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Art and Engineering.. I made a wooden carousel train that moves when you turn the crank. My 3 years old boy really liked it. Wooden Train Carousel.mp4

I know, I talked to his wife a few months ago. I wish I could have met him. Sounds like a great guy. Talking with his wife I discovered Rokytime and I are both Germans from Russia. Who knows our grandparents could have come from the same village. Sometimes this is a very small world.

Here are my latest boxes. One is made from Alder and maple. My beautiful Bride has claimed this box. The other is made from Oak and Poplar. The top has an added Alder to it.

More time in the shop with my Shop Partner and wife, Penny. A few rabbit and egg decoration blanks for the Easter holiday completed. We are both learning as we travel this scrolling journey together. Warm weather this week and three evenings in our shop side by side. Love this lady and our lives together. 17 years so far strong. Don. VID_20230227_185251660.mp4

We used to have a great guy living in Arvada. Unfortunately we lost him last year. He was known here as Rockytime and his posts live on.

Hi Joe, welcome to SSV. You will find the members are very friendly and provide a lot of help. Now, I don't have an answer to your question but want to say there is not many of us from Colorado. I'm a neighbor living in Arvada. I think you will find this site can become quite addictive, at least it has for me. Jerry

Here are two Santas I cut out on the scroll saw (stack cut them so identical cuts). I finally got them finished. The first one is hand carved and then painted with acrylic paints. The second one has no carving, but i used the pyrography unit (wood burning) and burned the fur, beard, and other details before then using artist colored pencils to color him with. The beads on the legs were store bought. As you can see, the different techniques used on each gives very different looks to each. I used the different techniques to see how each would look. I love them both. The pattern is from Lora Irish.

A few weeks ago, in order to finish a project I sat at the scroll saw far longer than normal. I found that my right foot really got sore after a couple days. I figured that it was from holding down the foot deadman switch for long periods of time. I know the more intricate the area I am cutting the more tense I get and the harder I pushed on the foot pedal. So after putting an on/off foot pedal on my vac, I thought why not try one for the saw. I know if I drop dead the saw will just keep running when I keel over, but, do I really care. At that point in time I doubt if I worry about leaving with the saw running and will be more concerned about where I am going....! So I got another switch to try out. I will see how it goes, for the little I have used it doesn't seem to be much different, just a little getting use to. And it looks neat on my saw. I just need a steering wheel and a gear shift now!

Pattern by Dan and Raymond Wickens.

I finished two (Stack Cut) Easter - He Is Risen" pattern by Keith Fenton. I used 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood for the face and 3/8" for the backer. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1 MGT blades. The backer is stained black. The finish is one coat spray Shellac as a sanding sealer and two coats spray Lacquer Clear Satin with sanding between coats. Comments welcome.

First picture is of an Intarsia seascape I just finished. Pattern by Bruce Worthington. second picture is of all the pieces I made 2 or 3 or even 4 times

This wood tank consists of ten wooden gear wheels. When you move the tank, the wheels turn and make a sound similar to the sound of a tank tracks. It is an automata toy in which ten gears turn on a tank with the power of gear wheels. Wooden Gear Tank.mp4

Designed this simple but meaningful piece this morning......Jesus bearing the weight of the cross on the way to the crucifixion's...cut from standard pine.....stained early American & red mahogany....2 coats of gloss RO lacquer......comments always welcomed God Bless

Thanks to @Ron Johnson for the idea of rounding the ends of live edge wood.

I have done cedar fence before and one side seem to be flat already if i remember, and did a mirror image and worked out great, RJ

Looks great. Wish I could do dove tails.

Excellent Idea. . I've thought of that as well. . . Just never done it. . . I'll let you know next week. . Tomorrow is my "Saw Day"

Maybe sand the back of the board first, attach a mirror image of the pattern to the back and scroll. I've never done this but it should work. With the right blade there shouldn't be much to clean up. I'd also glue a backer board to the finished project. I've had small pieces break off just from light handling.

Joe, Yes, I have cut cedar fencing with my scroll saw. I used that wood when I first started scrolling and I found it to be a very easy wood to cut. It is soft enough to be easy to cut and soft enough that the grain pattern does not affect the blade. You will have some fuzzies on the back, but they are easy enough to deal with. To attach the patterns, I sanded the board mostly smooth, then used blue painters tape and glued the pattern to the blue tape. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but the others gave you ways to attach the pattern. Best of luck with your project. Please post pictures of it when it is finished. Thurman

i like the first one.

Hi Joe and welcome. I am wondering about your pattern. It might help to see what it is you are going to cut. In most cases you just try to follow a line as closely as possible so I would think that if you can wrap the wood with some packing tape and then glue the pattern to that surface it would hold well enough to do the cutting. Now, if it's a very intricate pattern, it might be a problem but that's how I would attack it.

My mother had one of those. she ironed every thing we wore including underwear. What she couldn't iron on the mangle she did on the ironing board with an iron. You did not see those mangle much even when I was a kid. I think I have read a few people on here operate their foot switch with there leg. Maybe some one will speak up.

Roly, I made a jig for my tablesaw. My brother does some hand cutting of dovetails but I definitely am not!

Another Lord Of The Rings piece. I did one like this a few years ago only smaller. This one is about 11" X 15". We're redoing our spare bedroom and I wanted a bigger one to put above my Grandfather's old dresser. (Actually, my bedroom. We sleep better that way. ) It doubles as the Grandkid's room when they're over so my wife came up with the idea of the art hangers over the righthand bed. I also built the beds a couple of weeks ago. I also have my reading corner in this room that I posted a picture of the other day. I feel like I'm in The Shire.

this one is a saluki. theyre notoriously skinny.

You should feed the poor thing.

which kind of matches my sitting dog.

good idea. i believe a brittany spaniel which i dont think resembles my rendition.

I asked for help for a pattern to make a portrait for a friend’s wife of her musician husband. Grandpa got me started and I took it from there. My friend often plays Bluegrass in his shed, so I expanded the picture a little bit.I also added a few details to his beard. I’ve done better guitars, but this is ok, I guess. Three pics included: one of the picture Grandpa used, one of his pattern that he did, one of the almost finished piece. Thanks for your help, Paul!

My first blank space cutting. 1/2" cherry mounted to 8×10 cheap 1/4" plywood. Already sold 2 of them.