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I decided to paint Goofy and he turned out pretty good. The soldier kneeling is a Dean mill pattern. OOPs forgot Scooby and another Dream Catcher.

Today is our 55th Wedding Anniversary. I didn't have a chance to get a card so when Steve Good showed his "DAD" gnome yesterday I modified to Love you and used the back for the message. A reduced in size and had to make a few modifications on the go as the hands covered the e completely. All done in less than a day.

A puzzle box with a twist; there's a magnet in the bottom of the hole for the pin, with panel nails in the pin to hold against the magnet. And you need a magic wand to open it. The pin was originally a standard heart, I flattened the heart so I could cut the pin in the shape of a key. Wood: 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 inch oak Blades: FD Polar #1 for the pin and sliding dovetail, Polar #5 for the inside void, the outside of the heart shape and to rip the 1/8" bottom. The only tricky part of the puzzle box is the order of cutting must be followed. 1. rip the bottom piece, 2. cut the pin, etc...

This pattern is another wall stencil that I converted for use with a Scroll Saw. I felt the pattern needed to be as large as possible but, because I use precut project panels, my maximum is limited to 12 by 19 inches. This pattern is cut out of 5/32” x 10” x 19” solid core Maple Ply which is affixed to a 1/4” x 10” x 19” Hand Painted (assuming that is the correct term for using an Air Brush) backer. My only wish was that I would have been able to have the wood grain run horizontally, but, again, because I use precut panels, this was not possible. All easy cutting - estimated to be around 700 holes, I lost count - was done using Pegas #0 spiral blades. The backer was painted with Artist Acrylic Paints specifically intended for use with an Air Brush. A regular artist brush was only used to do the small amount of White under the Geese necks and a little touch up here and there as needed after the panels were assembled. And yes, the Yellow/Red - Sun/Moon (your choice) was painted on the surface of the cut panel. The panel was finished with multiple coats of Krylon Clear Spray Acrylic Protective Coating. And, once again, the panel is set into a typical 1 3/4” wide custom made, premium grade pine, frame I made that was finished with Minwax Poly-Shade Mission Oak. For anyone interested, I used this project to document the steps I took to paint the backer, in this case, using an Air Brush. You can read my post in the Learning Center/ Works In Progress and Tutorials: Painting an Art Panel Backer with an Air Brush I will post this pattern in Pattern Central/Pattern Exchange for anyone who might like to have it. As always, comments and critique welcome.

Well . . . I lost a testicle to a table saw kick back so maybe just counting fingers is not quite enough.

Here is my latest out door project I made for my granddaughter and her husband who just completed building a new home. I wanted something to give them that also happened to be their 20th anniversary too. I thought they might enjoy hanging it at their entrance way. Dick heppnerguy

Several years ago a person contacted my with a request to make this same intarsia project for her to give to her church pastor who was retiring. All she had was a photo of it and had no idea where I might find the pattern to purchase one. I could not locate the maker of the pattern so I ended up using Inkscape to make one. I was fairly new at scroll saw projects but gave it a go and was able to get the project done. It came our fairly well and all were happy with it. I never attempted to make another but I had taken a photo of it for a memory of some of the things I have made through my new hobby. 3 days ago a local friend came to my house to ask me to make a cross for another local friend. I showed his some of my crosses and he choose the one he wanted for her. I happen to remember a few photos I had laying on a shelf of earlier projects and showed them to him, just because they were of some of my first ever projects. He ran across this one and changed his mind and ask if I would make it instead of the cross. I said I was willing to give it a try but I did not know if I could still find the pattern I made but I had the photo so I figured if I could not find the previous pattern I would make another. So I was able to find the pattern but it was really small. I was able to adjust it to the size I was after and here are the results. Dick heppnerguy

The hummingbird pattern is from Steve Good's post on May 31st. I did not do the box, just the hummingbird pattern. It is done on 3/8" ambrosia maple. The Tree of Life is my second attempt at doing epoxy with this pattern. This time the wood is 1/4" mesquite.

I was told that it is possible to cut off a finger on the scroll saw, but you would have to change the blade halfway through. Tom

Just a thought. How about applying a sanding sealer to the plywood before the pattern?

Hey Everyone! In this scroll saw project video, we make and awesome Father Son/Daughter fist bump piece for Fathers Day 2023! The design is by H. Botas and I cut it out with spiral scroll saw blades! Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

A few things I have cut recently. Like the heading says, nothing special. 40 boomerangs cut from 3mm Mdf and 40 Hugs cut from 3mm ply, all for a kindergarten The Lovers Tree cut from 5mm marine ply. Showing the rear because I damaged the from. Marg

3 of mine for the challenge.

I don't have a lot of projects that I consider outdoors, but I made the 2 fish ornaments for some fishing friends and a lighthouse to remind me of fun times relaxing at the beach.

Here are a few of my outdoors projects

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

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.

I got a request for some of these so made these

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.

Neil Diamond's song, Play Me, came on the radio the other day and it inspired this cutting. After reading some other opinions and listening to it about a dozen times while cutting it, for me, it's about the relationship between him and his guitar and maybe sometimes music as a whole. If you disagree, you're right too. I'll add the pattern to the library.

Yet that is real a nice picture. Well done

I had some rustic animals patterns from Sue Mey and I found a piece of Western Red Cedar in my shop, here are the results. The birds have not been burn yet

All very nicely done , as usual with your work. Your end presentation is also always outstanding. Thanks so much for posting your work so others have the opportunity to enjoy them as well Dick heppnerguy

Very nice, Dick. They'll hang it with pride and think of you each time they pass it.

I would be interested as well!

nice job

Beautiful piece. They will cherish it.

My go to is an old expired credit card. Checked it with several other squares and it is dead on.

very nice

Just under the frame of the saw so that all the dust just drops down into them. 3 Sided with a bottom. 1/8" BB ply.

Or lids to Tupperware tubs you don't have.

On my Excalibur saws, the sawdust that doesn't get caught up by the dust control will filter down onto my lap or shoes. So, I made a couple of slide in/slide out boxes and they catch what dust makes it through. That's where all the tiny pieces also go if they don't get sucked up. So far I've had good luck with finding them. If they do get sucked up, well, that's called "creative license".

Lost socks come back as Tupperware lids that don't fit any of your containers.

First puzzle box. Followed the directions from the latest issue of the Scrollsaw magazine, mostly. It was a block of basswood from KJP woods. Didn't add the 1/4" layer because I knew I was painting it. Finished with beeswax butter (beeswax mixed with mineral oil) 20230612_185413.mp4

I got the fish patterns from the Wooden Teddy Bear collection. There are 2 separate sets with 6 different fish in each set. Patterns #RV101 & RV102

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 did this one a while back. When leaving Jasper AB going west there is this very big “lake” not sure if you can call it that it was only about one foot deep ( haven’t been to Jasper for quite a while so not sure if it’s dried up). Anyway we saw a bear walking across the water and it looked like it was walking on water ( the kids called it the Jesus Bear). Even though this picture is a Grizzly walking on ice, it always reminds me of my favorite place on Earth, Jasper.

These would be some of my favourite outdoor projects. I don't have a picture of just the "Welcome to the Lake" sign, but I had one hanging on the boat until this spring when hubby dropped it. Now I need to cut another one. The puzzle is one of the spots we like to get to and anchor at for a couple of days. This is on Lake of the Woods, ON.

This was always my favorite outdoor activity when I owned my own.

We had a custom furniture maker behind ArtCrafters. He was using CA glue and squirted into the eye. He came over and I led him to the eye doctor a block away. Everything came out fine. He is now a Baptist minister.

A tiny dot of CA glue on each upper eyelid should help.

I just tie wrapped my vacuum nozzle to the lower arm guard under my DeWalt 788. Sawdust falling from the blade makes a hard turn and disappears into the vacuum nozzle if the vacuum (a repurposed whole house central unit with Dust Deputy separator ahead of it) is running. Since the vacuum unit is upstairs in my shop it makes so little noise down in the shop that I left it on several times. I've now mounted an orange colored light on the shop ceiling connected to the vacuum to remind me that it's running. My hearing isn't all that good, so others probably don't need the light. I do. Charley

When I first started scrolling it was on my saw for a day. After that it is trash. Now if I get a new saw, it is gone before I even setup the saw.

At my age I could care less.

Thanks. That's why I never heard of him. I was never a Rock and Roller. I'm still in the big band era.

The Table saw has sent me to the floor and emergency a couple times. But lucky for me nothing this serious.. I really hope you are kidding.. The worst I have done was 17 stitches to the back of my hand. I still love my table saw.. Not it's fault that I do stupid sometimes!