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Those are neat!

Beautiful job!

Glad you can get back to it. http://www.scrollsawartist.com/large-nativity-tree.html

Great job!

WOW, that is nice!

Keep on her, looks like she has real talent. We really need to get young blood in this hobby or it will die.

That is a beauty! Wonderful job. I also envy you your new shop. I'd like something like that although I can't really complain, I get by well enough with my little basement shop.

Very fine job of cutting that one. Tough question on the backer. I really like both.

Kevin you so good at the letter scrolling. Those are awesome. Finished 2 weeks early!? Now you have two weeks to clean up/organize that shop of your!! (Mine is almost as bad, but it is kind of comforting to have all this "stuff" around me.....

Love it! Great work.

Here is a picture of the pattern from Sue Mey's site. It was easy to place it above the stable. I epoxied a wire into the bottom of the star and the wire goes into a hole drilled in to of the peak of the stable.

This is my attempt at the O Holly Night Nativity that is in the latest issue of SSW magazine. It is a Sue Mey pattern. I did change the placement of the star. The star is removable so it can be easily packed away after Christmas. Already starting on my NY Resolutions This helps cover the one of trying different types of scrolling other than concentrating on detailed fret pictures. Please feel free to critic.

Great cutting and a great idea.

Great pieces.

That is an awesome piece.

Your Nephew is going to love it also. Great cutting and pattern.

Very nice cutting.

I am currently cutting the one in the latest issue of "Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts", called "O Holt Night", by Sue Mey. It seens to be very popular this year. I have see it posted on several forums. It will be my first Nativity. In the future I want to do more, some more detailed. Here is the nice one Denny did:

You really did a great job on that picture. Interesting question about the price. Might pay to discuss it with someone experienced with this type of auction and see what normally happens. What I am trying to get at is I have been asked to donate a piece for a fundraiser auction. The people I have talked to me say they feel it could bring as high as $500 , even up to $800, because people go crazy at the type of (especially, if the liquor is flowing). I sell the item for $125.

Interesting. But, I think you need to experiment some more. Cutting a straight line is important, but probably the cut most scrollers spend the least amount of time cutting. And speed is not always real important, at least for us that do not sell at shows and such. It would, to my mind, take a lot of tests to determine chart-wize the best blade for which type of cut. There tight turns to worry about, type of wood, thickness, size of kerf, cleanness of cut, the list goes on. And, it all boils down to personal preference. I've been seriously scrolling for over three years now, and I have finally convinced there in no one best type, or brand. Of blade. I am still experimenting as I go. I do stick, at least so far, with what I feel are probably the top three brands, Flying Dutchman, Pegas and Olson, ( I really haven't tried Olson scroll saw blades but I have used their other blades). I guess I need to throw some PS in the mix now. I use several different blades on one project depending on what part of the project I am cutting. What is becoming more important to me, is how to organize it all! This is all why I shutter every time the question is asked, "what blade to use". To me it is the most confusing part of the scrolling world. I agree with you, people should try and experiment with other types and brands, and yet maybe not. If they can accomplish what they want with what they are currently using, maybe they reduce the confusion, and don't go around scratching their heads, mumbling to themselves, like I do, if they just stick with it. I had hair before I started scrolling!! But tis a hobby for me, I enjoy playing around and trying things. I could not just keep doing the same thing the same way all the time. Nothing wrong with it, just not my cut of tea.

Hey, now that is nice. Add another "s" to the name and it would fit right in my house! Don't know why my family got an extra "s" on our name, might accentuate they type of people we are with the last three letters of the name?!

Nice ornaments, nice cutting setup. Only thing I think you need to do now is make a larger auxiliary table top and a "Quick-clamp" for the top clamp although the one you have probably work to the same purpose for you. I love the one I put on my Hegner.

Steve, have you used any on your delicate fretwork?

That is awesome! I really like it.

Charley, I have not had time yet, been working on committed projects, but I fully intend to do it next year, fact thanks for reminding me so I can add it to my New Years Resolution list. And thanks again for all the work you put in on writing how you do it.