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Heh. Started going through photos and found more colorful stuff than I thought I'd done. The lightboxes have color-shifting LED's behind them.

Just a few over the years

I have not messed around too much with colors other than backers for portraits. This one here is flowers for spring time maybe? LOL.. The only other thing I do with colors is done on the laser so this one is all I got other than black backers.. Backer on this is just foam sheets

So many to choose from!! Here are a few. The puzzle tree is "spring/summer" one side and fall on the other side.

I have only done one real colorful project. A little birdhouse using an Alex Fox pattern:

Working on a new kind of project. Building a Pug planter for my sweet neighbor. Still have some coloring to do and putting it all together. The colored pieces below are not attached yet. I might still change the coloring on the face a bit and still looking for the perfect color to stain the body pieces. I'm having fun. Making a Bulldog next for one of my oldest friends.

Just remembered a few more I did that have color:

Much work went into this collection of Bad Bob's Custom Motors cars. Several coats of white primer sanding between coats until smooth and the wood grain did not show through. Then multiple coats of flat acrylic paint were sanded between each coat until the white primer was covered. It took a lot of coats for the yellow one. I topped them off with clear gloss acrylic. The was a yellow sedan, but my grandson wanted to give it to a friend for a birthday gift before I decided to take the photo.

What the world needs more of.

I cut this time-intensive piece this week. Pattern by me. 8x10x1/4 inch Baltic birch ply.

Made these 2 recently Measure, s approximately 16 x16

Today's offering is another Steve Good pattern. Cut on 12x12in BB and a #1 FD polar blade. Normally I'll use a spiral on these sort of patterns but I'm trying to practice my control,hand placement and accuracy with a straight blade. Ive been at this scroll sawing about 4 months now if you take out a forced vacation due to a injury, and I've only just realized how important hand position and pivoting is! I've spent all this time trying to feed my wood round corners and recently discovered how much easier it is to use one hand as a pivot and one to drive... Duh At this rate I'm going to have to spend a month finishing a lot of this stuff ive been cutting. Any how fresh off the saw pattern on and off. Thanks for looking! Comments welcome

So an embarrassing update, I glued the head on upside down. I kept looking at it thinking it doesn't look the same, almost like a bull dog instead of a pug. It didn't dawn on me until I started to fit the ears, which I have not done yet. But wait, there's more, when cutting the pattern I cut the tail separate from the butt body and now I am having trouble connecting it, and lastly (I think), I glued the head to the butt portion (ha ha not just upside down). There is a difference between the front and back and I did it backwards. Good Lord!! All I can think is that perhaps I should not have been listening to a thriller audio book while assembling. Obviously I can't do both at the same time. So frustrated....

Another dinosaur puzzle. The back is hardboard, and the tray is finished with amber shellac.

T-Rex tray puzzle. This is my first attempt at a tray puzzle. I decided to make it a tray puzzle after cutting the dinosaur. I wanted to glue the gap closed, but it was too tight when I dry-clamped it to test. The back is a piece of hardboard cut, oversized, glued on, then sanded flush with a belt sander. The tray is finished with shellac.

Dinosaur tray puzzle. I cut the back off of a 3/4 inch piece of wood, cut out the dinosaur and painted it, and glued the wood back on. The tray is finished with amber shellac.

A few years back, my grandson wanted a toy cow. I found a piece of clip art that he liked, glued it to some MDF, and cut it out. I figure he would break the horns off right away but they are still attached.

Here is a springtime gnome, that I cut it is a Steve Good pattern.

Sighting of the first robin of the season. Not sure of the wood. Cut with a #1 blade. Acrylic paints. Frame is a gel stain - don't remember the colour. Complete finish with Walrus Oil. Definitely some errors, but only I know about them. You can see the progress in the Works in Progess section. @heppnerguy- this was done over a couple of weeks, just so ya know!

This project has taken me along time almost a year. Yea I lost interest for awhile. It is almost working. I have a few tunings to do. It is almost is done. I need to get an empty wine bottle instead of a soda bottle. I need to change out the white kite string. The design is called "Merlot" from Derek Hugger. Since the wine name I stayed with that theme and hand painted grape vines on the lever arms. The backing is wine slats from winery. The Purple and yellow are stained. All wood is baltic birch plywood. Except the backer slats. I wanted to try a kinetic sculpture but did not want a clock. These plans are easy to follow. But the assembly and tuning is always tweaking stuff. Ballancing by adding weights. This is huge 44 inches wide. I don't have a band saw so it was all cut with scroll saw.

I’ve never really done anything like this but all that has been posted so far is definitely some fantastic work! Great work everyone.

I have always said that scrolling is like sewing. It caused me to go along with your view also, Women who sew probably have an easier time learning to scroll. Dick heppnerguy

I really noticed all that but didn't want to say anything to embarrass you This what they mean about don't point out your mistakes, not many notice. I would install the tail using a short piece of dowel to glue it on. The head, I cannot imagine anyone notice it.

Coln. what you learned in 4 months took me years. When I finally caught on, I remembered watching my wife sew and noticed how she moved the material around. I guess that is why I heard ladies are very good scrollers, they apply what they have learned sewing to the scroll saw. Very nice work, Jerry

You may have never used boiled linseed oil alone, but if you have used an oil based stain or varnish, wiping varnish, Danish oil, Watco oil, Tung oil etc then you have been exposed to the same danger. We take calculated risks all of the time. We routinely operate power tools that employ razor sharp blades, spinning at high speeds. We fill our lawnmowers, weed eaters, leaf blowers, etc with highly flammable gasoline. Heck, we even store gallons of it in our sheds and garages. Certain house hold cleaning products, if mixed together, will generate a toxic gas that can be fatal. My point is, we use these products in relative safety, because we are well aware of the dangers. BLO is no more dangerous than most of these products we use every day. The most important thing is to be aware of the risks. The steps required to mitigate those risks are simple and easy to follow.

Thanks Dick, I put a lot of my progress down to the advice all of you offer. I don't think that's there is another place on the internet where folks take so much of their time to offer advice and solve problems. I'm a little hard on myself as I come from the " if it's worth doing it's worth doing right " clan. As I said in the op having eventually worked out how to handle and spin the wood it's becoming enjoyable instead of frustrating. Anyway thanks to everyone for the encouragement and advice you should all be proud of yourselves!!!!!

I am so proud of your progress. I have been paying attention to your posted work from the time you first joined with us and you have become quite the scroller. You obviously pay close attention to what you are working on and the posts show you have come a long way. Great job. Dick heppnerguy

Another way that helps a lot to find the drilled hole on the bottom of the pattern is to take a pencil and twirl it while it is inserted in the bottom of the drilled holes. You won't believe how much easier it is to find the hole that way. Dick heppnerguy

All the above. I can lift the upper arm on my EX, but I still take an awl and open up the holes on the back side a little.

So I am going to do what I think is called "fret work" and I am trying to figure out the best way that will work for me. I get how to top feed but I would like to try bottom feed...However, I do not know how to feed an itty bitty blade into an itty bitty hole without climbing under the board. Since I am new I would at least like to know what tips and tricks to try before totally giving up on it. So why would someone bottom feed vs top feed? Does the board look better because there are no scratches on top from top feeding? Thanks ahead of time. Marie

Not scroll saw related, my wife likes to collect the saucer and tea cup and after coming back from Florida, her friends brought some over as gifts. She said I need another display. As the saying say”happy wife is happy life”. I used red oak and minwax stain. She likes it so browny points for me. The first picture is the one that she purchased years ago, the next two are the one that I made.

I was self taught. Didn’t know what way to feed the blade. But to me it was a no brainer top feed made more sense. It only took a few times I could just feel were the blade goes into the clamp without looking. I have a EX21.

Clever idea with the dowel. I think I'll try that. Oh, and you wouldn't have embarrassed me, I did that myself pretty good. Let some unsavory words fly in the process. I'm here to learn so I'll take any critiques.

I was going to put my 2 cents worth in until i ran across your post! When i used to do a lot of portrait cutting with many, many holes, I would use a Sharpe marker to dot the holes! For the work I do now that requires lots of openings, I use an awl to open the holes and the blade just slides in almost with out looking for the hole! Erv

Learned my lesson back in the 70s when I threw a batch of Watco soaked rags in a 5 gal. plastic paint bucket. It didn't totally combust but, the bucket began to melt. Garden hose to the rescue! Now, the used rags get spread out on the rocked driveway.

They say to use as big a bit as you can.. I'm certain I read that somewhere, LOL.. however if you're like me I typically need that small bit on every project at least once.. and lazy as I am I use the smallest bit recommended for a #5 blade I think it's a #58 bit? I know what bit tube I grab but not sure what the number is now, LOL.. anyway I'm too lazy to swap bits so I just use the small bit for all the holes.. But anyway, yes.. larger holes if possible does help a lot.

Okay, I think I found it and tightened it....it seems to be holding better. I will give it a try and tighten it more if needed. Kevin, thanks so much for your help! Very much appreciated! mc

I got curious and did some digging. This is a short list of materials that will spontaneously combust. Note that I was wrong about the compost burning. Hay Straw Sawdust Coal Oil Grease Rags soaked in oil Towels soaked in oil Paint overspray Material from a paint spray booth Compost Mulch Manure Leaf piles Spontaneously combustible chemicals, such as: Phosphorus Magnesium Aluminum powder Sodium hydride Titanium powder Potassium Lithium Ethylene oxide Isopropyl ether Peroxides (such as diethyl ether peroxide and acetone peroxide) Some metal hydrides (such as lithium aluminum hydride and sodium borohydride) Some organic compounds (such as cotton, linen, wool, and some oils)

Couple of gnomes I just finished gluing up. The wood is Hickory. Used a #5 FD ultra reverse blade.

I have a set like pictured but I use the small ones from Harbour Freight. You can get a set of 4 at less than $5, an on sale for less than that. The ones from Harbour Freight have a little thicker probe. I use the ones like you have pictured to clear cut-out pieces that are being temperamental about dropping out after I've made the cut.

The better half asked me to cut this for her. I'm more comfortable cutting trying to cut something like this on the hawk as it's more forgiving, but I thought I'd give it a go on the more aggressive Delta. Just to make it more difficult I decided to use the more aggressive MGT blades too (normally I use a less aggressive blade on the Delta) Well I must admit I struggled with this Steve Good pattern but I did manage to get it cut even though it took me a while. Fresh off the saw

Today's post is a pattern that I have had for quite some time and I fell in love with it when I first saw it. This cute little project's pattern was made by Sam Custodio and had me hooked from the get go. It seems that I forget about it way too often and a couple of days ago I spotted it and had nothing pressing in my 'to do list' so I printed the pattern and took it to my shop. I only had about a half dozen small cuts left to have it all cut out, so I jumped on it this morning and finished it. I decided a quick and easy frame would be better than the over lapping backer board that I often do, so I found a piece of scrap wood that I thought might do the trick and made a glue on frame and used a piece of black poster board and threw on a coat of spray finish and it is ready to hang on my shop wall. I cut it from 1/4 lnch BB Ply and used a #3 Pegas MGT blade. Dick heppnerguy

Wow that's nice work Pete. I daren't show my wife that for good reason. Roly

Steve Good has several patterns and he even has a girl gnome......................providing your wife will let you have a *girlfriend*.........................LOL

Kind of depends on how big the project is. Big projects are harder to do.. most stuff I do I can tilt the board up to see the holes and then guide the blade to the hole and lower the board down. I rarely have to bend down to see with this method.. as I said, big projects are harder to do and sometimes does require bending down to see.

Well I am heading out to the Flea Market in the Morning, My 1st time out this yr, These are my Newest addition's to my growing Fleet. The Romulan Bird of Prey is one I am Proud of I made it from one of my old Plastic model patterns, the bird on the bottom was a little difficult to paint, The stand is The Romulan Warbird from The Next Gen Series, All these Wooden Models is a New Path I,m Walking this season, I hope it goes over pretty darn well. Wish me Luck.

I agree 100% with Kevin.

I finished these this weekend . Thanks (Paul) Gramps for the love shack design it will be going out to its new home on Wednesday. I put the rooster one together. The rooster is a bobscrolls pattern. I enjoyed doing both. Thanks for looking and have a great week Mimi

Just finished cutting my 9th project on my new Delta saw. I'm really happy with it. Just need to sand and put a finish on it. I used Pegas MG #3 and #5 blades on 1/4" Alaska birch.