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I just finished this monster. Boy it took a long time to cut and to make the pattern. I like how it turned out, though.

The knee from the knee replacement has been doing better and the swelling form the blood clot is not as bad. This allowed me to get into the shop a little the past couple days and let me to finish my latest project. The piece is cut on 1/4-inch Birch and stained with Ipswich Minwax while the backer is Birch sprayed with black. The black is a single coat because I wanted to show the grain pattern even though it is covered by the paint. The frame is pine cut down from a 1X8 and then cut to fit. The piece and frame were sprayed with 4-coats of Polyacrylic with light sanding with 320 grit sandpaper between coats. This piece is the "Three Amigos" together after doing each individually. I've believe I posted a picture of the individual pieces already so I'm posting a group photo now. The wife will rearrange the three individuals around the Three Amigos piece. These were fun cuts and it's also nice knowing that I also did the patterns. By the way, in the Three Amigos piece, they are Oreo, Hershey and Kiss. Guess you could say we have some SWEET PUPPIES!

Age test: who remember this item or even use it now? One of my customers from Germany asked me to make such pattern. Firstly I tried to make original size I wanted to make it realistic, but it came out very fragile and impossible to cut. I had to removed some details but it was look too simple. So I increesed pattern twise (pattern size is 8 x 5 inches) and here is final variant. I know that it looks like 3D cutting or with carving elements, but pattern is simpler than it appears, it is just glued layers without floating elements (one layer - one piece) Pattern at https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexFoxUA

Baum-Baum-Baum, Baum-Ba-Baum, Baum-Ba-Baum.

I have been itching to cut another Eagle pattern but could not find an image that I liked or that had not been done by others. Since the Bald Eagle is our National Bird and the Emblem of our USA Nation, it is very fitting that it is often shown in various portrayals with the Stars and Stripes, our Grand American Flag. I found this Image of an Eagle that I liked, but it had a distressed Flag in the background that I did not like. I tend to be a purest and find the many images of our American Flag shown distressed or with other colors to be, IMHO to some degree, unpatriotic. I feel Our American flag should be treated with all the respect it deserves. So, I went searching for a more, again IMHO, standard Image of our Flag. As you are probably aware, there are a vast number of free images available. I found an Image of a waving flag that was more suited to being converted to a scroll saw pattern. I combined the Image of the Eagle (minus the distressed flag) I liked with the version of the Waving American Flag. My problem was that the Eagle was a “positive” image and the Flag a “negative” image. I solved this problem by cutting two separate cut Panels. One of the Eagle and one of the American Flag, with the area that is hidden by the superimposed eagle removed. The Eagle was cut out of a 1/4” x10” x 12” solid core Walnut panel and the Flag was cut in a 5/32” x 14” x 12” solid core Maple panel. The backer (third layer) was 1/4” x 14” x 12” BB Ply. The positive Eagle cutting was quite fragile, so I darkened it by dipping it Minwax Dark Walnut Stain. The stain was lightly/gently wiped off, hung up and allowed to dry for over three days. I used my Air Brush to paint the Backer and Flag Cut Panel, the flag “Red, White, and Blue” colors. In lieu of using Acrylic Gesso under the colors, I sealed all the surfaces to be painted with clear Acrylic Sealer. The Eagle panel was cut with Pegas #0 and #2/0 spiral blades while the Flag panel was cut with Pegas #1 MGT R blades. After the stain was dry and painting completed, the panel was assembled in two steps. The Backer and Flag cut panel glued up first and then the Eagle cutting was glued to the surface of the Flag cut panel. Thus, three layers. You can see this in the second Photo below. The assembled panel was then finished with multiple coats of the Clear Gloss Acrylic For this unique piece, I custom made a gallery style Floating Frame using nominal 3/4” Maple hardwood with a thin nominal 1/8” gap around the panel. To match the Maple Cut Panel the Maple frame was left natural and finished with the same Clear Gloss Acrylic Protective Finish. You can all salute now. Comments and Critques always welcome.

Since I over qualify (due to age) for SUPER SENIOR on the golf course, I use a cart, so I made my own. Pattern from Steve Good and if. You download it there is an error in the pattern, the slats for the seat shows 6 slats you need 8. Still having fun

I could not resist when I saw this pattern, still having fun

This is a Modern Art interpretation of a Carved Fretwork Jaguar cut on a beautiful piece of walnut. Finished piece is 13" x 13"

And how many people remember using a pencil to get the tape back into the cassette when the player "ate" it? Now side tracking to 8-track cassettes, there are still songs I listen too, and remember the KATHUNK, when the player changed tracks in the middle of a song!

One of my newest Intarsia pieces. A Bruce Worthington design that I changed up some. 9 different woods, all natural colors.

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!!

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.

Wow.. we think alike! I am working on something similar, but in addition to the eagle overlaying the flag, I also have the statue of liberty.

Very nice.

very nice. The eagle backer was very well done with proper color. Just quick glance tells me something is missing. A flag pole or something hold the flag. But it is artists decision. It is fine the way it is, because all other aspects are very well done. Me. Matk Eason

Here's my set up. I use the valve on the bottom to restrict the airflow because when your board doesn't have many holes in it has a tendency to suck to the table making it difficult to move the board. The valve allows for regulating this. The top is a loc-line fitting. It has come to my attention since I mentioned this 3d printed fitting initially that some or maybe even all excalibur saws don't have the 4 bolts like my king industrial saw does, so I'm not sure if it would help anyone that doesn't have a king industrial saw.

Holy Cow! That's a Fantastic Creation! Absolutely Flawless and Drop Dead Gorgeous! Your skills amaze me and I love the way that you described the process! Dick

Very nice, RJ

Yay! I am so happy you decided to make it! Awesome work as always! I bet that took quite a while to make...so detailed.

Nice,very Nice!

Awesome. May the force be with you. Marg

That is an awesome piece. You could put it any where and who ever is passing could make a move. Cool. Marg

DArn you Charlie... can't get that theme out of my head now! Join the force....

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

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.

You did a great job on that with a spiral blade. I still can't get used to using them.

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.

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.

I saw your recognition on Steve Good's site. Congratulations on that. Again you do a great work with your videos that not only entertain others but also is a good education for many Dick heppnerguy

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

Don't know how I ended up posting 2 pictures, maybe one of the 3 thumbs I have got in the way.

For those who use the instagram platform, I would like to inform you all that my original account artisanpirate was compromised and hacked, I cannot log in to it anymore and i've been forced to make a new on artisan.pirate and I hope the over 3000 followers I gathered their will refollow me, its been a frustrating few days... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijkjsWxeYg&ab_channel=ArtisanPirate Hey Everyone! In this fun scroll saw project video, we make an awesome Animal Cracker Train! This design uses various materials, including live edge! The design is in the newest issue of Scroll Saw & Woodworking Crafts Magazine! Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate