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Old barn design from Judy Gale Roberts. The pattern is in one of her Fine Line Design books. I made it from red oak and haven't started the sanding and finish yet.

My Mother In Law had 3 photos that she wanted me to cut out for her. She is putting the 3 photos in a photography show and needed another version of her photos. All wood started from rough cut wood that has been in the tractor barn for years. Much of it cut and rough milled by my father in law.

A few things I've done over the years.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Shows how what makes something valuable/special can have nothing to do with it's monetary value.

One of my blessings is that I get to take two of my grandkids to school everyday. My 9 year old grandson, Ryder, a big baseball fan, surprised me one morning this week with a pattern he drew and wanted me to cut. He really did a great job. I think I had explained to him once a while back about bridges. I didn't know he was really listening.

Made this for my son who works at a Mack truck dealer

Here are her original photos that Grandpa made the pattern from.

I just made this for an unbeliveable lady who attends our weekly BINGO games. Our BINGO games are a fundraiser for the local Franciscan Friary and this amazing lady attends every week, because in spite of her trials, she belives that she should support the Friars. I will present this to her tomorrow and I hope it will make her day just a little bit happier.

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

Absolutely! And, in an instance like yours and Ryder's, priceless.

Great job on all three cuttings and I particularly like the Frames. The rough material works for the images and the corner splined joints are real well done. Something I should do, but I just use "V" nails to reinforce the glued joint. Also, Kodos to Grandpa for well done Patterns.

There is still hope for the younger generation. All it takes is good parenting. I see and engineering degree in his future. Unless he already has one. Great job. Thanks Dick.

What a mind this guy must have !!! That's probably one of the best examples of engineering a wooden model I've ever seen. Oh, and for you tree huggers, no carbon foot prin/tire tracks. Wishing all my friends here a BLESSED EASTER. Rick

Amazing!!!

That is unbelievable. Transmission works and all.

That is simply amazing...the kid needs to be an engineer. I showed my husband as well...so impressive...I bet he could hook up a remote to it someway and then really drive it around...so fun. Thanks for sharing!

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!

I ran across this YouTube video of one of the most impressive things I have ever seen someone do with wood. You will not want to miss this, as I am pretty sure it will knock your socks off. Do yourself a favor and click on the link. This Amazing thing was done by a 17 year old boy. Dick heppnerguy

Made these 2 recently Measure, s approximately 16 x16

I too was blown away that anyone, let alone a 17 year old could even dream of making this, (even if there were plans to follow, which I understand there was not). It is one of the most unbelievable thing I have ever seen anyone make. Dick heppnerguy

Wow, that looks amazing. So professional looking!

nice job

Great job! I'll bet she'll love it.

Great job on the cutting looks impressive.

Nice work reminds me of summer...really love those watermelons...wish we had them here this time of year!

That is probably one of the best ones I have ever seen!

That is crazy special. Thanks for sharing the project and story. He's got some of your artistic genes for sure.

Wow!

Thank you Dick, What a talented young man! I was just thinking all those tiny pieces created by His hands? The time and patience He took in creating the masterpiece! I loved watching it, Bob

That is such a great idea....I am sure he will keep that forever! that is such a great drawing for a 9 year old!

Long ago Paul. Long ago

Just made for our great granddaughter who turns 1 year in 2 weeks.

Consider my mind blown!

Marcie I always dimple the bottom of the board with an ice picK. NO NEED TO LOOK FOR A DRILL.

I top feed, my fingers have learned what to feel for. Remember, the bottom clamp is the exact same as the top clamp. I feel for the slot and push it in, feel for the bottom of the blade with my left hand to be sure it is all the way back, hold it and tighten the clamp. I hope that helps. I never could bottom feed

It's great when the scroller can collaborate so closely with the pattern artist. Great work ensued from the melding of minds. Ryder will treasure that forever. As, I'm sure granddad will, as well.

I really did try top feeding but after putting the blade through the hole in the wood, I couldn't find the hole in the table. So, I'm back to being a bottom feeder. It must by the catfish in me. Or I'm part lawyer.

Not to generic. The color is in the imagination for sure. I say this because of the color challenge. That is a good way to get a scholarship.

Wow, that is unbelievable brilliant, I wonder if it is his design or did he follow a plan, RJ

I recently finished this one.

Some of my things with color:

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

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

Great piece.

Bob took that thought right from me, LOL.. Typically a home hobbyist or very small business that cares about the reputation of the small business will make a higher quality product than a commercial company that is more worried about cost and time. A commercial company's bottom line is always about the money. A small owner operator business should be worried about quality and customer satisfaction.. and yes cost has to come into play as well but we should also not be trying to compete with mass produced items and their mass produced cost. This is why Handmade / Homemade typically can be priced higher than those China mass produced items.

Commercially produced does not equal quality.

I cannot agree more with this.. PLUS, new blade styles and brands sometimes get mentioned that are not to most known about. Many folks have never heard of the SuperSharp brand of blade sold by PSWood. They are also a good blade but pricey and last I knew no reverse tooth option.. I like them for cutting thick wood.. but I only bought them to "try" and the Pegas are really good all around blade so I doubt I'd go outta my way ( pay extra money) to buy them again but someone else might. This is how we learn new things sometimes by bringing up topics that have been talked about many times over the years. Not to mention we gain new members all the time that have different methods of doing things that we can possibly learn from or give them some learning experiences.

It's been around 10 years since I first bought the sample packs of Pegas brand blades. I bought samples of every style and size, the previous 8 or so years I used Flying Dutchman blades. I can tell you that I still to this day have most all those blades still in the sample packages.. I did try each and every blade so I did use at least 1 blade of each style and size. My sample packs have the Pegas MGT sizes 3,5,7 empty of blades so apparently I like these sizes, LOL. IF I had to choose one blade for all my projects I do I'd have to say #3 MGT.. second most used is the #5.. Not only does each person have a different preference but also every saw has a different set up. For a long time I used only Pegas blades on my Hawk and continued to use FD blades on my DeWalt / Excalibur. The DW you cannot adjust the saw for a more or less blade forward / back movement ( blade aggression ) and so the Pegas ( at first use ) was too aggressive for me on the DW saw.. I finally did get used to them.. but they are sharp and they cut much faster and took a bit more practice of controlling the cut. Now I use mostly only Pegas. I might use a #3 blade on the Excalibur where I normally would use a #5 on the Hawk cutting the same project. This is why I rarely will suggest a blade to anyone new or seasoned scroll sawer, because not every saw cuts the same. How the saw is tuned and set up makes a huge difference in cutting efficiency and blade life. Blade ( saw speed ) is another factor. in some cases a person can slow down or speed up a saw to make their comfort level with a certain blade. IF you find yourself pushing the wood harder than you should maybe you need to speed up the saw or choose a different blade. IF you find the cutting going too fast for you you can either slow the saw speed some or change a blade. Me personally, I run my saw on high speed for most all my cutting and adjust my sawing ability by swapping blades to get what I'm most comfortable with for sawing said project. I might have learned this technique from my first saw I had because it was a 2 speed saw and low speed was way too slow for me and high speed was kinda fast for me being a newbie at sawing so I learned to leave saw speed alone and look at various blades to find my comfort level.

Well I guess I’m about done messing with this guy. Struggled with how I wanted to do the arms and I finally settled on something simple. Overall it worked out pretty good. Sprayed a couple coats of Lacquer on it today. May do a light sanding and shoot another coat on it in a couple days. Was a fun and sometimes monstrous project that I had to put down and work on something else before I got mad and throw it. I will never make another one as It’s not my style of wood art to make. Almost declined making it in the first place and probably should have. But it is for a special occasion and person. Edit: Yes the clock lens is cracked, it's a old clock that I keep out in the shop to test fit when making projects.. I'll throw in a new clock before giving it to her. LOL.. My wife keeps on reminding me I can't use that clock in it because it's broke, LOL.. I keep messing with her saying it's not broke the clock works fine.. just has a crack in it,