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My aunt asked me to make an Urn for her beagle, Buddy, who passed a while ago. Dark walnut box, with a scrolled front. I think the pattern came from The Wooden Teddybear.

Parrots in Tree and Peacock and Flowers are two stencils I converted and resized for use with a Scroll saw. These cuttings have taken me a long time to complete because, as you all know, life gets in the way sometimes. My “in-shop-time” has been very limited over the past months due to some minor medical problems and the need to get some long overdue chores completed around my home. Priorities, priorities! Parrots in Tree is 5/32” x 9” x 10” Maple solid core ply mounted on an oversized 1/4” thick painted backer. The backer is intended to be 11” x 12”, but mine was not cut correctly, thus the narrower boarder you see in the picture. My goof! There are two versions of the Peacock and Flowers patterns, a more inclusive overall image and the enlarged partial Image I chose to cut. My cutting is 5/32” x 11” x 17” Birch solid core ply affixed to a ¼” x 11” x 17” painted backer. The backers are painted with Artist Acrylics and are a combination of hand painting and an Air Brush painting. I’ve just begun to experiment with the use of the Air Brush. So far, I’m liking how the colors look. All cutting was done with Pegas #2/0 and #0 spiral blades, and as usual, the assembled panels are finished with multiple coats of a Clear Gloss Acrylic Protective coating. Frames are my typical 1 3/4” wide premium grade Pine finished with Minwax Mission Oak Poly-Stain. Comments and critiques are always welcome. I'll post the patterns in "Pattern Exchange".

I'm not done yet, but this is my outdoor challenge project.

Scrappile, when I get done with the market tomorrow I'll sand the end off of some lilac wood I have and show the color, whatever that turns out to be. I worked with some fresh cut lilac years ago and the lilac scent was so strong I got an unintentional buzz!

According to The Wood Database Lilac has variable colors "Colors can be variable depending on species. Sometimes seen with reddish or lavender color streaks throughout the heartwood." Lilac | The Wood Database (Hardwood) (wood-database.com)

I was not aware that turners were prone to prevarication. Although, my turning BIL certainly did lie to me about his sister's rosy disposition.

Here are a few of my outdoors projects

There you go,,, you going to believe a lathe turner,,, or as scroller? Well which is it!

Yes the Air Brush is difficult to keep clean. I have already found Acrylics will harden up in the gun before you are even done using a color. Air Brush cleaner liquid works well and I found a brush wetted with it, can be used to keep the tip clean between paint applications. My son is well versed in using an Air Brush and has given me a lot of tips. This Peacock is the first piece that I actually used the Air Brush on. My skills need a lot of improvement. I found I can already add shading and highlights but would love to be able to add fine details as well. I know: Practice, practice, practice!

The other day I was going trough a drawer looking for something and came across an accessory to a combination scare I have. I think it was something to measure depth, like a depth gauge. I never really figured it out and never used it for anything. But the old brain clicked on and I took a hacksaw to it and made the best tool I have come up with to check the 90° of my scroll saw blade. I cut it so it would fit either way, short or tall. The combination square it went with was a cheap one. Anyway check out you combo squares, there are other parts on them that could easily be cut to fit.

@MarieCMarie, sorry I can't help with that question, I don't use poplar for outdoor projects, so I never thought about using a UV product. Rick

Marie, here in the Hudson Valley, the BIG ORANGE store occasionally will have poplar that has a light purple vein. It does darken to almost black if left unfinished for a little while. I was told the reason for the color in the poplar is due to the minerals in th soil, so I guess as the saying goes, "Your mileage May Vary" Good luck in your search. Rick

Stunning! Thank you.

fantastic work

I usually use my Wixey gauge when changing the angle. But many years ago I drew this in Autocad based on an article in SSWWC. Printed if out (red) and glued it to a piece of Plexiglass.

I have many squares because I do many other things besides scroll sawing. If I were only scroll sawing, I would still need a square. The first thing that comes to mind is compound cuts. If the stock is not square when cutting compound cuts you can get unexpected results. I use squares for aligning tools. For example, if I am sanding edges, I need the sander to be square to the table.

Beautiful work!

I am so looking forward to it. Is the tree a dark purple lilac. Paul @Scrappile I will definetly believe a scroller over a lathe turner...evem though I do both

I must be lame because I've been scrolling since around 2005 and only changed the angle of my saw maybe 2-3 times, and that was just to do an experiment.. I can say though with just my real limited angle cutting that If I were to do much angle cutting I'd have to have a Pegas or Ex saw that the head tilts instead of the table.. This tool looks like it'd be real handy to have, I always wanted to try making some bowls.. and now that I have about 500bft of walnut lumber I might have to give it a try since fretwork style cuttings from dark walnut really doesn't look great and the fine cut lines are hard to see since the wood is so dark. I have a lot of spalted maple too that I need to use up.. sounds like I just talked myself into buying this tool and making some bowls.. Thanks

You will get better old habits are very hard to break.

Don't know of any. You might have to go with a stain.

Just a quick segmentation project I am working on this weekend. I just did the first coat of paint. Need to sand, glue it up and add the gloss finish. Thought it looked pretty good in the loose dry fit stage. But this speaks outdoors to me. looking at a single flow brings me such joy seeing the handiwork in creation.

summer is fishing time in the outdoors............The one that got away..............

Summer has always been about being outdoors, enjoying the sights, random encounters with interesting critters, and various activities such as hiking, geocaching, kayaking, archery, etc. Don't have any kayak-related scroll projects yet.

I am married to a teacher, very nice work!

Great job on the lettering.

I love it.

Mmm. I wonder what my workshop would look like with lots of paintings of my work on the walls