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Made of Birds Eye Maple and Peruvian Walnut. Bottom is removeable so ashes can be put in. Robert was a B-52 mechanic in Viet Nam.

We have a craft day in our community (185 household all retired) so I have to get some stuff to sell to replenish my supply of wood. Made some stuff from Alex Fox, Steve Good, Sue Mey and maybe somebody else.

So here is the last cut in the theme that I have done, to me it sums it up beautifully. The pattern is from Botas Helder and for the theme I have renamed it “ Give Praise to the Risen Christ”. I chose to stain the outside of the cut to draw attention to the hands, because I feel it sums it up beautifully.

A project cut some time ago but finished this weekend. The pattern is found on Scroller Online with no designer mentioned. the wood is 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood 4" x 16" and backed with 3/8" Baltic Birch plywood stained black with Saman stain. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1R MGT blades. The finish is spray Minwax Lacquer Clear Satin. Comments welcome.

A project cut last week and finished over the weekend. The pattern is by Steve Good. I used 1/4" solid Red Oak. It stands 8 3/4" and 3 1/4" at the base. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1R MGT blades. The finish is Minwax Lacquer Clear Gloss. Comments welcome.

It has been quite a while since I got to do any kind of woodworking. The last thing that I can recall doing was a cradle for my Sons first born. He will be seven in December. After Dad passed and I moved Mom up next to us all that I have had time for was construction type work. Wife took of to see her friend in Florida last week and I stayed home to take care of the Dogs. Being that I am now semi retired I decided to take some time and uncover my Scroll Saw and move enough around in the garage that I would not kill myself while trying to move around. Not actually bragging (we should have a forum entitled stuff that I not ashamed of). I started out with some simple ornaments in Poplar wood ( I think all those patterns were from the Village Charity Book) to see if: 1 The saw still worked. 2 I could still follow a line. After that I decided to try my hand at compound cutting. Always wanted to but had never had the time. Those are made from Eastern Cedar. Steve Goods patterns. Below are the results. All are straight off the saw and blown off with the air hose, no sanding or finish hopefully that will come later and not be another 7 years. Thoughts good or bad welcome.

This one is a full 8 inches high and 14 inches wide. 3/4 Red Oak planed down to about 5/8" thick. Cut with #3 and #5 Pegas MGT bladed.

Hello Everybody, In long time ago I bought a bottle opener and I made it with a piece of pine for fun.

I started on a pretty detailed H.Botas pattern (eagle fighting a rattlesnake), and got about an hour into the cut when the plywood started delaminating. Badly. Thankfully I wasn't too far in or I would've had to start cursing in a language other than English, having exhausted all of my normal, everyday foul language. So I did the adult thing: chunked the bad section (whilst muttering under my breath...), reprinted the pattern (a little bit larger this time....this thing is INTRICATE), and fired up a couple of quick-n-easy patterns to get some finishes under my belt and reset my braincell. H.Botas rock-n-roll G-nome, and an arrowhead pattern by Sue Walker that I've had for a while, found it in the pattern library. Gnome is backed by a tie-dye printout on regular printer paper, found it on Google Images. Arrowhead is a piece of cedar fencing, stained Minwax "Honey".

Howdy folks, I haven't been on here much for a couple of years. I suffered through a long term of depression, and I lost interest in everything. Scrolling was my release, I could go to my saw and forget about my aches and pains, of which I have far to many. I had lost my place for using my saw and lathe, and I had nothing to do. It's starting to look like, I will be getting back into scrolling soon. It won't be a perfect set-up, but, I think that I can make it work. I am going to give it a good try, and if things don't work-out for me. I've decided that it will be time to sell everything, that I own related to woodworking. And that's a lot of items, darn near enough to set up a whole workshop. The only item missing to complete the shop, is a jointer. I had one, but, I gave it away because I never used it. It was an old 4" Rockwell Beaver, that had been passed down through three generations. I was the last one to own it, it wasn't real accurate. It had been dropped and broken years ago, and the repair job wasn't top notch work. It had been welded back together, but, not so that you could use the fence. It wasn't welded square to the bed, which made getting a 90* edge impossible. Well not impossible, but it did require a lot of friggin around to get one. I had two workshops fully decked out, I sold almost everything out of one of them. I had to, there was just far too much to put into storage. Len

Welcome back! Just hang around The Village and read when not scrolling. There are a lot of good and informative articles that will keep your mind entertained and away from thoughts of depression.

Beautiful work, Dave.

Definitely the painted. Please share your painting technique and I will share mine I make a lot of turned ornaments. and others cut out with a scroll saw and then hand carved and painted. I found that most paints cake up on plain wood. Besides that, water based paints can raise the grain and make the project look worse. So I take all my finished sanded pieces and coat them with wipe on polyurethane. It dries rather quickly. Then I use liquid water based acrylic paint. I thin a small amount of paint about 2 parts paint to one part water and paint that over the dried Wipe on Poly. It goes on very smooth and dries slightly translucent. I have also used water based latex paint with results that were good over the wipe on poly. I am lousy at mixing colors and so I prefer the acrylic because it comes in 100's of colors already. For my 3D round ornaments, I chuck them in a variable speed drill and spin them slowly while painting. It is much easier to paint stripes using the drill. going about 30 RPMs some of my painted old fashioned fishing gear ornaments:

Fantastic job, it's a shame he won't be able to see it.

A lovely resting place.

Beautiful work Dave.

Awesome work Dave. The gentleman will be very happy to rest there. Marg

Did someone say Pete has been busy? Very nice projects! I've also been trying to increase my inventory with some smaller projects like ornaments and such using up some of my scrap wood. I've got three events in October that people want me to set up a booth. Good luck with yours. I hope you have just what your community wants and you sell out fast.

That is a beautiful urn. Very fitting and may he rest in peace.

That is very nice!

I saw someone post this H Botas peice a while ago and I thought it was fun. I got the pattern and cut it out of scrap (you can see the repair buy his feet) today just for fun. I had fun trying to cut it, which makes a change as I'm usually cussing at my beginner skills. I will be revisiting this at a later date. I think I may be ready to waste some good wood, the weather's getting colder so a outside bonfire needs some fuel

Beautiful projects with a powerful message. Great job, Don!

Dave, beautiful work as always, the family will be pleased, RJ

Glad to have you back.. I have dealt with depression and it can be devastating. Keeping busy can help a lot. Especially when doing something you love.

They all look great.

I am with the majority - painted.

good luck with getting started again.

I also like the painted one

All those look great. I got heavy into the layered stuff the past couple years myself. Who are the sled patterns by? I like the look of those (but worry if I could find enough walnut for the bottom layer).

good stuff. I also like the let it snow. pretty red and white. An idea for the last piece is to change the words... Let it pour.

Lovely work. Really cool gnome. Marg

Mike Moorlach, was the owner of Flying Dutchman Blades, he was one of the best resources that there ever was, when it came to scroll saws and their blades. I did a lot of dealings with Mike, he allowed me to sell Flying Dutchman Blades here in Canada. Mike was a wonderful person, he had time for anyone even if it wasn't about saw blades. He was an open book, plus he was very interesting to talk to. He would freely talk about WWll, some of the horror stories he had were so sad. And nearly unbelievable, every so often he would have to stop talking about it, it was quite upsetting for him at times. But then, on other occasions he would go on forever, without being asked. It was a very sad day for me when Mike passed away, he was a great friend and person I am pleased to have known him. Wooden Teddy Bear bought him out, and they still sell Flying Dutchman Blades through what was Mike's site. Len

Both look wonderful. I like painted best.

Yeah, painting the camper isn't going to happen.. at least not by me, LOL.. I see no practical way to paint the camper and still have the windows / door engraved... That said I do somewhat agree with your point of view on it.. Just that I'm not that person that's going to detail paint a 1.5" long camper and still have the windows engraved etc.. I'm sure it'd look nice if a artist did it.. I'm not that artist though... it'd look like a child's first coloring page, LOL The painting I did is just paint pens / markers from Hobby Lobby.. Yes, I cut these and engraved using the C02 laser.. I have designs for a tent and a tent camper / pop-up. as well.. this one is the "test" one for paint or not.. I kind of like both and torn on if I like the painted or not. So far here and on FB everyone is saying painted, LOL

Both look good but I vote for painted.

To me, that's what scroll sawing is all about... Fun! There are very few bottling companies that cap their bottles any more that are not twist-off but regardless, the nostalgia of a bottle opener is always nice. Great job, Eric.

I like color and use it a lot in my work, as iI'm sure you are well aware. However, I don't really know if it works well in layered pieces, unless you paint everything. In your piece (n the second pic.) the trees and sky look nice but the camper, in my opinion, looks unfinished. BTW, laser cut...yes?

I finally finished this. I found it in a scroll saw book but don’t remember which one. I used worm eaten walnut so there’s a few places hat ended up with a small hole. I used 321 for the finish. I guess it’s another one for the garage wall. There’s no place left in the house. It measures 17x6. Thanks for looking.

Thanks everyone Minzieb, Your lamp is Beautiful!

Both are excellent. I really like the arrowhead one the best though! I may have to try to draw a similar and cut it.

Hi Marg. Actually Steve made that pattern especially for me. I was teasing him that I needed a ornament for my bunny and he surprised me with this one. I bet if you ask him he would make one for you. My doctor says I'm not to the point where I need surgery yet.

Lovely. I love the blue. Marg

Wife says she wants another Mantel Clock with contrasting colors. I had enough working with oak (too brittle) I had some bubinga and poplar and started cutting. Will be gifting some clocks for Christmas.

excellent job

It’s a clock and it made my husband happy! Steve good design.

great cut of a past movie hero

That is very impressive.

Fish, great job on the peacock panel. It is a lot of work!. I did the same a few years back and actually cut 8 panels and made into night lamps. I used amber lexan as an inside backer. The original pattern was done by Tiffany and are 2 curved doors in The Chicago Palmer House Hotel. It may be a challenge but they made wonder lamps. Message me if you want more details.

Outstanding! This pattern can be found in the book; Classic Fretwork Scroll Saw Patterns Paperback – June 30, 1991 by Patrick Spielman (Author), James Reidle (Author) pages 16 and 17.

With experience, you will find that running at full speed causes your saw to wear out faster, and your blades to overheat and break faster. If your blades are turning blue, you are running the saw too fast, overheating the blade and making it dull and break faster. Tiny blade teeth can only remove the amount of wood that fits in their gullets. They have to clear this wood before they can cut any more wood. Scroll sawing is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy the journey, cutting as accurately and cleanly as you can. Treat project completion as a surprise and not something that is a race to get there. There is always another project more interesting than the past, so enjoy the journey, and then the next journey. Take care of your saw and it will last through many journeys. Beat the stuffing out of it and you will be complaining about what a lousy saw it was in a year or two, when it should have lasted 10 or more years. If you drive your car at it's maximum speed, it won't last long either. Charley