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Cut this Steve Good pattern ou,t once before and used wood glue which took some time with marking and being careful to not get sloppy with the glue. The kids got me a pin-nailer this past Christmas, so I tried that out and it went a lot faster. Which got me to thinking if anyone else out there used a nail gun for putting together their works?

The following plaques are all 1/8” thk BB Ply cut panels mainly using Pegas #1 MGT R blades and mounted onto 1/2” sanded ply backers and intended to be hung outdoors. These projects were all rather quick cuts. Cut panels and backers are painted with combination of Krylon Spray Can Paints and Artist Acrylics. After assembly, the finished plaques were protected with multiple coats of rattle can spray Clear Gloss Polyurethane. Most of the cutting were positive images that I used the “washer” method to create backers that were slightly larger and perimeter and parallel to the cuttings. The exception was the 'Hello Fall' Image that is a negative resulting in a rectangular panel that I mounted permanently in a 3/4” wide rabbeted pine frame stained Minwax Honey. I could have simply rounded or chamfered the corners and left as a plaque like the others, but I just prefer to hide the exposed edges, of this style plywood/panel plaque, with a frame. The patterns were repurchased in downloadable zipp files that contained various JPG, PDF, SVG along with some other files. They are stencil patterns that I slightly modified to make more scrollable and added the words ’Hello Fall’ or ‘Welcome’ to. I purchased other stencil patterns at the same time, but they are predominantly Halloween images, and I was looking mainly for Fall. The Pumpkin in a Hat Image is for my Grandson for his new home and it will serve for both Fall and Halloween. I’ll hang the Bat on my house for a short time around Halloween. Halloween is very quiet in in our neighborhood with very few “Trick or Treaters”. I don’t really consider these pieces to be in the “ART” category. So, they were not made to be sold. They are all gifts to Myself as well as my Son, Daughter, Grandson and my next door Neighbors. Hung for a few weeks until winter sets in and then put away until next year to be replaced with the Santa portraits I made for both myself and them last year. Hello Fall Sign, Overall 12" x 18" Pumkin Welcome Sign, nom 11" x 17" (I made two stack cutting both cut panels and backers) Happy Fall Y'all Sign, Nom 10" x 10" (Aslo made two by stack cutting...attempt at the black shading was not too great) Pumpkin in Hat Welcome Sign, nom 11" x 12" Halloween Bat Welcome Sign, nom 11" x 17" Boo Pumpkin Welcome Sign, nom 10 "X 16" (pic taken before finish Poly was applied) As usual, comments and critiques are welcome.

I tried to stack cut a portrait of Einstein smoking a pipe, but when I took it apart the one on the bottom was sticking his tongue out at me. Died 67 years ago and still amazing. Actually I cut one for my shop and then my daughter requested the one with his tongue out for her classroom. The patterns aren't mine. Just some images I found on Google that I tweaked a bit to make scrollable.

This has been on my saw for months,, I would cut on it for a few minutes once in a while.. But I actually finished the cut this evening... This is Jim Blume's Kestrel , and I thank you @Jim Blume for the great patten... I love cutting pictures of bird...

I did some more due to the reaction to first one

Hey Charlie those are great...I know you only tweaked a picture but any chance of a copy of both... I love Albert wood love them in my office and workshop... Cheers Merlin...

This makes 4 Johnny portraits on my wall, but the way I see it, a man can never have too much Cash. I cut it in 1/4” red oak with a black stained oak backer. It is about 7 1/2” by 8 1/2” which was a mistake. I like the size of it but the pattern I made would be much better suited for a larger portrait. I had to leave out a lot of detail. Let me know if you’d like a copy of the pattern.

I bought it used on eBay. I had some extra space on a shelf that needed a book.

I have a nail gun I use it mostly with making picture frames... or jigs that I make.. I have not tried it on something as fragile as the bowl you picture.

Thought I would try a bowl with an epoxy stripe. It turned out okay. The Wobble Basket Bowl is a Steve Good pattern.

Here is my current system for drying small to medium parts. The rack folds to a very small footprint, they can be stacked for addition drying space. Once the finish is not tacky I'll set them out where the air flow is better than the shop.

Spent a bit of time in the shop and then moved outside fir the shaping. One bowl will be given to the Knights of Columbus for a prize on their annual golf tournament, the other will be in the inventory

Got them all done. Two coats of shellac for the finish. All have "temporary tattoos" on the back. One has a temp tat on the front and the other two are stickers. The logos were purchased from a local sport shop that is going out of business so they were 75% off! There are more details on the cutting in "Works in Progress"

Segmentation project. Pattern from Wooden Teddy Bear 11x17

I had several ideas for Halloween patterns, and I decided to combine them into set of patterns with one style. Which one do you like more? Halloween patterns

My idea, was looking for solutions and bing! an idea was generated.

They all look very cool. Great work

I used a Chraftsman 23 gauge pin nailer with 1/2" pins with pressure set at 100psi. Assembled the pieces upside down - largest piece on the bottom working up to the smallest (base) piece - nailing from the underside at all the intersecting pieces of wood. No pins protruded out of the other pieces they were nailed to. Just to be sure, I tested it first on a couple 1/4" Baltic Birch scraps. The pins I use are: Metabo - Item # 22999SHPT. 2,000 to the package. Pretty sure I got them thru Amazon.

Happy looking projects Frank. I'm more ready for Fall than I can remember. Been a hot Alabama summer. Nice job. The bat is my favorite.

If is adheasive paper (like a label) soak good with mineral spirits/white spirits and the remaining pattern should come off easily. Clean any residual glue with a mineral spitit dampend rag. Let dry throughly. Only now can you try careful sanding. A thin application of wood filler may be able to save the work, but it will probably need to be painted in order to hide the damaged/filled areas.

I would like to have the pattern too. How do you send it? Thank you.

They are all great and look like they would have been fun to make...

Thanks, but it is not a photo, it is 3D visualisation. As I wrote earlier I left Ukraine and I dont have oppotunity to cut projects. I used to make photos and video to show my customers how finished projects (mostly layered) look like. Unfortunately I cant do it now. But I started learning new for me program - LightWave 3D. Luckly I have experience with programs for 3D modeling and visualisation. So if someone think that it is photo, it is mean I did my job well.

Great idea. I am very interested in this idea as last Christmas I made 50 small bowls like this and needless to say there was some issues in gluing up. What size pins did you use and what kind of pin nailer. The smallest my Ridgid pin nailer goes is 5/8.

Thanks. 1/4" Baltic Birch with a colored wash.

Never used on bowls. I love your selection of wood.

Can't say as I've ever thought of using my pin nailer on those kinds of projects. Certainly is something to keep in mind. Thanks for sharing! Chris

Neat Gnomes Barb. Roly

Lovely work so colourful. Roly

I love them, very nice work

I cheated a little.the colours are printed on photographic paper and sandwiched between front and back

Sorry for the long post. There is a couple of things going on here: Can the pattern designer dictate usage rights? The OP's wished there was some sort of explanation of usage rights. I think that's a reasonable request. I wouldn't expect it to be on an Amazon listing, but it should be in a pattern book for sure. Etsy listings, or direct pattern sales, should have EULA (End User License Agreement) with their patterns. Listing it would be nice, but if it's not there, you should be able to ask and easily get an answer. I was thinking Fox Chapel had a thread on their website about what you can and can't do with their patterns in their books. But can a pattern designer dictate usage rights? Sure they can. If they are the copyright holder, they have the ability to control how they want their work being used. You see this with music every political season. A group uses a piece of music the artist doesn't want to be associated with. They have the right to say no. If a pattern designer says that it's for personal use only, it means you can make it for yourself or as a gift. But not with the intention to sell. Others allow you to sell the finished product (not the pattern itself), but they may limit how many you can do. This is mostly protection in case something becomes a runaway hit, or if something starts becoming manufactured, they have some sort of recourse. I think some of our big pattern designers had this happen to them. If their design hits that cord with the public, they want to benefit too. Why should they only make $10 on a pattern while the manufacturer is making a boatload of money? Look at the man and dog scroll saw pattern. I think I saw that floating around as a hand drawn pattern on some communities a long while back. It became super popular in the scrolling community. It got published in a magazine, and eventually turned into a book deal! That's amazing! Congratulations! They deserve that success. The idea of turning a pattern into a finished product by changing the medium will bypass the copyright is not true. Nor does altering the pattern. This is called derivative work and does not void the original copyright. It has to be a significant change where you cannot confuse the original with the new work. Many years ago, there was a very high profile pattern designer that got into trouble because he used copywritten photos to make his patterns. Fox Chapel I think also got into trouble for publishing them in their magazine. I'm not sure the end result of the lawsuit, I'm sure it was settled. But it was a pretty big deal at the time and shook up the scrolling community. I got an email a few weeks back asking if they can use one of my patterns for commercial use. First we had to find out what they meant by commercial. Is it being manufactured, or are they a crafter? Turns out they were a crafter. I basically said, you can't distribute the pattern, but you can make up to 1000 finished products to sell online, craft shows, etc. Because, honestly, if you're a crafter making over 1000 pieces of any one design, you're a manufacture now and we should come to a different agreement. The Custom Ornament Business Kit I make every year explains what you can and cannot do with the kit. It's intended for crafters. I expect that people want to make money from it. That's good (and honestly encouraged). But I don't want them to sell or give away my ornament business kit (that's how I keep the lights on at SSV)....just the stuff they make with it. Who monitors this and can it be enforced? The fact is, there is a copyright with terms of usage. If you don't own that copyright and go against usage terms, it can be enforced. Most of the time, it's just a cease and desist letter. Will you get caught? Hard to say. If you're online, you're very exposed. If you're at a craft show, depends on the craft show and the crowd it brings (if you have a booth at a Harley event without a license, I can almost guarantee you'll be shut down) Can they go further? Sure, but it's expensive and usually the letter is enough to put an end to it. If you really want to go up against it, you'll probably lose. Who monitors? Sometimes the artist. I've reported several people on ebay that were selling my patterns. I've had times where people scrape SSV and Google Images to bundle and sell our patterns. That's why the Pattern Library is now for members only. Sometimes it's friends of the original pattern designer. SSV had some patterns from a person who we thought was the original designer. A friend of the real designer pointed that out to me, and after some research and investigation, we found out they were stolen and removed them. There are companies that specifically go out to look for certain types of work. They basically work on behalf of companies, looking for infringements. They make their money by getting a percentage of settlements. A friend of mine ran a website where he was filed against several times. (His website was legit, though. It was a forum where people showed off homemade cornhole boards for personal use, often with sports team logos.) Likeness of celebrities can also fall under this. You always hear of a daycare that has Disney murals on the walls and get shut down. Harley people, like Wichman shared, got into trouble for repurposing their products. Puzzle makers who take calendars and turn them into jigsaw puzzles. The list goes on and on. Can they prove it? If you're in a craft show, they can look at your merchandise and tell. As simple photo will take care of that. If it's online, they have your listing and they can subpoena sales records. Even if you only sold through social media, there's records. A few closing thoughts: For patterns found on SSV, you'll have to ask the original pattern designer what you can do with them. Please respect their wishes. SSV doesn't own the copyrights to the patterns posted here. When pattern designer uploads a pattern, the designer is giving permission for SSV to host the pattern for members to use. If you want to make money with the design, you'll have to work that out with the original pattern designer. SSV isn't involved in that negotiation. Each artist has their own definition of what is acceptable for themselves. And that's OK. I've had my patterns stolen in the past and it's super disheartening. As a designer, it really makes you question why you do this and whether or not it's worth it. We've lost many amazing designers over the years because of this. We're all artists and craftspeople. Some of us are designers, some are scrollers, some of do both. Its a symbiotic relationship. We want to watch out for and respect each other. If we didn't have designers, us scrollers won't have anything to cut. Without scrollers, designers won't have anybody to bring their ideas to life. SSV is very conscious about copyrights. Please remember that I'm just a solo guy who runs SSV on the side for the scrolling community. I try hard to make this a friendly place with a ton of great information and resources. But we can't use SSV as a platform to share patterns that don't belong to us. A single letter from a cranky lawyer could potentially shut down the whole website. So I try to be diligent about protecting copyrighted works. SSV is a big place and I can't see it all. If you see something that doesn't belong, please flag it for review (the 3 dots under the upper right corner), and I will take a closer look. Here's a couple of other posts that may be interesting: Check out the copyright section in the Village University: And another post about Copyrights:

For those not familiar with Lord Of The Rings, this is actually a portrait of the same character. Smeagol, on the right, a type of Hobbit, came upon the Ring of Power which he is holding and admiring here. The ring cursed him and over the years he became the creature on the left, Gollum. Measures about 7 1/2" X 12" in 1/2" red oak.

I agree maybe the backside is usable as stated by Dan. Is that Baltic Birch? I also do what Foxfold does. Never had a problem that way... some times the pattern comes off complete and you can put them on you workroom wall. But if you and your wife like it that way,, then that is how you planned it and I say nicely done! I have some that I tell people I planned it that way and so far no one has questioned me on it.

I've been reading this whole thread and came away totally confused. I regard every pattern that I have, whether a free one or a paid-for one" the exact same way. Once I have it, it's mine to use for whatever I want as long as I don't "re-sell" it. I make things from these patterns and if I sell my work and give credit to the pattern maker, I figure I've done my due diligence. If someone wants to sue me, good luck. I have nothing much.

Boy you have a way with words that makes me smile!!! Thank you sir!!!

I quite liked this one I did for a friend. 20220803_222726[1].mp4