RabidAlien

VERY nicely cut!!! I've found there are a TON of great papercutting patterns that lend themselves nicely to the scroll saw, @ChelCass beat me to it. I like the multi-tone background, too, I gave that a try with two colors on a jellyfish kirigami papercutting pattern recently and was VERY pleased with how it turned out.

The military history buff in me nods, all of them are very easily recognizable (if you know your warbirds)!!!! Nicely cut sir!

Nice! Much better than my first attempts!!!

I have a slew of spiral blades, but those things tend to stress me out more than spinning a flat blade around a tight corner. Its usually when something on the bottom snags the table on my saw and throws the blade into a good piece that I get to use my really juicy words. Seems like delamination is getting worse these days, need to start hitting the undersides with shellac again (helps hold everything together and cuts down on fuzzy edges).

It is one dizzy butterfly. Honestly, though, cutting the OUTSIDE was worse than all of the inside cuts, not only from the fear of lopping off something critical at the very last minute, but because all of those little twigs and leaves and stuff....LOTS of cornering.

Yet another kirigami piece from . 1/4 bbply, I found its cheaper to get the 4'x8' sheet and cut it down into manageable quarters than to buy the smaller pre-cut sheets. Single-stacked this one, so it used a lot of Pegas #0/2MG blades. Stains are Minwax "Natural" and "Honey".

A handful of "love" related pieces I've done over the years (in no particular order). The wolf bookmarks stem from a love of reading, I've handed out quite a few of those to others. And what goes better with reading than a nice cuppa coffee!! Caffeinated, for me. As a military history buff and Navy vet, I still love this country (which has nothing to do with political parties). My wife loves gnomes....I've done a couple of them for her, but found the "rock on!" gnomie and that one just screamed for a colorful background. Googled "tye-dye wallpaper", printed it, and it makes for a killer background. Sign language spells L-O-V-E. Not sure where the sculpture pattern came from, that was a couple of years ago.

Agree with most of the above, regarding sharp blades (I use Pegas MG blades, 0/2 if I'm single-cutting, #1 or #3 if I'm double/triple stacked). Speed.....medium to med-high, on my cheap Wen 16". Reverse-tooth blades do wonders for trimming up the out-stroke fuzzies/feathers, and another trick I picked up here is to spray the back of the blank wood with shellac. That'll be the side that sits on the saw table. The shellac gives enough extra "stiffening" to REALLY cut down on fuzzy edges (har..."cut down"....yeah, I know, I'm not quitting the day job). I've also heard of folks wrapping the whole thing in packing tape to help cut down on edges, but that seems like a mess and a lot of packing tape, to me. But if it works for someone, I'm not gonna knock it. Slow down, take your time, have fun. Usually there's no time limit on cutting, and if I cut three pieces out of a pattern in one day, sometimes that's all the sawdust time I get and I'm happy for it. Find patterns YOU enjoy looking at, don't look at the number of holes (EVERY pattern is just one-hole-one-cut-next-hole), and have fun with it!

The medals are more for posting any pictures of projects in the monthly challenge. You can post 20 individual posts, or one post with 20 pics, and just by participating you get the medal. I usually assume its for my favorite one, when I post multiple pics.

Thanks, all!

Thank you sir! I've cut a couple of his multi-layer lightboxes (you have to be creative with the "windows" on some of the layers, since wood doesn't tend to pass diffused light through it like paper does). His stuff is intricate!! But danged if its not AWESOME when you finish!!

Another kirigami design by https://lightboxgoodman.com/collections/kirigami-digital 3/8 bbply (buying the 4'x8' sheet at Lowes and cutting it down is a lot cheaper, I found, than the smaller sheets, and I ran across surprisingly few voids). Frame was a 2x2, ripped in half. Minwax Honey and Natural stains. Lost count of the number of Pegas 0/2MG blades. Not a difficult cut at all, the hardest part was the outside cut, around the butterfly...only one bridge holding him to the rose, and some thin areas. Overall a good pattern! I think I blew it up to 125% when I printed, but I have no regrets. I had to round off the corners of the piece in order to not run into the throat depth of my 16" saw, but since I wasn't stack-cutting this, it was no problem.

Love me some Mossie!!!! Second-favorite plane, right behind the P-38 Lightning....trailed VERY closely by the A-10.

As a qualified submariner on 637-class (and one 688, briefly) fast-attack submarines, I can assure you, sir, that THIS is a quality submarine pun. [[hoists beverage in salute]]

**burp** Oh....that was YOUR beer? No idea what happened to it. Glad you were able to get it updated!!! Most submariners, like any other specialized group, are proud of what we accomplished.

Nicely cut! Not to nitpick, but, as a submariner myself....the dolphins (submarine insignia) is reversed. The boat should look like its heading to the right, not the left.

A couple I've made for gifts or fun over the years.

Yeah, I tell myself that kind of lie all the time. LOL I've got more printed out patterns in my garage than I do stain splatters.

Thanks, y'all!

Found this on Lightbox Goodman's site (someone posted another project they'd done, so I had to go and browse https://lightboxgoodman.com/collections/trending) and thought it would be a fun cut. I was right, for once. 1/4 bbply for the jelly and the backer, both stained Minwax Honey. Frame is a random 2x2 ripped in half, stained Minwax Provincial. I hit the jelly with a rattlecan of blue and purple, making the blue heavier on the top and purple heavier on the bottom. Thought it turned out pretty darn spiffy.

Looks awesome!!! Might've had an oval mirror attached to it at some point?

Summer has always been about being outdoors, enjoying the sights, random encounters with interesting critters, and various activities such as hiking, geocaching, kayaking, archery, etc. Don't have any kayak-related scroll projects yet.

Very nicely cut!!! I haven't had much luck with epoxy either, but may try my hand at it again.

A couple I've done over the years.

This. Is. AWESOME!!!! Makes me really really REALLY want to try my hand at epoxy/resin again.