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Latest ones. Angel is Ridgeback Wood-Lamp pattern, double stack 1/8 BB ply. 164 cuts with #3 ultra reverse and #3/0 spiral 11 X 17 inches. Fishing rules by Jim Blume on BB ply 8 X 8. 70 cuts with #3 ultra reverse.

I have a couple friends that love baseball and puzzles, so for their birthdays I’ve been making them a puzzle from a Norman Rockwell baseball themed illustration. This year is #10 in the series. The locks around the edge add a little challenge rather than a straight edge to identify the outside "frame" of the puzzle.

These are ornaments cut from 1/8" basswood (hobby lobby) it cuts well and as you can see, will take details without falling apart.

Alex, Thanks for the great patten. Some areas were a challange but it was a joy to cut. I did add some bridges when I thought some pieces would become too floppy. I actually stack cut this to make 2. No harder than cutting one. 1/8" BBPW on 3/16" backer. Shellac and Gloss Lacquer finish.

Does anyone use 1/4" basswood for their projects instead of 1/4" Baltic Birch, if so is it good to work with, thanks for any info.

A couple I recently finished up. Standard 3/8" ply from Lowes, frames are scrap lumber ripped down. Stains are Minwax "Honey" and "Natural". The car came from the pattern library here, and The Shadow was a pic I found online. Filled in his scarf with some red acrylic paint that my daughter wasn't using (she's switched to oils). Wanted to put "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows." but figured out pretty quick that the text would have to be incredibly tiny to fit on there. Maybe if I save up my allowance and am able to get a deeper saw....

Nice work Charlie! Is that an 8 track?

Great job! I really like the angel.

Nice work!

Great job!

Travis, First, Thank you for all you do to run and maintain this site. I've noticed that on my thread about the double lidded baskets that I'm working on, some of the pictures are being dropped and just an icon shows now. Some of the pictures are early in the thread and others are later in the thread. This is not intended as a complaint, but rather as a heads up to something going sideways.

The steer head was my first real scroll project using my 90's era, single speed, pin tpe blade scroll saw. The RN is my favorite, its a Steve Good pattern that I modified to include the recipient's initials. I used scrap from pallets and other sources, mostly pine. My latest is the nativity scene, Pictured is a pine practice cut, I did a few in popular for some friends. my cutting was halted in January with my stroke. I am waiting on my new saw, Dewalt 788, to arrive this week. ready to get serious!

I felt this would get seen more here rather than the other forum topics so hopefully I’ll get some good input on this. I built two of these bucket gardens, one for a friend and one for myself. To do over I’d have just used treated lumber or cedar. But now that they are built I’m wondering what would be a decent finish to help preserve the standard construction 2x4’s. Originally I thought I had some leftover exterior paint but when I open the cans they are mostly dried up so I originally thought I could buy cheap lumber and use up my old paints I had laying around. Now that I’ve got to buy something is why I say to do over I’d just use treated lumber. Since this is a garden thing it’s obviously going to be outside and getting watered etc. Not looking to make it last forever but I don’t really want to just leave it raw either. Thinking about cheap options is someone else’s leftover paint from the restore places or some paint that was mixed incorrectly so long as it’s exterior and not interior but thought maybe I ask here as maybe someone has a better idea. Don’t really care too much about looks or colors really within reason, I mean I don’t really want fluorescent bright pink or totally ugly colors . Anyway thoughts on something to use or am I on the right track with just using an exterior paint and call it good. Nothing in this type of setting is going to last forever other than metal so I know it’s going to rot at some point.

I have used deck stain on many outdoor projects including lawn and deck furniture. It works well and is easy to apply. I just reapplied it as needed.

Maybe it's time for one or more of you scrollers to step in and either help out or take the business over. Buy him out or just help get him off his high center. If the business is only a sideline/hobby, you maybe can add some sage advice to help him. It would be a win/win for all involved.

I won't mention which political party is the cause of all this stupidity. We all know which one it is. So, when the election rolls around, be sure you vote wisely. Even if he has to rule from a jail cell.

Brend, you do beautiful work, RJ

Charley, you amaze me with all your talent. That is beautiful!

Thank you so much! So many fun things can be done in this hobby.

This quite excellent !!! I have not seen this style before and am extremely impressed. The cutting is great and the choice of colors really brings out the details. It is one of the top projects I have seen lately.

We are seeing similar things starting to happen here too. Greed is rearing it's ugly head.

Hey Everyone! in this fun Scroll Saw Project Video, we make another custom Compound Cut Keychain for the NC Woodworkers! This keychain will be part of a raffle and all the money raised will go to a good cause! And, whoever wins this keychain will get a FREE Custom keychain from me with the name of their choosing! Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

The angel one is amazing. Well done on both projects. Marg

This will be a birthday gift for my sister. She has a collection of rubber ducks. I thought I would add to it. Woods used: Poplar, Aspen, Tigerwood, Paduk and Walnut. Cut with #5 mg blade. Beeswax butter for the finish.

Very nice cuttings, Jeff. Should do that fishing one for my son, Even with his own bass pond he, me thinks, is a typical fisherman lier!

OH MY, Dick, that is simply amazing.

This is Jim Blume's "Heading West" pattern that was designed to be 11X14. I decided to make it a little more challenging by cutting it into an 8X10. Baltic Birch stained Ipswich with a black backer and a Pine frame. Both cutting and frame were sprayed with several coats of Polyacrylic with light sanding between coats. This was a lot of fun to cut and surprisingly the reduced size didn't make it very difficult. Thanks, Jim, for another great pattern.

Just curious, are you able to receive mail from outside the country? There may be folks on here who could send you what you need. I have no experience at doing that but would it be possible?

Barb, nice job, RJ

An amazing alot of work! Very nice...

i am on supplemental o2 for six months now.. But I ran a line to supply filtered air from outsie the shop before I needed the O2. The air was supplied by an old c-pap machine to my respirator. I ran a line across the ceiling to the center of the shop ceiling and put a retractible coil 02 hose to that fitting, and 10 feet reaches to the walls. but noy quite to the floors along the edges. I have an oxygen fitting on my shop respirator (The kind with the two cartridges.) and the input is connected to the back strap of the respirator. It is not ideal, but works. I had been carrying the saw out onto the porch in nice weather and wearing an N95 while keeping the breeze to my side to blow the dust sway. I have also since, hooked up a dust collector and an air filtration system as well. Might be a little redundant, but keeps most of the dust off my clothes. .

I may have that pattern somewhere. If I can find it I can send it to you. I won't be able to look until later today or tomorrow.

Very nice. I had to go look at it again to find the child peeking out of the wagon.

Yep, the family is taking on a great adventure. Extra challenging to head west. Oh your saying the cutting is extra challenging. Yes but it looks great. I had to look closely, i think the child is a girl peeking out of the covered wagon.

When I do them from hardwood lumber I make them at 3/16". I don't make very many out of hardwood anymore as many of them get partially painted so I use 1/8 BBply.. Thinking about going to 1/16 ply actually because many of the painted ones get glued to a backer.

I agree that using ply is not the way to go. A lot of folks use ply, but I would rather use hardwoods. I have always thought 1/4” was too thick and !/8” is too thin. So, I use 3/16”. Of course I have the tools necessary to resaw and plane my stock. If you are going to use hardwoods, I would go with 1/4”.

Well I just looked in the mirror and saw a strange old man! Got any goo fix for that? Maybe that is what happen I just got updated!

Kinda back to an old conversation - it is too bad that Bear woods charges shipping on the prize you won! It would go a long way for customer service. Their shipping costs is one of the reasons I don't generally shop there.

The courier fees and our corrupt governments import duties is twice the cost of the blades.

No just totally ignorant, I gave him a complete list of the recommended blades he should stock, just not interested, our scroll saw community is so small that he only ordered blades one a year, what’s going to happen now with him closing his second branch that has been around for many, many years, who knows.