Finally finished it! I started cutting this almost two months ago, but because life got in the way, I could only cut for a couple hours here and there. Somewhere between 25 and 30 hours of work on this. This will be a Christmas present for my folks. Taking it in today to have it professionally framed. It's cut in 1/4" oak ply with a black felt backer. Went through a couple dozen FD New spiral 2/0 blades cutting this. The pattern is from Mike Williams.
In another thread, Malc brought up the question of whether an expensive saw is worth it to those of us who do this as a more casual hobby. I cut this using a Porter Cable scroll saw, the one sold at Lowe's. Although I don't know if I could have cut it any better with a nicer saw, I'm certain it would have been easier! Bottom feeding all those holes, many of which are barely bigger than the blade kerf, made this a tedious project. But, I got through it and here are the results.
