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My wife found an idea on the internet for ornaments for our five 6-9 year old grandkids. I copied their idea and added the plexiglass backers and snow on individual names and date. I like them but it would have been easier to let her order them.

Since I don't waste my time watching any sports I decided to do my new favorite time killer, working in the shop (Scrolling something) Decided on this SG rabbit pattern. Reduced in size by 20% to fit a scrap of 3/8" canary wood I had laying around.

A purchased SVG file that required some work to make the pattern scrollable. The Bee is a separate layer applied on top of the cut panel. The cut panel is 5/32” x 12” x 12” solid core Maple Ply affixed to a 1/4" x 12” x 12” BB Ply Backer. The Bee is also 5/32” solid core Maple Ply. Coloring was done using my Air Brush with Artist Acrylic Air Brush Paints. The assembled panel was protected with multiple coats of a Clear Gloss Acrylic. The Frame is 1/3/4” wide Poplar rails finished with Black Lacquer. Made this as a Christmas Gift for my, soon-to-be ,Grand-Daughter-in-law, who, besides being the mother of my Great-Grand-son, is a Bee Keeper. Comments and critiques always welcome.

Had my first show last Saturday at a church close to where I live, very well organized lot’s of traffic but with the economy not in a very good situation, everyone seems to watch their spending. Anyway I was please with the end result, I sold for $645. Have order for another $100.00 and the table cost me $60.

Ran out of 3/4" basswood. Oh well, more is on order!!

A non-protected stencil image I found on-line. Nobody’s pet-in-particular. Resized it in Inkscape into an 8”x 10” pattern. Cut the pattern in 5/32” Solid Core Birch Ply and affixed to a 1/4” BB Ply backer. Decided I would color it as a Chocolate Labrador and used a photo of a Chocolate Labrador, with a similar pose, as a coloring guide. The coloring was done with an Air Brush using Artist Air Brush Acrylic Paints. The Brown was easy, but trying to get the highlights correct from an apparent light source shining in from the left side was VERY difficult. After a lot of doing and redoing, I think I finally got it close, and I hope it looks halfway decent. For this 8”x10” panel, the frame is a simple 3/4” wide rabbeted Poplar rail stained Minwax Early American and protected with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. Comments and critiques always welcome. PS: This will be the last new posting I put up this year since nothing new is ready for the saw. Edit: Deleted this paragraph due to security concerns. Sufice to say we are busy for the next month. So, it looks like my shop is going dark for the rest of the year but, hopefully, I’ll be back in front of the saw by the New Year. Happy Holidays to all…I'll pesters you all with new posts in 2024!

I cut these way before I did the oval names but never got around to posting them. Please don't ask sizes, or blades or type of woods, my memory is not that good. Marg

Two day show last weekend. Set up was on Friday afternoon. I have done this show for about ten years now. I had to miss it last year though as work wast so hectic that I didn’t have time to cut. Because of that, I lost the prime spot. I was way in the back of the room. Despite that, I had the best sales I have ever had. 80% of sales were credit or debit cards. My best sales were anything Christmas, but most sales came from ornaments. I have two price points of ornaments placed on two different trees. The Sleigh and reindeers sold for $250. The large Steve Good Nativity sold for $250. The biggest problem I had was working by myself. At times there were customers waiting in line to buy!

I've mentioned many times that I get request all the time for engraved ornaments.. Just thought I'd show How I modify the design of an ornament to do the engraving.. I should also note that I have also scrolled in names or dates in this area as well... and that is what I normally do for short names or just doing a year on it.. this is what I'm doing today as I have a order for 30 with the business name on it.. I won't show the name as someone might know someone and see the image so you get to see the blank samples.. Was going to finish up the clocks today but then I have a lot of sanding to do on those.. since I have an appointment with my financial adviser this afternoon I didn't want to get all dusty and dirty.. so going to knock out this 30 piece custom order before I go and then when I come back home I'll do some work on the clock order.. Last photo shows the original designs.. First one shows how I made the space to add engraving etc.

It could be "The Christmas Bunny". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640714/

Very nice and well done. However, wrong season...Christmas is coming, not Easter.

I took my kids to the drive-in to see Muppet Christmas Carol about 30 years ago. We all get together and watch it every year. Tonight was the night this year so I cut two of these to give my two oldest who've given me 5 grandkids. I hope they're still watching it 30 years from now and still have these cuttings to remember tonight. The pattern is in the library.

Dummy me: That would be James E. Welch. He used to sell them. Unsure if he still is.

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!

very nice

Frank, the lab looks great, of course I am partial to chocolate labs having 2, enjoy your holidays, RJ

Great job, I will be cutting a similar one on Steves site for an order.

Yup, it looks like the Christmas Bunny to me! Nice work Jimmy!

Well done!

Nice work Frank!

Nice paint up! The bee looks phenomenal

Fabulous. Love the bee. Marg

They are fabulous, well done. Marg

What a great idea. They look great. Marg

They look great and 8 more would look fantastic. Marg

Great family tradition, love it. Marg

Nice work for sure Marg.

Nice! Steve Good has a similar pattern I cut a couple years ago.

Congrats Dan. Very impressive display. Glad the show was a success.

Those are cute, and yes it is addictive.

Great job. I need to turn the reader into a girl and cut it for my daughter.

Those are great. I never thought about making outdoor ornaments.

fantastic job, it's beautiful

Thank you so much...so there are quite a few James on here...which one makes the bottom vac attachment and does he sell the attachment? If so how do I get a hold of him? That looks like a great idea, especially the dust gate to control the suction. Thank you for taking the time to take pictures and share them....much appreciated!

Impressive Kevin, impressive!!! Jerry

The plastic is 1/8" thick. They are less than 8" round. Pattern printed on a standard page.

great job

Nice work Marg!

Love them!

My wife liked it so much that she displays it in a little stand in our kitchen.

Those are great Marge. I have a book with all those patterns in it except the one with the bird. I like that one. I have about 20 patterns cut out and ready to cut but they been sitting on my work bench for two months now. Haven't had time to cut any yet. LOL

The frogs came from this book. https://foxchapelpublishing.com/products/20-minute-scroll-saw-puzzles?_pos=1&_sid=7e48e8308&_ss=r. They may also have been in one of the magazines.

Decided to start using some wood from my Ocooch order and used 3/4" Basswood for the first time. Used an Olson #5 12TPI 9R PGT and it cut nice and clean but was not a fan of the way the dense sawdust was hard for the blower to remove from the cut line. Looking forward to trying out some of the hardwoods instead!

Very nice .... I'm starting to like scrolling those little people recentyl and those frogs sre super cute. Pattern??

Cute as whole heck Marg. I like all three. Well done.

That is so special to give those away. Great work

First Christmas thing I've made this year. Gorgeous piece of walnut. 5 1/2" nativity made for my daughter's dorm room.

Thank you! I will try to drop in now and then. I still do love and care about scrollsaw work. It was my first woodworking hobby. Not many scrolling sites around any more. Not a huge fan of FaceBook.

Keep sharing these ideas and mods folks. I’m going to show hubby so he can get me figured out with my saw and portable Festool I did end up getting once we moved. Unfortunately, we’ve had a significant life event get in the way of getting it all setup yet. We’ll get there though.

I love how people have been getting ideas from Rolf's post. This is my execution when I saw his setup. When I raise the arm up, the locline moves up and will be in the exact same place when I lower it. The actual pivot point is my flex pipe. I also added a blast gate which "throttles" my lower vac, some pieces cover all the holes and the suction is too much underneath. This brings suction more to the top vac. I just ordered more locline for my drill press. My flax pipe is not doing the job alone.