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This morning a friend of mine dropped off a load of free wood. This is all Rimu from a kitchen refit on an old property. The builder was going to burn it but luckily my friend saved it for me. Included in this pile is a beam 7 inches wide by 3 inches thick and just over nine feet long! It will take a while to sort through but I have already dismantled the drawer boxes and thought I would share my process. I don't have a table saw so I use a cordless circular saw and speed square to separate the drawer panels from each other. After de-nailing, the scraps go into my kindling box or to await paint removal first. I run the drawer fronts through the bandsaw to remove the dovetail ends and the groove where the drawer bottom sits. I keep the drawer bottoms which tend to be cheap ply, hardboard or laminate although I don't often have a use for these. This picture shows the cabinet sides with drawer runners. I wet one piece to show the beautiful colour. Now, after de-nailing, I have a pile of scrollable pieces ready for milling on the planer thicknesser and sanding before use. Obviously this has some splits and nail holes but I can often orientate the pattern to work around that. I hope this helps somebody and inspires people to try reclaimed wood. Rob

I cut this one for my wife. She was a champion English hunter/jumper, and I am so proud of her dedication to her sport. I designed and cut this.

I bought a plan from Gratto toy plans and made the truck with a few changes to the plan. I used poplar, walnut and many round toothpicks for the many small parts. It took the use of the table saw, miter saw, scroll saw, lathe, drill press , jointer, planer and drum sander along with many hand tools to complete it.

My display at ArtCrafters was down to four, so I had to get busy and make more. I made twelve yesterday, Labor Day. They sure seem to sell at ArtCrafters.

Cut be me / pattern by me.

I just finished this for a friend. I'm not sure what kind of wood that is. The butterfly is mounted with a coiled piece of copper wire. This allows height and a bit of vibration. The overlay body is walnut and the antenna are 26 ga copper wire. Steve Good design, #Shadow Butterfly, my interpretation.

Nice save Rob.....I get a lot of old furniture from the sallies....................Rimu and oak mainly......................

Congrats Rob !....Good get !

I wish I had a friend like yours. Great score Rob, happy scrolling. Marg

Congrats on the score. Looking forward to seeing what it becomes in the future

rob, 95 % of my projects are done with reclaimed wood. I use a tonne of oak, maple, birch, cherry and ash. Mahogany I get at times but I usually save that for special projects...happy re-purposing! I save the drawer bottoms as well, they make great backings and also can be used for bracelets if they are solid wood.

Well, maybe you didn't succeed in fixing it, but it helps you learn the saw more and that is a good thing. I took one apart once and actually got it back together so it worked fine. I felt good, and my fear of working on one was gone.

I haven't posted much because I've been busy with orders for the Montana Wallhangings. This one was a custom order for a small community college, so it's a little different than the norm. I was asked to do my normal wallhanging with the college logo on it. I was able to find some old barnwood with a little red left on it that kinda matches the school's color scheme.

Boy,is been a long time since last time I post anything.I think I post some project I been working this days Terry

Hey guys. I found this web site that has a lot of downloadable patterns, pattern books and general woodworking books. It also has a load of old issues of Wood, American woodworker and fine woodworking magazines. It is a subscription web site but they offer a 30 day free trial. If anyone is interested here is the web site. Just go in and search scroll saw patterns. https://www.scribd.com/

Been off the radar for a few weeks. Had a family visit from Germany for a month. Lots of traveling and sightseeing. The saw was calling me. My brother in law used to drive a Peterbuilt in Germany and found a plan in the pattern library and started cutting. He's taking it back with him this week to hang in his office.

Here is a picture of my setup from yesterday's craft fair. It was a beautiful spring day which being an indoor event perhaps limited footfall a bit but I enjoyed myself and made a decent profit. Iggy's dog non-puzzles were popular. I can see myself ordering some more patterns. Rob

No doubt you'll get some rain and winds,it's just a matter of how much. Back in the day, all hurricanes were named after women because they were so unpredictable. At least that's what my dad told me.

Awesome!! Very well done Kris.

Got in laws in Myrtle Beach to worry about. Here in PA the worst that normally happens in our immediate neighborhood, is some trees down and power outage. A few miles away, folks built houses and cabins on flood plains. They chose it is all I can kindly say. My house is 100 feet above the stream out back, 200 ft above the river a mile away. and 360 feet above sea level. We get the hype every time there is a possible snow storm. Stores empty of bread milk and toilet paper at the mention of a heavy frost. My preparation consists of making sure the generator is fueled up. That the backhoe is ready and there is gas for the chain saws. During a tropical storm several years ago about the third day without power, we invited several neighbors over for a BBQ, hooked up the DVD player and showed movies on the big TV for a few hours. Everybody helped and we had a good time. Those who had no alternative power were happy for the few hours relief and the meal. My Mrs is the type that insists on back up systems. we have the generator, 12 volt lights to plug into the vehicles, kerosene lanterns, flashlights and candles. A propane stove, a BBQ grill and an older Coleman camp stove we use outdoors. We even keep a 12 volt TV set and antenna. The media rumor hype that goes with these storms aggravates the crap out of me. If some idiot reads Gerbil droppings and says there will be a 70 foot storm surge, the news reports it and some other idiot puts it up on face book as if it is from the National weather service. I do fault our Government for letting such crap go on. Now, I do feel that some folks should be called on the carpet for not being prepared. at least 24 hours before the storm, the National Weather service did say there would be 24 to 36 inches of rain and low lying areas around Houston were not evacuated. I understand that the Irma storm surge is enough to submerge some inhabited islands in the bahamas. That is bad. A 20 ft storm surge would submerge most of Florida south of Coral Gables. Iggy, my thoughts and prayers for you and your community, and others who may be like affected. .

Ha! Thanks for letting me know RJ, I wasn't aware of the new video. Steve mentioned to me in an email that he had tried it and really liked it.

Things are looking better for us here. Latest tracks have her coming inland at the SC/GA border. Still several days of potential track changes to come so I'm filling the gas cans tomorrow for the generator if needed.

I'm predicting not much impact here in Colorado. Everyone stay safe and be smart out there.

I'm saving up for one. The Dewalt Dw745 is $990 here!

Very nice work. Thanks for sharing.

awesome job

I'm late in my reply, but I use a DW788 that I bought new last year. It was "right" for me because of price and the fact that I purchased it from Lowes...so I knew I could return it if I hated it. I thought about waiting and saving up more money to buy an Excalibur or Jet model, but then decided against it after reading a number of posts like this thread. It wasn't that they were portrayed poorly or anything...I just figured that I wasn't ready to invest that much money. All in all I am pleased enough with my saw. I did struggle with tensioning for about 5 months, but I think I have that under control now. I had to work up the nerve to take my saw apart and make some adjustments. Anyway, there's my 2-cents...no refunds

This is great Rob. You have a true friend. Now you can use the money you saved on free wood and buy your self a table saw. Every once in a while I come up with a truly great idea.

Wow !...Great Job !

Excellent. Another great pattern and cutting Kris, well done. Marg

Really great pattern and cut.

The irony is they are often ripping this stuff out to fit a modern chipboard kitchen in it's place! Rob

I really didn't think about the copyright issues. I already own most if not all the books posted here. It was a quick way for me to finish up a project of scanning all my books and making a digital copy of them. Thanks for the heads up on the reviews. I will need to keep an eye on the credit card statement. It's usually not too hard to file a complaint with the card company and that usually takes care of problems.

Congratulations! I have seen some projects completed with rimu and it sure seems to be a nice wood! God Bless! Spirithorse

Now that is a true friend!

Well done. Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

Very nice picture and pattern. It was also very well cut; good work.

Came out great , another super one you have created. Thanks for the look at it. jim penquin

Excellently done. You captured it well. thanks for sharing this with us. DW

brilliant!

Well so far today I cut out 3 clock orders on the Hawk with no blades breaking.. not quite sure what adjustment I made that actually fixed it since I did a once over on a complete tune up of the saw.. I am thinking the culprit was the little allen screw under the head of the top arm as Scrollsaw703 mentioned.. as the tension lever itself feels like it locks down better.. Now that the orders are cut.. back to putting the Jeep back together..

Yea, watched all those videos months ago, took the saw apart and wasted many an hour playing with it. It's still loud.

Steve Good had hinted towards wanting to see a video of my setup so I took several short videos both Saturday and Sunday and put them together into a single video of 10 minutes. I just emailed the link to him. We'll see if he likes it enough to post it on his site as he did the others. https://youtu.be/VJyeaYMO0XM Iggy

Hi, Good question. I imagine setting up as I did the 2nd day, in the center of the 2 booths space (20' across). I don't want to have to transport and set up 2 tents and I wouldn't think setting up the tables outside the one tent space would be very attractive, but it's something for me to think about and test.

Great work Jim. Sometimes you just can't rush things. Marg

lmao, why? what toxic waste dump are you getting these from? Hey, kids, don't lick that pallet? what sanitary mill are you getting your puzzle material from normally? I'm sure Home Depot comes by and squirts sanitizer on each board every morning. What are you talking about? Geez give me a break here. Are you serious? I think before that tree was harvested, there was a dog,... oh my, don't put that in your mouth, you don't know where it's been. really? Russell

Another wonderful job, Kris. Both on pattern and cutting.

Awesome Kris.

I started out with a Ryobi made quite a few projects with it. It only used pin end blades so I was limited with what I could do with it. I decided that I really liked working with the scrollsaw so I started looking for something better. My wife and I were at a show called Splinterfest in the Amana Colonies here in Iowa and RBI was there demonstrating their saws. I tried one and I was hooked on it. It was so much nicer to saw on blade changes were a lot easier and hardly any vibration. So I bought one that day. A 26 inch Ultra Hawk. That was back in 1996 and it's still being used today. It's the only saw I own. Never had any trouble with it that wasn't my fault. RBI went out of business some years ago now it is Bushton Manufacturing that makes them. I have never saw or used one of theirs but the people that have them here seem to like them. In my opinion the higher priced saws are worth the money because they make cutting more enjoyable and in the 20 years I have had the Hawk I probably would have spent more money buying Ryobis as they wore out.