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Just finishing this one up. Pattern from an old magazine. 1/2 plywood plaque (9 layers), I cut two stacked, FD Polar #1, Ebony for the dark stripes, dark walnut for the body, natural for the face and background. I saved all the dropouts (taped them back in place while I cut the rest of the pattern) stained them separately and then glued them back in place, the dark stripes were glued just pround of the surface (toothpicks for spacers 5/64" )

I designed a new unique cell phone and tablet holder which i needed. Then i loved it so much and decided to create its pattern for others use. Have fun! Wooden Adjustable Phone Tablet Stand.mp4

Mini Model A Cars. 6 models. Size is ¾” x 1 ⅝” x 2 ⅞”. Replenishing my stock. Toy cars, trains and planes I sell a lot of at the trade shows.

Here's my latest work. Lots of time spent making the pattern and cutting this one.

My Grandson and his Girlfriend (soon to be wife) are expecting a baby boy in September. When my Grandsons' were born, I was only in my early 40’s and felt I was too young to be called Grandpa so I said just call me Grumps. That has stuck to this day, so now I’m going to be a Great Grumps! I was looking for something to make for them and stumbled across this Stencil that I thought would be perfect. I converted it to a 12” x 18” pattern that I cut in 5/32” Solid Core Birch ply. The cut panel was affixed to an Air Brush painted ¼” x 12 x 18” BB ply Backer. The Pattern is very simple, taking me less than two hours to cut using my go to Pegas #2/0 spiral blades. Painting and drying took a lot longer. The assembled panel was protected with multiple coats of Krylon Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish. While the paint dried, I made a Gallery Style Floating Frame constructed out of 3/4" wide Poplar rails and finished with Glidden Max-Flex All Surface spray can Armor (Silver) paint. I will let the Frame paint fully cure for a few days and then get this into the mail by early next week so they can hang it in the Baby Nursery. Yes as always, comments and critiques are welcome.

Just sharing stupid little test "Tes" and practice piece. It is a mix between "people and pets" and compound cuts. I went to the chiropractor and thought I could practice on his character. People and pets.... is a pattern book that inspired me. A chiropractor sketch that inspired me. Back ache one one side . And front view on other side. Both Hand sketched on wood. Final cuts... Oops sorry I delivered it and forgot to get a finished picture. I dipped in Arm R Seal. It is setting on reception desk at Chiropractors office. He named him "Tes". He is a block head. I can make more of them and have a block party. Me. Mark Eason

You lost me in the second sentence.

Yep, @MarieC is correct about Washington being called the evergreen state.. But whomever named it that has never been to the part of Washington I live in.. I live in the everbrown part. Use to be very arid, very dry, sage brush and cheatgrass, Jack rabbits, lizards and rattlesnakes. The only part sorta green is the color we that have lived here all our lives glow do to the atomic reactors that were built and operated here since WWII. But we are changing do to all land is being taken up with vineyard. Yep, changing our climate for sure. So there you go, eliminate wine and save the planet! I'd rather drink wine and enjoy the change. You can search state colors and not get much of an answer. Seems odd, every state has a state bird, state flower. Why not a state color? But back to the point, they are all nice, but I like the blue background the best. It just is prettier to me. More cheerful and I think you can pick the colors, most people would not have a clue about state color, state flower or state bird.

Do states have a “State Color” ? I’m not aware of one for Michigan and since Michigan has lakes surrounding it I painted this blue for the water sort of. I’ve been doing some other state ornaments and not sure about colors to paint them or just make them all blue like the Michigan one. So far everyone I’ve shown the painted vrs. Walnut backer they all like the painted better so I feel like I should be painting them all. Just not sure about the colors. What is your thoughts?

Playful Donkeys pattern by Jaeheon Yun in the book 20 Minute Scroll Saw Puzzles. Made from 3/4" Poplar and cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #3 MGT blades. A light sanding, dipped in diluted Shellac and then another light sanding. Comments welcome.

It seems my deer plaques do pretty well so I knocked this one out today. This is 1/4-inch Maple ply with a 1/4-inch Pine backer. The piece is stained with Minwax Red Oak and the backer is stained with Ipswich. It was cut using 2/0 and 0 Pegas spirals and MGT. The ornaments are at the request of the wife as small items to sell at craft events. They are stained with various colors and the 3D pieces are painted and then coated with glitter paint. The dog piece is 1/4-inch Birch ply stained with Minwax Espresso with a Lauan backer stained Natural. These are all Steve Good Patterns.

Another kirigami design by https://lightboxgoodman.com/collections/kirigami-digital 3/8 bbply (buying the 4'x8' sheet at Lowes and cutting it down is a lot cheaper, I found, than the smaller sheets, and I ran across surprisingly few voids). Frame was a 2x2, ripped in half. Minwax Honey and Natural stains. Lost count of the number of Pegas 0/2MG blades. Not a difficult cut at all, the hardest part was the outside cut, around the butterfly...only one bridge holding him to the rose, and some thin areas. Overall a good pattern! I think I blew it up to 125% when I printed, but I have no regrets. I had to round off the corners of the piece in order to not run into the throat depth of my 16" saw, but since I wasn't stack-cutting this, it was no problem.

I agree with you on that.. I'm not sure some of the other colors would give the details of the ornament that pop.. yet be soft on the eyes to look at. I might have to just paint a few backers and see how other colors might look. I'm kind of thinking the blue is going to be the top choice though.

Here is a list of the states that have official Colors List of U.S. state colors - Wikipedia.pdf

You might try using the colors from the state flag, if it's not too complicated. For instance, most of them use red, white and blue, so that could be a possibility. Some use a white background, with a seal or symbol, so a white background might be used. Tom

Wow! Those are really cool! If you do Washington state, I would say green for us since we are the Evergreen State! Can't wait to see it!

No Michigan does not have a state color. Because the state troopers wear navy blue uniforms and their cars are primarily Blue I would go with Blue.

i need a longer blade and additional pattern from the top to cut off the back pack, that is the wood between his elbows.

Well,I had an interesting morning. I installed a frequency analyzed in my Samsung phone and used it to determine the frequency of how I tension blades. I put in a FD Polar#5 in my Hegner and tensioner it to my normal. I was not real happy with what I got so I found website that will play different keys on the piano. My blades are definitely not at middle C but more in the E or F range above middle C. Will I ever do this again no as it really does not help me.

Well now! I may just have to grab one of hubby's guitar tuners and take the challenge of creating a song!!! NOT!

I've no ear for musical notes but, I can recognize the ping of a properly tensioned blade. Well, properly tensioned, for my needs, anyway.

Yes, you can use a guitar tuner. You need one that has a microphone in it. Place it next to the blade and pluck away. I used a tuner for setting the tension on some of my previous saws.

While I would not use any frequency app, I can understand a new scroller trying something. For them, learning to properly tension a blade can be somewhat difficult. Out of curiosity, I may just measure the frequency on my Hegner.

I took a stab at using epoxy resin to compliment these Steve Good patterns. If others are interested I can furnish some helpful hints on the process I use.

Hey everyone, been away for a few weeks and so I hope this finds you all well. This Lion has been an ongoing project for a couple of months on and off, finally finished it today. Made from a 3/4 inch thick bamboo chopping board with a thin backer board painted black. It measures approximately 16 inches by 14 inches. Pattern courtesy of the Scrollsaw Workshop. Regards, Alan.

Cut is from 1/2" Red Oak. The original design calls for 14" x 8" but I had a nice 24" board I wanted to use and being cheap, decided to reduce the pattern to get two. Not the smartest move I have ever made. The fine print letters would be hard enough at full size. The smaller size made that worse. LOL

I got an order to make 11 of Steve Goods Penny Drop Game, I really do not line to do the same thing over and over again but the money coming in to purchase more materials is good. Now I have to make 4 or 5 more for inventory, great seller here even though we do not have Pennie’s any more.LOL

I thought it was time to try another plane. The British Mosquito since it was made mostly out of wood. Interesting tidbit. General Hap Arnold was in England looking at production of the Mosquito days prior to Pearl Harbor and was very interested and recommended it to the Army Air Corp. The P-38 was already in production and decided it could do the job. The Mosquito became a very successful high speed medium bomber and night fighter because it was hard to detect by radar. It helped it also had 2 Merlin engines. I cut this plaque on 1/4 BBPW (ran out of 1/8" stock) 3/16 backer, shellac and lacquer finish. Original print was on 8.5 x 11 but took it to copy store for a slight enlargement. A-1 paper may be large enough. The greyed out areas are for bridges that can be painted later.

I found this stencil of a pair of tiger cubs that I thought would make a nice cutting. The scroll saw pattern I developed just seemed to look good in an 8x10 format, so I used a piece of 5/32 x 8 x 10 solid core Maple that I mounted on a painted Black 11 x14 x 1/4 thick BB ply Backer. The pattern is relatively simple but has a lot more holes than what I expected at first glance. For the cutting I used Pegas #2/0 Spiral blades. This piece gave me an opportunity to practice my skills using the Air Brush to add color. Since, in this case I was adding the color to the cut panel, I removed the pattern with the underlying liner, from only the image area so the remaining pattern paper and liner acted as a mask while I sprayed. Happily, there was no paint bleed under the mask. I’m quite pleased with the results but I’m only beginning to learn and would welcome any comments or suggestions about Air Brush work that would help me improve my skills. How to mix paints to obtain a specific color is top on my learning list. I happened to have this natural Red Oak Frame already made and used it for the picture. Not quite happy with it and thinking I will make a new one, but because I used black for the perimeter area, I’m unsure what color (stain or paint) the frame should be. Suggestions welcome. I'll share the pattern in Pattern Exchange.

Old red oak barn wood, base and cat tail turned, the rest cut on the scroll saw, some edges rounded with a router, burned with a propane torch and scrubbed with a wire brush, then assembled.

Hi all !! I have been a woodworker for pretty much my whole life (42 years young), well certainly as soon as I could hold a toy saw anyway. LOL I got into scrollsawing back in the early 2000's when I'd saved enough money to buy myself a craftsman scroll saw. I know that doesn't sound like a huge deal but at the time I was a young father with 2 kids both in diapers. We lived in a rented mobile home and I used the back porch with a tarp wrapped around it as my workshop. If you dropped anything chances are it would roll into a crack between the deck boards and be gone forever. There was no power outlets so I tapped into the outside light fixture with one of those screw in things that give you an outlet. If anyone turned off the switch I was in the dark and my tool stopped. Fastforward many years and I have a full shop. I wore out the craftsman scroll saw years ago and only just recently bought a new saw. I went with the 16" king industrial which seems to be similar to the excalibur, pegas and excellsior -- although I'm still not clear on the differences. Oh, and I also 3d print and designed a better vac attachment for my saw that works pretty well. (I'm sort of proud of it) LOL

welcome to the Village. Hope you log on often so we can get to know you better Dick heppnerguy

Fantastic heirloom piece, Ron!

Those are so great! No surprise that they sell. I’d buy one!

Wow...great idea, I could use my lathe and add a cup insert to the bottom to put in my cup holder in my car...totally cooler than those weather tech ones!

Hmmm, would be fun to see a collection of Block heads!

This really has me super curious now. It’s something I’ve wondered for quite some time too. I’m 3 hours from home this weekend, but when I get back I may measure the thread pitch of my tension rod and the lengths of the levers involved and see what I can figure out.

For over sized patterns her is a video. the trick is to drill extra holes and to tape the back. https://youtu.be/qO00Z7hatK4

Here in Louisiana you could go with black and gold for the saints, purple and gold for the lsu tigers or crawfish boil red ! Lol

Wikipedia has a list of state colors. Not all states have a color.

Kevin, they are beautiful, I see the wording around the edges done with a laser I assume, that's great, were they also cut using your laser, RJ

Thanks a lot. Itis appreciated. I am going to have lose my fear of spiral blades.

Smaller blades are set to the same pitch as the larger ones. Larger blades need more tension to get there. Smaller blades need less tension. My problem when I first used the tuner was that the tension adjustment was so coarse that it was easy to snap a small blade. I used the tuner to determine what a correctly tensioned #5 blade was set for and then backed the tension off, mounted a small blade, and used the tuner's meter to sneak up on the tension. It worked, and the blade did not break. The tension was between C & C#. Out of curiosity, I checked the blades mounted in my Pegas and EX21 saws today. The Pegas with a #2 blade was C#, and the EX21 with a #3 blade was a C#. The arms are set parallel with the table and I never adjust the tension. I used a Korg TM-40 tuner with a meter so I could see what I was doing. Some tuners only have LEDs and might not work for this.

I did it because I kept breaking the #1&#2 blades.

Looks great. A fun cut.

That's why I never considered becoming a doctor...lack of patience.

I love those. Probably should try some. I ordered plans to a Model A a few weeks ago, a I think maybe little over my level. But I love those little guys!

Thanks Danny. Patterns are available at ToymakingPlans.com. All of their patterns are very detailed. I usually purchase when they are on sale.

So I’m about to complete the next part of many for this 3D project I’m doing. I had to reduce the size of the original image by quite a bit to make it fit into the overall project its positioning is very important. But I’ve hit a little snag the pattern is not free standing portrait of the Buffalo so I need to make a few changes to the outside cut of the pattern. I would appreciate it if any of the members experienced in pattern design can mark up in a colored pen how I should go about it, because there a few bridges that have to be considered. Due to the reduction in size this was a difficult cut, so I don’t want to mess it up know, I’ve kind of drawn it up as to how to do it but I don’t think it’s the perfect solution hence I’m asking for some help. The Buffalo was cut with a #1 Niqua straight blade.

Thanks all. I use to do mostly inlay stuff with the coping saw with a little bit of fretwork but am looking to learn how to do the intarsia style with more of a 3D aspect to it. I've got some ideas in mind once I get a handle on using the scroll saw and the different blades.