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My version of f Alex Fox's new pattern. 25 days till Christmas. Great pattern, easy to cut. For me harder to paint and put together.. Thank you @alexfox Mr Fox. I Decided to paint my visa what his pattern shows of dark/light layers. I am not a good painter but happy with the results. Put me in the Christmas Sprit just to make it.

"Another" Steve Good design cut out on a hellishly hard pine board... Wondered to myself afterwards why I bothered to spend so much time painting the insides of the eyes black instead of leaving the bare wood look.

Sikorsky S-76B Sikorsky had a long history of military and utility helicopters and the dual engine S-76 was their initial entry into the executive helicopter market based on their success with the Black Hawk helicopter UH-60. Their objective was to enter the inner City, point-to-point, EMS and utility transport, especially for off shore oil rig personnel. The first “A” models went into operation in 1977 and had a capacity of up to 13 passengers but most executive models are configured for 5-6 seats with a crew of 2. The aircraft has gone through many model upgrades (A, B, C, C++, D) also with various engines to improve noise reduction, performance and extended distance. The B model operated dual Pratt & Whitney PT-6 engines similar to the ones use on several corporate and commuter turboprop aircraft. In a previous life I had a lot exposure to this aircraft. My company did a lot of avionics upgrade to these aircraft to include radars, radios, navigations/gps systems, inflight phones and entertainment systems. United Technology had a service center close to where I lived and I would spec out work packages and went on many test flights. I had fond memories of S-76B N500WK. It was managed by Wayfarer Ketch Corp and owned by David Rockefeller and our company had quoted a major avionics upgrade package that needed to be inspected at our facility in NH before the work could be started. It was about an hour flight up and back to MHT from POU. It was a great flying over western Connecticut, Mass and southern NH. Weather was perfect. A few weeks later we started the project. Great memory. Th plaque is 15 x 10 1/8” BBPW with ¼” backer, Finish shellac with Gloss lacquer.

More Steve good turkeys

Napkin holder.

Here ya go BadBob, these are the only ornaments I have left. I sold 15 of them at a show yesterday. I will add that I reduce the birdhouse patterns to 84%. That brings the square stock down to 1 1/4”.

I am working on a more complicated wooden project but to get a rest i made this. Wooden 3D Dolphin Puzzle from Ash Wood. It is a nice gift for kids to improve their brain motor functions. Wooden 3d Puzzle Dolphin.mp4

I have been on a crunch with my biggest show coming up next week. This is a set of patterns by Sheila Landry. The Sleigh is made from 1/4” Maple and 3/8” Sapele for the runners. The reindeer are made from 1/2” and 1/4” Cherry. For size reference, the board they are on is 4’ long. I’m pricing the set at $250!

Man. that is tragic. Hopefully he listens to you and the doctors. Mends soon! Hard to be in a position to not be able to do anything when there are lots to things to do. I'm wishing him a speedy recovery.

Oh Melanie, I am glad that he is on the mend!! As soon as I read "trimming branches" I knew it wouldn't be good. Keep well!

After the positive comments on my last post I now feel confident enough to post some earlier projects. Many thanks to Steve and his generosity.

Looks really good, as everything you do always does. I looked at that one but decided it was something we really would not use because of the daily changes involved and I already know I would not follow through so I decided against making it. Yours, on the other hand look really great as I said. Question.... are you going to change the date every day or will it be up to Patti? Dick heppnerguy

That is beautiful, love the subject.

Great job Jimmy! That’s thinking outside the box! Now about that wood coming. Chances are that wood will arrive wrapped in plastic. Leave it in the plastic wrap for a few days in your shop to let the wood acclimate to the humidity in your shop. After a few days, you might what is called sticker and stack. That is stacking the wood with thin wood spacers in between the boards. This is to allow air to circulate evenly around the wood. This is all to prevent your boards from warping. If you don’t want to sticker and stack, lean the boards against a wall or solid surface, again to allow even airflow around the boards. Most importantly, do not lay them flat on your workbench or table. Only the top surface will get airflow and cause the boards to warp. Warping of new board is the biggest complaint we hear about when ordering wood online. Heres an example of a couple hundred dollars of wood ordered from Ochooch Hardwoods that I stacked and stickered.

My only Thanksgiving project.

Saw this on pictures of @Rolf's dust collection set up. I decided to try it. In the past I have twisted the loc-line up and out of the way to move it out of the way to move the blade to another hole. That means when I want the sucker back in place I have to twist it down and fiddle with it to get it right where I want it. That wears out the loc-line and it is not cheap not fun to replace joints of it. With this union I just swing the sucker to the side out of the way and when I swing it back it is right where I want it. No fiddling. Now I am pondering on a way to do something similar for the blower side.... This took me less than 4 minutes 32 seconds to put in. Thanks Rolf!

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.

Had this one on my to-do list for a long time. Another Steve Good pattern. I enlarged it a bit to 8 1/4" for the circle part. Add another inch for the wingtips. Used #7 Pegas Skip for the outer cut and mostly Pegas #5MGT for the interior cuts except for the few very small cuts. Wood is 1/2" reclaimed dresser top. I think maple or cherry, but I'm not good at determining wood type. Now to add the wood button feet on the bottom and finish it with something - to be decided.

Love them. They are great.

very nice job

Very nice Bernd! Great detail work. Some of that looks quite delicate.

#ArtisanPirate

Wow that is lovely Paul, you did a marvelous job. Marg

That would be a great family Christmas heirloom, for sure. Lovely work Dan, one to be proud of. Marg

All 3 pieces look terrific. Great work on all. Marg

I agree with Paul, they are well cut and cute. Don't be so hard on yourself, Brag away. Marg

I have a few hundred dollars worth of I guess you could call it exotic wood coming soon from Ocooch Hardwoods... Not about to waste any expensive wood so I figured it was time for more practice. My mother in law gave me some 1 inch thick cedar planks that were in her garage probably 20 years and although straight, they were super dry and hard. Since I never tried stack cutting or even wrapping a project with packing tape it was time to give it a shot. I still had that maple leaf pattern I traced from the leaf found on the ground so this would be my first time making a box with that leaf design using 1/4" ply on the top and bottom with that brick hard cedar sandwiched inside. The biggest blade was a #7 it got it done but it was slow going through 1-1/2"... So I surprised myself trying something new that turned out okay I guess. Put some wipe on poly and calling it done!

Some time back, soon after Pegas first hit the market, there was a problem with some Pegas blades. They broke easily. Some people returned theirs and got replacements, I did not, because I had bought some of the identified "bad" ones but I had mixed they in with all the others I had that were not part of that batch. I can tell the difference by the way they were cut at the top of the blade. Anyway, it has turned out okay for me. I am just finishing a project that I use that type/size on. I still appreciate that the blade had some flaw.. I scroll with a "Bad" one and it breaks at the same spot every time I use one of them, but it breaks at just about the time I am thinking I need to change blades because I am loosing some control of the cutting. With the ones that are not bad, I would probably be changing after close to the same amount of use. The only down side, is if you have a Hegner, you can appreciate the trauma of a blade breaking event. I have had the Hegner for quite some time, and yet I still jump and the heart pounds after a blade snaps. It is still quit stimulating! Not sure why I posted this, just thought of it because thread is about blades and well I just felt like posting it.

Very nice work!!!

Very beautifully done Dan and excellent choice of wood.

terrific job

Hope you are all well!

Ya are doing GREAT!

Copper was cut on my scrollsaw with metal cutting blades and made to patina using some household stuff, ammonia, vinegar and salt.

terrific work

Excellent cutting Marg

Go to Steve's site and type Nautical in the search and it will be third row down far right.

Nice job on all of them, but I really like the nautical piece!

It all looks great. Especially like the nautical one. I haven't seen it before but will go looking for it now. Or, can you provide the link for it. Sometimes it is hard to search what Steve has called some of his patterns.

It’s a beauty. Now my wife wants “GRUMPY OLD WOMAN”. I did not get a good response when I suggested GRUMPIER would be more suitable ’

Wow! Those will bring a lot of smiles.

I sometimes....more often than I like... end up with fire pit ready stuff. But, usually, I just hang the unsatisfactory piece on the shop wall as a reminder.

Even with a good pattern, I end up with fire pit tinder more often than I like!

They are nice. That would wear me out.

Wow! Busy woman. They turned out nice.

Lots of scrollin there. Nice work.

I made these for a fellow vendor at the FM, he's a turner. I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like when they're done, but the scrolling's done. 3/8 x 1 1/2 x 2" Elm. cut with FD Polar #1 no finish as there will be addition work done on them. Always a joy when you don't know beforehand how the picture will orient.

very nice bunch you have. The Tasmania myrtle looks like dark chocolate. Me. Mark Eason

Thanksgiving is a very serious time.............. Examples of adding color to scrolling.

Just a quick final update. WEN came through and shipped me a new base. Wasn't sure if I was going to install it or not but decided I might need the base to attach a vise or clamp to, to hold a long piece of work. I cut two 1 1/4" long sleeves, one for each bolt, from 1/2" steel pipe to use between the underside of the base and the bench. This worked to prevent, the 1/2" bolts I used to attach the base to the bench, from bending the britttle base and break it like I did to the original. I was able to tighten the bolts down well so it is firmly attached to the bench. It runs quite and smooth. Here are pics of the final instal: I guess you can say I'm happy with the results.