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I am working on Christmas gifts for friends and family. This a dachshund for a co-worker. The portrait is cut from a 1/8" thick piece of plywood. I gave it one coat poly and mounted it in a frame with a piece of felt behind the scrolled portrait.

Here's my second scrollsaw portrait. Can you tell the breed?

This is Sinbad, a black kitty cat who owns my friend Mary.

I made this eagle in an arrowhead for my Dad for Christmas.

I made 5 footstools for the deck, carport seating area, and the front porch. I still need to route the edges of the tops and then stain them.

Dolphin

Flamingo

Blue Heron

Humming Bird

Sea Horse

This is my son, Jay and his girlfriend Jessica.

In the following shots you can see how I used the Photocopy command in Photoshop Elements to create my portrait pattern.

The beard is gone and I left him a goatee.

I made him clean shaven. It will be easier for me to scroll and his facial hair comes and goes anyway so it won't be missed.

A little more clean up.

My final results.

Finally finished the portrait. Not in time for Christmas, but better late than never. There were obstacles to overcome. Like replacing the scroll saw with the Delta 350 (which I like much better than the Dremel 1680) and re-doing the portrait after Jay's "eye" broke off on the first one. Luckily I was only 1/8 or 1/4 done at that point. I gave it to him today and it passed the "Jay test". I got a big grin and "thank you". In other words, he liked it.