, and the scroll saw makes a difficult process a little less so.

I've got Spurs that jingle jangle jingle, but I can't hear them over the clop of my boots

That looks fabulous. I like that you added a bit of color. Well done. Marg

Wow you did a remarkable job for a first - third try. I am yet to do my first try. Marg

Wow! Great inlay work. I haven't attempted trying inlays yet. Maybe down the road.

Yea.... your done. They look great. What next?

Done! Except for a coat or 2 of Zinnser's shellac.

OH, Those are Awesome!!! I Thank you and Salute you.

Thank you for your service.

I love it. Those are beautifully cut and it warms the heart of this crusty old vet when folks take the time to honor the armed services. Bruce

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.