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Beautiful work. Thanks. I'm trying it tomorrow.

Did you angle the table? Use a backer board?

Wow! I'd love to learn how you did the mice! Please contqct me if you don't mind. BEAUTIFUL! [email protected]

I use the 2nd link extensively. I have several. Needs a caul jig if used on corners that are not 90 degrees -- but so do most clamps.

The design came from a book Creating Wooden Boxes on the Scroll Saw, by The Best of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts. Sue Chrestensen wrote the article and credited Lora Irish for the design. She used the design to make a keepsake box, but I made it into a wall hanging. My son-in-law didn't need a box, but he was into that kind of art. I used maple for the wings, oak for the body and walnut for the leaves on the head. the pattern said to scroll saw the thing from a single piece of wood, but it was worth the extra trouble to fit the 3 woods together. It was mounted on 1/4" ply -- HD called it underlayment ply, but I picked a few nice sheets from the pile. It's a 100 mile trip to HD for me, but a 6 hr drive to get Baltic Birch that I would have prefered. The frame was made from scraps -- probably poplar. A bit of red and white acrylic paint finished it off. A Flying Dutchman PS5 was on the saw, so I used it without any trouble. Hope this helps!

This BD gift is a.bit of intarsia.

One has to be extremely strong to bend it like that...

I used a ps5, 17tpi (Flying Dutchman) for the bows and 1"+ walnut box. The bows are purpleheart, holly, and maple.The ribbons are purpleheart and maple. the lid and bottom are from the same piece of wood as the box.

One more. This is past the deadline -- I just finished it. Blame it on Dejoy & the USPS??

The first for my wife, the 2nd for my grand neice, and the 3rd for my sister-in-law

Thanks. I just bought the scroll saw in Feb and am very glad I did. I gave one of these two to a friend who just retired from the post office. She respects elk.

Spring is when the elk leave our property and head for the back woods, so I made two boxes with elk images. The boxes were made by stack cutting walnut and poplar, then mixing the cut pieces up a bit. The elk images were cut on an angle so they would fit into each other without a gap due to the thickness of the blade -- a new technique for me!.

It says above: I saw one by Robert Ardizzoni. Glad you like it! My wife sure did. With the necklace...

Just shellac! I probably should have finished it with a bit more jewelry

It's a beautiful spring day in WA! My first stab at Intarsia -- a box with a rose on the lid. I saw one by Robert Ardizzoni and thought it would be a nice mother's day present for my wife. It's made from walnut and maple. She has a bit of trouble getting the lid to sit properly, as it is hardly symmetrical!