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It's not finished but this is my first attempt at a love spoon. I scrolled out all the shape of it and used a combination of knife and rotary tool for the shaping. I need to do some more sanding and shaping to get it right.

Take the time to set up your workspace for comfort. I've been scrolling away with my butt going to sleep after several minutes of sawing. Today, I finally had enough and took my barstool apart and replaced the foam in the seat. The stool is probably 20 years old and the foam was basically disintegrated. A trip to Walmart and $20 in foam and it's so much better. Not sure why I put that off for so long.

Herd of Alpacas pattern by Jaeheon Yun and found in his book 20 Minute Scroll Saw Puzzles. I used 3/4" Hard Maple approximately 8" square. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #5 MGT blades. After sanding with a Mac Mop, dipped in diluted Shellac and then lightly snded again. Comments welcome.

Got some hardwood “cookies” and decided to try to make a bowl out of them, so far 2 done. One of them the bark was not the best so I removed it and burned the edge. Having fun

I finally raised the backend of my Hawk after seeing many do it with their saws. My neck didn’t hurt when I was done sawing like it usually does. Wished I had done it a long time ago.

After some serious sewing projects for our boat, I finally got some time on the saw! 3/4 plywood of unknown woods. A gift from a friend. Used a #5mg blade. No finish on it yet. Actually, not sure what to use! Thoughts? I don't want to mess up the flexibility. 20230629_151731.mp4

Hey Everyone! In this fun scroll saw project video I make cut out my logo! This has been a viewer requested project for awhile now and I hope I fulfilled it! I use 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 inch material from my scrap bin. Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

I can't take credit for the idea, I saw it on YouTube some time ago. I think it was Jim's fix-it shop or something like that. Anyway, I finally set mine up. I know some will find it silly or not at all useful but I think it's neat. It's an analog clock that is attached to my foot switch. When the saw is running the clock is running. I can simply set it to 12 and count how long I've worked on a project. I can take a break, eat a sandwich, take a nap and when I get back and start again the timer goes again. I suppose you could use this to price your work, but for me it's more curiosity. I just want to see how long certain projects take. I found the clock on ebay for $10 so to me it was worth it. I will say that there weren't many analog clocks on ebay when I got this one though so it could be hard to source. It has to be analog because digital would reset every time you killed power to it.

This is my journey into doing intarsia. Learning as I go and certainly not using the more exotic woods that are available. Strictly pine and poplar so far using stains or paint for color. The actual order that I have done them is the Whale, Rooster, Goldfish, Butterfly, Apple and finally the Cat. Happy with my progress, but still much to learn.

Another one of my color filled shield eagles that I cut from cherry. I filled this one with purple resin. It’s looks bluer in the photo.

Very cool and simple idea. I have tried using my phone before but of course always forget to turn it off and on so it never works right.

I've been using a similar setup for years now, I plug the clock, foot switch, and the light into a power strip. When I start a session I turn on the power strip when I finish a session I turn the power strip off. I use the clock to time maintenance of the saw, how long a project takes, and just personal curiosity.

Another photo of the island cove intarsia piece that I recently finished. It was presented to its owner this last Thursday 6/29/23. The original design came from Bruce Worthington and I changed it some to get the look I wanted. Since I've had numerous people ask what woods I used, I thought I would post it again with a list. 1. African padauk- Red top half of background 2. Cherry-Brown lower half of background and frame 3. Western red cedar-Different shades for beach, background behind trees, sailboat mast and around top of boat. 4. Walnut-Palm trees and shadow inside boat. 5. Maple-Refection of boat in water. 6. Beetle killed pine-Water 7. Poplar-Different shades for vegetation around base of trees. 8. Catalpa-Palm fronds. 9. Spalted hickory-Gathering storm clouds 10. Aspen-Sail and body of boat.

I have been collecting different woods for about 35 years. I was a logger for 17 years. All told I probably have 10-20 thousand dollars' worth of wood stuck back. My family has sawmill that I get my local hardwoods and when I travel, I look up and visit people with sawmills. I also visit different wood stores in my travels. Luckily for me, I also have a friend that has a local woodwork store that stocks exotic woods. Whenever I go to east Tennesse I always visit Jeffries Wood Works and buy a load as well. Never can have too much wood.

The wife has been visiting family in PA and I was fortunate enough to stay home and take care of the fur babies. It also allowed me time to finish some projects I kept putting off. The old car is a pattern by Grampa. I cut two and placed the "face" side of the wood together when I stacked to see if that would help with reducing the delamination issues.... it didn't! They are cut on 1/4-inch Birch. After using watercolor to paint the painted piece I used Minwax Ipswich stain and found that does the best covering up the delamination. The backers are black painted Pine. The frames are pre-finished framing material cut to fit. The deer scene is a Steve Good pattern, Both are 1/4-inch Birch, one painted and the other Minwax Ipswich. A black Pine backer which has a painted cardboard bird and moon painting glued over the cut-outs in the backer. The last was a request for Mother's Day for someone that never returned to pick it up. It is a Steve Good pattern cut on 1/4-inch Maple ply stained with Minwax Espresso. The Lauan backer is 1/4-inch and stained with Minwax Natural. I've got a couple projects in the making, one I've already started and another I'm waiting on the new saw to arrive to start that one. Both

Sasho contributed the pattern for this to our library about a year ago. To me, it's both sad and happy at the same it. I immediately cut it, but only this week got around to framing 'Life' and it now hangs over my desk. The foreground, the background, and the frame are all quarter-sawn white oak.

Eagle Owl pattern by Jacob Fowler found in Woodworker's Pattern Book. I used 1/2" Cherry approximately 6" x 10". The base is unknown wood. I used Pegas #1 MGT blades and cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw. After sanding, dipped in diluted Shellac. Another light sanding with a Mac Mop and then one coat spray Lacquer clear satin. Comments welcome.

My daughter’s best friend is getting married and she asked to cut something for her, here is my choice.

My niece has been training her horse and has been doing quite well in horse shows in the area. She sent me this picture and I used it to make a pattern and then cut it for her. The cutting is on 1/4-inch Maple ply which I stained with Minwax Natural. The grain was so pretty I didn't want to cover it up with a darker stain. The backer is 1/4-inch Lauan ply painted a brownish red using acrylic artist paint. I was trying to match the color of her horse but when it dried it was slightly more red. The frame is pre-fab framing material cut to size. I used Pegas 2/0 and Flying Dutchman 3/0 spiral blades. This was a really fun project and it's always nice when the gift is greatly appreciated. Well, I'm officially off vacation and start back to work Monday. A "BIG" positive is my new Pegas saw is supposed to be delivered on Monday and that will allow me the July 4th holiday to put it together. Thanks again to Denny at Artcraftersonline.com for a great deal.

Been a bit since I have finished a project. SOOOOOOOOO much going on. Garden in full swing, tractors and a backhoe that need fixed, a little camping and fishing. My Mother-in-Law passed away this last week and my wife is just beyond sad. I finally got in the shop yesterday and today and finished the frame and put this together. It is a H.Botas Pattern. The piece is poplar strips glued together and planed down. The frame is some teakwood that is used in pallets of things coming from out of the country. The splines are Dark Walnut from here on the property. The stain is Golden Oak.

Sometimes, it's the simplest of scroll saw projects that bring the most satisfaction. My first (and only) grandson, Liam, playing with the rattle I made for him. What's cool is the clothing was given as a gift from a Turkish officer I work with at NATO. He's about to become a first-time father, and not only did I make a puzzle and a car for his soon-to-be baby, but a near identical rattle just like this.

My newest Tree of Life. Cut from 1/2 inch cherry. It went to it's owner Friday.

Edward, i would look into a Wen before buying an harbor freight, RJ

Jik and i made a pattern of Tina

I have my vacuum hooked up with my foot switch. How can I add the clock (that I just ordered)?

This is going to sound crazy but I hooked mine to a spliter on my foot switch. It never even occurred to me that I could have used a power strip. Oh well, it works both ways.

Awesome piece, TJ.

Exactly the same way I felt when I'd fixed my chair. Like why didn't I do this sooner.

awesome job

beautiful job

Very nice so far!!! I have been thinking about doing this once since I made the spoon in my "Remy" intarsia project. Where did you get the plan? Do you watch Dai 'lovespoons' on YT?

Looks terrific for a first try. Well done. Marg

Really great work owner will be happy i'm sure.

Tj, Awesome! just darn beautiful!

Thank you for listing the woods you used. With that verity, It kind of makes me wonder how much stock of various woods do you have and how do you obtain such a veriety to choose from? Kowing the price of the various exotic wood available from Ocooch, it must take a fairly large outlay to get started. Would love to know more about this subject. I have not attempted any Intarsia, but it reminds me a lot of work my Dad did many years ago (maybe close to 40 years ago) called Marquetry, with the major difference is that in Intarsia you add depth and sculpture to your work. I know back then he used to buy his vaneers in large variety packs so he had lots and lots of choices. However, I also remember how he would complain that, with all the coices he had, he could not find a piece that gave him the color ot grain he needed. I suspect some of that is the same for your work.

That is an awesome picture. You have a good eye for picking colors just like a painter has to have when painting pictures.

Couple of my projects in June. Boot, Campfire Napkin Holder and Nana's Kitchen.

It's always fun watching our progress as we do more and learn. My effort has been focused on always nailing my lines, this minimizes fine fitting. If you look at my cuts between the purple and white wood, this has zero fine fitting/sanding, no stacking etc.... Just accurate cuts to the guideline. I just concentrated really hard and went slow, slow, slow.

I found this B&W ‘High Noon Show Down’ image on-line and thought it would be a good Scroll Saw subject. I know there are few fans of Old West among the SVV members that might like it. I understand this is a scene from a movie/series of a while back of the same name. I never watched it. The conversion consisted of no more than resizing and inverting the image, so the cutout areas were red lines with grey fill. Added a few bridges to the pattern and I also found that I needed a few more bridges during cutting. I didn’t count, but there were a lot of holes. All cutting was done with Pegas #2/0 Spiral blades, except I used a Pegas #1 MGT R for the long straight cuts along the narrow 1/4” wide edges (under the frame rabbet). The cut panel is 5/32” x 11 x 14” solid core Walnut ply that was darkened with Minwax Dark Walnut stain. The cut panel was affixed to a 1/4” x 11” x 14” solid core Maple Ply backer that was left natural. This project is “Old School” - two tone wood, and it took a lot of will power on my part not to try and add color. The assembled panel was finished with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Spray Lacquer. The Frame is 1 3/4” wide Premium Pine rails sealed with non-wax containing Shellac, stained with Minwax Honey Maple Gel-Stain, and finished with two coats of Clear Minwax Satin Wipe-on Poly. Since I have been using Acrylic Paints and Polycrylic finishes recently, I almost forgot how long oil stain and Poly takes to dry - seems like forever. Comments and critiques always welcome. I’ll post the pattern in Pattern Exchange.

If you have a spray gun or airbrush, you could use a dye stain like Unicorn Spit. It can go @100% or you can cut it with water.

Not sure what you call what I am doing since I am making this up as I go along. My apologies for the glare... Again, I used @Dave Monk technique for raising the vines out of the wood. I used 3/4 inch Walnut, Purple heart, Red heart (which turned kind of orange-ish) and Yellow heart which I inlayed into the walnut before scrollsawing and then carving. It has multiple layers of epoxy for depth while I was painting. I chose the grapes because my son-in-law loves a good wine and my daughter, Molly, loves flowers I hope you can guess where they were married Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Very nice work,Love the frame.