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Scroll Saw Challenges & Village News
- 2024 Custom Ornament Business Kit - This year's business kit is now available. 50% off through Cyber Monday (Dec 2, 2024)
- Ornaments For Charity Pattern Drive - Open call for designers for our annual Ornaments For Charity ebook. Details here.
- Cozy Scroll Saw Challenge - Cozy up with this month's scroll saw challenge!
- Spooktacular Scroll Saw Challenge - Celebrate Halloween and all things spooky in this month's scroll saw challenge!
- International Sports Scroll Saw Challenge - We're celebrating the worldwide competition of athletes, sportsmanship, and sports.
- Spring Scroll Saw Challenge - Spring is in the air! Share your projects that celebrate Spring!
- March Scroll Saw Challenge - Celebrate all things March in this month's scroll saw challenge.
- Easter Custom Ornament Kit - Make personalized Easter ornaments for friends, family, or to sell.
- Saint Patrick's Day Custom Ornament Kit - Make personalized ornaments for the Irish in your life.
- Valentine's Day Scroll Saw Challenge - Show the people in your life how much you care in this month's scroll saw challenge.
- Valentine's Day Custom Ornament Kit - Make personalized ornaments for your special Valentine.
- Favorite Projects - January's scroll saw challenge is reflecting on the projects you made in 2023.
- Ornaments For Charity Pattern Drive - Open call for designers for our annual Ornaments For Charity ebook. Details here.
- Thanksgiving Scroll Saw Challenge - This month's scroll saw challenge is about reflecting and counting our blessings.
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Your Results of This Year (2024) Craft Sales
I think this would be a great place to help others that maybe thinking about selling at shows or old timers giving us a report as to what they are seeing as a trend this year in sales and also customers. With the economy in the state it is good or bad as you look at it, maybe we can see if the show circuit is making a comeback. This usually is the big sales time of the year being the holidays. Maybe tell us the type of show you did. (Indoor Outdoor?) Maybe a photo or 2 of your setup. Your
What happened?
What has happened to Coffee House? There used to be lots of stuff to read but now it's nothing but Wordle. Might as well change the heading.
Leopard in the grass
Just finished this beautiful Russ Beard Pattern, it was a double stack on 4mm Birch Plywood, cut with a Niqua 1 Pin Less blade, soaked in a BLO/Mineral Spirit Mixture, finished with a few coats of clear lacquer. Black backer and a second backed smaller than the original cut to give a shadow line effect. I cannot control the final colour appearance that the wood takes on, but I will accept it and am Blessed and Grateful that I am able to produce work like this.
Scroll saw maintenance
I followed Rick @Hudson River Rick post on the tension spring and what to do with it. Also saw Kevin's @kmmcrafts remarks for maintaining our scroll saws. I have a Pegas scroll saw for almost 3 years now and have never done any maintenance to it other than keeping it clean. Owners manual has nothing on maintenance. My question what can we do to keep our machines running smoothly? You say to spray some kind of lubricant on moving parts. I have silicone spray and also a dry lubricant. Which
It's working again
Saturday morning, thankfully, my saw is working again. As it turns out, I didn't need any parts at all, the blade holder(#41D) on the drawing, was bound up , and had the spring locked at full compression. I sprayed some dry lube on it and after a while, I finally got it to budge. It took more effort than I would have expected, to free up the holder, but where would we be without effort. This has been an awful learning experience, but I hope it's over. Now onto the 38 Christmas ornaments for
Show #1 is over
Well my first show of the year is over, it was a pretty cool day temperature around 6C not too big of a crowd because it was in our community of 184 houses. My sales were better than expected $578 and another $80 for special orders.
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