RetiredArmy Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Hello, My name is Michael. I grew up in SC/FL and joined the military after HS at the age of 17. I spent 20 years 4 months and 17 days in the Army at which time I retied at 38. I have 2 daughters currently 23 & 19. And a loving wife (#2 LOL). I have always wanted a scroll saw and was given one as an anniversary present at the beginning of April. I dove right in to it without any clue to what I was doing. I cut out a buffalo plate as my first project and was highly pleased with the result. So far I have cut a project either every day or every other day since and I am up to 17 projects cut so far. I have given some of them away as I have NO clue what to ask for them. So maybe that is where I would need help. I have been reading the forum for about a week and decided to join to gather more info. I hope that I can upload some of the crafts that I make to get some thoughts on them. Hope to get to know all of you and look forward to sharing stories with all. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesscrollsaw Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Welcome to the site! I live in Kentucky as well, also grew up in Florida before I joined the Army. Got out after 13 years active was an Apache test pilot for most of that time. Look forward to seeing you work, this is a fun hobby and great site full of information. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messman Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Michael welcome to the Village we are so glad you found us here. I think you will find that pricing you work is the hardest thing for any of us to do. What I would do in that regard is hit up some of the shows in your area and see what is being charged there, and talk to the scrollers. This will give you a ball park figure. Can't wait to see some of your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolbeltman Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Welcome to the Village Michael....enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Welcome To Scroll Saw Village Michael,I too dove in first then learned to swim,lol.This is a very relaxing ,enjoyable hobby.glad your here.open your gallery here on the top of this page to show us your firewood projects as you become acclamated to the richawals of scrolling.$7.00 an hour is a fair price for most scroll work.It's tough to make a living doing this type of work.I traded some of my work for a dw788 scrollsaw and was overwhelmed at the deal.Beauty is in the eye's of the beholder.One man junk is another mans treasure.Yard sales are low priced allmost give away prices .You need to stay with craft shows .Church ones seem to have a lower entery fee.Craft shows get upwards of $100.00 to get in.and then there's parks and communitys that have craft sales too which are low price entery fee's.My first $20.00 show ,out of 10 crafter's i was the only one to sell anything,and $190.00 at that.They were over whelmed at the detail i got out of wood!.Stay busy making things ,it's all practice work for you so selling these really is'nt the main thing to worry about.their buying your practice piece's!lol.Your going to have a lot of self satisfieing pleasure scrolling and you get your own man cave to do it in! lol, looking forward to seeing your work ,thanks for joining! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton717 Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 welcome to the village Michael. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy chew Posted April 24, 2011 Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 welcome keep digging in the more you learn the better you get got question just ask Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Hi Michael, welcome to the Village Marg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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