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That is beautiful!! I have the pattern to do, hope I can do as well as you did.

Looks like I need to wait another year before I can get one!!

I enjoy it, always amazed at what comes out of the middle of that block of wood.

Can't put this in Bragging Rights because this was just a practice, but I liked how it turned out. I did it in cedar and it is very fragile, and about the size of the mini bird houses, about 3" top to bottom. Now that I know I can make one I will try it in some Mahogany and Cocobolo I have. I think I will also increase the size a little. This is one of Steve Goods recent patterns.

What is not to like.... Awesome pieces. Great work.

Thanks, Spirithorse. the pattern comes with two size options. There is a "1 inch size" which I have not done but I think it would be about 4.5" tall, the second size is a 1.5" which makes one around 6.5" tall. I did this size as my first one of the first two I did. I printed the 1.5" size pattern at 125%. That gives one around 8.5" tall, the second one I did. If I went any bigger I could not cut it out with my scroll saws. The block of wood would not fit under the arm of the saw. Well I could but I would have to cut the Hat, head and body in two halves and then glue them together. I may try that next time. Here is a picture that shows the 1.5" and the 125% bigger together. Quit a difference.

Great work. I also love how you take your pictures of your work. Looks real nice.

Those are for sure very cute and well done. Do the guests take them home with them?

Looking good. Wish my wife would do painting for me.,...

Hope QTE is having a sell on them like Denny is.

This year I joined in on a Christmas gift exchange on another wood working forum. I think I am the only scroller on the forum so I told then whom ever received my gift had to realize it will be scrolled...We were only able to use a 1 foot 2" x 4" piece of wood to make the gift. After some thought, I came up with making another 3D cut Nutcracker. I have made 2 before, last year. These things are really fun to make. I am not very good at the painting and each year I get shakier, so it gets harder, but, I did my best. That is all I can do. There is no end to the ways they can be painted and decorated. I have a turner friend that told me the other day that he and his wife use to do a new one each year and the fun part was painting a decorating them. He said they had 10 before she past away. He hasn't done anymore. So here it is. The my 2019 Nutcracker. (last years are in my album on here). The pattern to make these is available, really cheap, from Jeplans.com. I have been communicating with the plan maker, trying to convince to make plans for a santa and maybe an elf. He is thinking about it. P.S. This was made out of a scrap redwood 2 x 4 from some deck repairs I did several yeas ago.... never throw away wood....

Those are REALLY nice!! I think I am starting to get the Christmas Spirit...

Looking good. Keep that to compare with others as you continue.

Great pieces, did you miss the Alex Basket?

Great look trivets! Going to be some very pleased girls!

Did you follow the link to the bench top one? https://www.woodstore.net/Benchtop-Router-Table-p/gr-00151.htm?Click=46506

I have a Bosch 1617EVS mounted in a cabinet that I made from castoff kitchen cabinet. I've had it a long time, has served me very will. It has the Incra router plate with the magnetic inserts. The top is hinged and I have to raise it to adjust the router height. Lately I have used this set up more as I make picture frames so now I am wanting a router lift. Haven't decided whether to build one I have the plans for or buy the JessEm one. Years ago, I helped a friend build this little bench top one. It was the second project we did together after he asked me to teach him some about wood working. The first thing we built was a folding workbench. This little router table work well for him for many years. By the way, it was only a couple years after he ask me to help him, he had a bigger, better workshop than I will ever have. There was no stopping him. https://www.woodstore.net/Benchtop-Router-Table-p/gr-00151.htm?Click=46506

And so will he be! Nice!

Look again Bill,,,, they are a beautiful red!! Check out Denny's monthly special...

Well done, very nice looking.

Saw your title and thought oh, oh, wife caught him!!! Glad it wasn't that! Nice work.

I agree, great job. I have to make a rack for my Grandson's Tae Kwon Do belts. I promised to make one, but I stall, because so many start it but drop out after a while. But than again maybe if I made it it would encourage him to keep at it. I've been to several of his classes when I visit and he is really good at it. Better than most in his class in his level, not just saying that as proud grandpa, he is.....

How in the heck did did you do that?? I visited Japan several years ago. I could live there, I loved it and all it's beauty.

Welcome to the village. Glad to have you join us. I do not know much about Foredom's dust collection, I have looked at their carving equipment often over the years and lusted over them.... They have a good reputation.

Beautiful box. I notice on the first one, no scallops around the lid and bottom. Are the scallops your addition? both are beautiful, just curious. And the third box, is the pattern for that in the same book? I must confess, any of those boxes would have taken me 2.5 months to complete. Beautiful!!