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Love it Ron! I think it’s played like a game called Trouble. It’ll be even more fun knowing you made it.

Thank you. The cutting is cherry and the base is rough cut oak stained English Chestnut with a little black spray paint. I had a hard time coming up with a base color that didn’t clash.

I’ve cut it several times without the peace. I kept my favorite one cut in this oak pallet board.

I never get tired of cutting this great Sue Mey pattern. Wishing you a peaceful Christmas!

Great job!

Thank you! It was a tiny piece of scrap in my scrap drawer but I'm pretty sure it is Red Padauk.

Thank you. I’m sorry, this one isn’t mine and I don’t know where I got it.

One of them is to replace the one I made last year, and broke this year. The other I just made so I'd have one to give away, so PM me your new address and I'll send it your way. Merry Christmas!!!

"Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence."

Beautiful piece, Paul!

Beautiful work! The painstaking finishing process you do really shows!

So glad to have you back!!! We missed you!!!

Thanks, I enjoyed it. Not sure what that says about me.

Great looking grandson!!! And you should be a writer.

Nice job. I love how the blue paint turned out.

Thank you. I love the picture. I have mine in a prominent place in my shop.

Very cool idea!

Beautiful!

Looks great!

Just to be clear, all I can draw is flies. I did make the pattern, but with a pencil and carbon paper from this beautiful image.

I can relate! You start with 4 square pieces and after cutting each one you will have 4 pieces like in picture 8 to glue together.

Thank you. Opal, the dog, loves me enormously. She's my wife's dog but I'm her person. I try to love her but she's a bit annoying in that when my wife lets her in at night I can't get a minutes peace without her sticking her head in my lap and panting. I know it's sweet but it does get old. I'd love it if she'd lay down by me like some dogs do. I love that about your dog wanting his ball hidden in the leaves.

Not too sure about that, but thanks.

These are great ways to use up scraps and I love making them. My wife loves them and likes putting them around our Nativity scenes. If you'd be interested in how they're made I posted a confusing pictorial in General Scroll Sawing trying to explain the process.

This will probably wind up very confusing but I'll do my best to explain. The original idea I got from a man named John Shutz. His patterns were for bandsaw. The first picture shows four different sized patterns that I drew. Mine range from around 4 inches tall to 11 inches tall. They are simple to draw but notice the branches or boughs alternate from side to side rather that being even. The patterns are folded down the midde as in picture 2. I put mine on a Little Debbie Christmas Tree box. It's festive and has already has a crease. Put the pattern on one corner of the appropriate sized piece of square wood and trace the pattern onto the wood as in pictures 3 and 4. You will need to do this on 4 identical pieces of wood. Cut whichever side you prefer first. Picture 5. You can tape the pieces back together as you would with a compound cut for making the second cut, picture 6. Or I prefer to take it apart and cut it as shown in picture 7. It's a little more tedious holding it but cuts much easier/quicker. After the second cut you should have something like picture 8. Repeat the process on the remaining 3 pieces. With 4 pieces done it is time to glue. I try to put glue along the 90 degree corner of the piece, picture 9, without getting in onto the branches as some of this will be exposed after gluing the pieces together. Put the pieces together as shown in picture 10 and wrap rubber bands around them. If needed add a clamp or two, picture 11. After drying a half hour or so I remove the clamps and rubber bands, sand as needed and finish.