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I just finished cutting this today. I am excited because it is the third most difficult cutting I have made in all my scrolling years. It is a @Jim Blume pattern, (thanks Jim), and I copied the way I cut from a person named Elke Sachs Kohon Wiks. If I got that wrong, I apologize. It is not finished, it will have a flat-black backer and Deft semi-gloss lacquer. I cannot finish it in my house, the fumes are really bad for my wife. Have to wait for warmer weather to finish outside. It was a challenge, I used Pegas #1 Skip, Pegas #1 Modified Geometry, 3/0 FD New Spiral, blades. Reason why it is nice to have two scroll saws if you can. I was rolling back and forth between my two saws.

First ‘real’ project. Learned a bit in corners, blade tension and such. Using Olsen #7 crown tooth blades. My arm release mechanism made the job much easier with all the holes. Fun stuff!

Well a double selfie really. Photo and cutting. as normal all recycled wood. Pegas #3 blade

Thanks to @Denny Knappen for helping locate a pattern I finally made one.. then something bad or good happen depending on how you look at things.. lets just say.. I showed my wife and then she said... Hey, I have a great idea for this.. Any husband knows they're in trouble after those words come out.. SO... my daughter is going to be getting married pretty soon and they're in the wedding planning stage... I maybe should have waited a couple years to make this or at least show it to anyone, LOL... Little did I know that they was looking for ideas for table centerpieces for the reception.. now you know what I get to make a lot of now.. my reason for saying good or bad idea to show them... I made a few so far but really only sanded and dipped one in danish oil.. I so far made two out of spalted maple and one from cherry and one from walnut.. they cut really quite fast and easy to make which is good.. most of the other wedding things I make are pretty complex and take at least an hour or more and this can be cut in maybe 15 - 20 minutes.. I haven't tried stack cutting but that is also an option. As shown in the photo I've been playing around with mixing up the wood species to give off some contrast etc.. Probably going to have to make about 20? no idea yet as I have no clue how many tables will be needed.. she's just doing a smaller wedding maybe 150 - 200 people.. I don't know if Denny glues his together or not? I haven't done so and am hoping to not glue them as once we're done I may put them online to sell with the option to laser engrave the names etc. onto them... otherwise what are we going to do with 20+ of these.. another option maybe we could give one away to whomever is at said table as a competition or something.. no idea yet but selling with laser engrave option is something I had in mind once done with them. One nice thing about not gluing them is they breakdown quite easy and take up very little space.. plus can mix and match however you like with the wood species..

Not my best, most difficult

Hummingbird hovering over Flower. Pattern designer - @FrankEV. Thank you. Woods used -Purpleheart, orange osage, aromatic cedar, Canarywood, lacewood, poplar, maple, wenge. Mounted on live edge Elm. Walrus oil finish. Aprox 9"x7. There is a before finish and after finish. I love putting the finish on to see the colours pop!

One of Steve good downloads its some segment work and I won't be doing anything this small again my fingers don't like it I used plastic eyes and nose as I have a lot from the layered animals I make i I found some upholstery nails and they looked ok so I made them the buttons its not finished yet still need to sand base and cover sides to smooth a bit and then spray some lacquer Here's where I'm at It's rare I use paint but I took a paint pen and made the tie red it's sapele and hard maple used a 2/0 blade for it and cut the sides with a 5 ine Pegas one flying dutchman

I adapted a winter scene photo of a Chickadee to create a 10” x 10” Intarsia pattern. This pattern requires very accurate cutting to get a good fit-up. Wood used: Aspen, Basswood, Costa Rica Mahogany, Mahogony, and Wenge. Dye was applied to Aspen for the Light Grey areas. I used a 5/8” thick Premium Pine Project panel from Lowes for the free form plaque type backer. The backer perimeter edge was cut at a 4-degree bevel and then a router was used to round-over the top edge using a 1/8” round-over bit. The completed assembly was protected with multiple coats of a Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish. Comments and critiques welcome. I will post the pattern in Pattern Exchange.

Unbelievable... The detail of the warrior is awesome.

Awesome work Kevin.

Outstanding work on all 3 projects!!! Erv

Amazing cutting on an awesome pattern Paul. Jeff

What about going to Lowes or Home Depot and buying a base cabinet or 2 and using that as bottom, then just add top. Might be able to snag a couple damaged bases for a good price.

Amazing, Paul. Do you have a picture of your other 2 best jobs? Just curious to see how they look like, if this is your third best one.

So this idea will still require some DIY or at the very least hiring a local. Menard's sells (if you have one local, I'm sure the other box stores have these) a prefab work bench top. master craft work bench top Its a bit narrow though. So you would need two, cut one down to the correct width to fasten to the other and make the correct width. Then its just make a base, and Menard's again can help. Work bench kit This has all the brackets and hardware to build a bench support, only missing 2x4s, which again Menard's has. Obviously this is not an off the shelf plug and play deal. But if you have a circle saw and something about 6' long and straight, you could break the top down and dowl/biscuit/domino them together and be on your way. Clamping might be a bit tricky, but you could stand it on edge with the heavy side up and that should be good enough. Best of luck!

Been out of it and just recently rebuilt my work area. This is what I've done. I'm going to trim the minute hands on one of the clocks for sure

Here's a couple more...

Really well done top notch.

Nice work!

Another great job. Love the different woods you used.

That came out beautiful Barb. I wish I was closer to you so you could give me some lessons.

Latest piece done. Segmentation Koi bowl. I used 3/4" Poplar for two layers and 1/2" Maple for the third layer. Black is Osmo finish. Colours are acrylic paints. Finished with triple glaze gloss. Pattern is from an old Creative Woodworks magazine. Pattern designer is Deborah Nicholson. Thank you @Denny Knappenfor providing it to me. Original pattern is 12" diameter. This is reduced to 8"diameter.

Great job Barb, Your getting better and better.

Heres what I been working on

I adapted original Stained Glass Art by Jillian Sawyer to create a 99 piece, 10” x 15” pattern. Wood used: Aspen, Cedar, Orange Osage, Padauk, Poplar, Roasted Birch, Sapele, Yellowheart, and Wenge. Wood used for leaves and stems was enhanced with Green Dye and the Butterfly wing veins were highlighted with a black sharpie. Assembly is mounted on a 1/8” thick BB Ply backer and finished with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Spray Acrylic Finish. The Poppy was intended to be dark and light Red, much like how Blue was use in the original art. My choice to use Cedar wood for the light Red was poor with the color being more Brown than Red. This was not apparent to me until I brought the Butterfly assembly against the flower assembly. Although this should not have been necessary, but since assembly was too far complete, I found it necessary to improve the Cedar with Red Dye. Comments and critiques allways welcome.

Great job Frank. Your getting better and better with age, just like a good wine.

Thanks for the link, funny I was just looking at another Youtube (whosthevoss I think is the name) where he built a fliptop table.. I need one of those too.. I think

The crate is wood.. I think it's probably 3/8" plywood.. I think this might be a temporary and possible permanent (since most of my temporary ends up being permanent) solution.. I think I'll glue and nail both top and bottom pieces together and then frame it build some legs from 2x4's.. I also forget than this laser will run via thumb drive or even wifi etc.. so it really doesn't need the computer connected.

Very nice cutting. Here's my setup for blades for the Hegner. When I found that I needed the small blade holder, I ordered an extra set of standard holders, 2 sets of small, and 1 set of larger holders. Since I use the quick clamp, this let's me have 4 small blades, 4 medium, and 2 large ready to go. And any mix of those sizes. I have a small dry erase board with the sizes written on it for organizing the blades. This makes quick work of changing blades when they dull or changing types when necessary.

I'd build my own too. There are many videos on bench building. It would just be a matter of plugging in your own numbers.

Hey kids, it's been a while... I hope everyone is doing well. I stepped into my shop yesterday for the first time since September. It felt good to get back into the groove again. Finished up 7 puzzles and a couple of key/leash racks this morning. I received acceptance to my best 1 day event each year which is at the end of April so I need to get 100-150 puzzles and racks cut to be ready. Iggy

Seems like over the past few months I get started on something and then go "squirrel " and start something new without finishing the first one. So with the new year I've set out to finishing all the started things before starting new ones. Here's 2 of them. The Deer (2 pics) one is in the window to show the "stained glass "affect. It cut from ⅛ ply with a red oak frame and acrylic for the color areas The 2nd is a sun catcher for my daughter who is a Zelda fan. It's cut from ⅛ maple with acrylic in the middle. It looks the same from both sides. Anyhow, thanks for looking, back to the shop......

Just finished this. It is to go with a previous one I did some time ago. I have two more I am going to try eventually. I tried some new things this time. I cut the white and removed the pattern from those pieces but left the pattern on the rest of the picture. Sprayed the white pieces. Last time, I hand-painted them. This worked well and was much easier and faster.

Great job Paul. I have looked at similar patterns but just haven't gotten to them lol. Jeff