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Just finished this wedding piece my my cousin. Made out of oak with a few coats of poly on it. The lettering I cut out of Walnut. I used Steve Goods keychain software to cut the lettering. I want to thank Don who redid the pattern I had on here with the butterflies. I did make the bottom a little longer to fit all the lettering on.

I made this set of 6 patterns about a year ago, at that time I had't opportunity to cut projects, and just now I cut it. Each trivet consists of 3 layers. Recommended size is 7 x 7 inches Video of making project C249-Sphere patterns

I have taught scrolling lessons for many years at our club and we have all Dewalts. Not my favorite as I have and EX-21. I have found that I can only take max 4 students at a time as once they get scrolling it keeps you busy. I also have found that 3 hours is the about the limit. (for me and for them) I start with going over the basics as I do them. I found that if you teach all the options it takes too long so I try to do quick. I have attached the 2 hand outs that I talk to. The first is the basics and the second it the internet links that I use. I am a die hard Flying Dutchman Ultra reverse user as find them not as aggressive as MGT or similar. Each person gets a #3 and a #5 to start with. (If they break one it is replaced.) After the the basics, I then talk safety aspects of scrolling (ie dust) and the operation of the scroll saw. I used to do the practice pattern page from Shelia Landy which is great for practice but when you have real newbies they get bored and I found they want to do something to take home. Before they come to the class, I have them do homework by watching the video of Steve Good doing sharp corners. I use 1/4 BB for the practice pattern and phone stand. My practice pattern is attached. I first explain cutting straight lines and then cut in half. Then cut the square to do more straight lines and square corners. Then cut the cat to learn sharp corners on the ears plus follow the curves and if they come off line to ease back on. (tip when pattern come off no one know where the line was.) Get a key chain. We then cut the ornament. Teaches cutting "V" and a circle. I then do the simplified phone stand. Usually have to fix up with disc sander LOL Change blades to a number 5 and cut dog pattern. I have pattern attached to a piece of 3/4 maple or poplar. Use painters tape for attaching pattern and wrap with clear box tape. (Just a tip for hardwood cutting) That usually takes about 3 hours. Some are quicker and so I have a couple of puzzles ready on 1/2 plywood. This is my experience and if you have any question let me know. PS: I follow 101 course with compound cutting. DWC Scrolling 101 links.pdf DWC ScrolSaw 101 basics.pdf dogsmaller.pdf DWC Simple practice .pdf phone stand simple.pdf

For my wife's birthday, I went to Hallmark to buy a card. A cute card that pops up (her fav) was nearly $8 + tax CAD or $6 US The regular cards that are supposed to be funny but not at all were $5 -$6. So the cheapo in me said I can make a card. Done it before and she seemed to like them. So I then spent probably 3 hours or more designing, cutting and painting. Return is about $2 per hour. Not bad for an old retired guy. LOL She liked it anyways. Size is 5 x 8 to fit envelope PS: The heart and maple leaf matched the sweat shirt I had stitched.

Thought i would try something new. This is a Sheila Landry Pattern. It's around an 8 x 10 and made out of Walnut. P.S. I don;t smoke weed. LOL! !

When I first started scrolling I had a board that was identified as "Craft Board". Don't remember where I got it. It was about 6 inches wide and maybe two feet long. Looked very much like pine, but I don't think it was. Attached is a picture of the first project I did after I got tired of practicing. Jerry

Another "Great American Railroad" pic completed today. 11 x 14 x 1/8 inches Baltic Birch ply. Pattern and cutting by me from a painting in an old calendar.

Where I work, I have been asked me to teach 4-6 hr scroll saw classes. They will get me 3 or 4 new dewalts and 1 or 2 King scroll saws to have folks learn on. I have never used either saws but I don't think I will have much trouble. I have a Excalibur which I believe is similar to the King ...I think it is a top feed and I also have a Hawk G4 26 which I can top or bottom feed. Is the Dewalt a bottom or top feed? Anyway my questions are the following: Should I just start with an easy pattern like the Beginners practice piece such as the one we have here: I thought it might be nice to do something that has a little bit of fret work so when they go home they have something to take home with them. Like an ornament or? Should I use baltic birch or a hardwood that is maybe 1/4 -1/2 inch thick? Any suggestions on blade selection? Should I start from scratch with them and have them glue the pattern, drill the holes or should I just do that for them ahead of time? I would appreciate any tips that I should emphasize for beginners. The hope is to get folks started, enjoy this fun activity (and of course introduce them to the Village!). Thank you ahead of time for your suggestions and help

Yesterday was an awesome scrolling day for me. I was actually able to spend most of the day at my Hawk saw, and it was incredible. I've had the Hawk about a year now and it did not start good. I'd been using a Delta P-20 that I got back in late 1998 and that's all I used until my daughter asked if she could have the Delta , I taught her on it when she was about 8. So faced with getting a replacement, and the Hawk is something I've always wanted for as long as I've been scrolling, I found this one. After I got it home I really wasn't impressed. You see with the Delta I was a die hard top feed for the blade, for more than 20 years. The Hawk, while it can top feed, fir me it was difficult if not impossible. Fast forward a year and I finally found a groove with the Hawk which is what lead to yesterday's awesome scrolling day, the result of which you can see from my dust tray I have under the cutting table on the Hawk. After a rough start a year ago, the Hawk is now my number 1 saw!

"Sisyphus meets Indiana Jones" 45 x 60cm, backer boards 4mm, landscape 4mm, Sisyphus & Indy 4mm, 'cheap' DIY store ply, done with a hand held fretsaw with a #1 blade. Found this online-cartoon by Mark Parisi ("Off the Mark"), just had to do it. That look on Indy's face is priceless. This seems to be a simple pic, but it actually was a lot of work to get it done (cutting all those simple straight lines ... two holes to drill, sawing the line up, sawing the line down... about more than 150 times). It didn't help that it's too big for my fretsaw. Because of that, cutting the letters was tricky, I couldn't cut Sisyphus, Indy & the rocks out of the 'landscape' board, and some of the straight lines were tricky also. This time, I used stain instead of paint, looks great.

This a modified Charlie @Charlie E rendition. Thank you Charlie! I changed the pattern he sent me because I wanted an Irish look (since they love Ireland) I had to actually cut and paste the letters and used white-out to make the pattern I wanted, plus she likes plants/trees so I added some leaves. Attached is the pattern Charlie made me as well as my final work. I also decided to do some hand carving since I wanted a bit more depth. I used green satin fabric in epoxy for the background over a thin sheet of Paruvian walnut.

Dick, Thanks so very much! Coming from you, that is quite the compliment! I did give it to them yesterday and now they will put it right by their front door. They really did like it. Thanks so much!

Your artistic touches is what makes the items you make so extra special, not only for the person you made it for but also for all of us in The Village who enjoy as well. Dick heppnerguy

This is a card worth keeping. I purchased ones go in the garbage in a couple of days./ Great idea. Not cheap, just more creative and meaningful Dick heppnerguy

I would take samples/pictures of different types of things that can be done with a scroll saw: Fretwork, puzzles, intarsia, 3D, inlay, relief, etc. So they realize you can do wonderful things with a scroll saw. At the end of the class, I would highly recommend they join Scroll Saw Village. Prepare a handout that addresses this, plus where to get patterns, and supplies Print out some of the info from resources, on this site, like vendors and patterns sellers. Maybe Woodcraft may not like you listing any of their competitors. I would expect to see many more scrollers on the east side of this state!! I'm excited. If you happen to run across someone from my area, feel free to give me a contact, To help them in any way I can with their scrolling. I know no one from my area will travel to Spokane for a class, but just in case that miracle happens.. There is another gentleman on here from Spokane who makes hulls for RC hydroplane boats. He is not here often, but I think he still stops I once and a while.

It's just that the top arm on the Dewalt does not stay up by itself, nor does it have any built in feature to hold it up, like some other saws. If you want the top arm to stay up, you will need something to do that. A short piece of 2x4 is the simplest method.

Don, very nice, I have a relative that him and her go to the hallmark store together, they each pick a card out for the other exchange them right there, they each read their given card and put back on the rack, they have exchanged cards and just leave, RJ

Regarding your question about the Dewalt. It will top or bottom feed, but it will need some sort of mechanical assistance to hold up the top arm. A block of 2x4 will work for a quick solution. The Dewalt is of the same basic design as the Excalibur, with some differences. The Dewalt is much more aggressive than the EX and doesn't have the same capability to tune it as the EX. Also, the table tilts on the Dewalt, not the arm frame, but I doubt you will be doing any bevel cuts at this point. If you are limited on time, I would suggest trying to spend as much of it as possible in practicing on the saws. Having them make a simple fretwork project is a good idea. Have the wood prepped, patterns applied and holes drilled in advance. All of that stuff can be explained verbally or perhaps type up some scroll saw basics to give your students as a hand-out. Also a blade selection chart would be helpful for them. Good luck. We'll be interested to hear how it goes.

I change the phone stand all the time. I had one class were the Lady wanted to learn how to do Celtic knots. So I put a Celtic know on her pattern. Made her day. That led to to ornament too which I still use.

If @don in brooklin on hadn't already chimed in, I would have said Don. Don, Thanks for the simple patterns. I always use the phone stand pattern you posted, but will personalize it for people. I have stopped cutting the circle on the stand.

Don is the man that will provide very good experience

Cut out really well. Like the name that way

excellent job

I have used the maple 1/4-inch panels. I like them. They have many options.

Don @don in brooklin on,Wow! this is super helpful...I was hoping there was someone who had experience teaching....Let me look at all of this and digest it and I will get back to you with clarifying questions. Thanks again

Occoch has some veneered panels on their site. I got some cherry and I believe hickory. Seemed to have held up well.

FrankEV is the one that turned me onto these.. I've bought and used a few boxes of the 5/32 size.. back when I was first turned onto these there was a wide variety of species available but now it seems to be most of it is out of stock. They also have 1/4" thick but I've not used it before. The laminate is thinner than say BBply but I've not had any issues with it peeling or any issues whatsoever with this stuff.. The back is not always the same species I don't think.. Though on the maple and birch it's sometimes hard to tell what side is what.. however the walnut looks more like a maple or similar lighter color wood on the back... We've all seen many great pieces Frank has made from these panels and he is a pretty detail oriented person.. If the stuff was junk I would think he wouldn't have been recommending it.. What little I've used I like it.. in fact.. it's been tempting to switch to it rather than using the big sheets of BBply and having to cut them down.. These are 12 x 19 so easy to cut down if needed.. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Columbia-Forest-Products-5-32-in-x-1-ft-x-1-ft-7-in-PureBond-Walnut-Plywood-Project-Panel-10-Pack-5107/312981163

Looks great. Great idea using Steve Good's key chain pattern. Never thought of using that for nothing else other than a key chain. Folks here come up with some great ideas. Jerry

Excellent craftsmanship, RJ

A lot more difficult for me as I'm not experienced at all the fret work but I believe it came out ok 5 hours 45 minutes into this project all pieces are cut need to fine sand then fit the dado into the base better I chose maple and poplar as this one I'm painting wanted bright colors wood can't offer heres where I'm at days over gotta go get my grandson out school and bring him to speech therapy lotta driving but it is what it is im the uber grandpa like so many others here I'm sure The 1/8 th thick pieces I'm glad I told Mr goods advice and stack cut because one tail snapped off when I was trying to take tape off glad I had another piece

I started another Steve good download this afternoon its the quilting queen placque It's good practice for me

Hi Ralph Here is a revised pattern. If any issue let me know, Also, if you need the name or date plaque let me know. wedding couple wth butterflies.pdf

A LONGGGGGGGGG time RBI guy here and love the saw. If I were to buy a new one I probably would not like that one as much as the older version I have now because that is what I learned on. I started with an old Dremel 2 speed and went up to a Hegner which was not bad. But the Hawk was the sweet saw that I loved the first day I started using. Had a Dewalt that I really never liked and could not get a good handle on. Enjoy the saw it will last a life time.

Glad you finally got to a point where you truly enjoy the Hawk. Many people either love them or hate them. Doesn’t seem to be a in between with them and most that hate them usually do not properly tune them and or give them time to learn the clamps and tension system. They are a totally different experience from the average saw but if you get it tuned and learned good they’re also a totally different experience to use as well. Unfortunately many give up on them before that happens. I almost gave up on them as well when I got my first Hawk. They’re so different from the DeWalt that I had used for many years and also all the other saws I had before the DeWalt.

Cool dude, cool man, Que Pasa. That is all the Spanish I know. Okay settle down, I am not really bilingual, just a wannabe. Great job!

Marie has the "artist's touch". Never just a plain flat cut like me. She knows how to embellish. She is an artist!

Well, it would be one of the most beautiful scroll saw tables I have ever seen!