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Layered Snowflake Ornament #1 pattern by Keith Fenton and found in SWWC Winter issue page 72. I stack cut two blanks 1/4" x 4" square for each top (Ash) and back (Eastern Red Cedar}. I found the Eastern Red Cedar is too fragile and broke when sanding, so I balanced by cutting off every other little piece. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using #1 MGT blades. After sanding, dipped in diluted Shellac and the one coat of spray Lacquer Clear Gloss. Comments welcome.

I started a new feature on my personal blog site, and actually recorded a video to go along with the photos. "What's on my Workbench". Usually, I have a few projects going on at the same time, I also have a few that are already set with the patterns glued on. Lots of patterns are already printed and sitting on a shelf. Kind of A.D.D. if you ask me! I have another post here tracking my Flag, Eagle, and Lady Liberty project, but this is another one that I am plugging away at currently. This is a 1937 design from Germany (Saxony), it will hold 5 tea candles when done. This pattern was given to me by someone in Germany and the plan is to give it as a gift to a German Officer I work with at NATO HQ. I kind of wish that I had done this 4 years ago when my Branch Head "Colonel Paul" was my boss, He was from the Saxony area. It would have made a great going away/ retirement gift for him. He was one of the best bosses I have had. Lots of detail work!

Had a Co-worker ask me for a Louisiana Tech logo for his mancave. He graduated from there. This is what I came up with.

As the title says another fun H Botas pattern, I may try to color this one too. My wife is a RN so I thought it was fitting. A fun cut.

Here's my latest Love Spoon.

Does this count ? I'll answer my own question, it's not scroll saw related so that's a big NO! LOL It's kind of Halloween related though.

More planes joining my fleet.

Three more football plaques done. Team colors for each. Steve Good pattern to start, I replaced the text added the shaker pegs and the countersunk holes under the stripes The piece is 2, 1/2" BB laminated together after the interior cuts in the top, exterior cuts made after lamination ( 1" thick ), interior cuts made with FD Polar #1, exterior cuts made with FD polar #5. Lamination with polyurethane glue applied with a 4" foam roller then weighted down by a cinder block. 3 1/2" shaker pegs.

So far I committed to 2 shows before Christmas so the shop is humming.

When I installed the chuck in my WEN DP last week, I made sure the chuck jaws were open all the way. I used a rubber mallet to drive the chuck arbor (shaft) up into the drive, but you could also seat the chuck with the table. Just raise the table and push the chuck in to lock it in. use a piece of wood on the table though to the chuck.

so this is the wood dust overseer spirit. Setting next to the dust collector.

This piece is for a Corvette club. 1/4-inch Baltic Birch stained natural with a Birch backer painted red. Four coats of Polyacrylic with light sanding between coats. The frame was pre-fabricated cut to size and splined for strength. I double stacked this piece and the other has a backer stained Ebony.

Well You Alls here is another craft to Brighten up your Day. Hehe Brighten. Hehe Just color. I like it. Cut this one out of BB1/4". Was a Lot of Fun. My Original Idea was to paint each Leaf a Different Color....BUT.... my Better Half convinced me that hey they are leafs. Be better Green. So.................All comments will be Nice. Danny :+}

I have been away from most of my intarsia making projects and decided to try and make a few of the patterns I have had around for awhile. In doing so I found a photo of this one somewhere on line and downloaded the photo and attempted to make a pattern from it and cut make it, as i sort of liked the little guy. Here is what I ended up with. The one thing I added to the wood to get what I wanted from it was the multiple little lines on the owls body by simply using a wood burning too to make them. I have never tried that before and thought it worked fairly well this time. Dick heppnerguy

Steve good Christmas tree. Back to basics trying to improve my basic skills,straight lines,smooth curves, sharp points and stuff like that. I've been cutting a lot of fretwork stuff and it's easier to hide your mistakes in the abstract arrangement of holes. I've had a lot of people asking me for Christmas stuff (including her who must be obeyed ) so I'm going to take the opportunity to try to improve this part of my skillset. I'm not happy with this cut but it will paint up ok....practice practice practice

That was not the problem. I know how to seat a chuck onto a tapered shaft. Something inside the body that feeds the rotating shaft down or up, is not engaged. Feels like a drift pin, or key was not installed and the horisontal shaft, that the 3 handles turn, just goes around and around and did not do anything. Motor ran fairly quite and smooth, speed changing worked and the table cranks up and down, altough quite a sloppy fit that will require require some heavy grease. UPS picked it up for return today. The replacemnet will be here tomorrow.

Here lately I have seen quite a few posts of scrollers not happy with the result. I don't know about you, but I wish I could cut wood like most or you do. I wold be estatic if I could cut that well. Jerry

Yeah there is a different backer for each ornament.. The one you show is one with the banner across to be able to engrave a name, also the version that doesn't have the icon which would be easier with the scroll saw. I don't know how many different versions this set comes with. Well there are a total of 8 in the set but of the 8 there is the ones with the icons around the outer edge and also with a spot for a name and then the set without the icons with and without the spot for names.. basically there 4 different designs of the set of 8.. plus the backers.. Then you get two larger box designs like I made, but instead of angels like mine shows there are crosses.. then the same with a smaller box which I haven't looked at yet.. I think the smaller one if for individual ornaments. When you purchase from this seller you get a ton of variations or at least everything I've gotten from him has had several different options in every set I've bought.

Thats what we'll go with sounds like a great idea.

Great work, Barb. You should have plenty of items for your shows. Hope you have great sales.

You have been busy Barb, very nice, RJ

You have been a busy girl, lot’s of nice stuff

A few months ago a French Officer I work with at NATO SACT HQ* asked if I could make a US Flag for him out of wood. I thought I could come up with something better, and told him so, but I said it would be a while. Well, I am slowly working on it getting done and the first piece was cut out this morning. I using 1/4" and 1/2" Basswood for this piece as I will be painting it. I am using a couple of patterns from Steve Good combining Lady Liberty from another of his patterns. Of course, since the French gave us Liberty as a gift, adding her to this piece is a bit more meaningful in my mind. So here is where I am at today, and will post updates as this piece progresses. *North American Treaty Organization Supreme Allied Command Transformation Head Quarters in Norfolk VA.

Latest work... Didn't care how long it took this time. Mutant Baltic birch 1/4" had many variations of tight and loose in the layers and was a challenge. Even with touch up sanding it still doesn't measure up to the pattern. Guess I gotta keep practicing !

I saw this Eagle Welcome Plaque by S. Good in one of his emails a while back and thought it would be a nice piece to make and add to my Eagle Collection. I modified his pattern slightly to make it as large as possible and still be able to fit on a the 12” wide precut panels I use. This resulted is the 1/4” thick Solid Core Red Oak ply cut panel being a nominal 14” x 11” mounted to a 1/2” thick painted premium ply backer being a nominal 15” x 12”. I rounded the perimeter top edge of the backer with a 1/4" round-over bit in tmy Router table. I also did away with his “WELCOME” third layer and cut the letters directly into the now single top layer. I use Pegas #3 MGT R to cut pattern and the perimeter of the backer. I would prefer using a spiral blade, but for this type of cutting, and as everyone knows, the regular blade produces a much nicer looking clean-cut edge. Just had to be a lot more careful keeping the blade from walking off track and to be extra careful making my sharp inside and outside corners. The backer was primed and then painted rattle can Brick Red. I then masked off the plaque to allow me to paint the area under the word “WELCOME”, white. After assembly I gave the entire plaque multiple coats of Clear Gloss Lacquer. Comments and critiques always welcome.

Always good to hear of great customer service.

Sorry no wood projects. But Travis says anything holloween goes. Chicken wire, White paint, and DJ lights. @Travis you can delete this if it is disqualified.

I almost hate to throw my hat into the ring with such awesome projects. My little ole skull pales in comparison to you guys. Here it is anyway though.

Backlit Haunted House

Stopped by Hobby lobby today and picked up some of their inexpensive wood plaques to use for patterns to duplicate with a flush trim bit on my router. So much easier for frames than trying to cut those shapes any other way

That is probably my one big complaint... That table crank is SLOPPY as all get out!

Quick update: The WEN 4212T Drill Press arrived yesterday (10/16/23). Piece of cake to assemble. Not too heavy to put the head on. The DP size is perfect and it will fit in the space I planned nicely with out protruding too far into my tiny walk-around area. Only one problem...the drill feed on the one I received did not work. The feed mechanism just goes round and round with out the chuck shaft moving. I called WEN, and they said I have to send it back to Amazon. Amazon approved the return and my account will be credited the cost. So it is all packed up and ready to have UPS pick it up later today. I already ordered a new one and it will be here tomorrow (10/18/23). Lets hope this one in not defective.

@kmmcrafts. One more question, I emailed the seller to verify the PDF version.. He sent me this example: which is good but it does not show the background pattern.. Is that included for each ornament? So there are two patterns for each ornament? Just wanting to make sure, most I will have paid for a pattern(s). I got stung once before ordering patterns for lasers and the pdf pattern made no sense. I would really like to have these. If I have to worry the cost of the ornament patterns you surely know I cannot afford to buy a laser... Know I can't scroll the outer text been thinkind of decal for that. It has worked for me in the past.