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Excellent work Dick. I’m sorry to hear you have not been feeling well. I hope you were able to get the last projects done and shipped out. Prayers said for your health.

Beautiful piece that is even more special by its history. I know your wife loves it and the time and effort you put in to making this special piece.

Nice work. Glad it was you and not me.

Sorry to hear about your neck keeping you off the saw, but excellent work on the ornaments. Prayers that you can find some relief for the neck.

Excellent job. One of my favorite hymns.

Rolf, Don created those patterns himself and contributed them to the Village’s annual “Ornaments for Charity” eBook that Travis puts together. They and more from this year have just been released and can be found here:

Good to see you back visiting the Village Kevin. Even better to see your fine lettering projects. Looks like you have been busy.

Your sister will love it. A great gesture on your part to try and give her the “dog” she wants. I hope she heals well and quickly. Those can be hard recovery from. Prayers for her.

Another excellent piece for your portrait wall(s).

Nice work on both. Could the spalted wood be spalted maple?

Another stunning piece of art you have created Dave. Especially doing those dovet On they scroll saw. The precision is excellent.

Beautiful pieces. Can’t wait to see what you do with it. I too am a wood hoarder.

Hi Laura and welcome to the Village from East Tennessee. Look forward to your participation.

Nope, you’re right. I tried cutting with my first scroll saw many many years ago. I had even less patience then, and two very small children. We didn’t have the online resources we have now, like the village and all its knowledgeable members. I didn’t know about the issue on cutting a straight line and couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t and was quickly frustrated and left that scroll saw untouched for probably 10-15 years! It wasn’t until my children were grown, both in college, and the loss of my mom (had already lost my dad many years before) that got me back to trying again. We still had that same scroll saw. Fortunately, I had a little more patience, a little more wisdom, and a lot more access to help and information online. Plus’, I essentially sit in Judy Gale Robert’s backyard so I was able to take her beginner Intarsia class which had a one day intro to scrolling just before. That and this forum and its members and their help and encouragement were some of the biggest help and the sawing helped me a lot in dealing with my loss. I can now usually control my blade, cut a straight line, turn a corner and usually cut on the line. and I have expanded Into many other types of scrolling and woodworking I would have never tried.

Ditto

I tried spirals at least once maybe twice. I had trouble with control as I recall. I will try again at some point probably. I don’t cut a lot. Of fretwork, especially large detailed patterns and I think that is what va lot of folks use them for. As I recall seeing, a lot of folks who use them use them on large patterns where it would be difficult if not Impossible to be able to turn the wood as needed with a flat blade. There are some people I have seen that learned with and only use spiral blades no matter what they cut. I believe it is definitely a “learned” touch.

Nice collection of items. You have been very busy.

Looks great. Should be one happy brother when he receives that.

@rjweb glad I could be of help.

Nice work Charlie. Glad it’s you and not me. No way I could do that many of 1 thing. I learned long ago I would not have done well working in a factory doing the same thing over and over again. one reason I don’t sell things either.

If I’m remembering correctly, I think it was Brenda @Foxfoldwho wrote that up and shared it. edited to add link to Brenda’s tutorial she shared: https://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/43990-grey-pattern-with-red-outline-in-inkscape/#comment-474136 Hopefully this will help you out.

While I was working on my ornament patterns to submit to the 2022 Ornaments for Charity Book I worked on a Santa Gnome pattern. I decided that he might be a little more then would work for the Ornament book as I felt you really needed to see him in "color" to fully understand the look I was going for. As a result, I didn't submit him for the Charity Book but I did want to provide him here for anyone who was interested. I haven't cut him out myself yet. Maybe I will get to it soon. If you give him a try, would love to see them. Feel free to add your pictures in this thread, or just tag me if you post one over in Bragging rights. This could be used for @john nelson's modge podge method as well. You can cut the individual pieces out and layer them, just cut the outline piece out and paint the other parts, or even carve in the other pieces perhap. I think it can be created in many ways and look forward to seeing what some of you might do with him. I'm attaching a couple of different files so hopefully I have provided the format that works for you. If not, let me know and I can provide others if needed. Santa Gnome.svgSanta Gnome.pdf

@Travis - I just sent you an email with my 5 ornament patterns. I try to aim for the Beginner level with mine so that we can be of help to many. While I have put the year on several, and the place for "name" on them, those can easily be left off for anyone who wants even more simplistic ornament and/or to wood burn info on. It was kind of cool today when i was on the SSWC magazine forum and someone there shared photos of the ornaments that they had cut for a show and two of my previous patterns I had provided had been cut. The hot air ballon and the cupcake. Their Woodworking group has shows where they make donations from the sales of their work to charitable organizations so it is a win win there for charity. I look forward to seeing what has been submitted by everyone this year. Hopefully we can beat last year's submissions.

Great looking project. Your granddaughter will love her gift from her Pops. keep the mask on, even with the dust collection system working, you are still going to have some airborn dust. No need for your lungs to collect. Especially since you have already stated that you have been getting sick from dust. Dusk mask is cheap and easy way to protect your lungs. Means the grandkids hopefully get more time with Pops in the long run. My kids didn’t get to know my dad as I lost him to lung cancer well before they were here. He was only 52.