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This was a custom order. My daughter's friend was having a baby shower and my daughter is broke. I offered time and materials (cause that's what we do). I gave her a choice of fonts. Thanks @don in brooklin on for the Berlin font. This is what she chose. It is Wondrus from DaFont. I think it might become a fav. This is cut from 1/2" ply with a #7 blade. Acrylic paint with Walrus Oil as a top coat.
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Well, this is the latest off the saw and paint table. It will be heading to the bin. Not happy with it at all. There are a couple of pieces that will only fit from one direction. Yes, I pushed using a dull blade. And yes, I know I should have changed it earlier. This is also the first time that the Unicorn Spit has made the kerf narrower. I used a #5 Precision Skip on the poplar that I recently bought. I think the biggest issue is that the wood isn't a dry as it should have been. I guess it will be off to the store to buy some other wood.
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A puzzle box with a twist; there's a magnet in the bottom of the hole for the pin, with panel nails in the pin to hold against the magnet. And you need a magic wand to open it. The pin was originally a standard heart, I flattened the heart so I could cut the pin in the shape of a key. Wood: 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 inch oak Blades: FD Polar #1 for the pin and sliding dovetail, Polar #5 for the inside void, the outside of the heart shape and to rip the 1/8" bottom. The only tricky part of the puzzle box is the order of cutting must be followed. 1. rip the bottom piece, 2. cut the pin, etc...
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First puzzle box. Followed the directions from the latest issue of the Scrollsaw magazine, mostly. It was a block of basswood from KJP woods. Didn't add the 1/4" layer because I knew I was painting it. Finished with beeswax butter (beeswax mixed with mineral oil) 20230612_185413.mp4
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Hey Everyone! In this scroll saw project we make an awesome Leo The Lion Zodiac Puzzle (I'm A Leo!) from the Zodiac Puzzles For Scroll Saw Woodworking book by Fox Chapel Publishing. I use 3/8 inch Red Oak in for the puzzle. Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate
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I was so excited when Alex posted his new pattern yesterday. It came at the perfect time. I was just finishing lunch and looking for something to do. I saw the plan, purchased it and "got it done". This is also cut from reclaimed Elm. We have a lumber place here now that takes trees that the city has cut, and mill them. Most of the stuff is kept as live edge. This piece was cut from one of their "shorts" at $5/bf. Enough rambling. Cut from Elm using a #5 mg blade. I cut the outline with a #5 FD ultra reverse, but it was so slow and burned in a couple of places. The MG left an amazingly smooth surface that I only sanded the nibs where the blade came out. The flower/leaves have a watered down thin coat of Unicorn Spit. The border is Old Masters gel stain - red mahogany. The hummingbird was finished with Old Masters - fruitwood, the flower/leaves were coated with Tung Oil. Thanks @alexfox for another wonderful pattern.
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Had a productive day yesterday. Got a few thing cut. Got this Cardinal cut, sanded and finished! Wood is Aspen, cut with #5 mg blade. Finish is Osmo for the red & black and some other poly for the feet & beak.
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Got a request for a new name puzzle from my team mate on Thursday. Need to deliver this Thursday. All done! Thanks to Don for his help with the pattern. With his tutelage, I may actually be able to do my own pattern next time. Cut from BB Ply with a #5 MG reverse blade. Font is Berlin. Colour provided by Unicorn Spit. Final finish is Tung Oil.
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Another set done. Might try toning the orange cat colouring down. Mg#3 from poplar. Unicorn Spit for the colours.
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Well, three weeks after breaking my arm I have enough mobility to get some work done. Won't be working on the Mandala's for awhile though. This was a custom order that I got just before I broke my arm. 1/2" bb ply with 1/4" backer. I don't remember the font but it was a part of the Windows list at the office. Glad I was able to get it done. I need to put one more coat of oil on it before passing it to the customer.
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It was the most difficult and most interesting project. It all started with my friend’s request to make his motorcycle out of wood. When I did not find examples of the Internet, I decided to make a toy in the form of a puzzle. The material took a glued pine shield 37 mm thick. It turned out that such a blank does not fit into my scroll saw. After a little alteration of the mounts, everything worked out. At first I just wanted to cut out the fragments and round out the sharp edges a little. I spent one day, but I did not like the result, so I decided to give the puzzle more realistic shapes. I have little experience with woodcarving, so I was very afraid to spoil the model with one careless movement. All the work took about three weeks. Sometimes the work was done quickly, and on some days I just sat and looked at the individual parts and tried to imagine its future form. Of course I didn’t show my friend the whole process of work, but when he saw a photograph of the finished puzzle, he said only one phrase: “Shut up and take my money.”
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Got this cut between Christmas & New Years. Finished it on the weekend. Question for anyone who has done this - how did you actually do the support?? I know I didn't do what the directions suggested - it didn't make sense to me, so I went my own way on it.
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I am trying to cut out Animal Puzzles and finding difficulty in getting the Blade to cut the puzzle pieces so that they fit together when attaching from the top and the bottom. The puzzle pieces are a little bigger on the back side ,so the pieces only go together from the back side. I have tried realigning the blade with no luck. I am using the #1 Blade. I have OCD and this is driving me "Nuckin Futs", LOL Thanx in advance for all assistance in correcting this issue, Guy
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There is nothing special about the jigsaw puzzle, it's just a 100 piece of the San Xavier mission. But I feel real good about the box. I needed the box to be big enough to hold the puzzle. I had a piece of 8/4 (1.75" thick) spanish cedar 5-3/16 wide, with that as a lid width I got just at 5" wide for the box itself and the only way the puzzle would fit would be if I could use the entire 1.75" for the box walls. I cut the inside of the walls, glued a 1/4" bottom on it, and ran it through the sander until it would just fit in the scroll saw without the arm banging on top of it so I could cut the outer profile. Dewalt says the max depth is 2". My box (not counting lid) is a skosh over 1-15/16" thick and the puzzle pieces fit perfectly. Thankfully cedar cuts like butter - I can't imagine doing that thickness in a hardwood or exotic.
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Birch plywood 10 mm Usually I dont make puzzles, but this one was made by request of my friend (She likes cat and wooden projects)
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I have been busy with a lot of things this last year and most of my projects have been utilitarian rather than fun scroll saw projects. I was able to make this puzzle and I finished it up on Fri night. Sat. my family had booth at a flea market, trying to get rid of old stuff etc. and I had a small table with what scroll saw and other art I had to sell. Not the best venue for this type of item but this little puzzle sold first and without haggling, they just payed the asked for price. I expected to be talked down a bit. It was the only scroll work I sold but I was ok with that. I also sold one of my Colored Pencil paintings. between all of us we were about $200 over booth costs. And the weather was perfect, wish it was the same throughout the country.
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Edited to add: Just noticed - my one year anniversary here in joining the village was this past Saturday. Been a great year and I thank all of you for all you have shared, encouraged, and explained to me in that year. I really like coming here and my day is not complete without at least one visit it see what everyone is sharing. Yes, I joined the puzzle bandwagon a little bit ago thanks to Iggy and several others on here. Yes, they are addicting. I got the Harvey Byler puzzles via Iggy's site and had purchased the "Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw" book by Judy and Dave Peterson and have cut some from there as well. My thought process is that this would be a good way to practice cutting on the lines which would then help improve my intarsia pieces and their fitting together. Time will tell on that one. I haven't add any finish to the pieces yet. Just cut them out and finally got some photos to post. I will try to post in two groups. The first ones will be the puzzles with the wording from Iggy/Harvey and the second will be the ones from the Peterson's Book. I have some more I am working on but haven't gotten cut out. Most of them can actually be put together from either side so that's a bonus. Mean's I am also doing better on not "pushing". I found the wood that worked best for me was the poplar which I got from Lowes. Tried some in pine, cedar, and red oak scraps. Like Goldilocks, I found some too soft, some too hard, and the popular just right for me! Harvey Byler puzzles purchased from Iggy's Site here: https://woodcraftbyscott.com
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Freshly cut this morning... I think this could be a popular one. Iggy
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For this puzzle I used the poster "Tales of Peter Rabbit" by Mike Wimmer. It was fun to come up with the characters for the puzzle pieces. There are a variety of people and animals. As you can see, I'm just having fun here. However, it was as usually when I doing my work with the puzzles. 440 parts size 16*12
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I made this Thomas the Train puzzle for my grandson who likes all things about Thomas the Train. It was cut from 3/4" pine and painted with acrylic paints and a top lacquer coat. The frame for the puzzle was out of a piece of 1/2" and 1/4" baltic birch.
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I greet the respected community of the Village. My name is Alexei Morozov, I'm from Izhevsk city, Russia. I am scrollsawer since 2013. The most interesting for me is the creation of puzzles. Unfortunately, not always enough time for hobbies and new works are rare. Little by little I will show their works for last years. Among my other interests are downshifting and gardening.
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Las one for a time as the retirement home has now got all they ordered. Cut from 1/4 " Baltic birch with FD puzzle blade placed on picture paper and sealed with clear coat.Size is 8" by 10" and has 110 PCS. Came from a calendar Thanks for looking and comments welcome They wanted them for lap size.
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Five piece puzzle cut from 3/4 inch pine.
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This is a puzzle cut from a design by Judy Peterson. It was cut from 1/2" poplar. Because poplar is a soft and porous wood, I used a sanding sealer on it first. The flames and the bottom were colored using a red dye -- Arti Brand from Highland Woodworking. I had tried using various other types of dyes but these provide a brilliant color and better than any other types that I have tried. The top part has a light wash of a pearl white color and then all the pieces were given a light coat of lacquer. I do not know if I want to work with poplar again for this type of project. It tends to raise the grain at every step of the process which required careful sanding of the pieces so they fit and to avoid sanding to much and have too loose of a fit.
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