New Patterns & the Catalogue
It's been a couple weeks, and we've gotten many messages about a) new patterns and b) making the pattern catalogue easier to search. We have exciting announcements about both coming very soon, so keep an eye out!
The Workshop Legacy
We asked the Scroll Saw Workshop community to share about how Steve Good's blog and patterns have impacted you. Carl Posz wrote in and shared his story about his journey with the scroll saw and the impact the Scroll Saw Workshop and the blog has had. From little jokes to charity work, Carl's story is an example of what Steve's blog, the scroll saw, is to so many.
(And if you're looking for something fun to cut, Carl shares many of his personal favorite Steve Good patterns!)
Carl Posz
Hello Scroll Saw Workshop & Bear Woods team,
It's wonderful to hear that the legacy of Steve Good now has a new home at Bear Woods. I started my Scroll Saw journey in 2008 after I got frustrated making Christmas projects on my Band saw. While I was in one of our local Minnesota woodworking stores I heard about Scroll Saws and bought a Dewalt DW788. In November of 2024 I upgraded to the 21" Pegas saw. I had multiple opportunities to try a variety of high end saws but decided on the Pegas.
I started buying pattern books and making a lot of Christmas ornaments and projects. At first BIG fret work, eventually working to more and more detailed projects. I heard about Steve Good when I joined the Northstar Scrollers, a Minnesota Twin Cities Scroll saw group, in early 2020. I'm not sure but I probably have made over 30-40 different patterns of Steve's. Most of them as gifts to friends and family. I started subscribing to Steve's daily blog (daily!!! Amazing) in January of 2021.
I'm attaching a few pictures, just the ones with stories behind them.
One of the 1st patterns I made was the Phone Stand (image below). I mean, who doesn't sit at the kitchen table with their phone? My first was right out of Steve's pattern with the single letter "C" on the 2019 Phone Stand Pattern. Steve, in his blog often talked about the tools he used to make the patterns. He used CorelDraw, but talked about Inkscape, a free vector graphics tools. He put out some video tutorials on how to make stencil fonts. I then started making the phone stand with people's names on them instead of just the single letter. I have probably made 20-30 of these alone. In 2022 I saw the Octo-Basket with 4 different patterns for the sides Octo Basket Pattern and I pulled that pattern into Inkscape along with the phone stand and then merged those patterns into the stand (second photo below).
I love the boxes Steve created for blade storage. I've made several "2023 Scroll Saw blade storage" pieces.
Blade Storage Caddy Pattern (left) & the Scroll Saw Blades Lid Box Pattern (right).
Another Inkscape project was I had some live edge wood and took his pattern "Roses and Hummers" rose and humming bird pattern, and modified it to fit on the live edge wood.
The 2021 Cuddling Cats has often been one of the most requested patterns to make for someone.
Steve, on more than one occasion, would talk about how his humor was sometimes not appreciated by his wife Patty. Well, I found out the same thing at home when I made "2023 Best Seat in the House Pattern" I thought it was hilarious. Once I finished it I put it in our basement bathroom next to the toilet for when my football buddies would come over to my place. Well, a month or so latter my son was over visiting and he told me "Mom doesn't like that Scroll saw piece in the basement bathroom". She had never said a thing to me about it. Okay, I removed it from the bathroom. It sat in my office for a few months and when the Northstar Scrollers had an opportunity to sell at a church holiday fair. We all made pieces to sell and proceeds went to the group. I brought my "Best Seat in the House" to the sale thinking it wouldn't be sold. Well a mother came in and bought it to give to her son for his office. He was a colorectal surgeon.
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A little about the The Northstar Scrollers. While our mission is 'to develop interest in and increase knowledge of scroll sawing', including the techniques of intarsia, fretwork, marquetry, pyrography as well as a variety of related crafts. During the meeting we have a program. In March of 2023 Steve presented to the group. When we offered to pay him he refused. In return, at the end of the presentation, he raffled off multiple very nice gifts. Amazing.
One of the other things the group is involved with is making toys and paintable's for a local organization called TLC Toys | Tender Loving Care Toys. In fact, outside a few volunteers at the TLC warehouse, Northstar Scrollers is the only other group cutting these patterns. They provide us with wood and then we cut them. Many of the patterns we cut have been modified patterns of Steve's (with his permission). TLC toys take the projects we cut and donate them to a variety of non-profit organizations as well as Police and Fire Departments. A lot of other people have benefited from these Steve Good patterns.
Thank you Bear Woods for maintaining the Steve Good legacy.
Carl Posz
