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Here is the lover's tree all finished. The painting too the longest because the weather is so cold. I spray outdoors and bring it inside to dry in the spare room. Marg

My Daughter asked me to make "something out of wood" for her boyfriends birthday. He's a huge pokemon fan, and especially magikarp This is what I came up with. The magikarp is segmentation basswood painted with craft paint. The background is also basswood. I cut it into 2" wide pieces and knocked the corners off with a block plane. Frame is Butternut. Also knocked off the corners with a block plane. Overall dimensions are about 12" square. Chris

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.

I scored a piece that I think might have been a table in a previous life. It was amongst some cypress lumber listed on Facebook marketplace that I picked up an hour or so from home in South Louisiana. I thought that since the cypress was recovered from an old home on the bayou that pelicans were in order. So here it is.

Found this on Lightbox Goodman's site (someone posted another project they'd done, so I had to go and browse https://lightboxgoodman.com/collections/trending) and thought it would be a fun cut. I was right, for once. 1/4 bbply for the jelly and the backer, both stained Minwax Honey. Frame is a random 2x2 ripped in half, stained Minwax Provincial. I hit the jelly with a rattlecan of blue and purple, making the blue heavier on the top and purple heavier on the bottom. Thought it turned out pretty darn spiffy.

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!

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

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.

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

Simply breathtaking. It makes me feel patriotic. Great work.

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.

Perhaps this could be an interesting eagle pattern . Photo by my wife.

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.

So glad your knee is doing better and the swelling is subsiding....you had me concerned there for a while. Nice work of the doggies...they are such cute and smart dogs.

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

Wow! You've got this star wars stuff down. Amazing work!

nice trio of pets. It was good that the dark dog was in the middle to give good balance of the picture and cutting. Good to here about your health is getting better. Me. Mark Eason

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

Nice job RabidAlien. Your choice of paint colors are excellent, the two colors meet very well. Rick

Wow! Great cutting! Nice color as well....

Looks Good. I have been experimenting with the Spray Colors kind of like you show here. And you give me Ideas. Might get back into making Frames again. Danny :+}

Oooo I love this so much!! I love how you took great care to find the perfect flag for the project. Our flag deserves so much more respect than it is getting these days. It just peeves me off. This piece is very inspiring and now I want to do something patriotic!! I just love it!

I love it, Frank. Bruce

terrific job

Looks awesome!!! Might've had an oval mirror attached to it at some point?

Looks very natural. Well done with the cutting and finishing.

You turned it into a masterpiece!

Wonderful! Really nice work!

I recently purchased the King Excelsior 21 saw. Taking a long time to retrain the muscles for tensioning after 10 years with a DeWalt. I am not liking the plastic piece under the table which connects to the dust port. The Seyco dust collection hose is too small for the port. Has anyone just removed the plastic piece? If so, how much dust then falls through the other holes in the table? I will get around to looking at hooking up the other tubes for the Seyco system, just haven't had time yet.

They came out great.

That looks awesome, Alex.

terrific job

Fabulous work on all. Marg

Great pattern Alex. Thank you so much for reminding me how old I am. Marg

They all look really great.

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

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

Beautiful project Dave! We used to play in high school. Very little strategy. Mostly just move around till an opportunity presented itself.

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

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

wow, are there 3 layers of spokes? Is each spoke is a separate piece? 5 rims and tires. I am totally impressed. I love the T top to show the interior. So it is truely a 1929 woody. Great job.

Wow that is amazing. You did an awesome job. Marg

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

You've created an awesome piece there, Larry. Fantastic job.

Well done! Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

WOW Larry, that is really cool. Looks like it came from a model kit. Did you have to purchase some additional tools to do this? Jerry

Yet that is real a nice picture. Well done

I am trying my best to stay perfect.

You want embarrassing moment? Ok, I was working as a maint mechanic at a small production facility and took over a repair started by someone else. I should add this was in the days before lockout/tagout. I finished the small repair, turned the breaker back on and nothing. I checked a few things and decided it might need the electrician. He came down, took a quick look and then just plugged the machine into the outlet on the breaker box. Took awhile to live that one down.