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After cutting this piece, a crack showed up at the top that really took away from it. It looked to just be on the surface so I tried sanding it out with the edge of my orbital sander but it was deeper than it looked and I sanded a noticeable low place. I liked the way it looked so I kept doing it. Made this pretty piece of Sycamore prettier.

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!

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.

A very nice project, is it your design? I love the font. Sycamore is an interesting wood the grain change depending in how it is cut is very dramatic.

The inlet pipe was sized to fit my Festool hose with OD about 34 mm. I used Schedule 40 PVC and inlet is 1-1/4"with a coupler to fit the hose of the same size. The Tee is also 1.25" and then reduced to 3/4" PVC for below the table and above to the 3/4" Loc-Line. There are other bits and adapters but you just need to go to the Big Box sore and fiddle with fittings to adapt to your conditions. There is nothing magic or difficult but just some simple fittings and adjustment to fit your vacuum and your saw. It would be interesting and welcome if anyone has some good ideas for improvement.

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.

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 admit to being a bit of a procrastinator at times. Sometimes it’s in finishing a project. Sometimes it’s in taking photographs of the projects. Here are somethings I started on last year, and finally got painted and finished and photographed. I cut all of them out on my scroll saw. I then hand carved the pieces. Then painted them. Most of them are Christmas ornaments that may or may not have been completed in time to be given to my family as intended. Perhaps that just means I have them done for this year. The patterns for most if not all of these came from issues of the Woodcarving Illustrated magazine from Fox Chapel. If one is one someone is interested in, let me know and I can give more specifics on the designer and issue. One snowman is a Steve Good pattern he provided as segmentation pattern that a few on here have cut and shown previously. The books are based on a carving lesson video from Doug Linker on a YouTube. He shows carving books. I carved 3, stacked them to create an ornament for a book lover. The Iris flower is a Judy Gale Roberts Intarsia design. However, I wanted to attempt to carve it. This was only my fifth attempt at hand carving a project AND it was the first time I attempted to carve something that I was not following along with carving directions from an instructor, video, and their pattern. I had many issues with this piece. The biggest one was when I cut my pointer finger very badly and deeply while carving it. Fortunately, I didn’t do significant damage (like cut off my finger tip) but the tip of that finger still has some numbness and hypersensitivity but I am hopeful that it may still heal completely and that will go away. Nerve damage can take a long time to heal I know. It’s been about 6 months ago now I think. Time will tell. let’s just say it’s a good reminder to wear gloves and keep my fingers out of the way of the knifes and gouges. If my family ever needs a DNA sample, there is plenty from the blood that is on the pattern! The other is the framing on the iris, the wood is 100+ year old barn wood from a milking barn that was torn down on my husband’s family’s property. His parents bought the old farm land to build his family’s home more than 55 years ago. They tore down the main barn and some out buildings I believe. This particular out barn was left and was only torn down in the past 5-10 years or so and we kept a lot of that wood. These were actually scraps he had left when he built my son a watch box from it for Christmas. Sorry for the long winded explanation! But I like to explain things! Judy’s pattern for the Iris includes a frame it overlaps in several places and on three of the sides of the frame. I only overlapped in two places and on the same side. Judy’s pattern is a sett of 3 different flowers. Only time will tell if I attempt any of the others. You can find Judy’s pattern here on her website : https://intarsia.com/products/i-266-flower-fest-1?_pos=2&_sid=fac716d0f&_ss=r

I did the entire be mine box using a #5 Flying Dutchman ultra-reverse blade, which cut like a dream. Sit in front of the blade, push, it cuts forward, it turns when you want it to, etc. It can be a bit aggressive at times (especially in 1/4" stock) but turning the speed down on the saw seemed to take care of that. Then I started on this nature shadow box. Those turns are pretty fiddly, and the material is 1/4" plywood, so I decided to try a #2 UR blade instead of my trusty #5. My goodness the #2 is temperamental. The blade I put in only wanted to cut at a 45 degree angle, and was seemingly ready to go off in its own direction if I even looked at it funny. I made the mistake of trying to cut one of those long interior straight lines (layer 2 in the pattern, for example), and had a very bad time. I eventually gave up and put the #5 back in for those lines, saving the #2 for the fiddly bits. Is this behavior typical, or is it just me? The need to drive the part at an extreme off angle to get a cut in the desired direction, the difficulty cutting straight lines (compared to the #5). It feels like I've traded in a dog for a cat. Bonus question: Is it normal to switch between say a #5 and a #2 for different parts of the pattern?

My guess is you probably didn't have enough tension on the blade with the #2 Also make sure the blade is in the saw right end up? All the FD-UR blades do cut at a slight angle... but having the blade a little too loose of tension would make it want to wander bad..

That’s a beautiful piece, RJ

Looks pretty good.

Excellent piece, Paul. The sanding gives it more of a 3D affect.

I agree. I've tried to make patterns in Inkscape and Gimp without success. I probably need to go over Travis' instructional videos in the University area again. In this particular pattern (above) I had the "cut out" area in black. I'm working on another pattern in Cute Cutter and realized you can change the black to gray which is my prefered shade so I can see the blade better. I then open the pattern in Inkscape and change the "stroke" to red. I agree you can't get extensively detailed patterns in Cute Cutter but when you don't know how to create patterns in other programs, it works better than nothing. I don't know what program you use but you are kill'in it making patterns.

Beautiful saying in a beautiful piece of wood!

very neat piece of art. Great job.

Nice job Rodney. Happy cutting of the dog! Glad to see someone else using Cute Cutter. The more you play with it the more fun it is. I like that it sort of intuitively helps when you're making adjustments. Just wish it would let you zoom in more than it does and make more minute changes. If there's some software out there that does what Cute Cutter does but lets you zoom in more I'd buy it.

great job

Hey Everyone! In this scroll saw project video, we make this beautiful "My Valentine" project! This Steve Good design uses 3/4 inch material and used the bevel cutting technique to give the piece a unique 3D effect! A great and quick project to make for your sweetheart! Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

Awesome work Richard. He'll more than love it.

Hmmm good question...I honestly don't know. I was looking at others work and really think fret work is beautiful but I think I will start with larger scrolls like cutting out a shape of something practical like maybe a cutting board....what about you?

That’s beautiful, being a Vietnam vet that was exposed to agent orange, he should love it, RJ

Terrific work. He will certainly love it. Marg

Nice work and like you, I’m sure he will love it.

Nice work.. I am also sure he will love it!

Bill, Glad we both started roughly the same time. Even though you have been here before. Cool, you were a skydiver. I use to date a skydiver in College, he did "team" diving. I never got the nerve to go up, though...I like to have my feet on land. Glad to hear your shoulder is doing well. I am a physical therapist so I have seen a few folks with rotator cuff repairs....Anyway, Welcome!

I have no idea how old my Delta is. I can't even remember when we go it. Probably the early 90's. But I used it to cut everything since it was my really first woodworking tool. I made things that you shouldn't make with a scroll saw but they all came out pretty good, that was one tough saw. Now I have other saws and will only use the Ex 21 for just scrolling. I am sorry to hear you are too old to scroll....I am hoping to do scrolling for as long as possible. Doing the other type of woodworking like Cabinet making is really getting tough as I am not very strong even though I do my exercises. Wishing you the best ...mc

ME TOO!! I have pattern books I've bought and then never ever cut any of those awesome patterns.. I bet nobody else ever waste money on patterns and then never cut them out.. Right? LOL.. I'm the same way with wood / lumber.. I take my dust collector sawdust over to my brothers lumber mill to empty into his sawdust pile since he sells sawdust from the mill.. and it's a easy way for me to get rid of my sawdust ( mostly from my planner.) . Anyway, every time I go he sends me home with a truck load of lumber.. I'm getting stacked up and backed up on lumber.. I have piles of it and then I started putting up in the rafters and now that's getting full.. No scrap wood for me.. just pieces I haven't used yet,

Don’t know but if you search for gnomes you will find it

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

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!

They are excellent. Well done Ralph. Marg

Really happy for you!! Don

Should be the other way around, Thank you two for asking questions. Gets me to think (I know oh, oh, another being born story coming), but no, gets me to thinking of different things to try and coming up with different methods of doing things. I've got some new ideas to try. I hope as you make them and come up with new and better ways to do them you will share.

awesome job

You will love it! Congrats.

I wish you the best on the new saw.

enjoy your new saw

Congrats on the new saw.. I always wanted to try a Pegas.. but it's probably not a lot different to use than my Excalibur..

Congrats on the new saw. Isn’t it fun drooling over all the choices?