Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
My dad built a set of bookends for my brother and I over 30 years ago that resembled the outside of a house complete with a window, saw, axe, and chopped wood. Unfortunately, over the course of several military moves the set broke and about 10 years ago had to be thrown out. I have wanted to return the honor for my own kids for several years but could never decide what to use as a template. Then, after taking a scroll saw class at my local Woodcraft, I stumbled across Steve Good's Scrollsaw Workshop site and found the patterns I'm using here.Using larger curly red oak scrap pieces for the scroll work and a new red oak board for the bookends themselves, I finished these yesterday (still need to clean up some excess lacquer). I decided to also join the ends using dovetails (only my second time cutting them) instead of using butt joints with screws as his patterns show. There are mistakes in these related primarily to the dovetails but I still think the kids will be happy with them.21 yr old daughter – Motorcycle; she owns a 1981 Suzuki GS550L and rides with me often (the white is actually silver paint – still learning how to compose good pictures)19 yr old step-son – Dragons (I made his bookends lighter than the others to set the coloring off some)
18 yr old daughter – Fairies
15 yr old step-son – Dog