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"Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence."

Managed to get something completed for once: Fairly happy with the outcome, considering this is basically my second project, first involving any kind of more intricate fretwork. It’s not as clean as I’d like it to be but it looks okay from a distance. Not sure whether it needs a finish or not? It’ll probably be hanging on a wall so barely any touching or such. Maybe a clear coat of spray varnish? I do also have boiled linseed oil available…

When I was at my daughter's place, I noticed that their stockings were just being hung on a picture hook. Mom to the rescue!!! This is a Kathy Wise design that showed up in my FB feed recently. I cut this as segmentation from one piece of reclaimed elm, from our city's canopy. It is a little more than 1" thick. Used a(many) #7 Precision skip blade(s). Colour provided by watered down Unicorn Spit. There is one major cutting error that I turned into a design choice. This is just waiting for the Osmo satin finish to dry.

Having just done a piece for myself, see below, I thought that cutting it in something just as thin but more robust than plywood would be worth a try. So I've bought some 3mm black acrylic sheets A4 so that I can give it a go. Any 'tips' before I start ? This stuff doesn't come that cheap over here so I'd prefer not to make a pigs ear out of it if possible.

Make cute earrings,, but I have nothing to wear with them.

Those are cute Charlie! Can you pass on the pattern?

Great job Charlie. I’ve moved past few months so you may need to PM me for address to mail them too. I know the recipients will love them.

Love making trucks. Wood used for these was Mahogany, Walnut, Maple and Ebony.

I’ve had my Excalibur for a couple years now. I had to replace the upper and lower arms once already. I bought one that was the display/trial saw. How often should I take it apart and lube the upper and lower bearings, sleeves etc. it’s really just like the Dewalt as far as doing this? What kind of lube were people using? I’ve watched the video’s on the dewalt before also. I’m having no problems I’m just curious what others have done with it. Thanks.

I made and of the Submarine Service plaques at the request of my neighbor to give to a good friend that was a submariner. The last one of these will make more of just the emblems for giveaways.

I found a B&W image of a Papercut cutting of a “tree(?)” by a UK artist Lois Cordelia. The image is quite unique and I’m sure not to everyone’s taste. However, it intrigued me, and I wondered how it would look if made as a Scroll Saw Cutting. The original was a European A3 paper size cutting that, using Inkscape, I increased and modified slightly to convert it into an 11” x 17” scroll pattern. No other modifications were necessary to make it scrollable. I cut the pattern in a 5/32” thick solid core Walnut ply panel mainly using Pegas #2/0 Spiral blades and a Pegas #3 MGT R blade for the long straight border cuts. The perimeter border is 1/4" wide so it is hidden under the rebbeted frame rails. I enhanced the Walnut cutting with a quick wipe-on/wipe-off coat of Minwax Dark Walnut stain, mainly to stain all the interior vertical edge cuts but not wanting to lose the visibility of the wood grain. The cut panel was affixed to a 1/4” thick BB Ply Backer that I chose to paint to look somewhat like sky using my Air Brush and Acrylic Artist Air Brush Paints. The Frame is a 3/4” wide rabbeted frame made from Poplar, that was Stained with Minwax Honey and protected with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Wipe-on Polyurethane. Comments and critiques always welcome. A special note here. Cutting this image, whether you care for the image itself or not, would be an excellent opportunity for anyone that may be interested in learning how to use Spiral Blades. I will post the pattern in Pattern Exchange and include a short tutorial under Works in Progress & Tutorials that will provide; ‘My Methods’ that I followed when I cut this image with Spirals.

After deciding to scale down SG's "Dirty Harry" pattern and dealing with some serious sciatica issues, I finally finished scrolling my project this morning... Even though I was not pain free by any means I just wanted to get the last of it done. I feel it was worth it!

Hello everyone. Finally after a year from Hades I'm back on my saw. It's been a roller coaster of a year which has meant that my saw has been sat in the shed alone Have missed you all dreadfully, but happy to be back amongst friends. Going to spend a while catching up on all the topics and getting my shed in order so that I can continue with my scrolling. My first cut in over a year, done just for me. 3mm ply painted black to sit on my cream wall.

So rewarding. I love it when I give someone something just because I know it will have a special meaning to them and i find the profit from doing it is worth more than when I sell one. Dick heppnerguy

Finished this piece up few days ago. Thanks to Paul (grampa) for the great pattern. It's 16x20 made for 1/2" plywood.

Beautiful job! I would spray it with clear lacquer just to make it easier to dust. But I live in a dusty climate.

Very beautiful and well done Juha. Your wife will be over joyed. I would give it a protective coat of satin polyurethane.

I’ve used Inkscape but haven’t had any problems. Maybe not enough to see one yet. I’d try rebooting or delete it through the add/remove and install the previous version just to see. I have no problems printing. I save it as a . jpg and use rapidresizer. It costs about $40 a year but I use it enough to justify it. You can also save the resizing pattern you made in case you want to do it against the same size.

Good advise using clear packing tape. works foor me.

I have cut acrylic and like to use a lighted base like this one. 4 Pieces 3D Night LED Light Lamp Base with 4 Pieces Clear Acrylic Sheets & Remote Controls and Charging Cables Adjustable 16 Colors 4 Modes for Child Room Bar (Square Style) - Amazon.com

great job

This is what I have as well.

Actually 1.5mm. Surprisingly robust.

I've put clear packing tape over acrylic and it almost eliminated the melting. Extra support, whether stacking acrylic or using thin plywood, I'd also suggest.

Thank you! It was a tiny piece of scrap in my scrap drawer but I'm pretty sure it is Red Padauk.

Very nice! What was the wood you used?

I use a crown tooth blade to cut acrylic for my teaching bank windows with no melting issues. Olson recommends their PGT or Crown Tooth blades for plastic. Pégas recommends their super skip or MGT blades. Couldn’t find a chart for Flying Dutchman. Hope this helps

I make a sandwich with 1/8” plywood on the top and bottom. I think it’s the safest way. You could also try cardboard. I use the cardboard from boxes of different dry goods from my pantry when cutting vinyl records. I always consider if the box is too good to throw away and might help with scrolling.

You might want to think about some of the competition shooting. Rifle or Pistol Silhouettes would be easy, I would think. Steel Challenge, Coyboy Action, and Trap would be good too.

How true. Those are cute and well done.

Nice, I downloaded itt. May eventually get to cut one. Nice idea for stocking hanger. What was your cutting issue?

Three more cut, just need to stain. I will do that after I get the last two cut and then stain all together.

very nice

I think we need to clarify. This is a sanding mop in my shop.

I use a sanding mop in an upside down drill. It's 120 grit. Done this for a few years now and never had a problem. 20220530_121543[1].mp4

I know many of you have seen these, but there are new members. Four Miniature Birdhouse Ornaments pattern by the late Diana Thompson. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #6 Super Skip blades. After assembly, sanding with a Mac Mop, dipped in diluted Shellac and another light sanding. Comments welcome.

THIS IS WHY I ENJOY MAKING THE MILITARY EMBLEMS SO MUCH. A RESPONSE LIKE THIS IS WORTH A LOT. Got home today and this was in my email Our friend, was overcome with thankfulness. He hopes to meet you to thank you in person.

Here's the first of seven angels I'm making for the girlfriend for Christmas, when done they'll spell out " Let It Go" ( her favorite saying ) I'll also get 7 snowflakes .

Pattern was just released, so I jumped grabbed it.

These are some little plaques I am giving away to some people in a group that I attend. The one that says Brothers is for my Brother. I made another for me so we could have a matching set.

When I was an exhibitor at our county fair this year a man came up to me and pointed to a compound cut angel I had on display. It wasn’t for sale (I made it for my wife a few years before she passed away and wasn’t going to part with it) but just there to demonstrate what you can do with a scrollsaw. He asked me if I would make 12 of them for him. I was a little hesitant (I’m not much of a mass production type - rather do one offs) until he told me the backstory. His wife, who died around the same time as mine, would give the grandkids an angel every year for Christmas. When she died he decided to keep the tradition going. When he saw my angel he thought they would be perfect for this year, so I agreed to make them … all 12 of them! He was pleased and so was I. The bodies are walnut and the wings soft maple.

Very Nice Tbow! @Charlie E makes great patterns!

I haven't seen any posts by @Hotshot since last December. Anybody know if he's ok?

Ray, His profile says he was on last Friday. He just isn't posting.