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Finally finished. Jim Blume pattern on 3/8 willow live edge, ripped in half and bookmarked. Double stack with 1/8 BB ply 1445 cuts with mainly #1 Niqua spiral blade. Measures 18 X 27 inches. Thanks for the "insane" pattern Jim.

Neighbor 's son has a fetish for late 40's Chevy pickup. Quick project. He'll get it tomorrow. I'll be doing more lurking than working the next several weeks. Tuesday I'm going in for major back surgery (MIS Tlif) and will need about 3 months to recover. Hope to be able to drive again after a few weeks. Garage/Shop has been a little cold lately anyway.

If you're not familiar with the caption I put under it you need to watch the Saturday Night Live clip I attached. If only to understand why that guy at the concert keeps yelling, "More Cowbell!"

CLOCKS ARE ALWAYS A GREAT GIFT............ if you have the time........

We are at the stage in our life that we do not have any idea what to give our kids and grandkids so we give them all money. Similar to Gift Card holders but the slot is a little bigger and I wanted to personalize. The family is up to 9. Sprayed with rattle can and my wife added stickers. That is Cdn money showing.

We do our best to talk customers out of coloring our products simply because what they envision and what the wood will take are often 2 different things. Water items, no problem since we do lots of them. Green pasture, no problem we do lots of them. However once in awhile we get an "unshakeable" customer and no matter what we say, they are adamant in their color scheme... This then is one of those customers. The "Matt Pan" shadow with Bronze hooks - all black except for the feather! It took 2 different stains to get the "purest" black we could... Thanks in advance for looking..

Two Key racks done as Christmas presents. They are made from 12mm Baltic birch ply. The finish is BLO and cellulose thinners, once dry 2 coats of lacquer.

Hope this brings a smile to your face like it does mine. Not so much because of the movie, though I do enjoy watching it each year, but for the memories. I got my first BB gun for Christmas, probably at around 9-10 years old. That morning my dad and I leaned a tall cardboard box against the bathroom door and did some target practice. When he moved the box the door had BB dents all over it. This was in the days before houses were worshiped so the dents stayed there till we moved. When my son got his, around the same age, I told him I was getting it for him but not to tell mom. Of course she knew it but I'm fairly sure he bought it. When he opened it of course she said, "You'll shoot your eye out!" Thankfully that never happened but he did shoot the bathroom window out. Personally, I don't remember shooting anything out, but my next door neighbor did shoot my tooth out with his.

I have been doing patterns from Sheila Landry/Keith Fenton for a while and have always really liked them. I recently had a customer want a project based on one of their designs with some of the words changed. Now I can muddle through Inkscape well enough to make the change but not to a point where I am happy with it. I reached out to Keith and he quoted a price (less than I expected) and was able to send me the revised pattern the same day. Great customer service, great patterns. Thank you, Keith!

Finished a commission project "Wedding Rings". The wood is 1/2" Hard Maple. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #3R MGT blades and #1R MGT blades for the lettering. Finished with two coats Lacquer Clear Satin. Comments welcome.

This is for my wife for Christmas. The portrait is from an Acadia Cutting Board. The frame is OLD OLD wormy oak with Walnut Splines. The acadia was 3/4 thick so I made a slightly larger underframe out of oak so it would match the thickness of the portrait and add a little dimension to the square frame.

I have always had great service from them..Not only buying their products but also response to any question I may ask them.

I would test first. The alcohol the shellac is dissolved in will contain some water. don't think it is enough to make the water colors run but you should test to be sure.

This is one of his latest pattern, since I have two friends that love and ride motorcycles I decided to get the pattern and cut one each for them.

I developed this Fairy Night Light pattern from free silhouettes I found on -line. The lamp body is cut from 1/4” solid Cherry x 4 1/2" square. The top and bottom are made from 1/2” solid Cherry x 5 1/2” Square. For this lamp, the overall height of the lamp is only 10 1/4” due to the body panel pattern layout I developed. The cutting was mainly done with Pegas #2/0 spiral blades while I used Pegas #1 MGT R blade for the straight cuts around the perimeter. I Stack cut only two panels at one time as the connections from the image to the surrounding frame area are VERY TINY. I was very careful during cutting not to cut through any, but, yes, some got broken in handling. However, we all know superglue is a scrollers best friend. This lamp is the fourth I have made basically using the same construction techniques. I have found I can make all the miters on the Table Saw and have developed clamping methods that provide me with relatively neat joints that I can live with. And, I now have a good grip on the step by step construction process so I don’t get things messed up assembly wise. From conception, my idea was to make this lamp for a young girl, so it had to be “PINK”. I ordered the wood from Ocooch Hardwoods and the Plexi through Amazon a while back, and was just waiting for a reason to make the lamp. Christmas is coming and a gift for my Granddaughter became the reason I was waiting for. My Granddaughter, who is a young adult lady, still loves Fairies. And as we all know, Cherry wood is not actually Pink, so I had to stain it. I used five (5) parts Minwax Natural stain and one (1) part Minwax Barn Red to get a light pink color stain which after application, was immediately wiped off making the wood just “PINK” enough. The 1/8” thick translucent Plexi panels are also Pink and frosted with an application of velum affixed to the interior surface with spray adhesive. The lamp was finished with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. The electrical components are again just a candelabra bulb base mounted on a threaded nipple through the bottom, a pre-made lamp cord that I added a in-line switch to, and a LED Candelelabra equivalent 25W bulb. Edit: Unlit view And BTW, my first Grandson came along when I was only 40. I said I was too young to be called a Grandfather...so just call me "Grumps". It stuck with all my Grandchildren to this day. Figured I needed to sign and date this lamp for her. I’ll post the plans in the New Pattern Announcements. Comments and critiques always welcome

I've had fun making some new ornaments for my tree and my kids this year. I made some tiny little Santas using some leftover scrap pieces of Red Padauk. Copied and shrunk an image I found online. I can see these being around long after I'm gone. Well, it's alright to be little bitty A little hometown or a big old city Might as well share, might as well smile Life goes on for a little bitty while-Alan Jackson

I just finished cutting this on a Basswood blank. I have never tried a blank and thought this would be a good cut. I have done this pattern on numerous plagues for lineworkers. How have other finished basswood blanks? Thought was just to spray with clear but thought it needed a little tint to it.

Hello members, I am planning to water color a few kids toys. Would Shellac adhere fine after the water colors dry? Thank you for your help Sam

Steve Good posted a link today to Stencilfy. It is an App that will take a regular font and turn it into a scrollable font with bridges where needed. I know this subject had just recently come up by one of our member so I thought this would be of help. I went to the App site and bookmarked it on my Roboform Bookmark list. Clink on this link to to take you to the App. Thanks to Steve Good! https://blogspot.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa6b059408ca051b3a85dce6b&id=41aee3cf07&e=e151848253

I had one of those trusty "Red Riders" when I was a young cowboy

Looks great.

Just couldn't be any better. Beautifully done!!!

Beautiful truck! Hope your recovery is speedy and easy.

nice job

very nice job, good luck with the surgery

that's a fantastic job

Yes. With shellac, it's better to make all the coats light.

I had a Daisy air rifle, loads of fun

looks challenging nice job

Your persistance and choice of wood is rewarding with a fine cut

Nice cut, I like the frame as I usually use an 3?8 MDF backer and no frame.

Good advice to make first costs light.

Very nice job! Really like your font. Is that in the pattern or did you add it before you cut?

Beautiful! Love your live edge and the grain is fantastic. That is a challenging piece. I cut it myself a few months back. Challenging but a lot of fun to cut. Great job!

I've water colored some of my pieces and them sprayed them with polyacrylic which is water base and haven't had any problems. Noted my first couple coats are light. After a light sanding, I give them a couple more heavier coats to bring out the sheen I want.

That is totally crazy. That is the first willow I have seen used. It is awesome.

Definitely beautiful and insane! Glad you were the one cutting it.

Nice job and sure to please the neighbor. Sorry to hear of your need for surgery. Prayers form you and the surgical staff. Let us know how you are doing when you feel up to it.

Absolutely Beautiful!! Super job scrolling and a beautiful piece of wood for it. Scrolling masterpiece!

Great job Bernd, late 40's earily 50's my favorite also. Good thoughts a prays coming your way. Keep us posted on your recovery.

Shellac sticks to "EVERYTHING"

I have cut a few of this years patterns. There is as always some very neat patterns and I plan on trying to get some more done before the holiday if possible. Thanks to all the great designers that donate their time for the good causes that everyone supports. As always my donation will go to the local food banks. Merry Christmas Larry

+1 for what Dave says

I think I would resaw the wood and then stack cut them.

Many a patterns stacked up and waiting to be cut while I was remodeling my shop the last few months! This is one of them. Barb posted some of these that she recently cut and it reminded me to get busy! My wife loves snowmen items for Christmas, so my plan was to cut a few for her. I may send these out as Christmas cards this year if I can get enough made soon enough. Steve Good pattern, made from 3/4" MDF from a rotatory table that I just torn apart. Wife painted with some acrylic paint.

I may have posted these before but I made these and have given them away to friends that decorate for the holidays. Baltic birch and cedar wood. Everyone that got them are happy! Sue Mey patterns

The Sleigh Image was a free downloadable zip file that included a SVG file which I was able to manipulate in Inkscape. I sized the image to fit within an oval I created (approximately 11 1/2” x 15 1/2”) that I cut from a piece of 1/2” x 12” x 16” sanded ply. The image was cut from 1/8” thick BB ply. The backer was painted white with Krylon rattle can paint. I used Artist Acrylics to paint the cut panel (originally image was only B&W) and the perimeter vertical edge of the backer. The assembled Plaque was protected with multiple coats of Clear Minwax Polycrylic finish. Just another Xmas decoration that will be stored away 11 months of the year. Comments and critiques welcome.

3/4" Red Oak, cut with Pegas MGT # 3 blades.

Here is a short video of things I have been working on over the last few weeks. They are for my last show of the season on December 17th. I spent a week, or so, cutting everything. As week, or so, sanding. And then another week, or so, finishing. Still have to get the shrink wrap on the puzzles. 20221204_141103.mp4

One of my favorite patterns, by Sue Mey. Rough cut live edge red oak, about 5" x 7".