Old Joe

I did this one last year, (before life interrupted my craft endeavors),but I don’t think I shared it here. It started with the Treehouse pattern by Charles Hand, but I changed it up and it morphed into a bit more. I decided to use solid African Rosewood instead of Baltic Birch and to make the tree considerably larger. As shown in the pictures, I did a recessed cut, added the girl in the swing, the little birdhouse,and backed it in 1/4” Baltic Birch with the various inlays. I carved the bark into the entire tree, even the tiny branches, and added the knothole. I am now learning pyrography and when I get more comfortable , I plan to add a little more detail to the backboard.

Smooth cutting!

Well,Denny, the Pegas saw that I bought from you back in 2019 still makes scrolling a pleasure.

The wood is 5/8” thick African Rosewood.

Due to some health, and other issues, I’ve been stagnant for a few months with my scrollsaw, but with the help of a pattern from Fiona Kingdon, I fired things up the past few days. This is called Foliate Crucifix. I took a few liberties with it, mainly with the recessed cut making for a ring within a ring, allowing me to insert a stained glass backing. I have now done a few using this technique. It’s more difficult to do than it looks, but I’m mostly happy with the result. Trying to get a picture highlighting how intricate the cuts are proved to be impossible. Other than for the recessed cut, I used Pegas size zero spiral blades for every other cut. The outer circle is 9” wide.

That’s some fine workmanship!

Love it, Denny! I might have to give this technique a try.

Frank PelIow, I don’t know if you will see this as I just saw your comment on my cutting the circle in glass. Long before I started scrolling I cut many, many stained glass projects, including Tiffany lamp reproductions, kaleidoscopes, and large and small flat panel projects. I sold, or gifted most of them, but these are a couple that I kept. Cutting a circle is not too difficult if you have the tools and techniques. I like tucking the glass in with the recessed cut with the scrollsaw, as I think it gives a tidy finished product.

Incidentally, if you live anywhere near Frederick, MD, their Frederick Lumber’s new location is almost the size of an aircraft hanger absolutely packed with wood from 1/8th of an inch to gigantic boards that weigh over a ton, both exotic and native species.

I was asked by Frederick Lumber Company to join some other woodworkers and a rep from Festool to do a demonstration with my scrollsaw yesterday. I have done this cutting of Willie Nelson a couple of times before. Though I cut and stained the backboard before the show, I cut all of the rest between 9:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. while stopping and answering people’s questions. After cutting it all with 2 Pegas 0 spiraIs, I took it over to the Festool demo and used one of their palm sanders to remove the fuzzies on the back.I gotta say it was noticeably smoother to use with less vibration than the ones I have. A number of people asked if I would consider giving a class on scrolling. I’m considering it. (Pattern is Steve Good’s).

You are correct,they were the Highwaymen, but each were known as outlaws in the world of Nashville country music, as they didn’t abide by the rules, spoke or unspoken.

I just realized that I hadn’t put up the Willie Nelson I had done before.

I posted pics recently of Willie Nelson. Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. I got around to Kris Kristofferson thanks to a Dearing pattern. This one took a minute to cut.

These are all based on patterns I bought from Fiona Kingdon, with a few liberties taken and changes made for individual uses. The common denominator is that I did recessed cuts allowing the inner ring to slip forward 1/4” to allow the stained glass panels to fit enclosed behind the scroll work. The “Entwined Lovers” were all wedding/engagement presents.

I was clenched pretty tight.LOL!

Good job! I honestly think that learning to use and to have confidence using spirals was one of the most important steps I have done to advance my scrolling skill levels.

We might work out a barter. He has a surplus of some live edge slabs that he had mentioned that he would be interested in swapping.

Love it!

I have done dozens of projects combining stained glass and scrolling. This is an engagement present I scrolled backed in glass. I cut an angled recessed ring in the outer perimeter and inserted the glass in back of it.

I really don’t do too many Baltic Birch portraits anymore, as I have been working more with thicker hardwoods. That said, a friend asked if I had ever done any with Johnny Cash or Waylon Jennings, or if not, would I consider doing them. So I have some 1/4” BB, checked Charles Dearing’s site, found some cool patterns,and with some minor variations came up with these two. The Waylon Jennings has some very delicate bridges, which were a little nerve wracking.

I haven’t been here in sometime, though I still scroll regularly, I don’t get online as often. I have been expanding into more hardwoods, though I will still cut an occasional portrait in Baltic Birch. This first one started from the Treehouse pattern by the incomparable Charles Hand, though I took a few liberties to make it unique. Instead of BB I used a 5/8” African Rosewood board and cut a large vertical oval with a recessed angle cut. I extended the tree, added the girl in the swing, added the foliage, carved the bark into whole tree, along with a couple of knotholes. Then I cut a piece of 1/4” BB to fit behind the recessed cut and I inlaid the boy with a kite, his dog, the two cats, butterfly, the hanging birdhouse, and the 4 birds over the treehouse. Hope you all like it! This one took a bit of time to do. I will add a couple of other recent projects on another post. Incidentally, other than the inlay work and the recessed cut, almost all of the rest of this was done with spiral blades and I used my Pegas saw. The carving was done mostly using a Foredom power carver, and some by hand.

Fantastic!

Great job, Denny! Those baskets are well received. I also have made many of Alex’s baskets. I started inlaying them on the bottom after a while and doubling up the bottom disk and putting a Steve Good signature coin on the bottom. Sorry to add to your post, but thought you’d like to see them.

Thanks. I spent many years in the optical business and one thing I learned is that no matter how routine the surgery is, there are still more ways to screw it up than you can imagine. It’s a great surgery…unless you’re one of the ones that gets a bad job. So, I chose who I want to do it, but she is booked solid until around early September. I’m in line! And looking forward to it.