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Took me a while, but added a backer, stained, and clear coat sprayed on (by my husband) and now in a box headed south for my Mom. I love how it turned out!

Brotherinlaw got a small moose last year and asked me what could be done with the spade. So I came up with a idea to put a moose on each side and give it a board on back to mount.Havent given it to him yet but Im sure he will like what it has become.

This project was cut on a 16" x 10" x 5/8" piece of salvaged American Chestnut using patterns by Jacob Fowler and Sue Walters for the scrollsawing which I then modified during the carving process. It was stained with artist oil paints and finished with Minwax Polycrylic finish. The Chestnut seen in the background was not stained and this is the natural color of the wood. It was easy to see why Chestnut was so popular among the early American furniture craftsmen because of its workability and finishing qualities. Dick

Another bottle opener. This one has a silicon wafer inside a clear cavity. This is made from a beautiful piece of myrtle. I tried to have the grain show liquid pouring action. Me. Mark Eason

Still working on Halloween, couple more cuts.

Made a couple 2x4 hide-a-ways Used my band saw to slice off the thick sides of the 2x4 then the scroll saw did a better job of cutting out the curves needed for the drawers. Neat place to stash valuables in plain sight in the work shop as long as you don't accidentally toss them out!!

Here is my attempt at this great pattern. Not sure what the wood is, except thin! This is only my third attempt at spirals. Used a #1. Some lines became suggestions . Finished with beeswax/mineral oil.

I was commissioned to make this plaque for a client who works for American Airlines. He plans to give it to a long time colleague who is retiring after the first of the year. I combined fretwork and intarsia. The lettering was so delicate that I decided to fill it with black wood filler. I used blue pine for the background and frame.

I believe this can be put under the Bragging Rights forum very easily. Many beautiful pieces have passed through this site over the years and many of you either sell your items or give them away to family and friends and charities. So the question is what over the years has been your best seller or piece that gets asked for or you just decide to make and hand out. ?? Or both? What seller and what hand out? I will start and must preface this by saying I have been selling and making things for friends and family for over 40 years now and have made over 500 different items. Would have to pull out the records to know exact numbers and even that would not tell the whole story because I use to make things for Steebar many moons ago when the original owner was still alive and they were a good company to deal with. He would put them in his catalog. Many times John Nelson made the patterns that I would do prototype of and work out tweaks. But these watches have to be #1 for sales. and the heart has also a lot of sales but is also one that I gave out very often because it fits homes well. So lets see yours too.

Great idea. I'm sure he'll love it.

Thanks Barry. Has its own place on the bench unbolted so I can move it if need be.

That is awesome Damian. Don’t you just love the aroma when cutting the horns.

Very beautiful work. Love the wood.

OK....so I'm not the only one. That's happening to me too. I'm trying to track down that bug. I think it's one of the Google codes I have on the website, but I'm trying to narrow it down.

Wow the coloring really sets it off

Very well done

looks great, Was the horn material hard to cut on a scroll saw? What type of blade did you use?

very nice

awesome job

fantastic job

I never did get a photo of the wedding cross thing... Since we are going into the Christmas season my top selling ornament is this BMX bike ornament. I threw just a clipart image onto a sprocket image in inkscape and created this.. I believe I posted the pattern here but it's not a cleaned up pattern.. You just have to guess at where the bridges need to be etc, LOL.. I think I did this 3 years ago and was very late into the holiday season so I only sold a handful of them.. last season I sold around 120 of them at $16 each + shipping.. They are selling already this season too so my experience is what starts selling early is going to be the "hot seller" for this season. They are not the funnest to cut with that gear and when having to make so many.. was a fun cut for the last couple years but now it's getting annoying to make, LOL I may stop making them as there is a point and time where then it becomes a job.. or maybe just keep raising the price until the sales slow way up or stop, which is more typically what I tend to do.. Also this laser engraved and cut sonographer ornament that I hand paint the details on.. sold around 200 last year at $18 + shipping each.. have already sold 40 this year. The Mechanic and the Linemen are very close second place ones.. I'm kinda getting away from making larger items and sort of going away from scrolling and moving towards laser stuff.. The demand is way higher for laser engraved than just plain scrolled items for me currently.. much easier to personalize a ornament with the laser than on a scroll saw.. seems that's what everyone is asking for is personalized engravings so I'm just following up with what is wanted.

Yes, beautiful is the only word to use for this piece. Aboslutely beautiful.

Beautiful.

I agree, that is beautiful

I don't know what parts go into a board.. I'm doubtful they make the board too, I meant maybe some of the chips and parts that go into the board had a shortage.. There were a lot of things during the chip shortage that we couldn't get.. Friend of mine had to buy a new refrigerator because of something in the board on it needed replaced but they couldn't get them and I guess he wasn't going to wait until they could get the part.. Which reminds me.. I need to see if I can finally get a spare car key made. Two of my cars I bought only have one key and they have the special chip keys.. couldn't get them 2-3 years ago because of all that.. This may having nothing to do with the scroll saw boards I don't know.. Just saying it could be they only are making / buying enough boards to make "new saws" instead of selling boards...

I never win with my wife. Maybe I'll try it your way.

Beautiful piece, RJ

I can see why, very nice. That is some of the finest veining in the leafs I have see, Tell us how you did it. I cut them with a straight blade then go back over them with a spiral..

ChelCass.....love that spooky tree

Great piece!

I'm still way short of my first million, but my overall best seller (just got an order for two more) has been the Penny Drop Game (a Steve Good pattern). But I'm always on the lookout for anything just a little different from the stuff found at stores like Hobby Lobby.

Absolutely beautiful, and YES He is!

Why not? You would always win.

I half wonder if it's just a matter of a computer chip shortage that has trickled through the system from back during the covid crap we went through.. I'm not too far from the auto manufactures and they had brand new cars sitting in parking lots waiting for computer chips so they could sell them. DeWalt will buy up what they need to keep producing new saws but make the parts obsolete..

Little Halloween light box I did few years ago.

These two are the closest I could find to being spooky. Watercolor pencils and white acrylic paint for the pilot. Acrylic paint for teeth and green magic marker for the Hulk.

I started with the two here, then saw other faces to try. I spray painted after I cut the face so it looked more like the insides of a pumpkin. also i cut bamboo skewer sticks as small dowels to be able to open back. then i used branches from a small dead tree, at the Y so can hang if want to with the top glued and brad nailed 20230925_165604.mp4

Couple more.....lol I have this thing where I like a twofer.. That is when I cut out the silhouette and also keep the cut out area. I will add a backer and make a second ornament out of it. Samples below. The brown witch is Cedar so I up undecided if I should stain it, paint it or just leave as is.

Kevin I do remember Sylvia but remember her as JR. Ranger or something like that if we are talking about the same person. She made me some patterns over the years. I asked her to make some patterns for spinning tops that I was making and they became big over the years when I first started turning on a lathe some time ago now. I wanted to combine my scrolling and my turning hobbies and this is what I came up with. There was and I believe there still is a huge spinning top following and I know I use to see turning clubs at woodworking shows always making tops for the kids as they watch them turn on the lathe. I believe there is a charity thing with tops for kids thing too. It is funny because I stopped making them some time ago now but just a couple days ago I had pulled an old project I started about 10 years ago which was a cabinet to display my special pens. I wanted to complete the project now that I got my den finished and want to hang it in there. Long and behold when I pulled it out from under a ton of other projects I started years ago, within it were a bunch of spinning top bases that I had cut out and spun down and just needed the stems and bottom spinning tips made That brought back memories. Here is an example of what I am talking about. The top has 3 layers and the top layer is the scrolled pattern she made for me. She made me about 20 other patterns too. It is funny because she mentioned to me also not to give or sell the patterns to anyone. She made them for me. She use to be on other scrolling forums and was very nice person.

Wow! beautiful work there JT!! I can see why those were good sellers.. This is a tough question to answer for me.. I've had several real good sellers.. some of which I got tired of making and just stopped offering them, LOL That being said, I'm going to take us back to a time of before I was trying to sell things.. Unfortunately I do not have pictures because of a computer hard drive crashing but I know you'll know this item as it was very popular. Here we go back to memory lane to the day of the MSN Groups 2006 - 7 ish.. Do you remember Sylvia TheSawDustMistress ? She made patterns for a wedding theme.. it was a cross with wedding bands at the bottom of the cross and cut out of the inside portion of the wedding bands part was the names of the bride / groom and the wedding date was cut into the top of the band. I'll get a picture once I go to my inlaws as I made one that sits on their shelf. I'm sure you'll remember this one though. Sylvia's husband retired ( I believe he was a firefighter ) and they bought a RV so she stopped doing patterns and lived their lives on the road. She was a talented pattern maker and very nice person, never would take any money from someone and always offering up her patterns to many folks. Before she hit the road she gave me the template and font etc to make my own patterns from her template. Told me I could make them for whomever I wanted to but not for profit. Her one stipulation was I was to tell whomever was receiving the product that "may God bless their marriage" . I still have the pattern template etc.. Anyway, I bet I was asked to make around 50 of those before I ever started as a business. I have never offered these up for sale.. only as gifts..