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Just having "fan". Patterns from The Book of Fans - designs for stained glass by Leslie Sharp. Playing around with segmentation and adding shims for height. The boat is coloured with Unicorn Spit and coated with Osmo satin finish. The tulips are acrylic paint and coated with beeswax butter. Not sure what wood the boat is. Tulips cut from red oak. Both cut with #1 MG blade.

I keep forgetting to post a picture of Trudy's sign..........so here it is.

I've already posted this in the "Bragging Rights" forum and didn't think of posting it in this month's challenge. This is my tractor cutting with colors similar to a name brand tractor company. The pattern is one of my own and is posted in the Village library.

My new color fill wolf. I made this one from some walnut that me and my best friend milled in 1998. The design for the wolf came from one of Judy Gale Roberts Fine Line Design fretwork books.

Had a friend request a couple of verses. After some back and forth, I decided it would be best to make it a two piece project. Cut from 1/2" Red Oak. The top one is 8 X 14 inches and the lower one is 5 x 14. My design using Inkscape.

I usually wait too long to wax the table. Not this time. So this is just a reminder.

This years' addition to my Norman Rockwell baseball themed puzzles. Number nine in the collection. It is a essentially a tray puzzle (hence no locks connecting the pieces) cut along the color lines of the picture. Overall 8"x10", puzzle approx 6" square, 55 pcs. If you are interested you can see the others (except for last years' - haven't gotten that one uploaded yet) here: https://heirloomwoods.wordpress.com/album-2/cards-and-puzzles/norman-rockwell/

Beautiful! Might make a nice Christmas piece to put next to a manger scene with a candle behind to shine through the candle hole. Great job!

Beautiful piece! l love old license plates. These plates are from my wife and my birth years. Mine is actually from my birth county. Hope to find hers.

Barbara have you ever reached out to Sue Mey, another South African, to see where she gets her supplies and wood? Sue is a very active designer. She can be contacted through this link: Contact Me (scrollsawartist.com)

It turned out like this., You can see through the candle but not the words.

Took a week off from scroll sawing to make frames that I have been putting off doing. The Leopard and the Cheetah is Russ Beard Patterns ( the Cheetah is from my own stock of photos staying in South Africa I visited various Wildlife Park two to three times a year and built up quite a stock, I sent the Cheetah to Russ and he was kind enough to make a pattern for me.) the Dragon is also a Russ Beard pattern from the series The Game of Thrones. With the wildlife cuts I stuck to the Shou Sugi Ban techniques because it’s part of Africa. The Dragon frame is a Black epoxy Stain that came out quite well, all in all I’m happy with all of them, cut on 1/8” Baltic Birch Plywood.

Took some careful cutting but I got all the letters cut and out in one piece!

Now Trudy can stand proud!

Your fretwork and your plates look awesome! Hope having both in the same photo won't get you in trouble with the photo police...............

Added a backer board spray painted black for the shepherd, stained it and added danish oil.. The owl face is just coated in danish oil over raw birch. I don't have a real home for them yet, just put them anywhere for now.

I like both, and while the owl does take a moment to see, it's a cool piece!

Both are really gorgeous! All the colors work perfectly together.

they are beautiful, awesome work.

very nice job

Really great looking pieces, well done.

Really like these. Well done.

Oh wow they are beautiful. Very impressive work Barb. Marg

Love it. In fact I have not seen a piece of yours that I haven't loved. Marg

Terrific work on both. Marg

I think Gene summed it up in the first comment. You did an outstanding job. The cutting, fitting and finish is perfection. I wish I could "play around" like that!

I think you guys and gals might be giving me a big head. Thanks for the compliments.

Beautiful, simply beautiful!

Awesome job. You sure are stepping up your game.

That is some serious playing around! Very nicely done.

I bought the Ridgid right after it came out! It’s been more than 15 years and is still going strong.

That is the work of a true scrolling master with a sharp eye, a steady hand and the scroll saw that has no or very little wear and maintained to do that fine cutting. Letters and numbers are two of the most difficult to cut and get it right! Sir, if I had a hat on I would have it off right now! Super job! Erv

Looks good! I have been looking for just the right wolf pattern to make for my neighbor. This one could be the one. Looks like you have some old license plates displayed. My Dad had a bunch, wished I would have kept those.

Another fine job, and I don't mind the LP's gives it style, RJ

Barb, you have done a beautiful job, RJ

Those are beautiful!

Well Frank, it was just a quick photo to be shared with my fellow scrollers. It's not one that I plan on displaying. Like you, I make no apologies. If you don't like it, don't look at it.

I made this jig when I was asked to do a wooden gear clock project for SSWWC magazine. All of the gears have to be precise. I cut the teeth leaving the tips of the teeth long and then set them on the disk sander. The distance from center to disk is adjustable and the slowly rotated the gear sanding off the tips.. This is only good if you can put a hole in the center of your circle. For just free handing a circle, it gets easier with practice, cut just outside the line and if you have a disk sander carefully sand to the line. Barbara also makes a good point, look just ahead of where your cutting, kind of like driving. Be aware, if you are cutting natural wood the blade likes to follow the grain as you transition from cross to strait grain.

A recent cut (approx 11" x 8") for a local football club logo (soccer to most of you guys) - Aston Villa Football Club, currently riding quite high in the English Premier League

Awesome work!

Beautiful work you ready created something different I like it

Goodness it's hard for me to express to non-scrollers just how satisfying this craft is to me. Finished this mounted standup puzzle today. 1 inch thick oak stair tread offcuts from someone's curb, mounted with epoxied doweling to a scrap walnut base. Used the angle cutting feature of our jet saw to cut the walnut at a 10 degree angle for visual interest. The Pegas 7R blade handled the cutting nicely with virtually no need for sanding. One of our daughters raises heritage breed hogs on her and her husband's small farm and she just loves the critters. Expect this will join the stuff on her desk at the local Agricultural Extension Office. I plan to draw up more hogs, some goats, sheep, chickens and other farm critters to turn into mounted standup puzzles for gifts as I go. Thanks for looking folks. Don.

3 stack 1/8" BB, 330 cuts using FD Ultra reverse. ( template included for anyone who might want it.)

I love your plaques and the color makes them pop. It is a great way to honor your friends with a gift that will mean a lot to your friend who is still alive and the family of the veteran that passed. Dick heppnerguy

Here is the final Sam Elliot. I chose a framing method I had not used before. I glued the piece on a larger backer board and then framed it. The frame is heart pine that was revived from an old roof deck. My brother gave me some.

This is a pattern I made and cut on 1/4-inch Maple ply. The face of the plywood delaminated in a couple areas so I decided to paint the piece. The paint is water color. I finished with a Minwax natural stain and 4-coats of Polyacrylic with light sanding with 600 grit sandpaper between coats. I cut the frame from picture frame stock I had on hand. The piece is 13X14. The pattern is in the Village library.

Recently finished this little guy as part of my wildlife collection. Dick

Another color filled eagle. Made from cherry. https://www.facebook.com/tjswoodshop

Darn I found one more, don't know why I forgot it, the most colorful project I hav done. It is an Alex Fox pattern that was to be a wall hanging but I turned it into a real bird house.

I love what you are doing. It is so wonderful when someone sees another being faithful to help a need and then to give her something special as a thank you for caring so much. Very honorable of you. I love it when people reach out like you did. Dick heppnerguy