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Welcome to the Village. Glad to have you join us and look forward to your participation.

Looks interesting Rolf and look forward to hearing more about it and seeing what you are doing with it. Glad Santa was so good to you.

Welcome to the Village from East Tennessee. Glad to have you join us and hope you enjoy working with the saw. Look forward to seeing your work and having you participate here in the Village.

I agree, looks good from here. I am sure it was well received as well.

Thanks Merry Christmas.

Thank you Travis for all you do to keep the zvillage here and up and running for all of us to use, enjoy, and communicate with fellow scrollers all over the world.Merry Christmas to you and yours. Merry Christmas to all our Village friends and May Santa have been good to each and everyone, I look forward to sending 2019 here and seeing what you each are crafting and sharing and learning. God bless .

Rolf, not Steve, but I believe those are Bruce Worthington’s Designs found on his site here: http://intarsia.hostcentric.com/home/homepage/newpage16.htm Pattern number is CH137 - Gnome ornaments.

Hi Brian, I confess - I tried once but I wasn't very successful at the time and I walked away from it. Patience is not one of my virtues and i think I was too early in my "learning" process with the saw. I will try again - just haven't gotten there yet. I was interested in doing them after seeing Carole Rothman's work doing so. My husband told me it was easier to "turn" one on the lathe. But Carole's way you use less wood perhaps. However, what I wanted to point out to you that the preeminent expert on making bowls with the scroll saw may be Carole Rothman. She has a book on doing so that have been published by Fox Chapel Publishing. It's called "Wooden Bowls from the Scroll Saw". It can be found at Fox Chapel or at Amazon. Slightly cheaper by pennies on Amazon right now, but if you are Amazon prime, would be free shipping. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1565234332/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0 or Fox Chapel's site: https://foxchapelpublishing.com/wooden-bowls-from-the-scroll-saw.html She also has her own blog here: http://scrollsawbowls.blogspot.com she doesn't do a post all the time but it does have a lot of good information on it. She also has a Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/scrollergirl/videos She had a recent article in Woodworking Journal on creating a "sphere" ornament with a scroll saw - similar to doing bowls: http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/project-holiday-spheres/ An Article on her from SSWC: http://scrollsawer.com/2015/12/23/teacher-feature-five-questions-for-carole-rothman/ a 4 or 5 part set of videos of her sanding a scroll saw bowl at SSWC''s website: http://scrollsawer.com/2015/12/23/teacher-feature-five-questions-for-carole-rothman/ a search of SSWC's article Index for "Carole Rothman" gives I believe 29 articles - several of which are on doing bowls with the scroll saw: http://scrollsawer.com/article-index/

@octoolguy Ray, they are called branding irons. You can get some with basic designs to choose from at a Rockler here: https://www.rockler.com/project-supplies/wood-branding-irons I got my husband one several years ago from there. He got me one last year or two ago. Problem is, the project needs to be fairly large for the ones we have. On small things like ornaments, I use a pen and my initials and a date. Other things I will sign my full name and date. When I took my Intarsia classes, she told us what pen she uses and I got it. Will have to look to see what it is. There are places you can order a more specific unique custom design of your own from. A google search will give you different places to look at. None of the branding irons are inexpensive thst I have found. There are two basic kinds. One you you plug in to heat up. Another you heat the design up with a heat source, it does not plug in.

Your family will treasure them for sure. My mother did cross stitch ornaments for each of us for years. My husband's aunt made hand cut on the saw by her husband and painted by her ornaments and decorations. We have a number of those as well. Those are my most treasured ornaments. They are put in their own separate box and are the one "thing" I would want to try and save if my home was burning and I could get to them! Even more treasured since they are both gone now. My goal is to start providing scrolled ornaments to my children and nieces and nephews to add to their "collection" since my mother is no longer here to provide cross stitched ones.

Glad you got some time at your saw. Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful job. One of my favorite hymns. One day I will attempt this project. I am pretty sure I have purchased it. I hope mine looks half as good as yours.

I can't help you with the scroll saw choice, but I am sure you will get a lot of input there from much more knowledgeable people then me. However, I did want to address a bit about the CNC machine. First, you may find that you are spending more time then you think with the CNC machine. It is not as simple as so many seem to think, you don't just download a design, plug it in, turn it on and walk away. First, you are going to need to spend some quality time learning to use the software and the machine. Also, depending on the size of the work you want to do, you may find that you are going to need to still cut and glue up wood panels to make it on a CNC. Fortunately, hubby was a woodworker already and has the table saw, the jointer, etc. needed for that. It is a great addition to the workshop, we added one last year when they were selling them with the laser option rather than the spindle and I have enjoyed working with it. But I have spent a lot of time working through the Vectric tutorials, projects, etc. and have only scratched the surface with it probably. Still haven't given the laser a try. Just like with your saw, there is the preparation of the wood, creating the pattern in the software, creating the directions for the machine to "tool" the pattern and then you still have to keep an eye on the machine to make sure you don't have it set too deep, too wide, etc., etc. I have never simply walked away completely from my machine yet. I have been in the shop doing other things but keeping a close eye. Then, once it is finished on the CNC, you still have the same hand finishing work you would have to do with other handmade items. With the Christmas holiday coming to an end, you are probably going to have a little more free time to spend learning all that. Not trying to discourage you, but just make you aware that there is a learning curve to it, more so then with a scroll saw for sure but it does allow you to do things that you cannot do with the scroll saw like carving. I like my CNC, but it has taken away from my time at the saw this year. So, just be aware of that. I love learning new things and have made some neat things with it and want to learn more. However, to do so means I am away from the saw.

Everybody had their opinions on saws. a quick search here would find lots of threads with lots of thoughts and opinions. Check out the Seyco Saw here: http://seyco.com/scroll-saws-etc/ just at or a little above your top end budget at $879 with stand and with free shipping right now. i have one of the first ones that was released for sale. Seyco used to sell the Excalibur’s here in the US and were the go to support for many for help and repairs. I have been pleased with my Seyco. I have it and an older Excalibur I had previously bought used. The Seyco is my primary go to Saw. I had a nice original Dewalt Type 1 Saw, first but I prefer my Excalibur and Seyco to the Dewalt. Lots of folks love their Dewalts though and if it best fits your budget, that is a pretty good deal I think.

welcome to the village from East TN. Lots of folks seem to be like you and love the detailed, fretwork. My hat goes off to all of you. That definitely shows the skill of the craftsman. Maybe why it is not my favorite. Look forward to your participation and hearing about your upgrade to a Hegner soon.

Very nice and you are definitely trying to get in those brownie points were Opal is concerned aren’t you. I think you should be able to find what you need in hobby lobby’s jewelry section.

Ok, I got an email back from Steve Good and he noted for some reason, the pattern is missing from the online catalog which he will fix when he gets a chance. In the interim, he shared where it can be found on his blog posts and shared a direct link to it there. I will share it here, and maybe @kmmcrafts Kevin can add it to the original post in this thread so it is easier for those looking to find it in the future. @Rockytime Les - wasn't sure if you had ever found a copy or not. @octoolguy Ray did you ever track down your CD with the pattern? If not, may be easier to print from here: https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-book-of-word-art-patterns.html

Nice work and sure to make someone very happy. thanks for showing.

Nice work Dick and your daughter will be very happy. Thanks for showing.

Beautiful work Dick and you are going to have some happy neighbors. Thanks for showing.

Beautiful and delicate. More talent and patience then me to do that. thanks for showing. Looks like you need to spend more time at the Saw if you only do this seasonally to do your ornaments,

You are on a roll for sure. Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

Hello "Pizza" and welcome to the Village from East TN. My husband does some turning when his real job doesn't get in his way. Unfortunately, right nw - that's more often then not. Several others on here turn as well as scroll. Look forward to hearing that you got a good saw and have started learning to use it. If you aren't planning on buying a new saw (or having Santa deliver ) you can check locally for a good used one for sale. Many here have found good deals on saws that way. Show us your progress, feel free to ask questions - everyone here is happy to help when they can. Glad you joined us.

Welcome to the Village from East TN. Glad you came out of lurkdom and introduced yourself. Since you have retired, why are you only scrolling at this time of year to do the Christmas ornaments? Just curious. You are right though, if you want to learn to use the program and the saw beyond the basics, and not having to relearn it each year at this time - you need to spend some time each week learning and doing. Hopefully you can find some time to do so and participate here as well.

Well John, the problem is I don't drink coffee. Maybe that is the problem. I think hubby came home with dinner about that time and I didn't verify that it was correct. My bad. I promise to try and do better.