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I cant find any wood slabs in my area that aren't cracked or broken, so I made my own out of 1/2 plywood and a torch. I needed something quick and easy I could sell inexpensively at craft shows. I think they turned out okay. All 4 are Sue Mey patterns

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

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 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

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

This is the second of Americana 12 by Jim Blume. This is pretty much the same as the first cut, Oak ply stained natural, black backer, except the truck was tinted with Minwax Expresso stain rather than watercolor paint. Again, the frame is actual framing material with gray wash and a little natural stain to darken it up just a touch.

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.

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

When the entry holes show up in my inlay, this is what I do: Sand, off the problem on the edge of both the inlay and the background wood, before applying glue and assembling. After gluing in place, I then fill in that area and all that appears is a slightly wider gap at the edge of the inlay. I fill this slight gap with a mixture of white glue and sanding dust. (Any saw dust is way to coarse) I apply the mixture of glue and sanding dust by using a plastic credit card as a squeegee, let dry just ten minutes, and sand flush. I make the glue sanding dust mixture about the consistency of Mayonnaise. This process may be required more than once because the glue sometimes shrinks a bit. If yellow glue is used the filler becomes too dark in color. White glue, like the kids use in school, works best.

Excellent, Marg! Those teeth look really clean... (I mean the cutting on the teeth.)

I love that you covered so many branches of service. I also will look up the pattern. I have a couple of Navy people in the family as well as a carrier Navy friend. Thanks for the inspiration. Dick heppnerguy

Thank you to you and all of our vets for your service and thanks to all the families for their support and service as well allowing you all to do your work. These look great Nickel.

Hi I am Andy from Suffolk in the Uk been scrolling for about a year now,loving it and use it to relax,mostly Baltic Birch ply with a little bit of hardwood when it comes to hand

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/

You are one creative person. I can not imagine an idea like this would ever pop into my mind. They fooled me until I read your post and took another look. Quite interesting Dick heppnerguy

You hit upon an Awesome thing. They look Super Fantastic!!!. I never would have thought of that.

I predict they will be a FLAMING success

Now, that's a handy little trick!!! Nicely cut, too!

Excellent work!

Great job, I really like that idea.

Perfect cutting! Thanks for sharing.

They look great, good thinking.

Great idea and it looks like the real thing! Good subjects also to add to the slabs! Well done! Erv

excellent job, I sure remember riding on them.

nice idea

Fine work! I love this pattern!

Nicely done, Dick!

Totally awesome! I do remember them. I'm sure he loves it.

Ok, most everybody has seen the votive candle holders that I've made in the past but for those who might not have, I'm including a picture of a finished one. I'm also posting pics of all the parts for the 4 that I'm currently making for my wife to give away. She likes this particular thing more than any of the other stuff I've made for her and so it has become her "go-to" gift. The original pattern called for a glass of some sort with a votive candle in it but my wife went to Hobby Lobby and found the flameless candles that just fit so she includes one of them along with the holder. The pics show all the parts both cut and still to be cut. The 8 side panels for each one take about an hour each to cut out. They are compound cuts and just take a long time to do. I've tried every way I can think of to speed up the process but it just can't be done any faster. Lots of taping and re-taping to hold everthing together while cutting. Time consuming to say the least. The other pieces are 4 tops, 4 bases and 8 supports. 4 of the supports are recessed into the tops and can't be seen but the other 4 go at the bottom and are attached to the base unit. The bases still need to have the outer edge routed. I should have done that when I routed the underside of the 4 tops but forgot. I hate routing anything because of the noise and the mess but it's a necessity sometimes. Anyway, I hope you understand what all this is about. Please don't pay any attention to the 4 base unit patterns. When I scanned them in, there was a shadow on the pattern and I could not get rid of it so it just came out this way.

I tried mixing sawdust from under the scroll saw with wood glue, but did not come out that good. I may try the box of crayons.

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Great work.

Great work, Dick.

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.

nice tractor plaques. The old gasoline tractors really do not go back that far. Me wife's great grandfather was the first person to manufacture a gasoline tractor. It was called 'The Little Bull'. When he started the manufacturing he hired a company to make them but soon they could not keep up with the agreed production rate because the motors took them too long to make and slowed them down. So my wife's GGrandfather started a company just to make the motors. That company is still in business today and you may very well have some of their products. He started TORO. Dick heppnerguy

I love your work and your kind generosity. Thanks for the inspiration you give to so many here in the Village. Dick heppnerguy

Nice work. I’m with Marge, still need to try my first one. It’s on the list. still trying to work up my courage to give it a try. Thanks to those who give tips on fixing the entry holes, figure that will be important for me for sure.

Very nice , excellent cutting, what are those boxes in the back ground, how about showing them, RJ

Great job Marg. Roly

Cool work Marg!

very nice job

terrific job, love the framing also

Great pattern and cutting. Love your framing.

Nice job! I really love the bamboo. Is it ply or solid?

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

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

I remember reading about folks using sanding mops for this also. I know if I am working on a very delicate piece I put the piece back in and tape them for support.

Welcome Tom from another retired newbie as well as another Michigander (A2). This is a great place with a lot of knowledgeable and friendly people. Nice work!