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I decided a day or two ago to try one of the color pictures. So I did this one.. I really enjoyed doing it. Kind of like making a puzzle. Cut everything out, paint the pieces and put it back together. The hardest part was waiting for the paint to dry...It was a lot of fun. Did not take long. Another reason I wanted to do it,, I went to the woodstore the other day, looking for wood to make a step stool... Decided to check out the price of BB. Last sheet of 1/8" cost me $18. Today it is $62! So I am making thing that I can use all the odd size pieces I have.. Any way, my first "scrap build". Lot of fun.

I started my scroll saw work doing intarsia. I enjoyed the idea that I could make anything at all out of wood. That surprised me in itself. After messing with those for about 7 years, I got tired of doing them. I still tackle one now and then but now my past is coming back to me in my Facebook memory, look backs, like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, I posted yesterday here. So this morning I received another one of them from 7 years ago also. This one is one I completely designed and made the pattern myself. It turned out a new doctor was assigned to work in our local hospital and he turned out to be my wife's personal doctor. After talking to him for awhile, I found out he was an Oregon Duck fan so I decided to gift him with a little plaque and this was the results

Here is one I made 7 years ago. I almost forgot all about it. I went to Washington DC with my son and grandson a couple of days after my 75th birthday and my son's 50th birthday. His birthday is the day after mine. This is a JGR pattern and the only one I ever made of it. I gave it to a wonderful person in the little town of Heppner, Oregon, where we lived for 15 years. He was in the Army Intelligence and also the mayor of our town. It humbled him and he thought it would be better seen at City Hall instead of at his house, so he gave it to the city and it was put up in City Hall. Dick heppnerguy

Just completed these two cuts, it’s part of a them which will make more sense when I post the other two which I’ve just started cutting. I believe each cut can hold its own but together they will tell a different story.

Have cut Many Different Patterns for this and This one is Far Better than them All. It is just Cut at this stage and still have the way to cut some more. Question is that I can see Something in the Right Top Area. First thot is a Cross. Any Ideas out there? Thanks ....................Danny :+}

In a post under Q&A, OCtoolguy was asking about use of Thin MDF. In his post he happened to show a pic of a Tissue Box cover he was making that had an image of a Palm Tree on its sides. This reminded me that I needed to make a couple more cube type tissue box covers for my home, and a Palm Tree would be a good image for my Florida home. And, as you are aware in Florida, pollen is prevalent, so allergy siffles and sneezing results in tissue boxes being all over the house. I had previously made a Hummingbird Cube tissue box cover for my lady’s desk and then a Seahorse cover for one of our end tables. I needed another one for my desk and another for the other End Table. Using the same building techniques as previously with mitered joinery, I made these two covers, “Beach w/ Palm Tree” and “Starfish”. The box walls are nominal 1/4” thick made up of Solid Core 5/32” Maple cut panels mounted to 1/8” thick BB ply hand painted backers. My corner joints are much better than my previous builds but not quite as neat as I would like. However, since they are a utilitarian product for my home with a little Art built in, they work well when pulling out a tissue and the joints are only very noticeable in the photos…not so much in the real life sitting on my furniture. Comments and critique always welcome.

Thanks Jim Blume for the pattern

Test-tube rack for holding scroll saw blades. Dragons are on two sides of a dice tower, the dragon-topped box is a tweaked Steve Good box design, used it to hold D&D dice. The two heart-shaped jewelry boxes are also SG designs (added a dragon to one for my daughter, rose went to my wife).

I like nautical patterns and projects, and I have made a lot of it, mostly as a presents. And here is my latest - Galleon Galleon pattern

This Method was taught to me by my Good Candian Friend. Its called A Poor Mans Inlay. Never have seen Crosses with this type of color. Any comments good or not good excepted. Danny :+}

I did the same with odie

Guess I'm the oddball or I mis-read this.. If stack cutting I stack 4-6 pieces of 1/8".. I try to keep my stacks 1/2" thick total but there are times I'll do 5/8" or very rarely 3/4".. When cutting stacks this thick almost always use a #3 Pegas MGT blade.. sometimes a #5.. but the blade size is also determined by which saw I'm going to be using as saw set up is a big player in how aggressive it's going to cut. This is why I don't like offering blade sizes to others.. because no two saws are exactly the same.. on a aggressive cutting saw I might use a less aggressive blade.. on a saw that's not too aggressive I might go to a larger or more aggressive blade.. Also, blade size is going to be dependent on how I make my stack and how the cuts are laid out.. if most my cutting it going to be across the grain or with the grain..

I'd stack cut all I could.. the wheel, the fence and the uprights,, Probable most the pieces of the seats also. This quite an undertaking. Keep us posted.

My son was Old Guard at Arlington Cemetary. Thanks for posting.

They would look great in a beach house. Lovely work. Marg

Those sure are colorful. Nice job.

I’m in agreement with Kirk. I like it as is. However, if you really want to consider adding something, you could print it and cut it out to outer size in paper (meaning just cut out the outline, not the actual full design) and place it on there to see if and what you like. It’s your piece, so do what you feel makes it perfect to you.

Personally? I'd say leave it as-is. The piece speaks for itself, no need for embellishment or cluttering-up. Nicely cut, as well!

I will add some of my useful items just for the heck of it.

Be careful, they are fun to cut!

A lot o f scroll saw projects are decorative. Things like wall hanging and shelf sitters. Let's look at the other side, projects that have a purpose. So, this scroll saw challenge is for functional projects. This could be things like clocks, pencil holders, boxes, key holders, key rings, shelves, candle holders, etc. When you post your project, let us know what you use it for. It'll be fun to see what you come up with.

I bought these plans somewhere around the late 90's. While I was fired up about this project when I got the plans, I was still pretty new to scrolling and when I looked at the plans I decided it was a bit to large for me to do on the Ryobi 16" single speed I had at the time. Plus I didn't want to use plywood (too boring) and my wood knowledge was non existent at the time. Well, now it's 2022, and I'm finally ready to take this on. I won't be using plywood, rather making my own laminate to take advantage of natural wood colors. I have 2 saws that are more than capable of handling this project. A question for anyone who has done this project, is there any reason why the 2 wheels can't be stacked for the cut. I've only look briefly at the plans, but really don't seen any reason why they couldn't be stacked? Chis

Well I put my parts on my saw this morning and decided to try it out. I wanted to try something simple as this was my first time using a scroll saw. Knocked up this pattern in inkspace with a font I liked taped it up and went at it! Next time I'll make the outline in grey and thinner as the blade was hard to see in the black. I mostly kept to the line (but they are only a suggestion right) but the s has a few flatspots on it ( I'm presuming I'm turning without feeding?) Kind of embarrassing after seeing what you guys turn out but realize we all have to start somewhere. Thanks for all the positive input on my posts so far ( I know the new guy can be anoying ) and any constructive criticism is appreciated if it's going to improve my work, it needs it Thanks for looking !

I use 1/2" baltic birch for backers and end up with a lot of scrap. Cut them up in strips and glued them face to face to make usable pieces to make this box. I only do something like this when my planer blades are super dull and I'm ready to change them because all the glue and end grain in the plywood will dull them quick. I used stain to even the wood color out a bit.

I purchased some filigree ornament patterns from Sheila Landry Designs and would like to stack cut them to try and get a better bang for my time. her instructions recommend a #2 blade, but I have to enlarge them slightly and am not sure that a 2 will cut 2 or 3 layers of 1/4” poplar. My go to blade for ornaments last year was a 5, Pegas MG I believe. I really need to keep notes. Those ornaments were all single 1/4” poplar. These are going to be the most detailed projects I’ve ever done. I’d like to hopefully start off without struggling for blade choice. thanks!!

Few things come up for this topic. Covid keys,2 tier trays great sweets tray although most people here use them for decorating for different seasons halloween,Christmases, upside down bird houses lol, flower pot holders, christmas card holder, double sudden pen holder I made for the pea I turn on occasion, and last but sure not less tablet stands in shape of cutting boards.

Yours looks great. Used to love popeye

I like it Paul and great use of scrap. A win win.

I also stack cut 1/4” three high and use Pegas #1 MGT blades. As a test I used #1 MGT on 3/4” Hard Maple. Slow going, but cut without a problem. If interested, click the link below my signature.

had some good feedback at the weekend, once people realised they were'nt laser cut. the lights are led fairy button battery operated on a copper wire fairy lights on amazon and glued into place with a glue gun. the spacing is about 4 mm from back to front with no material in between, however i have got my hands on some perspex i think it is, and will be trying that.

amazing. Very few can make that grade and commitment. Only really special people have the honor of walking this beat. Dick heppnerguy

Well, thanks to all you guys who gave me advice on cutting Corian, I was really struggling till then. The advice to use clear packing tape on the pattern worked the best. I knew about it when cutting wood but never even gave it a thought with Corian. Here is a picture if the cut item, it's just needing a good buff up and polish now. Thanks for the help guys Keith.

I do ornaments on thin stock (1/8"-1/4") all the time. Personally, I would use the Pegas #1 MGT and they will cut three pieces of poplar or most other hardwood like butter.

Amazing work Dick and a wonderful honor. You should be proud. Marg

Perfect. Marg

For what it's worth. I just completed cutting two sets of the dragonfly ornaments; 1/8 inch hardwood, stack of four (total of 1/2"), FD Polar blade 2/0, pilot hole #71 drill bit (.025"). One layer took 40 minutes, 4 took 55 minutes. I've cut sliding dovetails in 1 1/2 purple heart ( lid for a box ) using FD Polar #1 blades ( pilot hole #65, .035" ) . I routinely cut 3/4" poplar with a FD Polar #1 blade to make the name with a rose pieces. The biggest problem I've had is finding a small drill bit with the length needed to go all the way through ( that 1/2" thick for the dragonflies is about the limit for the drill bit ). Your other concern will be for a drill bit that won't deflect when it hits a piece of dense wood ( knot, or pin knot ). My preference there is a cobalt alloy bit, available as a special order from the Home Depot. These bits have the least sideways deflection and you would have to heat them to 1000 degrees to lose the temper. I set my drill press to the highest speed ( 3500 ) when drilling the tiny holes, it helps keep a clean exit hole. Here are some fairly detailed ornaments, stack cut, 3 1/4 inch poplar boards, FD Polar #!, #65 drill bit ( .035" )

That is a beauty Dick. And such an honor to have it hanging in city hall.

Everything I've done lately has been with a site called Cute Cutter. https://cutecutter.com/ It's like you said with what you're using. You can upload a picture, preferably close up and as high def as possible and adjust a few setting it has, called blur, edge contrast, threshold, and remove speckles, but it only gets you to a starting point. Then there is a slide adjuster that lets you transition the image from the original to the pattern where you can see both at the same time and you make adjustments manually with "touchups" I didn't have a teacher, just played around with it for hours and hours with my laptop while sitting with the fam watching TV. Very very often I give up on a picture because it just doesn't work well with this program. I'm sure there is much better software out there and I'd love to buy something, I just haven't really done much looking. This site is free except I make a donation from time to time. You're also limited with fine adjustments with this site and sometimes when I've done all I can do I download it and make adjustments in Paint 3D. I might actually spend 4 or 5 hours on a pattern so it's tedious but I enjoy it as much as cutting sometimes.

Very nice work. I really like your tissue box cover. Can I copy it?

Red Oak planed down to 5/8" thick. Its about 10" x 8".

I use lacquer on everything except puzzles.

Nice looking projects. The usual great job from you. Dick heppnerguy

Forgot Who showed us his Bee's, but from the First Look I knew I just had to spend some time cutting, painting and adding the Fancy Eyes. Like the way these came out and thinking seriously of getting More Patterns of Bee's. Google Image .... Look Out.... Anyway here is a Pic. Danny :+}

This is a double lidded basket made out of 5/16 cherry. Not sure of the details, but I did extend the tenons and used toothpicks as pins to hold it together; the is no glue in the tenons, it all friction fit. A dresser mirror. I added a picture frame to the back of the mirror, either use as a mirror or turn over and use as a picture frame. A small fretwork basket, cherry. I made my first one of these with my old sears hobby saw; 3" pin end blades. Take out the top pin, drill a series of holes to make a slot, feed blade through the slot, use safety pin to replace top pin, cut.

I use this stand for my Kindle tablet every day. Made it last year. Tom

I like functional projects.. I have posted these earlier this year. This first picture shows me using it. Everytime I leave the house I put one of these on.

I don't have a lot of pictures of stuff I've made. I managed to find these of a couple things I made several years ago. Not a lot of scrolling in this piece, just the ornamental symbols on the front and the lid. This is a faith chest. I make these for our church to present to the family when a baby is baptized.

I like items with a purpose and compound cutting, so years ago (actually January 2017), I made a compound cut Air Plant Holder. This is a Sue Mey pattern. The second picture is from the customer that purchased to item. What a fun category.

I think this fits the Theme. Made for my Lady's young Grandson, who loves Dragons, so he can learn to tell time that is not digital and learn a little Chineese at the same time. Edit 9/4/22: Just remembered my Cube style Tissue box covers...very functional projects.

From looking at the grain, I would guess Poplar. KInd of the typical Poplar light and dark areas. Looks like Wichta has finished with some stain. I like them also. He done good!