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Excellent, nice choice of woods.

Welcome to the village from the Buckeye state. Looking forward to your project pics.

:thumbs:Very nice, clean and sharp.

Very nice.

Nice job, I like the mix of lettering.

Man, time to show my age. My 8th grade shop teacher had us cut a corner shelf with a coping saw for a class grade. My Mom enjoyed the finished project for many years. I played with that process on and off for a few years and then came across a man at a Shaker woods festival that was making beautiful pieces on a homemade scroll saw that used an old Singer sewing machine treadle for power. Talking with him I found that most of his patterns were Patrick Spielman's. A couple of trips to the library & a trip to a Hartville tool show and I have enjoyed it ever since. For me it has turned into a great stress relief tool. I use it often when I'm working on another project if I need some "thinking time" or waiting for a glue-up to dry. The internet is a great source for research but web sites like this one have tons of ideas and knowledge in one place.

Well from the looks of your work the surgery went well. Nice job..

Thanks guys. Hey Ralph if you look at the bottom of the starburst in the first photo you'll see that the boards are flat and straight. The only angles are where the long points meet, 18*. When the light hits it appears to be beveled, top of photo. I've read some articles since making this that use a glue up of strips and then cut it and use it for inlays on jewelry boxes.

Maybe you could leave the piece intact and make it the front of a vase similar to this: BudVase.pdf

Nice work, I really like the way the bases turned out. After reading your earlier post I followed up at Diana's website and was surprised how small these are. Did you enlarge the patterns, curious how big these are.

Thanks for all the compliments. To answer Zepy, no this is not mine I downloaded the logo from the internet and had it blown up to fit my wood. As to the brain pain, 16 hrs. work, at least 40 hrs. of racking my brain.

Made this for a local American Legion post. The center part of this is a 9" dia. circle cut from 1/2" beech wood and the lettering is approx. 3/4". The scroll saw part was a breeze. Now the challenge. Each ring has a meaning within the logo and all needed to be in place. I set up my router table with a series of holes and using a pin I turned the wood over an 1/8" veining bit 3/16" deep. I also used this process to finish cut the outside dia. of the circle. I actually did this before I did any scroll sawing. The ultimate challenge came when I realized that to make the starburst I had to cut each piece, 120 total, at a 3* angle. The shortest piece is 3/8" tall by 5/16" wide & 1/4" thick and the tallest 1.5 x 5/8". The pieces are too small to see the angle and it would be a glue up nightmare. After heavy thought this idea was scraped. To make the starburst I glued strips of cherry and oak each progressively wider, 4.75" finish by 4' long. I then crosscut those strips to 3" long to allow for waste. I cut 10 pieces with an 18* angle on each side which gave me my 360* circle. I glued the ring to some 1/8 plywood that I painted black. I cut the points,120, with a 5* draft so they wouldn't look so flat. Opps the table only tilts to the right, turn the blade towards the back of the saw and cut the other side. I then went back to the router table and cut the inside dia. of the strips to allow the beech wood circle to set flat on the plywood backing, piston & shaft. This allowed the center to protrude 1/4" and gave me something to glue the centers of the "r,o,a". Install brass brads and polyurethane. My ultimate challenge and most rewarding.

New to the site but have been scrolling on & off since '92. I have had the good fortune of using patterns from this site and want to Thank those who have made this possible. Now is a good time for me to start participating and give back the info I learned over the years. I like to use my scroll saw as an escape, helps me relax. I don't make much to sell if any at all, mostly gifts. I enjoy doing other types of woodworking projects that bring new challenges. I look forward to contributing what I can. Thanks again.