Frank Pellow

I have purchased many patterns from Sheila and from Keith and have been happy with all of them. In fact, I have utilized more of Sheila's patterns than those of any other pattern artist/designer. The patterns usually come with extensive instructions and I have found Sheila's advise about how to stain/paint the results of the work particularly useful.

Steve is a great guy to deal with and has some very innovative patterns. He provides a free service where he sends an email each day and that email has a NEW pattern. As well as the pattern, the email often has notes , reviews, tips, etc. Although the patterns are free, Steve does accept donations and I encourage folks to make such donations. Every now and then, I feel that the patterns and advice that I get from Steve have now reached the level to which I have donated, at which time I top up my donation.

Good for you! Where did you get the pattern? What types of wood were used?

I have had good luck with Flying Dutchman New Spiral blades. But, even they can easily be snapped if you are not careful when threading them through drill holes. I snapped two this way within a two minute time span last night when I was not paying sufficient attention to what I was doing. It took me longer than it should have when I started to use spiral blades is that, just as with non-spiral blades, there is a correct orientation. Make sure you are inserting them the correct way up.

MY assumption is that an individual item could fit into more than one category. That's the only way I can see this working well.

I'm sure that I would have problems finding polar with purple if I looked for it, but I never looked for it.

I'm thinking of the projects which the use of the scroll saw is secondary. Yes, a scroll saw is used for some aspect of the item, but that aspect is secondary. One word that springs to mind for this is "Embellishment". These shelves that I made last year for a great nephew might qualify as one such project:

I like it! Did you design it or is it someone else's pattern?

I like it but, why is an optical illusion?

Good job on both the scroll work and on the frame.

Thanks Alex. That sounds like what we in North America call Contact Cement.

I agree that one should not attempt to take a thread off track but that it is quite OK, and often quite interesting, when a thread does wander off somewhere else as a natural result of conversation.

The glue job worked OK, not great but OK. I decided to dye the cup and the steam. Then, spray a couple of coats of clear varnish high lustre over the whole thing. I quite like the result and, more importantly, so does the neighbour that I made it for.

Alex this piece is superb! Even with your excellent video fro guidance, I don't think that I could fashion and assemble this.

OK, I cut one. I used three quarter inch thick pine. But, I am not used to scrolling in soft wood and carelessly, broke off a piece. It is now being glued and clamped back on and I expect that everything will be OK.

The box was definitely appreciated. As well as being quite a chef, Ethan has done quite a bit of woodworking and scroll sawing with me and, therefore, knows the effort that went into the design and construction of this box.

I posted this in the thread for 2017 homemade gifts, but it was a rather late entry in the thread and I expect that a lot of folks who might want to make something like this box, did not see that entry. This box, a Thiers-Issard chef's knife, and a sharpening stone will be a gift for my 15 year old grandson Ethan who is well on his way to becoming a very good chef. Thiers-Issard is the French company that makes Sabatier knives among other things. First of all, here is a photo of the completed box with its lid off: The box is made of Pau-Ferro wood and is finished with several coats of polymerized Tung oil. Below, I outline the steps I took to make the box. (1) Outlines slightly larger than the knife and the sharpening stone were marked on a board of Pau-Ferro which is slightly thicker (14mm) than the thickest part of the knife's handle. Half circles were added to allow one to easily lift the knife and stone. A thin perimeter (3mm) was also all around the outside of the board. Once cut, the interior of this board will be the middle part of the box and the thin perimeter will be glued to the top of the box in order to form the box edges. I designed patterns for Ethan's name and for the Thiers-Issard logo and glued them to a 2mm thick board which is going to be the top of the box. (2) The two boards were cut appropriately on my scroll saw. (3) After gluing a 1mm piece to the top, I pushed FIMO bake-able clay into the cavities: This was baked for 30 minutes in a 265 degree Fahrenheit oven. After cooling down, the clay saw sanded off to the level of the wood with 120 grit sandpaper. (4) The edge was glued to the top and the middle was glued to a 3mm thick bottom. (5) The edges were roughly sanded with a belt sander in order to make everything uniform and rounded. (6) All parts were further sanded down to 320 grit using both a rotary sander and hand sanding, as appropriate: (7) Several coats of polymerized Tung oil were applied: Edited Friday at 05:47 PM by Frank Pellow

Thank you! I'm going to make that right away.

Great job on a great pattern! I have not seen this pattern before. It would be perfect gift for my next door neighbour. I'm going to head over to Steve's site right now and download his pattern. Later: I could not find the pattern on Scrollsaw Workshop. I would appreciate it if you could give me a pointer to the pattern.

Every year, starting about September, Steve posts a selection of ornament patterns that one can order with a selection of names. One can submit a list of names to Steve and he will send patterns for the ornaments customized to those names. He runs it on the honour system and , once Steve delivers the patterns, you are expected to pay him. He stops the offer early in December and that is why you can't find the patterns.

Box for Chef's Knife: This box, a Thiers-Issard chef's knife, and a sharpening stone will be a gift for my 15 year old grandson Ethan who is well on his way to becoming a very good chef. Thiers-Issard is the French company that makes Sabatier knives among other things. First of all, here is a photo of the completed box with its lid off: The box is made of Pau-Ferro wood and is finished with several coats of polymerized Tung oil. Below, I outline the steps I took to make the box. (1) Outlines slightly larger than the knife and the sharpening stone were marked on a board of Pau-Ferro which is slightly thicker (14mm) than the thickest part of the knife's handle. Half circles were added to allow one to easily lift the knife and stone. A thin perimeter (3mm) was also all around the outside of the board. Once cut, the interior of this board will be the middle part of the box and the thin perimeter will be glued to the top of the box in order to form the box edges. I designed patterns for Ethan's name and for the Thiers-Issard logo and glued them to a 2mm thick board which is going to be the top of the box. (2) The two boards were cut appropriately on my scroll saw. (3) After gluing a 1mm piece to the top, I pushed FIMO bake-able clay into the cavities: This was baked for 30 minutes in a 265 degree Fahrenheit oven. After cooling down, the clay saw sanded off to the level of the wood with 120 grit sandpaper. (4) The edge was glued to the top and the middle was glued to a 3mm thick bottom. (5) The edges were roughly sanded with a belt sander in order to make everything uniform and rounded. (6) All parts were further sanded down to 320 grit using both a rotary sander and hand sanding, as appropriate: (7) Several coats of polymerized Tung oil were applied:

I think that I am correct. The names reflects multiple members of the Harris (and Pellow) family so is plural rather than possessive. My wife, who is an ex teacher and very good in English agrees with me. So, for the record, does Steve good who created the pattern for the Pellow and Harris signs.

I purchased two of these patterns (The Pellows and The Harrises) from Steve Good. Steve has not caught up with the modern reality that many couples have different surnames, therefore I had to come up with the third one (Jon and Kristel) myself. The parts were cut from 3mm Baltic Birch plywood, painted with acrylic paint, then sprayed with clear varnish. The Pellow wreath is hanging on our front door.

No, they were all cut individually. I am not very good at stack cutting and, for the most part, I avoid it.

The design for these comes from Steve Good and can be found at Scrollsaw Workshop. Here are photos of the ornament I made for Melanie out of maple together with it's box made from purple heart and maple: In all, I made 11 such ornaments and boxes out of a variety of hardwoods. This is a photo of just the ornaments: