My wife and I have done a lot of woodworking.

We have, and not the least of it, built our own house from scratch.  I bought a set of blueprints and modified them.  Then we started building. What a project.  We did all our own work except the excavation, sheet rock (I hate working with sheet rock), heating (a contractor did it for less than I could buy the parts) and concrete work.  The rest we did.  When I say we, I mean my wife, myself, and my three children all less than 16 years old.  On two occasions I had to look for some help from my friends because it was just to heavy for us alone.  Putting up the center beam and the end pieces of the roof.  Really heavy.  The project took us 6 months and 4 days from the time we broke ground to when we moved in.  And, I was working a full time job of 10 hours a day at the same time.

Now for the fun stuff.  My wife and I did a lot of scroll sawing (I also did other types of woodworking) and taking our items to craft shows for a number of years.  I both bought and created my own patterns.  I will post some photos of things we made and provide you with patterns, that I either created or modified enough that I feel I can claim them as my own, to download.  If you find a pattern here that you own the rights to and feel that it is not different enough from the original, please send me an e-mail and let me know.

For those of you that do scroll saw work you may find my “Scroll Saw Notes” interesting.  I put them together a number of years ago when I was helping other people learn how much fun scroll sawing can be.  If you have been scroll sawing for a while you probably know all this stuff.  However, you never can tell, you may find one little tip that you haven’t been doing or forgot about. I have the notes in a PDF file for you to read or download.

Scroll Saw Notes

A word about the patterns I am making available to you below.  They are copyrighted as you will see on each pattern.  This only means you can’t sell the pattern.  Feel free to use them to make your wood item and sell or give away what you make.  That isn’t a problem and I hope you make some money from them.  I have and I really enjoyed it while I was doing the work.  You will see three columns below.  The pattern number, the description of the pattern and if there is a number in the third column that means that a photo is available to see what the finish product looks like.  I will have to look up the old photos and will post them as time allows.  The pattern number in the first column is the PDF pattern you can download by clicking on it.

One other thing to think about.  We used to use just about all our scrap wood to make “Little Critters” which we sold at craft shows as fast as we put them out.  A little critter is about anything that will fit on the scrap of wood.  Usually they were about 2” x 3” but the size varied.  I will put some “Little Critter” patterns up as well.  We used a lot of thing from kids coloring books to make them.  Instead of gluing the pattern on the wood we made cardboard templates and just traced it on with a pencil.  They are so simple that it only takes seconds.  In the mid to late 90’s we were selling them for about twenty five cents each.  All we did was cut them out and rough sand them.  The ones that sold the best were made from Red Cedar. A lot of people bought them because they smell so good and they put them in their handkerchief drawer or on a shelf for display.

I hope you find this of interest and enjoy the patterns below.

Bob Jones

I will keep adding patterns as they become available

and I have the time.