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Hi all I made this for my girlfriends mum 80th birthday she loves W&G

Made a fun pick holder for my 8 year old grandson who just got a guitar for his birthday. Highly imperfect work but OK for a first try. Got off a bit with my templates making one side of the lid a bit thinner than the other. Proves it's hand made I suppose. Louidjy will forgive me. If anyone is interested I followed the instructions from a YouTube video called Scroll Saw Guitar Pick Holder from Acutabove Woodworking.

Pattern by Ridgeback Wood Lamp. Saw the pattern and had to cut it. 11 X 14 double stack 1/8 BB ply 140 cuts with Sawbird #3 full reverse. Jeff

Om a FB group for Intarsia they have a pattern of the month for everyone to do. October was a funky owl by Steve Shears. I did the owl but put a spin on the backer. Mounted it to a 15" round and added a quote by John Muir The letters are ½ high and ⅛ thick, and cut from Bolivian Rosewood.

I actually had the same idea but went a slightly different route. I use acrylic sheets, they are easy to cut with my scrollsaw, and I'm at the point I'm trying actual stained glass patterns. Here is a deer I got from a coloring book I used as a trial.

'don in brooklin' was referring to me. I've backed many of my scroll-sawn pieces with appropriate glass. I'm attaching photos of three of those pieces.

Every now and then I do a project that makes me smile and I enjoy. This one has been on my list for a few years ( I worked at Disney World back in the 80's). Finally had a week free to make it. It'll go on the wall next to Donkey Kong. Chris

These are all based on patterns I bought from Fiona Kingdon, with a few liberties taken and changes made for individual uses. The common denominator is that I did recessed cuts allowing the inner ring to slip forward 1/4” to allow the stained glass panels to fit enclosed behind the scroll work. The “Entwined Lovers” were all wedding/engagement presents.

I obtained a ‘Limitless Lines Design’ Stained-Glass Pattern from Etsy that I thought would be easy to convert to a suitable Intarsia project pattern. The Heron is an almost a direct copy, but I modified the background significantly to work better in wood. In doing so, I messed up the perspective somewhat by lowering the land on the far side of the water. This was not obvious to me until the project was nearly complete. I’ll live with it as is, but I have already corrected the pattern, to be more in keeping with the original pattern, that I will share in Pattern Exchange. Woods used include Premium Pine, Blue Pine, Yellowheart, Cherry, Walnut, Aspen, Black Limba, and some 4/4” thick Sapele for the fixed Frame. The Cherry I used for the Water was too close in color to the Pink toned Pine I used for the Sky, so I enhanced the color with some Blue/Green dye. The Grey and Light-colored areas of the Blue Pine worked well for most of the Heron itself, but I had to darken a few areas using some very diluted Black dye. The Eye was painted with White and Black acrylic paint. Currently, my wood selection is limited, therefore so are my choices since I would have really preferred to use a different wood for the Sky. The approximate 80 pieces of this project was quite a challenge to cut and assemble. After all the pieces were cut, shaped, textured and sanded - knowing I was going to frame the panel - I first assembled the background, within a rectangular jig sized to the finish panel size, onto a 1/8” thick BB Ply Backer. The Blue Pine is only a scant 5/8” thick and I wanted the Heron to sit proud of the background, so I cut a 1/4“thick shim to fit the remaining area and then I fit the Heron into the area. The many small pieces of the Heron’s body proved impossible to assemble, one by one, into the open area. I was forced to use CA to edge-glue the pieces together and fit into the open area as one piece. Being very careful to fit the pieces together accurately, this worked out well. The 1” wide Sapele was rabbeted 1/4" to produce a 3/4" wide border Frame. The rails were mitered and cut accurately for a tight-neat fit around the glued-in panel. The completed Assembly was finished with multiple coats of rattle-can Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish spray with light sanding/buffing in between coats. Comments and critiques allways welcome.

I have my first crafts show this Saturday and the next one on November 16, more stuff ready and looking forward to unload some material because my storage is pretty full. Alex Fox Christmas gnomes and Don in Brooklin hockey gnomes and I think the Charlie Brown Christmas tree is Sue Mey

Barn and fence - I just finished cutting this scroll saw wood-art piece today. Lots of hours in this one.

Thanks for your kind comments. In reply to your questions: Cutting took much longer. 11x14x1/8 inches. Baltic birch plywood. Pegas #1 and 2 Spirals. Welcome to an amazing hobby. You are certainly in the right place at SSV to learn and grow. Kris

I'm cheating, I use a fretsaw. I started in january '22. These are among my first ones. Nine months later ... Fast forward to the present ... This is 40cm x 67.5 cm and has three layers.

Looks great, RJ

I already had some Kreg clamps from the pocket hole Jig. I use those clamps on a lot of other stuff. But the inline clamps are super, When I first got them I was surprised that they were plastic. But they really work great especially when I sand stuff.

Very nice.

very nice job

Looks good to me Charlie so I am sure your grandson with be over the moon with it, Marg

They are very cute. You have a great imagination. Marg

Beautiful. Excellent work Frank. Marg

After cutting this I sat on my front porch and got still and quiet. My favorite squirrel got within a few feet from me. I can tell him apart because he's more brown than gray and has a skinnier tail. Lots of good things happen when we take the time to be still.

Excellent work Charlie. Marg

I think the one I saw was all one color wood, so yours really popped for me. Marg

One other word to everyones response. Awesome! Just amazing! Okay, that was more than one word.

Too late.... Sold my saw and "everything" that went with it... Took saw funds to finance the resin costs. Amount fell short

Wow, absolutely beautiful! A few questions if I may. Which took longer, the scrolling or the pattern making? What are the dimensions of the piece? Is that Baltic Birch plywood? Thickness and blades used? I'm rather new to scrolling and pattern making and have much to learn. Thanks for sharing.

So U was think of new stuff to do. Got curious about my purple heart ribbon failure. See above link. I just tried cutting the same piece of board stackup. My previous saw was porter cable entry level. I just tried my hawk 226 with a #5 mgt. It work so well. Sure it took a bit of time but it was not frustrating. My cut was 6 inches and took less than 20 min. I think a super skip should work also. I was fighting the upstroke a bit more than usual. Well I can put 1" purple heart into a can do category. I just will make sure I have lots of pegas blades on hand.

As to the environmental/ecological aspect, remember that EVERYTHING is either grown or mined from the earth. No getting around that.

I got the coffin pattern form Alex Fox and the jack-o-lanterns I got from here last year and made some changes

HOLY COW, Kris, you did it again. Every time you put up a new piece I think this man is a true artist. I no longer have to think about it, Thanks for sharing. Just in case, the PUN was intended. Rick

Great cutting on a very nice pattern.

Thanks Marg. Yes, the moose is a Steve Good pattern. When I first saw it I didn't really like it. Someone else did it with thicker hardwoods. I liked that, so I used my hardwoods. The moose is Walnut, two of the trees are Maple and the third tree is Cherry(?).

I recently entered my Viking in the Royal Melbourne Show, and I got a 1st. I am so thrilled and proud. Marg

Congratulations Marg. A well deserved win.

Congrats Marg!........Awesome cutting happening there!........Well deserved honor.

Just to throw this in, and something I have experienced, if you're cutting a turn and rotate the piece to quickly without allowing the blade to "cut" through the turn (especially sharp turns), it will bend the blade. This is more noticeable with the larger blades because the kerf has more surface area to bend the blade before it is allowed to cut it's way though. Concerning the tension: I bottom feed and there are times when I'll feed the blade through the piece and it will not be directly aligned between the clamps. I'll clamp the blade to the top clamp, apply tension and as I do, it moves (aligns) the piece between the clamps. I'll then remove the tension, unclamp the top, and then reclamp the blade with the hole directly between the clamps. I've also found that if I'm experiencing excessive drift or I'm having to excessively rotate the piece to follow a curve, I know the blade has loosened and needs to be repositioned in the clamp for proper tension.

Yes, it looks like a tension issue. One way to tell, apply tension, then release the tension. If there is a bow in the blade, it is a tension issue. Tension issues are usually caused by the set screw or thumb screw.

In my opinion if you're able to twist a blade like that then you have a tensioning issue.. maybe not enough at the start of the cut or slippage once you start cutting.. I don't know but I have had instances where a blade would twist some.. maybe not that much but anyway it was always because the tension on the balde wasn't enough.. You might try cleaning your clamp screws where they pinch the blade and also sand the ends of the blade to remove the oils from the blade.. they're coated to prevent rusting andover time they'll build up oil on the clamping screws. There may be a different issue here with your situation but that is what I've always had happen when a blade slipped in the clamp.

I have an older EX-21 with no dust collection. It is a simple box that catches the sawdust and small piece that catches it before it fall on my leg. It is real crude and if I was doing more scrolling I would add dust collection of some sort but this works. I have a ceiling fan that runs too.