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A few new cuts and a few I decided to paint. Scooby left a bit to the imagination so I thought I better paint him. The turtle I first pyro'ed a bit then decided to paint just the turtle and seaweed.

Signs that I made for my two daughters for Christmas. They are as different as can be and each sign fits their personalities. Cut from poplar and painted with craft paint.

Finally got some shop time this week. I was able to get this cute little guy done. Cut from Aspen with a #1 mg blade. The colour is done with Unicorn Spit. Backer is BB ply, about 6" diameter. Finished with Walrus Oil. Pattern was from https://www.sg-patterns.com/slides/Glass pattern 002 Dragonfly Delight.html via a posting on one of the FB pages I subscribe to. I was also able to get a number of other cut, but not finished, projects finished!

Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart. One of my all time favorite movies. The thistle flower, under the quote, is the national flower and emblem of Scotland. In one of my favorite scenes in the movie, Wallace's future wife gives him one at his father's funeral. Also some of the prettiest music of the movie in this scene, A Gift Of A Thistle. Cut in white oak with a stained poplar backer. About 7" x 8".

The pattern proved to be a Challenge with some areas I needed to Really pay Attention to. And Alas I Conquered . I Stacked 3 pieces of 1/8"BB.... Couple Backers added. Any thoughts about this would be Excepted and Appreciated. Thanks for looking.... Danny :+}

Wanted to see if I could do a decent job on a Dog portrait. Found a bunch of stencils and images of various breeds. This Pitbull Portrait with a Heart, caught my eye. I converted it to a scroll Saw Pattern and sized it to fit on an 8x10 Panel. The panel is 5/32” solid core Birch Ply. Using my Air Brush, I painted both the 1/4” BB Ply backer and the cut panel with Artist Acrylic Air Brush paints. The Panel was cut using Pegas #2/0 Spiral blades. As usual, after painting and assembly the panel was protected with multiple coats of Krylon Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish. The panel is mounted in a very inexpensive 8x10 frame I purchased in bulk on Amazon. I think it came out fairly nice, if I have to say so myself! Comments and critiques always welcome. EDIT: I posted the pattern in PATTERN EXCHANGE

I feel your pain! I've often said, "If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." My employer has a wheel that you spin with various amounts of money ranging from $10 to $1000 and at certain times of the year will allow employees to take a spin. I've always said if they had a space saying "You owe the company $XX, that would be the one I'd land on. I do believe you are a bit of a perfectionist... it shows in your work. Remaking these pieces to YOUR satisfaction prior to selling them to the customer may very well lead to many more commissions that will more than pay for the loss of the two botched pieces... hopefully! And as always, your two pieces above are exceptional.

The journey from start to finish is very often not a straight line. If it was easy, anyone could do it!. The finished project looks fabulous! Well done - way to persevere.

- my own design - works fine - looks nice what do you think? Wooden Pencil Sharpener Car Diy Plans.mp4

I have been using them for several years. No need to spray the wood they adhere well. depending on the brand and whether they are permenent of movable they work well. Easy to remove with "Painters Thinner". You will like them

very nice work

terrific job

awesome job

Great portrait, great pattern and great movie. 3/3 well done. Marg

That is fabulous. I have an airbrush but I am useless with it. Marg

Very well done very good likeness.

Thank you very much! The handkerchief his wife gives him at their wedding also has thistles embroidered on it. I watched it a couple of nights ago. It’s one that ages well.

By all means, I copied it from somewhere else .

Frank that turned out really nice. You are really getting good with your airbrush painting! I really like it!

Nice work. I especially love the campfire

I may have to steal the Grinches idea.

Big Thanks to All. The CENTER three pieces were cut completely out. Then the lil starter hole was puttied and all Sanded then Painted. Sort a like Inlay. Learned this from a Good Canadian friend here. I have used this method on other Crosses. Everyone likes them. :+}

Small plaque (5" x 7" x 5/16") Pattern from a book "southwest patterns". Cut using FD scroll reverse #1 for the interior cuts, outside cut with FD Polar #3/0. This took a little longer, every time I got done with a fragile area I would put superglue on the back to reinforce the wood. Quarter for scale. To cut just the outside of the pattern took an hour.

Hey Everyone! in this fun scroll saw project video, we make this amazing Medieval Dragon! This Steve Good design uses various thicknesses of material to create a unique version of this mythical creature! Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

THE BEATLES / JOHN LENNON

Very.beautiful and well done Danny. Love the colours on both.

I posted, in Bragging Rights, the Individual Tree and Moon project a while ago. This set is a commission project I got for a mirrored set of the B&W Tree and Moon. The cutting for this set was a stack cut 5/32” Birch Solid Core Ply. The painted White Backers are 1/4" BB ply. Why, when you take a commission project, everything that can go wrong will go wrong. So read on only if you want to know my sad story. First time, after cutting was complete (with no cutting problems), the double-stick tape I used left residue on what was to be a finished side of one of the panels. No matter how much cleaning and sanding I did, the tape outline was visible through the paint finish. Then, after what seemed like an eternity for the Black paint to dry, when I clamped the glued-up assemblies in my press, when removed from the press the paint surfaces were marred. Obviously, the paint was not fully cured hard enough. Trying to salvage the work, I sanded the surfaces lightly, to make everything uniform, and applied a Clear Gloss Krylon coating. Again, it was immediately obvious that something was wrong with the combination of finishing materials as the painted surface all bubbled up. Both went to the bin of scraps that will be used in my fire pit this fall. On to a second cutting, again this time with no cutting problems. Made sure there was no tape on the finished panel face. Decided to try using a Black Lacquer Finish instead of Paint for this second set. The lacquer dries much more quickly, but again when the glued-up assemblies came out of the press, the surfaces were again marred slightly. I guess it needed to dry even longer. However, Lacquer is more forgiving, and an application of clear Gloss Lacquer returned the surface to the finish desired. Things were looking good at this point. I had made the floating frames earlier and they are designed to have a 1/8” gap between the panel and frame. The dimensions of the panel and frames are never an exact match as intended, so I usually need to slightly trim the panel to make the 1/8” gap uniform all around. Trimming panel number one and then fitting and mounting it in its frame went perfectly. Not so much with the second piece. While trimming the second panel, I took my eyes off the panel momentarily, and the edge of the panel was slightly gouged by the saw blade. CA glue and sawdust came to the rescue and, with a little black Lacquer touch up I was able to repair the damage. However, while installing the mounting hardware clips on the back side, although the face down panel and frame were lying on a protected surface, a small area of the now finished surface got damaged somehow. With careful sanding and applications of both the Black Lacquer and Clear Gloss Lacquer, I was able to repair the damage. Although I should charge double because I had to make them twice, I will be giving the customer a discount on the price I quoted. If there is a moral to my story, I have not figured it out yet, other than "don't look away while timmimg a finished panel on the table saw".

Very cute. I also like @heppnerguy's suggestion for it to be the exhaust pipe.

Great job. What is a pencil?

This is the last project I made before leaving Ukraine

Some of the Christmas Ornaments I have made. Several years ago,I started making ornaments for my two daughters and eventually for my niece and nephew. I have also sold a few to friends and coworkers.

Very cute. Runs off of leaded shavings. For unleaded.... Colored pencils should work too.

Frank, you do great work and I'm sure that's why you get commissions to make things. Folks know that you put your heart into whatever you make and when they receive their item, it will be the best it can be.

Here a just a couple of many. The bears were for my grand kids at valentines.

I made this as a Mother’s Day gift for my wife, from MDF. Found the pattern from YouTube video

A great cutting job looks terrific.

I am just happy to know that I’m not the only one. By the way, It turned out great!

I see him too.

Okay, you say so,, I may have to have another beer... Really, I cannot wait to see your finished project. Carry on.

This is a good place for all types of scroll saw info. I found this sight about 5 or six years ago and do contribute annually, Treasure chest for patterns and ideas

I got a message from Woodworkers Source, BB is available again. 60 x 60 x 1/4, $70.00 and free shipping in the US ground delivery. They will cut to size.

I thought those would be fun. What tools do you have at or near your saw for ease of access. You can post a picture or just tell us. Please explain what you use the tool for though. At my hegner on the left there's an angle gauge used for setting table angle. An air conditioner remote control because I live in Louisiana. Some blade holders for extra blades and amazon firestick remote for watching TV (I mainly put on podcasts or true crime that I don't need to see but just hear). There's a handle for helping me to pull myself and my rolling chair near the saw. On the right is my guitar tuner - see previous post where I opened a can of worms with that topic. ... My hegner blade tool for changing blades, an awl for pushing out small pieces in pieces I'm working on and also to open the back side of drill holes as needed to help the blade slip in easily. A small pair of curved needle nose pliers for pushing stubborn blades in and out of work pieces. I've had blades break in the pieces I'm working on and this makes getting the blade out much easier. My seyco drill sits nearby so I can drill holes that I forgot to drill, happens all the time. A extendable magnet, this is for picking up the hegner blade clamps when the blade breaks and the holder falls on the floor.

Getting some good tips from this exercise. I hadn't thought of the cutters or the canned air. I like both ideas. Also the flashlight is a good idea.

I have all that has already been mentioned but to add to the list I have a pair of side cutters ( dikes ) to cut the ends of the blades off that are too long. It doesn't matter on the EX type saws but it does on the Hawk and Hegner saws.. Unfortunately Pegas blades are not all the same length, many times they have a thin pointy end on top or bottom and sometimes both ends that I need to cut off for the Hawk.. If I don't cut them off then I have to adjust my blade tension for every blade since no two "pegas" blades are the same length. I end up cutting them to the right length instead of messing constantly with my tension on the saw.

At the saw, I keep an awl, sandpaper and usually an Exacto knife within easy reach. The awl is to open up the holes on the back side of the wood (bottom feeder here) and clear tiny bits out of the frets. The sandpaper is to clean the ends of the blade before installing it. The Exacto knife, just because I always try to keep it within reach. I find I end up using it for all sorts of things.

Thanks all! I really appreciate the support. It used to be that I could put some Google ads on the website and make enough money to cover server costs and software licenses. But over the years, that ad revenue has dropped about 80%. So the SSV Patron/membership makes a huge difference in covering the costs of running SSV. This year, my operating costs went up by 30%, which was a bit of sticker shock. I guess as the popularity of a website grows, it gets more expensive to maintain. Luckily, I'm still in the black, but not by much..LOL. I'm just happy to be able to provide a nice resource, a place to learn, and place to hang out for the scrolling community.

I've been doing the labels now for about 10 years.. They stick better than the spray glues do as they are meant to not fall off a package.. so I still use the shelf liner. Probably the biggest improvement and time saver for me was switching from the blue tape to shelf liner.. The labels vrs spray glue isn't really a huge time saver so much as it is just less mess of the over spray of the glue.. It is nice I suppose to go straight from the printer to just peeling and sticking it on your blank. The shelf liner comes off mostly in one piece and very quick compared to peeling off those little pieces of tape. If you do both the labels and the shelf liner you just saved yourself a whole lot of time for another project.

Things change, and all of the groups disappear sooner or later. I have been online since before there was an internet. I was on BBS using 300baud modems. (Anyone remember fidonet) A few of those made it to the internet but most vanished. In many cases over the years the owner dies and no one takes over and noone pays the bills. Corporate sites are the worst. I was a member of many Yahoo groups and an admin on several. All are all gone when Yahoo decided to not continue groups. Facebook groups could go the same way easy. One thing I have learned from all of this is that if you want it download it for tomorrow it may be gone. Eventuall this forum will disappear. Forums grew out of the old BBS systems and are still the best way for those with special interests to gather on line. This is one of the best I have seen so I just paid for my first month. I'm going to have to do it manually.

okay got things turned around and refinished. Thanks again to @RabidAlien for pointing out my error. That is what makes this forum so great!