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Hey Everyone! In this fun scroll saw project video, we make a beautiful Miniature Nativity Scene to kick off Christmas Designs on the channel. The design is cut from a Cedar Fence Picket and celebrates the very true meaning of Christmas. The pattern is from the newest issue of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Magazine (Winter 2024 #97) by Fox Chapel Publishing! Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

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Hey Everyone! In this fun scroll saw project video I do my second ever Segmentation scroll saw piece and bring you along on the journey! This Steve Good design uses a piece of 3/4 inch material (oak for me) and the image depicts the The True Meaning Of Christmas which is the Nativity Scene. Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

Hey Everyone! In this scroll saw project video I make this beautiful Nativity Themed Cross to celebrate the TRUE Meaning Of Christmas. This is a Steve Good Design and I used 1/4 inch material. Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

Working on this for the grand daughters to enjoy still got a few more things to add but loving scrolling out the case and windows. Roly

No stain or finish yet. I designed the pattern from this picture I found on the internet.

Peace Nativity cut from reclaimed rimu and finished with oil and beeswax. Pattern by Birchbark, thanks Russell. This is the second time I have cut this one. I really like it. Rob

Here is my version of the 3-D Nativity Scene from the Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts Winter 2016 (Issue 65) magazine. The original pattern is by Sue Mey and the one in the magazine was cut by our own Rolf. I wanted to modify it somewhat so I could add a battery operated votive candle behind it to "light" up the scene. In order to do that, I added a base to it and added a cutout to the base for the candle to sit in. In hindsight, I would have liked to have found a slightly taller candle to add more "light" higher up behind the halo its self. With my hubby's suggestion as to how best to adhere it all together, I "pegged" the stable to the base and then adhered the scene to the stable with some small pegs behind to set it off slightly from the stable a little more. In order to get the "depth" away from the stable like I wanted, it would have probably been better to have cut two full parts of the scene its self and adhered together for more depth. I didn't so I just cut an additional star when I decided I wanted to have more depth. I considered leaving the star open for the light to shine through and I might if I had a taller candle to help lift the light up there.. Thanks for looking and overlooking the newbie mistakes you may see in my cutting. I was able to get it done and gave it to my mother-in-law in the week before she passed. To her it was a work of art and I hope it brought her some love and peace when she looked at it. I forget which woods I used. Think it was cedar for the stable and baltic birch plywood for the nativity, unsure of the base, it was some scrap hubby had laying around in the shop so could have been most anything.

Nativity plaque from a pattern by Arpop. Rob

I have cut this pattern by Birchbark before but in pine. For a long time I have wanted to re-do it in something better and finally got around to it. Reclaimed Rimu as usual finished with 50/50 BLO. Thanks Russell for the beautiful pattern. Rob