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I've always been amazed by the members of this forum that can take a picture and make it into a cuttable pattern. Last weekend my wife wanted me to take some pictures of her working with training one of our puppies. I caught a picture of Oreo going over a jump with a dumb bell. Although I had assistance using Cute Cutter, I made a pattern having to add some bridges and then was able to cut the piece. This is my Valentine's gift to my wife. The piece is cut on 1/4-inch Maple stained with Minwax Natural and sprayed with 3 coats of Polyacrylic with 500 grit sanding between coats. The backer is black construction paper. The frame is also Maple stained Minwax Espresso finished with Boiled Linseed Oil and Mineral Spirits. I splined the corners of the frame using Walnut shims. The piece was cut using Pegas 2/0 spiral blades. The cross is a new Easter topper for my picket fence board welcome sign. It is cut using 1/4-inch Birch stained Minwax Natural and finished with 3-coats of Polyacrylic, sanding between coats. It was cut using Pegas 2/0 MGT and 0 skip tooth. The backer is Pine sprayed gloss Red. The pattern is by Bulldog 557. The last two are Jim Blume's Americana series. This is Americana 15, both cut in Maple with a Pine backer using Pegas 2/0 spiral blades. They were finished with Minwax Natural stain and then given 3 coats of Polyacrylic. The backers are Birch, one stained Minwax Espresso and the other sprayed gloss black. I will be framing these to match my previous pieces from this series using 1X8 cut down to 1 3/4-inches. Hope you like them and as always, comments are always welcome.

Some cuttings I did this week. Not sure exactly how I intend to finish up the John 3:16 as it’s just 1/8” bbply. Thinking about making a slightly larger heart shape backer from Walnut. Trivets cut from 1/2” Cherry and will probably be dipped in Danish oil once I get a few more things made. Also worked on doing some gluing pieces together for the Cogsworth project I’ve been working on in the sideworks. Have also done some cutting board glue ups that maybe one day I’ll laser something on them.

Thanks to Don in Brooklin for the pattern.

Made for granddaughter. Bragging more on my granddaughter than the scroll work. Had her for a few days. What a treat!

I got busy the last few days and made up a gift for a Vietnam Vet that is fighting Agent Orange . I am pretty sure that he will love it. I sure do!

When trying to help someone find a certain scroll saw book on Ebay, I saw the book that contains those patterns. It was really hard, but I was strong, I resisted! My name is Paul and I am a scrollsaw patternholic!

This was a challenge for me. I have never made an intarsia pattern on my own before. My neighbor came to me with a photo of the military airplane he spent his 25 Canadian Air force carrier in. This aircraft was used to search the ocean waters for enemy subs. I found it very challenging for me because he kept changing what I was doing and he kept wanting it to be more of a model than an intarsia item. I was really wanting to making it just the way he wanted it but every change, along the way, put more doubt in my success to make it happen and added a lot of extra time to the process. This project is 28 inches long and approximately 14 inches high. I used a woodburner to make the stripe on the body of the plane black. Dick heppnerguy

It’s a Steve Good pattern that I added an inlay, red oak with bb inlay, cut with #3 pegas mg, thx RJ

..but I have thought of removing each pattern and putting them in a three-ring binder. I have done that in the past and it IS a lot of work. I haven't done in a couple of years, so I have a lot to catch up on. I use sheet protectors for the patterns and some magazine holders I got from Amazon.

Really happy for you!! Don

My neighbor has his other house on Victoria Island and spends the winter here. He told me yesterday, that he was going to take this plaque home to Canada and show it to some of the guys that also worked Shore guardian duty on this air craft. He believes they will like it too. Dick heppnerguy

I used both the new to me saw and my Hawk. The Shamrock and about half of the Easter Trivets was done on the new to me saw. Others was done on the Hawk. I'm not certain where I picked the pattern up from but it says to email paulboer12@gmail.. also says free to use and share.. so not sure about if it's okay to share here on the village or not. If you want a copy I'll send you one in the messenger since it says I can share it right on the pattern paper.. Just not sure it is to be uploaded to the village since it's not really mine? Anyway shoot me a message if you want a copy.

Definitely! She started twirling a stick. I asked had ever seen a baton. She said, "What's a baton?" We sat and watched youtube videos of baton twirlers for almost an hour. She loved the fire batons. I told her my sister used to twirl a fire baton. Guess what she wants for her birthday? Yup, I opened a can of worms.

I purchased a 6 pattern set last year and made the truck then. Made the coupe today... at this rate, 4 more years and I'll have all 6 completed! LOL The coupe was made with a Cedar body and some Pine fenders. I used BLO as a finish. I knew that both the Cedar and Pine would probably not look good with any kind of finish so I took the easy way out and used the BLO. Btw, the truck has a Maple body and Walnut fenders.

I made this for a couple of Nieces who's mother recently passed away at 95 years old. She was married to my wife's brother who died about 55 years ago and several years later she remarried. My wife and I saw her only a few times since my wife's brother was killed so we really do not have much of a connection with her. We do keep in pretty close contact with the daughters and when she passed I made one of these plaque for each of them.. I modified the plaques a little and got them into the mail yesterday. They will be receiving them on Monday. These are patterns by Sue Mey and like I said, I did modify them a little. Dick heppnerguy

I would use the pattern if it were what I needed. I usually want something else. It would not save me much. My laser printer costs me less than $0.02 per sheet to print. I wanted to mention backups. When I scan a book or pattern, it gets backed up offsite as soon as I save it the first time. When I edit a pattern, it immediately gets back up, and the old version gets saved for 30 days in case I change my mind or do something stupid like write over it. Deleted files also are saved for 30 days. I also periodically run manual backups. I have at least four copies of every scanned pattern or book., each stored in a different device of every scanned pattern or book. If it isn't offsite, it isn't backed up. If you haven't tested a restore, it isn't backed up. I can tell you how many times I have been given a blank tape to restore someone's data. Not a fun day. I know someone is thinking, "I don't have to back up my paper books." Think fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, or the dog eats it. Your disaster recovery plan by all new stuff.

My scan gives me options of type of file to save it to.

You'll get over it.

Those books are awsome! Lovely work on everything...I am new... so you have given me inspiration!

Amazing Work! absolutely Awesome! Dick

When I got my new Hegner, I tried their setup for blowing dust and was quite disappointed. I took the one from my old Hegner with Loc-Line and moved it. I got that one from Mikes Workshop.

I usually scan the page of the book with the pattern I want then convert it to a PDF file and store it on an external hard drive. I can then resize it to whatever size I need. The problem I encounter sometimes is that the pattern is too close to the spine of the book and this makes it difficult to scan on my scanner. I don't like the idea of cutting up a good book either.

Well patterns from books or mags, are never the size I want to cut. Once I have them on file I can manipulate then into what I want to cut.

Might as well use as a pattern and save on printer ink rather than shedding them.. or am I missing something.. LOL.. That is what I was thinking about doing.. I do agree, why save them once scanned you have the pattern.. I do recommend backing up patterns to a few different devices in case one fails.. or store to a online cloud thing.. I had a hard drive fail one and lost at least 20,000 patterns.. most of which were free patterns from some of the old MSN groups back in the day.. maybe 15 - 20 years ago.. I used to save every pattern I come across so it wasn't like I was going to cut every one of them.. I'd like to try though, LOL

Paul the newer Hegners have a flex line for the bellows.. I think that is a bracket for holding it in place. I tried to find an image with a good view of this area but wasn't successful, however if you look at the screenshot on the helpful videos page of their site the first video shows the hose going through what looks like that same bracket.. https://advanced-machinery.myshopify.com/pages/helpful-videos-demonstrations-advanced-machinery

I don't keep the paper. Once the scans are backed up I shred them.

@Sycamore67 You got yourself a pretty tricked out Hegner there. Been trying to figure out what the thingy the arrow is pointing to in my cropped picture of it.

When I subscribed to the magazines I would take the center pages to an engineering firm close to my work. They would make me copies of the center pages that I could cut up and scan in easily. I no longer subscribe and have not bought one in a while. This works really well and is not that expensive. I have found digital copies of a lot of the books I own on Scribe. The ones that I don"t have digital copies of I cut apart on the band saw and scan then I have a huge heavy duty 3 hole punch that I use to put them back in 3 ring binders.

Fabulous work Rodney. Really like the one of Oreo. You captured her well and nicely framed. Had thought of doing patterns but have too many things on the go.

Nice work Kevin you have been very busy.

Great pictures... That cute cutter,does a pretty decent job.. It one knew how, I think they could do most their work with it and then move it over to Gimp for some final touches if they thought it was needed.

Thank you Dave for the nice comment. I was just happy to finally complete it as it was why over my skill level, but if it makes the recipient happy it makes me happy as well Dick heppnerguy

WEll I no longer have the setup I had, I took it off when my Fein vac, died. The shop vac is just too noisy. The one I had on my Seyco, is with Andy, don't know if he uses it. It is very easy to make, just pvc pipe. If Andy is not using it, maybe you can talk him out of it.

Excellent work Dick. Glad he liked it. He should, it is wonderful. Lesson for all of us to learn, take on a project for someone, keep them out of the workshop until you have it completed! Duly noted here.

excellent work

Wow that is incredible looking. Beautifully done.

Very beautiful job Dick

He seemed to be pleased with it. He sort of mentioned it last year but nothing was done about it until about a month ago when he mentioned it once more and then sent me a photo of the plane Dick heppnerguy

Wow Dick. Outstanding. Sometimes you amaze us.

We subscribe to the daily newspaper still. With that subscription we get the E edition also. It works great for highlighting an article an importing or sharing to whatever social media I choose. I share many of the cartoons if they have a political bent to them. No problem at all. So, if they can do it, so can the magazine publishers. They just choose not to. For whatever reason.

You did an outstanding job, Dick.

I wonder how hard it would be to drill holes to allow the book to be put into a 3 ring binder, after the spine of the book was removed? I know it could be done, a few pages at a time, with a 3 ring hole punch, but it seems like it could be easy enough to do on a drill press, even sandwiched between 2 pieces of plywood.

I'm a book lover - I just can't stand the idea of cutting up my books so I haven't done it yet but have been tempted a time or two. I try my best to get a copy of the pattern from the book. Some books that is harder to do than others. Some books do a better job putting the pattern where the binding isn't as much of a problem in trying to get the copy. I don't recall one that I haven't been able to eventually get a clean copy from. I do have some older books that have that "comb" style binding that lets it lay flat or easy to remove from the binding and put back. One reason I asked for a light table one year for a gift was so that I could "trace" patterns or use it to align patterns where I had to join pieces. It's been a life saver a few times. I have learned to look well at my copies to make sure I got all the lines. If I missed a bit, its usually just a tad bit and like Barb, I will draw it in usually with the aid of my light table. Light table is much easier to do then holding it up to the glass window to trace! Usually once I get a copy of the pattern copied, I do scan it into my computer to keep especially if I want to make the pattern a different size. Much easier to scale on my computer and print it. Plus, I can make it have red lines which I much prefer to use for cutting then black. I will take the magazine apart to get the pattern inserts but I hate doing that too. Like Kevin noted, sometimes they are still not easily copied without making lots of different folds and angles. Sometimes the patterns have "pieces" that need to be aligned (which is where my light table is a tremendous help.) I usually close the magazine staples back up without putting the pattern insert back in place but leave it inside the magazine. The problem with that is you still risk it being lost. Like Don, I have purchased the SSWC magazines back issues on CDs so if it is from an old magazine, I can go there and try to get a print of the pattern. I still subscribe to the magazine, I would hate to lose it and usually it has a project or two that I am interested in. I too however wish that they could find a way to provide the patterns to download electronically. I have had others where you could do so - I understand why they don't want to - for couple of reasons - but I don't think any of them really keep people from getting a "shared" copy if they really want too. Since I started carving in the past few months - I have also been looking at FC's carving magazine, "Woodcarving Illustrated" I think it is. Interesting enough with it - you CAN BUY DIGITAL subscription BUT it costs the same as the printed copy subscription. You cannot get a "dual" subscription to both the digital and printed copy at a slightly reduced price if you get both so if you want both, you have to pay same price for both. PLUS, you still don't get the actual patterns in "digital" format - if you want an article and/or pattern printed out from the online version, you can only do so by doing a "screen capture" one page at a time! I sent them an email inquiring about all of that and their response was the company who does it says it can't be done. I told them like Ray - hogwash. I'm pretty technically savvy and have had other online magazines before that could - that their source needs to catch up with technology. So for all of those reasons - I have yet to subscribe to the carving magazine. I really want to subscribe - but I would like both the printed copy to keep but access to the digital version. Since they don't do that, I have not pulled the trigger on a subscription in either format. I left it to the subscription fairies over Christmas, put in on my Christmas list, but none of my fairies ordered it for me! So so far, I've not subscribed yet. So since they can do the Carving magazine in Digital format - we know they COULD do the scrolling one that way too but choose not to. I suspect that may be due to the number of subscribers and that Carving has more then scrolling and/or they do it with the Carving magazine first, to see how it worked out and didn't get enough so they figure not worth it for the scrolling - but all really just a guess!

This is my favorite.

In my experience with patients using monocular glasses, contacts or implants experienced more eye stress and problems with depth perception. Takes time to rewrite your brain to use each eye separately. FYI, I was a Certified Optician.

6 inches of throat depth.

I got a similar type a couple years ago and use it for really tight patterns. I also wear glasses and have not had any problems using them together.

I am going to follow along, interesting, these old eyes could use some help, RJ

This what I use. Purchased on Amazon.

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