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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.

Been a woodworker for 50 years but new to scrolling this year. These are my first two Sheila Landry designs I did in 1/2 inch cherry

To see all of the projects, scroll to the end of this post At the end of December, a friend gave me a collection of hardwood cutoffs including maple, mahogany, and poplar boards that varied from 1", 2' and 3" in thickness. I was overwhelmed by all the choices and couldn't decide which project I wanted to do next. I studied the selections in the Scrollsaw Village Pattern Library and found five patterns that would be great for carved fretwork projects. I have always worked on one project at a time and decided to try something new and work on all five projects at once and vary which piece I was working on. Start by adhering the pattern to the wood with 3 M Super 77 adhesive. Drill vertical pilot holes with a drill press. Cut all scroll work with New Spiral 1 and 3 blades by Flying Dutchman. Carve the scrolled fretwork with a Foredom Rotary Carver using various bits and cutters. Add color with artist oil and acrylic paints. Sand and finish with Minwax Wipe on Poly. Backers for pieces 2,4,and 5 were made from 1/4" luan sprayed with satin black paint. This first project, Tiny Kitten, was designed by Steve Curtis and cut on a mahogany board 11" x 11" x 2" thick. The other 4 projects will be posted on the forum each week. Thanks, Dick Mira

I finished cutting this in late February, I believe. Been sitting on my table saw waiting for me to decide what to do with it. Nothing yet. I want to do something with it. It is cut in. 1/2" popular wood, A Finoa Kingdon pattern. I really enjoyed cutting, as I do all of her patterns, I have used.

Wanted to do something to remember the beautiful Pheasants, which used to be plentiful in our area. Now it is very exciting to see one. Been hearing on but have not spotted him yet. This is a Mike Williams pattern, 1/4" BB. Both straight and spiral blades were used. Got to take a day and make frames, I have 4 pictures waiting for frames.

Working 57 years at one place is special and when that place is a university, it is extra special. So, a friend is finally pulling the plug in about 10 days and I cut him a copy of the school logo in 3/4" cherry. Picked up some fresh #3MGT blades from @Denny Knappen and they ripped right through this project. (My first real cutting since cataract surgery.) The base is weighted by a few ounces of BBs in glue. Below are pics of the campus statue, the derivative logo and my cutting. Felt good to get some sawdust on my fingers!

This is also a Steven Good design. Made this for my grandson who loves all things truck. He is thrilled with it

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.

I “decided” to add some Tolkien to my favorite clock today. “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

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! !

We are expecting our first Grandbaby the middle of August. We found out a little over a month ago that it will be a boy. I put the last coat of clear on a couple of days ago. The saddle and bridle were made on the scroll saw, pretty much everything else was cut on the bandsaw. With help from my wife we have 2 and 3 coats of paint on the different colors. I bought another branding iron a few months ago for items specifically made for the grandbaby,, I branded a small oval piece of BB ply and attached it the rear of the platform. I know that it will be quite a while before he can enjoy the horse but I plan to give it to them at the baby shower at the end of June. The plans for the horse were purchased from Toymakingplans.com. We have made a few things and have a few more in the works to get completed before the shower as well. The baby shower theme is "Beachy"... yes, I guess baby showers have themes! My wife found an old Little Tykes car that was red and yellow and repainted it to the color scheme of the baby shower and I made a surf board that attaches to the top of it. I modified the surf board rack a little from what the pictures show. I have some small straps coming from Amazon to secure the rack and board the the top of the car. I'm also working on a mobile that mounts above the crib. Hoping to have it completed in the next few days.

Denny made birds for the miniature birdhouses with Spectraply, Idecided why not try to make the birhouses with it. Here is my first try.

Only drawback is, in Alabama, its legally probable cause to search my truck.

Watching a video by Tyler @artisanpirate where he made a candle holder I had to try it. Many time he closes his video with "If I can do it, you can do it". So I gave it a try. Came out pretty good, but the leaves are fragile. Broke two of them, one when gluing it, the other when staining. Fortunately you can't see where I repaired the breaks. Made this with pine, stained with Minwax gunstock. The second is a small clock with shelves from a pattern book I had by Diana Thompson, Compound Scroll Saw Creations. All the clock patterns call for small clock inserts which I could not find anywhere, so using inkscape I increased the size of the pattern to accept the 1 7/16-inch clock inserts. This was made with poplar and stained Minwax cherry. I'm pleased with both. Jerry

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.

After our week in the Amish area of pa i saw a lot of pieces of art this one caught my eye because it gives me scroll/fret practice the one I saw was black metal on rough oak I picked up a piece of 3/8 inch ply that was the base top of a pallet that had tiles on it insaw it next to dumpster and the contractor told me take it all but with my back I only took the 4x4 piece of plywood it had some stains but I cut the best piece of it had a lot of shorts from cedar decking I used for my sons outdoor furniture and some bird houses so I used them as a back its raised a bit with 1/2 inch dowels its basically finished but I want to clean up the black painted surface and spray some polyurethane have a look the original is also shown

After a long, cold winter I'm again able to do some scrolling out in my scroller shed without freezing my .... Here's a Russ Beard design cut into 1/4 inch Baltic birch with Pegas 1 & 3 MGT blades. It was stained white, added a black backer and placed into a frame made from scrap 3/4 inch pine stained gray. Finished size with frame is 10.25 x 13.5 inches. I really like Russ Beard's designs and have already started another. Lots of holes, but easy to cut.

"Spidey" 46,5cm x 37cm, backer board 8mm, Spidey 4mm thick, 'cheap' DIY store ply, done with a hand held fretsaw with a #3 blade. This was my first complex one. Every single piece is a floater, cut out by hand, sanded, painted and glued in. Took me about three weeks.

I've got five of these cut and only one is really useable. It's okay as this was a test of my limits and the materials limitations. All the tails broke at 11" (out of 14") , so I think that's the limit, for now. Many of the smaller details broke, so I'll limit myself to closed edge patterns for now. I still like the concept, now to adjust some patterns

"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.

A Charles Hand design. 1/4" elm, mostly FD Polar #1 blades for the internal cuts ( I should have changed to a #3 for the long sweeping cuts ), #3 Polar for the outside. This one's for my kitchen

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.

Tennessee Magnets my design. Unknown wood 1/4" x 1 3/4" x 5 3/4" backed by 3/8" Baltic Birch plywood stained black. I used a 1/4" Rare Earth Magnet on the back. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1 MGT Blades. After a light sanding with a Mac Mop, dipped in diluted Shellac, another light sanding, and another dipping. Comments welcome.

Just finished cutting these. I probably won't put any finish on them, the side cuts just don't have enough of a kerf to prevent the finish from glueing them shut. The patterns are from Wildwood designs. The designer is not listed on the pattern. 1/16" Basswood, FD Polar #2/0 blades for all cuts. I couldn't remember what direction the grain should run, so the first two I cut were 90° to each other and one snapped as soon as I got it off the saw. I cut the rest with the grain running lengthwise. I kept all the fallout that was recognizeable.

Well my grandkids wanted to know if I could make some bangles out of wood for them to sell and make money. I found a pattern on Sue Mey’s site. There were 15 different designs and three siges, sm, med, and lg. I have to say they were not that easy to make. Very slow process. Uses 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 4 inch square. Made some out of Walnut, Cherry and Birch, also made two out of Cedar and Butternut which I didn't take a picture of. Used a #7 skip blade

I often see these cool birds when trout fishing on Rivers in the Northeast. They have a swoopy flight pattern and a raspy caw call. Very entertaining bird. Getting better at cutting the self frame. Used 9 degrees off from 90.

Practicing my unsteady hands used a 2/0 fd blade for 1/4 inch and broke or bent 3 blades i used a 9 blade for 1/2 inch pieces base and stem all pieces again came out of bins i know the pattern uses the same species for stem since it's part of tail but I used what looks like white oak or ash and sapele scraps for fish inhave a boatload of poplar from all the other projects so made the grass with that took me approx 3 hours to cut and sand Used some old stain and I routed a small curve around base im still struggling with tight turns even with 2/0 blade i ended up using a 3 blade to finish the 1/4 inch pieces much easier for me

How time flies. I joined this group ten years ago which was the beginning of my scroll saw journey. So many members here gave me help and guidance. I can't thank you all enough. I have to give @Jim Finn credit for introducing me to inlayed box. That got me going on box building. Now I enjoy Inlaying and also incorporating intarsia into them.

All of my work is done with 1/8" baltic birch and 2/0 jewelers blades. The reason I use these is they have like 50 teeth per inch or some crazy thing like that. I have used FD and pegas 2/0 blades in the past and they are great but have their limitations. Mainly, they are very flexible and hard to control so doing very tight cuts is difficult. Plus the lack of teeth makes blow outs are tear outs a common thing. The jewelers blades are stiff , thin, combined with lots of teeth make fort great tiny inside cuts flawlessly. Talking in the mm scale cuts. Sounds great but the downside is the lack of reverse teeth. Just like any saw without reverse teeth, they will make an absolute mess on the backside of the wood. This leads to blow outs, tear outs and lots of repeated work to fix the mess. What I used to use was another piece of 1/8" baltic birch as a backer as I had a specialty yard near me where I could get endless amounts of it for a reasonable price. Times have of course changed plus I moved so no longer have access to it so needed a new backer source. this is how the giant popsicle sticks come in to play. They sell them in the craft section of walmart for a few bucks for a big pack. They are 1/16" sp perfect backer material. Just lightly spray them with 77 and let it become super light to the touch. hardly tacky at all. Thats the trick. it should be just the slightest bit of tacky, just barely enough to stick. Put them on the back of the piece and thats it. Too much tackiness and you wont be able to remove the popsicle sticks so its really use the lightest spray of super 77 and let it dry to barely tacky. Just finished a very intricate piece, no tear outs and it looks great.

Not so much bragging rights. I'm posting this as a "lesson learned ". As y'all know, we learn from our mistakes, not out victories. I was working on this hummingbird, ⅛ ply frame ans attempting to use stained glass for the colors. It was not going well. Between trying to fit the small pieces and the shear cost of the glass, not to mention the "cut you" factor, I bailed on using glass. So I'm giving another run with epoxy resin and have learned much with this hummingbird . As you can see in the pic, bleed out from the epoxy was crazy, something I hadn't counted on, but learned something which, in my opinion is a win. I know I didn't get a solid, full bond between the hummingbird frame and the backer board (painted silver). I plan to try to paint the frame to cover up the epoxy bleed, at any rate, wanted to share for anyone wanting to try or if you have suggestions on how to improve the process

I have seen several of Steve's patterns uploaded here, whole and in part, in the past. This is just a reminder that he doesn't want the patterns uploaded to other sites. See today's blog post.

Dog Portrait - Abby pattern by Gayle at the Scroll Saw Cafe. I enlarged the pattern to fit the wood. I used 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood 12" square and backed with black mat board. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #0 Spiral blades. I kept the large pieces in place for sanding the fuzzies off the back side. After sanding, a light coat of spray Shellac, another light sanding with a Mac Mop, and a final coat of spray Lacquer Clear Gloss. Comments welcome.

I cut this lighthouse picture for my friend and pastor. I cut the leopard picture for my neighbor.

Made this for my wife who has become an avid quilter Spanish cedar no finish 3/4 inch thick took me approx 8 hours of time ive seen quilting queen plaques made of wood for 5.99 so scrolling is not a way to make money I'm guessing to site administration if I'm putting too many of this small scroll projects on here please feel free well I mean you can erase them if they are using too much bandwidth not sure if I should keep posting these small projects

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!

My 2 year old granddaughter was over yesterday and who knew she now is learning words at a rapid pace in preschool i have an 8 foot plywood silhouette grizzly bear against a tree in my yard(Winfield collection pattern)with 2 baby bears climbing up tree she kept pointing and saying bear bear so I showed her the baby bears and told her momma bear and baby bears i mentioned to my daughter I saw a momma bear pattern online she asked me to make her some I'm guessing she is going to sell at school fund raiser its a wood puzzle used what I had laying around Spanish cedar for large puzzle sapele for small puzzle ps3 blade 1.5 hours for all 4 cut and sanded not making anymore but I have a new kind of respect for the guy in shipshewana I watched cut postage stamp puzzles with his foot pedal scroll saw i think im getting the hang of it but small pieces and curves im getting a lot of blade movement drifting just taking my time water bottle in pic to show scale size

For all you Gnome-holics out there. This is a little different in that it has arms compound cut. I modified one of Diana Thompsons patterns of a Dragon. Also, the person who requested this wanted 2 signs so the sign is held on by earth magnets and can be changed easily. PS: Please no political comments as I have enough of those on Facebook to sink a ship.

Last Christmas I made set of Gnomes, they became popular, so I decided to make a big set of holidays gnomes. Set includes 24 patterns: 3 gnomes for each of 8 holidays: Christmas, Thanksgiving Day, Independence Day, Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day, St Patrick Day and Labor Day. Size of each gnome is about 6,5 x 4 inches, consists of 4 layers, stand and hanging ring are optional. Video of making one of gnomes Holidays gnomes pattern

This is an @alexfox pattern slightly modified, actually all I did was not add the middle layer. This time instead of leaving the wood untreated I painted it and in my opinion a success. No bleeding of the resin into the wood Anyhow, here it is.

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

Just sharing a new (that I know of) idea for dealing with lots of ornaments. Plastic coat hangers, with notches cut into the top of the hanger rail. For storage I cut notches ( SS #2 Olsen spiral, if I had them I use a #5 ) every 1/2", for dipping I'll only go 5 ornaments per hanger. For storage I have the hooks of the wire ornament hangers in line with each other, for dipping I have them at right angles. I can get 25 ornaments per hanger for storage. I picked up some "miracle" hanger thingies. With the first package of 18 thingies I can store 525 ornaments easily. Tomorrow I'm going to pick up an inexpensive garment bag and see if I can transport the ornaments across town with it, hopefully without any damage.

Many scollers asked me to make layered american truck pattern, finally I made it. Project size 9,5 x 7 inches, stand is optional, recommended to use wood stain or 2 types of wood American truck pattern Video of making project

4 hours into this one sapele for outer layers walnut for tires i I love the way he designed the wheels used scroll to cut them out them on bandsaw tilting the table to 15 degrees to cut treads its the small things all parts came out of cut off bins still need to make steering wheel dashboard and bumpers dowels for axel and smokestacks used rubber bands for pics to hold together to see progress

Made a mistake here I felt my leg burning as I turned on the small floor heater next to scroll and bent down to move air flow but my hand slipped and I advanced a cut too far second pic shows advanced mistake cut used walnut on this piecei I need to sand and clean up some rough spots but it's finished as far as cutting ill apply some oil to give it a deep rich color and I'll see if I want to add a colored background or not the only difference from his pattern is I rounded over the edge on the base ill keep this piece since I made the error but I like it my nephew had a few fish tanks he's really into his tanks and told me he's taking the angel fish piece since he has angel fish so I won't show him this one hehehehe

I ran into a friend the other week. She is a member of the Prairie Canada Carvers Association http://prairiecanadacarvers.com/. They are having their annual competition/show this weekend. She talked me into submitting a couple of my intarsia pieces for judging. Dropped them (Dogwood Flowers and Angelfish) off last night. Pick up on Sunday. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend any part of the show due to another competition going on. For those that don't know, I am also a competitive synchronized swimmer and we have a major competition this weekend.

Al. Throw some scrollsaw magazines in your car to read. So when you are sitting in your car waiting while she goes in and looks through one more quilting store you just passed. Believe me, I know! Oh, and start building shelves to store boxes full of material and patterns. Believe me I know!!

Well I went out to the shop s couple of weeks ago and fired up the 25 year old Delta saw. It went ooooooh and refused to move. So I figured that was a good reason to buy a new saw. I really think a good clean and lube will fix the Delta but always good to have a backup right. Here are my thoughts on the Bauer saw. 1 it's heavy. 2 it seems solid. 3 straight out of the box I sat it on top of an old sewing machine cabinet. I adjusted the table about 0.5 degrees to get square. The top arm was .002 inches closer to the table at the back than front. Figured that was close enough for government work. With the saw just sitting on the cabinet not bolted ,clamped or attached in any way it seems very smooth. Don't think it would papp the nickel test but after attaching it to something solid I have no doubt that it will. Decided to try it out. Cut a few of the Diana Thompson bird houses. After a lot of foul language and threat's of return I realized I had the blade upside down. I cut 2 poplar, 1 Cedar and 1 from the Spectra plywood stopper blanks. I am very satisfied with the performance of the saw Not sure how the longevity will be but I bought the 2 year warranty. The way that works use it 2 years take it back renew the warranty and you get a new machine every 2 years for less than $50.00. Bird houses are straight off the saw. No sanding or anything.All were cut with a #7 skip tooth Denny special blade.

Thanks for the reminder. This is also a reminder that only patterns you have designed yourself can be uploaded to SSV. Please don't post other people's patterns, even if they are free. These talented artists are gracious enough to share their work, but they want to be able to control how their patterns are distributed. Reposting just strips that away from them. So, if someone is interested in a pattern you found somewhere else, point them in the right direction and provide a link to where they can download it for themselves. With that said, if anybody sees that one of Steve's patterns has been uploaded here on SSV, please flag it for me to review so I can remove it. Thanks all!

Here are the results from the Prairie Carving show. Do ribbons count if you are the only entrant?