NEWBIE, loving life, making sawdust

[Dave Wittich]

Hey y'all!  Dave here, newbie on Scrollsaw Village.  I found this community 100% due to Dale's (Oldmansbike) bragging rights entry of his Lord's Prayer - FABULOUS work, to be sure.  It sure got MY attention!

Anyway, just a bit of an intro - been scrolling for about 30 years with my trusty dusty Dremel model-1601 scrollsaw, which has served me quite well. 

Being a military brat (dad was a Marine), I did my own 22+ years in the USAF and then hopped a couple different lines of work until I finally decided to retire completely.  So, now I'm able to actually enjoy life a bit more with my other half, our horses, my model planes (her garden, when I can't get out of it) and scrolling.

Anyway, while I'm announcing myself, I'm also going to brag a bit - here's the latest to come out of my little hole-in-the-wall shop in the basement just this past weekend.  It's an older design, but I've enjoyed doing it immensely.

 

[LarryEA]

Those are sure worth showing. 

Glad to have you

[daveww1]

welcome to the village, fantastic work

[amazingkevin]

I see your an articulate scroller of fine things. Judgeing from what all I can see in the picture you certainly have gone the extra mile with your fine tuned skills . Welcome friend glad to have you abourd!!!

[Denny Knappen]

Welcome to the Village forum from TN

[meflick]

Another Tennessee welcome. Glad you found us, beautiful work.

[Rockytime]

WOW! Very nice work. Glad to welcome you to the Village. You'll find lots of like minded folks here.

[Scrolling Steve]

Awesome work.......Welcome to the Village !

[wombatie]

Welcome to the Village Dave.  That is some fine scrolling there, well done.

Marg 

[spirithorse]

Welcome to the village, Dave,
How old is the pattern you used for your Lord's Prayer, please?
Is that pattern no longer available?

Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

[Scrappile]

Dave, welcome to the Village.  Beautiful work you have done, looks like we can learn a lot from you.  I love the clocks... Got on in the hopper to start soon.  Glad to have you with us.

[Phantom Scroller]

Stupendous cuts luv um. Roly

[Dave Wittich]

On 3/20/2020 at 10:07 PM, spirithorse said:

Welcome to the village, Dave,
How old is the pattern you used for your Lord's Prayer, please?
Is that pattern no longer available?

Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

Pattern is definitely still available, as is one I'm just starting right now, the OLD larger Lords Prayer.  Here's the link to the small Lord's Prayer that I just finished.

https://cherrytreetoys.com/small-lords-prayer-plan/

One "heads-up", if I might - I've never seen this one actually assembled as a whole with the frame and center 3 panels all connected.  BUT, I think that's how it was originally intended to be.  If one were to do that, WATCH OUT for the width of the 3 center panels (inside the frame) - bottom one is wide, middle is about right, top is narrow.  On the plan sheet, they're all the same - I think the wood actually shrinks as it's cut.  I've done 4 of these (two sets of paired cuts) and they all came out that way.  If I were to cut one with the intention of assembling them together, I'd leave the ends long until I was ready to actually mount them.  I'd mount the frame, measure the gap and then cut the panels to fit into the frame.

Just a thought.

BTW, I'm ordering a new one (probably 2) myself.  Screwed up, used my master (sheesh!).

Edited March 22, 2020 by Dave Wittich
Added the "heads-up"

[Dave Wittich]

On 3/20/2020 at 10:29 PM, Scrappile said:

Dave, welcome to the Village.  Beautiful work you have done, looks like we can learn a lot from you.  I love the clocks... Got on in the hopper to start soon.  Glad to have you with us.

Thanks, and Semper Fi.

Clocks are FUN!!!  Got a few more sitting around the house too.

[Scrappile]

Nice clocks!!  This is the one I want to do.  Got the plans, got the wood, got to get started...  I have Mahogany to make it with.

http://www.finescrollsaw.com/cremona-wall-clock.htm

[Dave Wittich]

I like that clock design, Scrappile!!!!  Mahogany would be just about right for that design too.  Lower pics show the true size better - perfect for nearly any room.

Semper Fi, my brother.

[Ron Johnson]

Welcome Dave. Beautiful work. 

[sawmuseum]

Hey Dave,

Welcome here.

I'm Sawyer from Saw Museum

[Foxfold]

Welcome to the village Dave, it seems you'll fit right in. !!!

[Fedido]

Welcome to the village. Nice work! I have learned scrolling is stress relief after I retired from the USAF as well. You might have a hole in the wall basement, but I am sure it beats my hole in the wall garage that while scrolling, I am sitting between two vehicles. Again, welcome.

[Dave Wittich]

On 4/2/2020 at 9:47 AM, sawmuseum said:

Hey Dave,

Welcome here.

I'm Sawyer from Saw Museum

Hey Sawyer!!  Thank you - I'm having fun watching what everybody else is doing.  This is a great place to see/learn things.

[Dave Wittich]

On 4/2/2020 at 5:49 PM, Foxfold said:

Welcome to the village Dave, it seems you'll fit right in. !!!

Hey Brenda!  Thank you - sure hope I don't make too much of a fool of myself around here.  Still, lotsa fun seeing/learning things.

[Dave Wittich]

12 hours ago, Fedido said:

Welcome to the village. Nice work! I have learned scrolling is stress relief after I retired from the USAF as well. You might have a hole in the wall basement, but I am sure it beats my hole in the wall garage that while scrolling, I am sitting between two vehicles. Again, welcome.

Thanks, brother Fedido!  Your situation is exactly my situation - stress relief during/after the USAF, AND I'm kinda imitating those incredible signs I saw on every shop throughout Europe.  Those people have a flair for making a simple business sign into a work of art - I'm kinda trying to imitate that kind of workmanship.

Y'wanna see a tiny shop?  Yeah - I can imagine your situation quite well.  Got a couple pics here, first is one side of the shop while I was restoring our 60-yr old Legion Post sign, second is my scrollsaw corner, which was immediately behind me when I took the first pic.  The whole shop is 14' long, 8' wide.  My "standing" room is about 4' wide, 12' long.

 

[Foxfold]

8 hours ago, Dave Wittich said:

Those people have a flair for making a simple business sign into a work of art - I'm kinda trying to imitate that kind of workmanship.

Not sure if you want to make any sort of 'business sign' but you can make some great ones with a router.  As you can gather I love my scrollsaw but find the router brilliant for signs.

[Dave Wittich]

Hmmm, definitely need to look into the router idea.  I've seen some around here but was never very impressed (too "crafty" looking) with them.

The good news there is that my router isn't as old as my scrollsaw - only about 25 years old, or so.