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These two free patterns came from Judy Gale Roberts Website.  They are Intarsia Patterns I made into Painted Segmented wall  hangings that I will be sending to my son and daughter.
Again, I cut the patterns from one piece of 1x10 clear premium pine board but added Intarsia techniques to sculpture as well as raise and lower parts to improve the presentation.  I made no changes to the patterns except to delete the “floor” area under Santas’ feet.
All cutting, painting and finishing details for these pieces are exactly the same as my previous post: Copycat Family Christmas decoration Gifts, so I will not repeat here. All I will add however is; Hoot was a hoot to cut and paint.

Nom 7" x 12"

Nom 10" x 12"
Thanks for reading.  Comments and Critiques always welcome.

My lady had found an Image of an embroidery Blue Dragon a while ago that she really liked and had asked me several times in the past if I could make a cutting from it.  The image was not suitable to make a fret type pattern previously, but I felt I was now able to make a segmented pattern that would work.  However, the resulting pattern I developed is made up of a LOT of very small pieces that was a PITA to re-assemble.
I use a piece of clear knot free ¾” x 10” Premium Pine to cut the pattern from using Pegas #1 MGT R blades.  The Piece is approximatele 8" x 10" and again, Intarsia techniques were used to sculpture the work.
This project was also an experiment using water-based color dye to color the wood the blue and black needed.  Dying the wood is easy but very sloppy and took forever to dry.  The White highlights were done with diluted acrylic paint that when applied immediately dissolved the blue turning the White to a light Blue.  The water-based dye also raised the grain that was hard to deal with because the pieces were so small.  In the photo this looks like dust but it is the light reflecting off the textured surface.
The backer is 1/8” thick BB ply with edges painted Black.  The assembled piece was protected with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish spray.
My lady is happy (and you know what that means) with it and it will be hung in our home.

 
Comments and critiques always welcome.

This is a gift for a good friend of mine.
1/8" BB for both layers.
Bottom layer is a picture of the hill behind his Airbnb in Bulh Id with two kingfisher's ( his favorite bird ) on the rocks.
Top layer is a pattern available in the library, artist is Grandpa.
FD Polar #1 blades throughout. 11 x 14

I really don’t do too many Baltic Birch portraits anymore, as I have been working more with thicker hardwoods. That said, a friend asked if I had ever done any with Johnny Cash or Waylon Jennings, or if not, would I consider doing them. So I have some 1/4” BB, checked Charles Dearing’s site, found some cool patterns,and with some minor variations came up with these two. The Waylon Jennings has some very delicate bridges, which were a little nerve wracking.

Every now and then I do a project that makes me smile and I enjoy. This one has been on my list for a few years ( I worked at Disney World back in the 80's). Finally had a week free to make it.
It'll go on the wall next to Donkey Kong.
Chris

Made a fun pick holder for my 8 year old grandson who just got a guitar for his birthday. Highly imperfect work but OK for a first try. Got off a bit with my templates making one side of the lid a bit thinner than the other. Proves it's hand made I suppose.  Louidjy will forgive me.  
If anyone is interested I followed the instructions from a YouTube video called Scroll Saw Guitar Pick Holder from Acutabove Woodworking. 
 
 

My Star Wars loving grandsons told me my truck looks like a Storm Trooper so I decided to lean into it. Guaranteed not to rust. 😁

Here is my new Christmas countdown calendar. Digits are replaceable, I made a short video preview to show how it works.
Recommended size is 8,5 x 6,5 inches, pattern consists of 4 layers, stand and digits (2 layers)
Pattern - https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexFoxUA
 
 
 
 

Last puzzle for the upcoming craft sale.  Cut from Poplar with MG#5 blade.  I have painted the hardboard backer to represent the sea.  There are about 4 shades of blue that I sponged on.  Didn't get a picture of the backer.  I have priced it at $50 so we'll see!

My son asked if I could find a good pattern of Jimi Hendrix and scroll three one for himself and two to give to guitar friends.  So I found this pattern by Charles Dearing.  My son approved it.  Stack cut 4- 1/8 thick" 16" tall x11" wide.  
 

Love this beautiful piece of live edge Cherry. 🙂 Pattern is in the Library. For some reason it's blurry until you click on it. 

Sasho contributed the pattern for this to our library about a year ago.  To me, it's both sad and happy at the same it.  I immediately cut it, but only this week got around to framing 'Life' and it now hangs over my desk.
   
The foreground, the background, and the frame are all quarter-sawn white oak.

This is my attempt at Frank’s Kokopelli Band. 
 Still in my early stages of scrolling and this is the most challenging project I have tried.  Made out of 1 inch recycled Rimu that a scavenged from a demolition site.  The wood is very dry and quite brittle in the thinner places but oh well it is all part of the fun.  So here it is with a big thank you to Frank.

Another Steve Good design finished over the weekend and I spent way too much time and trouble...
I hate to scroll ovals, especially two with one being slightly larger for the backer.  Nothing seemed to go right.  Drilled the entry holes a tad too little in the tight spots and bent new blades trying to bottom feed.  I ran an old blade in first to make the holes a bit larger and it helped "some" of the time.  Got so pissed I loosened the clamps and tried to snatch the bent blade out but, forgot to loosen the bottom one and sliced my thumb.  Good thing the blades have small teeth.  It kept going downhill when the flat black paint on the wood backer showed fish eyes and had to repaint even though the wood was prepped properly.  I also wanted to line the backer up to have an even reveal all around and didn't want to chance it with glue and have it set up before I got it centered.  So, I ended up using double stick tape which let me move it around before I put the pressure on it.  
Whew, didn't mean to write a book but sometimes something that I thought would be easy to do ends up kicking my butt!!!

I believe this can be put under the Bragging Rights forum very easily. Many beautiful pieces have passed through this site over the years and many of you either sell your items or give them away to family and friends and charities. So the question is what over the years has been your best seller or piece that gets asked for or you just decide to make and hand out. ?? Or both? What seller and what hand out? I will start and must preface this by saying I have been selling and making things for friends and family for over 40 years now and have made over 500 different items. Would have to pull out the records to know exact numbers and even that would not tell the whole story because I use to make things for Steebar many moons ago when the original owner was still alive and they were a good company to deal with. He would put them in his catalog. Many times John Nelson made the patterns that I would do prototype of and work out tweaks. But these watches have to be #1 for sales. and the heart has also a lot of sales but is also one that I gave out very often because it fits homes well. So lets see yours too. 
 
 


 

They are all finished and wrapped and will fly out to Ireland and Norway in 2 weeks.  Mainly pine because of weight but 5 which will stay in Australia are Tasmanian Myrtle.  All are approx, 6" x 4".
Marg

I have a few hundred dollars worth of I guess you could call it exotic wood coming soon from Ocooch Hardwoods...
Not about to waste any expensive wood so I figured it was time for more practice.
My mother in law gave me some 1 inch thick cedar planks that were in her garage probably 20 years and although straight, they were super dry and hard.  Since I never tried stack cutting or even wrapping a project with packing tape it was time to give it a shot.  I still had that maple leaf pattern I traced from the leaf found on the ground so this would be my first time making a box with that leaf  design using 1/4" ply on the top and bottom with that brick hard cedar sandwiched inside. 
The biggest blade was a #7 it got it done but it was slow going through 1-1/2"...
So I surprised myself trying something new that turned out okay I guess.   Put some wipe on poly and calling it done!

I was asked by a client, who had recently purchased two other pieces from me, to make a Breeching Whale cutting to give to her daughter for Christmas who is a ‘Save-The-Whales’ advocate. 
I found the popular Humpback Whale Image, converted it into an 11” x 17” scroll saw pattern and sent it to the client for approval.  Her reply was that what she wanted was an image of a Whale Tail and, in her reply, sent me a photo image of what she was looking for. 
Although the photo was not appropriate to make a Scroll Saw Pattern from, I was able to find a similar image which I, once again, converted into an 11” x 14” scroll saw pattern and sent it to her for approval.  In the text to her (with tongue-in-cheek and an emoji) I said, “If you like I could make the pair!”.  Her reply was, “I like that idea” and proceeded to drop off the deposit I require before starting the cuttings.
Both cuttings were made in 5/32” thick solid core Maple Ply panels and affixed to a 1/4" thick BB Ply backers.  Color was added to both the Backers and the Cut Panels with an Air Bruch using Artist Acrylic Air Brush Paints.  The assembled panels were finished with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer.
I made my usual 1 3/4” rail frames out of Poplar and applied a High Gloss Black Lacquer finish.


Comments and critiques always welcome.
Edit: Patterns posted in Pattern Exchange.

Seems like since Thanksgiving the activity here has hit the brakes... OH, I know now.. Still waiting in the checkout line for those Black Friday deals.. and those that made it through the line got home but they can't show their new tool purchases yet because it's for Christmas.. 😂🤣😂

This was made from 2 seperate patterns courtesy of the Scrollsaw Workshop.
I combined the 2 patterns to create this Heart of love.
Regards, Alan.

Made using maple, alder and Peruvian walnut.  Dovetails all done on my scroll saw. 

It's been a little while since I posted my Halloween lanterns.  Here are some pics of the chess set I've been working on.  The chess pieces were done on the scroll saw.  They are black walnut and mango. The board is black walnut and ambrosia maple. I still have to do clean-up and then finishing.  Plan is to finish them using tung oil (unless some one has a better idea).
 
 

Here is the first chess set I started last month - I'm still working on finishing it but getting close.  The light colored wood is spalted ash that I found at Home Depot - it was a 6' tree spike that I paid $2 for.  The dark set is mahogany.  The board is cherry mixed with some figured pallet board wood (not sure what it is).  The finish is tung oil. The frame is ambrosia maple.
 

To use up some scrap BBPLY I cut some Steve Good patterns.
I proved I am not a painter.