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This is something I have been working on for two years. I would work on it for awhile, get stuck on something and then come back later. It was a combination of a plan and actual drawings of the car. A lot of different tools were used but many cut with my scrollsaw. The fenders were compound cut and then shaped. The difficult part was fitting the fenders to the curved body. The Spoke wheels were a huge challenge and I made many bad ones before figuring it out.L

I saw a magnetic chess set similar to this on Esty so I thought I would give it a shot. The second picture is the back side showing how I put the magnets in the board. I should have cleaned up my bench before I took the picture. I used CA glue to glue the 1/4" magnets on the back of the chess pieces.

Penny was tossing her old CPAP air hose (time to change it out---part of routine care). Very flexible and durable, and not big and bulky, she said "Don would this maybe work for dust collection on our scroll saws?". I'm going to work on this idea. The hose has soft rubber joints that can be adapted to a few solid fittings. Penny and I are repurposers through and through. Just wanted to share my beloved Penny's inspiration. Don.

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

very nice. I like the inner frame. It has been a while (25 yrs) since I played chess. So Mate in 27 moves hah. White wins. I think this is a dangerous black opening. It is using opposite bishop pawn of the Sicilian defense. Opens up black kings diagonal. It is nice that you made extra queens. You might want to hang the board with the white square on the bottom right. Or just make the pieces play left and right instead of top / bottom.

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.

I knew it, Dave, when you asked about or showed one several weeks ago you were planning something really cool, You never let us down. But I say shut up you two about the moves.. I am an old chess player from way back.. I hold a record that I am very proud of, I have never won a game! Several years ago, My grandson went with us to Mount Rushmore, I decided to teach him to play chess on that trip...He beat me on my first game when I was trying to train him!!

Dave, a while back you were talking about this, and I knew it would show up here some day. You have done a excellent job on it, as usual, thx for sharing, RJ

Thanks so much for the reminder about white on bottom right. I sure wasn't thinking there. Will have to change that.

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

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.

Those look great.

Great job on that Frank.

I bought 2 of those hoses when I made the onboard dust collection systems for my 2 Ex's. I used the Metrovac 500 and a tiny cyclone with each one. They work great. The hose works great.

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...

Welcome to the village from North Mississippi. I’m also new to the group. I’ve found there’s a lot of friendly, helpful and knowledgeable people here. It’s great!!

That is amazing. I actually think it is one of your best and you do, do some lovely work. Marg

Terrific work on all Judy. Love Goofy. Marg

Hi Archy, welcome to the Village. Sit back and relax and enjoy your stay, we are a friendly bunch. Marg

Barb, Good thing I have a video of one of my boxes time stamped at Jan 2019. I had stopped cutting these because I kept losing the pin, the magnet was put in out of desperation, one day it just hit me, "magnets".

The best tool/jig I have found for getting close to 90*(I still use the "cut a line and check the backside for fine tuning) is a pair of 1-2-3 blocks; these blocks are machined out of a block of steel and are within .0002" of squareness on all 6 sides, they are about as simple as you can get.

I saw this cross posted on Etsy and saved a photo of it to my pictures about 3 or 4 months ago. I finally found the time to make it and I could not find the piece again to see about buying the pattern so I just made a pattern from it. The one I saw was made with different colors of wood inset that was so beautiful but as I got into it I began to realize it was going to be more than I was willing to try so just cut out the skeleton pattern I had made and call it good. I thought it was so pretty the was it was in the photo I downloaded but since I turned away from what I really intended to do, I found I still liked it the way it turned out. I just hope when my wife returns home the middle of July, she too will like it. Dick heppnerguy

Here’s some of my work. The large oval piece I did with my 1st saw many years ago. Patents still has it hanging in their house. First two are Steve Good designs. Third I drew up for my niece’s wedding cake topper. Fourth I did a long time ago with my first saw. No clue where that pattern came from.

You are wrong Marg, These are very special. When one takes the time to do something for the younger people, it is ALWAYS SPECIAL...and so are you Dick heppnerguy

That looks great. Alex Snodgrass did a similar puzzle box in the shape of an apple. A worm was the key and the stem was the magnet to pull the worm out.

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

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.