Cheers Don, I haven't done a Pug yet but its on my to do list as one of the judges in our local craft show is a Pug owner and when I won last year he asked me to make one like his (its a black one which isn't ideal for wood.. but might do one of each colour instead) have a look on Kathy Wise's and Judy Gale Roberts websites for Pug patterns, I make my own patterns now using Coreldraw but its a slow process for the detailed bike ones as some of them have a few hundred parts.... the Bulldog was a nice project to do to see if Corian would work ok. As far as blades go I only use Pegas Number 3 Skip and maybe a number 5, Some people say they are too fine for thick work but if you take it slowly and use as little pressure as possible they last well and enables you to get very small parts. Due to my hand problems I actually use some long nosed Mole Grips to hold the wood while cutting and i basically steer the wood using my worst hand and apply pressure with the good one lol looks a bit awkward but works for me.
Cheers
Brian