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This is my first time doing inlay. A few "should have done in different order" but very happy with the results.

Mr. Travis decided I earned 3 more trophies today! Thank you, Sir! I appreciate it. I think your trophy idea is a good one. It lets those of us that are trying to make ssv what it is, & know we are helping one another. Thank you again, Sir.

Well, I'm a real private type person so, I don't even know why I am posting these but, here you can see a couple of over-head cabinets I made for the tape, stains,, etc. A 10' long section of bowling alley used for my main work table. My Craftsman 18" scroll saw, a planer, a harbor freight dust collector, a belt sander and also a 5" wide sander (on the floor under a trestle table) and a roto-zip and router hidden under there also. A good, large heater in the corner and I can put a window air conditioner in every summer. Over-head storage for lumber. The small barrel on the right side of pic 1 is for small cut-offs that can be used for other projects but, as you can see, the place is a mess and a lot of those pieces of wood are on the other tables. The tarp isn't really hiding anything. We got our 5 year old grand-son a 125CC atv for Easter and left it in the garage to clean it before putting it in the storage shed where it belongs. God Bless! Spirithorse

Came back to Canada too soon, still freezing here and more snow, so in the shop I went, did a couple of napkins holder, the coasters I found on youtube looking for something else, and the police sign is from Sheila Landry. My daughter works for the Ottawa police department, I told her that I do not want an order for 50 !!!!! I hate cutting square letters, you have to be precise or it will show.

In Venezuela we have an aquatic rally that takes place sailing the rivers of the country. I understand that in its category, it is the longest rally in the world (http://www.nuestrosriossonnavegables.com/web/) . I had the opportunity to perform the trophies for this competition. Here I show you some photos.

Well, I liked cutting it, but the design is just too small for coin. The eyes are really hard to see.

This is the first box I have ever made and it was for my daughters cats ashes. I was not game to inlay the letters without a lot of practice. Anyway the wood is ....... opps I have forgotten, and the letters and paw prints are from 2.5mm bamboo. Marg THE WOOD IS IRONBARK.

Ray, I teach my students that when the blade no longer does what you want It to do, it's time to change it. Weather it lasts an hour or ten minutes. Sometimes I will install a new blade and immediately change it because it's not cutting like I want, and sometimes a blade will last for an hour.

I will let someone else tell you how many is "enough" As I have no real idea. I think it depends in part on what type of cutting(s) you do. I think most find they end up using just a few "regularly" and then have others for when the "need" for them arises. There was a thread on here not too long ago where people shared the different types of holders they use with their blades. I will see if I can find it. I use a pattern of one that Steve Good has on his site. I modified it a little to make it a little longer though so that it holds more tubes. Looks like his may be 5 on each side for a total of 10. I will find a link to his pattern and post it as well. If you are interested in it, but want the larger modified version I made - pm me with your email and I will send you my modified pattern. (Now off to find those links for you.) Edited: Here is link to the one from Steve's site that I built (I just checked, I add one more spot on each side so mine holds 12 where his does 10. So you could build two of his to hold your 20 tubes you bought.) http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2017/01/scroll-saw-blade-holder-pattern.html If you search his site for "blade holder" you can see several other ideas he has shared over the years on his blog as well. and here is the link to the thread(s) where some of us shared what we did for blade storage/organization: http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/27667-saw-blade-organization/?tab=comments#comment-307145 and then also this one as a followup: http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/28438-blade-storage/?tab=comments#comment-315626 There are no doubt others from the past but these are the two most recent ones.

Hi there!!!! I have been out of the forum for a long time, I´m back, now I´m full dedicated to my workshop and business is going quite well. Here some of my jobs.

Well I got some Great News!!! The MRI I had done came back negative!.Although they still can't figure out whats causing the pain and stiffness in my neck at least there is no medical problem.Maybe fatigue or I need a different pillow. I am going down to my shop today and get busy.I have my Dr,s AOK. So you just may bee seeing something by me soon.I hope.

On my Hawk... I can really tell when the blade is dull.. I feel like I have to force the wood through it.. many times not even a few minutes into a cutting... But on my 788 or Ex-21 the blade just chomps the wood away. but the way I can tell on these is.. the blade will get hard to control.. and will start wondering.. as to be quite dull though.. I've had some blades last through a couple of clock cuttings on the 788 / Ex saw.. but have never completed a clock with one blade on my Hawk.. But this blade usage varies on the density of the wood too.. I've cut a lot of cherry.. and have had some cherry that was very hard cutting... and some that cut real nice.. no two pieces of wood cut the same.. sometimes the same piece will have hard cutting sections in it..

Ok, I'm only showing my "corner" of the shop. Hubby is a woodworking hobbiest. He has been for more than 20 years. He usually builds furniture pieces. He also started turning in the past year or so. His shop space is a garage bay with a bit more "bump" out on one side for a little more space. It is separated with a wall from the rest of the garage in which we park our cars (and collect other junk! ) The shop vac sets outside the actual shop but all the equipment is tied into the shop vac. My ever growing wood collection is also outside the shop area. Since its hubby's shop, it means there are lots of tools and equipment in his shop available for my use (or my asking him to use for me. Actually now, I will use most things like the band saw, the miter saw, the drill press, BUT I will not use the table saw yet (even though he got the Saw Stop a while back - I really encouraged him to get that, I wanted him protected ). When I picked up working with the scroll saw (which we already had so maybe I should say - tried again since I was the one who had him buy it originally but that is another story.) I started with the scroll saw almost two years ago now (next month) and since then, he kindly has given me a "corner" of his workshop to use. He even moved some things around to create my "corner". However, all those sanders in "my corner" are also used by him. The only sanders I added to his shop was the flex drum sander with the wonder wheel on the motor in the middle for my Intarsia work and the Foredom with the small drum sanders for the small pieces of Intarsia. (He can thank Judy Gale Roberts classes for those purchases. ) Pretty much the only thing he doesn't use is my scroll saws (and I think he has even used them a time or two for a quick cut! ) He hasn't whined too much about me invading his space. Fortunately, I mainly use it during the day while he is at work anyway. The first pictures shows my corner with the scroll saws on the right and the sanding station in the back. The second picture shows my two scroll saws that are setup for use around the "bend" from the sanding station area and final picture shows the "sanding corner" station. It has all the sanders except for the SuperMax 19 38 drum sander which is on the other end of the shop by the garage door. picture shows looking down the "aisle" past the saws to the sanding station. All those storage bins and stuff above the sanders are his. I try to keep my area "straightened" up which is why I can show you pictures of my corner. His area, not so much!

Here it is clutter and all.

Greetings to everyone here from drought stricken Cape Town, South Africa. I found this site while browsing for scroll saw blade prices. I am a commercial artist ( in the old school sense ) but due to health problems had to stop working. However this has led me into woodworking, something i only started in my very late thirties. I swopped a old router for a new Marlett scroll saw, still cannot see the diff. between it and a Ryobi but for the name stickers, and i have not looked back since. Most of my work is MDF based with the occasional hardwood piece. I will post a few pics of a wide range of work i have done. Hope to be able to contribute to forums in the future.

I think the ship is my favorite to date... 1/8" BB ply - Golden Oak stain with pre-stain. Frame is pine with Maple stain The light house - again 1/8" BB Ply, no stain just a poly finish. Frame is Pine with Mahogany stain The Love sign - 1/8" bb ply with Golden oak stain. Outer frame is Pine with no stain, inner frame is 'L' ping molding with Mahogany stain Thanks for looking

Well I got some Great News!!! The MRI I had done came back negative!.Although they still can't figure out whats causing the pain and stiffness in my neck at least there is no medical problem.Maybe fatigue or I need a different pillow. I am going down to my shop today and get busy.I have my Dr,s AOK. So you just may bee seeing something by me soon.I hope.

A better look at the shop machinery.

I don't stockpile frames, because I don't make the same thing or same size thing all that often. I want to custom fit the frame to the piece. Depending on what I have, I may use different thicknesses of stock for the cutting and/or the backer. Or I may use a mat board for the piece, all of which would change the depth of the rabbet. But probably the biggest reason is that I rarely make the same style of frame twice. Sometimes I use simple flat stock for the frame. Sometimes I build the frame up with 2 or 3 pieces to give it depth. It really depends on my mood and the look I want for the piece.

I have 5 different blades #3.#4.#5,#7,#9, but useally only use 2 #3 & #5 I buy these by the gross. IKE

Thanks! for all this info. Any problem w/taking a pinned blade and knocking the pin out. When I got the Wen, I bought some pin blades. I have already done this and does not seem to be a problem. Just got my first spiral blades. Will get into those today. Got 6 patterns glued up yesterday.....ready to go. Cold, frozen morning. I'll be in the basement.

I saw this on Steve's site and had a piece of 3/4 pine just laying around begging to be a Butterfly......cut at 1 1/2 degree bevel to pop it out....A nice easy project....Steve good is very good to all us Scrollers......Thanks for looking.

I have 5 different blades. The blade I use 99% of the time is FD new 3/0 spiral. I buy them by the gross.

Thank! This is good info. Good ideas. Once again, I'm having too much fun figuring /building stuff for my shop.

Can't keep an old rail buck down long!.Welcome back, Bobby!

I don't really know how many different blades I keep on hand... but I do have a holder that holds ( I think ) 16 tubes.. or maybe it's 24 tubes.. either way. the holder is full.. and I have at least a half dozen more tubes with blades in them... I do a wide variety of cutting.. but not all the time.. Typically use on a regular basis 4 different blades.. .. I could eliminate quite a few of the tubes.. if I'd just use up some of the blades.. as some of these are blades i bought as samples.. I probably should either use them up or give some of them away.. I bought a sample pack a few years back of the Pegas MG blades... liked them so much that I now have a gross or so of FD-UR blades that I haven't touched since finding that I like the Pegas.. I bought several samples of the Pegas.. Ie scroll reverse, MG, skip tooth etc etc... But the MG lades out of all the samples are my favorite.. Sometimes in a very fragile piece I will swap a regular ( non reverse) blade in.. those reverse teeth can mess up a real fragile cut.. so having a wide variety of blades for me is a must have..

Not intending hijack this thread but on the subject of blades, a lot has been said about brand and type of blades. My question is, how do you really know when a blade is worn out and needs to be replaced. I have cut entire projects with the same blade and it was still doing ok but I"m sure I should have changed it for a new one. I watch for any burning but as for speed of cutting, I haven't actually seen that time when I should have changed the blade. I will say though that I have noticed a huge difference between the reverse tooth blades opposed to the none reverse ones. The wood doesn't have that "jumpy" feeling. Ray

I believe I got my tubes from Sloan's here: http://www.sloanwoodshop.com/scroll_saw_blades.htm - you need to scroll down towards the bottom of the blade section to find them. Looks like they are now $6.95 a doz. (so .58 each).

i call enough with the cold for this year. i can't afford to heat an uninstalled building unless i am working in it. so i thought i would share how i save my paint. i built these shelves when i didn't use paint often enough to need it in the shop. so i knew i needed to keep warm when i moved it.. the floor and walls are covered with 1/4" Styrofoam and the divider is a cooler lid that falls 1" from the front cover to allow for air flow and to keep from over heating the paint. i use a 25W fluorescent bulb. it's surface holds at a temp you can almost hold in in your hand. a regular bulb would melt the styro. not having room for swinging doors and the fact 1 door had to be about 7" bigger i made a 2 layer cover for the paint side and just the outer for the other. this has worked great all winter.

what meflick said. Personally, I keep 21 different sizes & types of blades in inventory. I cut all hardwood projects. That isn't the deciding factor of the number of blades I keep. I do fret work, inlays, lettering, design work, etc. Everything I cut is 1/2" projects, unless I'm cuttin' feathers or fret work. I keep spiral blades, skip tooth blades, & polar blades, & some reverse blades, too. I've not a project yet, unless it's a small project, that will use more than one size or type of blade. Ya just have to find the blades that work best for the projects you cut, & as you gain experience, try different blades & sizes. Figure out what works for you, & keep those blades on hand.

i have about 15 kinds of blades. i made this holder. with free wood and a forstner bit.

Great news Lawson. Glad they have not found anything serious. Hope you can find a good pillow. Jes, let us know about those "My Pillows". I've been wondering about those myself. Good to know what the price is too. Thanks for sharing.

Haha I like that one. Thanks for sharing. I just showed to my wife and she said that I'll eat that bbq yourself piece by piece lol. I guess no new scrollsaw for me :-(

Hi Les: I used to have all those too but then I got married and SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) knows it all P.S. If you don't see anything else from me on this site, it's because SHE read my quote......LOL Fab4

Next, tell her you'll bring home the bacon...

Here is where I am at in the new shop. Now that I finally have the room, I am starting to grow my tool collection. I haven't been at this very long at all, so my shop feels a little empty compared to some of the others, and everything is still shiny and clean. There will soon be a table saw under my filtration unit so I won't smoke my head on it all the time.

One thing I have noticed (maybe someone else has pointed this out) none of the shop pictures look anything like the ones we see on TV LOL. These are true working shops. Not a lot I can add to what the pictures show of mine. Behind the Jet Air Filter you may be able to see a red dot. That is a reflection in a mirror so I can tell the setting of the system speed and time to run. Where you see the air compressor you can see a hose going into the cabinet that is were the shop vac is. It runs when the scroll saw does and I use it for the chop saw and bench sanders. The tool turn table I got at an auction for $10 great buy. PS thinks for the pictures of your shops, maybe get my wife off my back about mine not looking like the TV guys LOL

You folks have some nice work shops! Here’s my half of the garage. It’s Heaven compared to my last one. It’s a mess right now ( usually ). I still have a lot of my work I’ve completed. Band saw, my new scroll saw, spindle sander, table saw and a lot of wood. I have a hard time throwing anything away. My wife gets the other half if the garage once in awhile when I pick things up. Also I have the best shop monitor you could ever have.

The kids have been a bit like caffeinated squirrels this morning so no detail shots. This is my school shop. I teach 5-12 grade wood shop, grouped by age and interest level. I am at a setting 4 facility for kids with disabilities or other special needs so I have small groups of less than 10 kids at a time. We got a new Delta scroll saw earlier this year that my kids love. We also have a saw stop cabinet saw and a big timesaver sander. The drill press, jointer and bandsaw are all jet.

Take the guess work out of things and cut the molding upside down. Work from the back. As mentioned make the basic 2 cuts to form the first angle. Lay your project in and now mark the opposite inside edges on the back of the molding. I like to make a witness mark showing the angle of cut. Lay on chop saw or table saw and you can not go wrong if the jig or fence alignment is spot on. Cut both lengths equal using a stop block.

Concentrate on making the corners align and fit. In the last picture you posted above, if you move the piece not held by the clamp down slightly to make it align with the bottom frame piece, it will look perfect. If the frame is slightly larger than the piece, that is not a problem. In fact, I usually shoot for that. You can secure the piece in the frame any number of ways. If you make it a slightly large, you have the luxury of having a little room to trim and tweak the joints, if necessary to get them to fit perfectly.

This is a cool idea. We can all rob ideas for our shops from everyone else.. ....so, I'm very blessed to have two shops. A garage shop, for the big stuff, and a basement shop for the fine work. I live in the house that my dad built and I grew up in. Many of the tools were his and the tools I Iearned on. The basement shop is one of the back bedrooms in the basement. Man caves w/pin ball machines and big tvs are ok for a few hours....but these caves.....they are for a life time of fun.

Both my grandfather and my father were skilled woodworkers - so I think my own interest in working with wood was a direct result of the example they set and the encouragement they gave me. I was also lucky to have access to workshops from childhood on and have been able to have my own workshop my entire married life. In the late 70's I started making replicas of antique wall and mantle clocks - maybe one or two a year for many, many years - don't really know why I settled on clocks - maybe because they looked so good - and wherever they went they became a family heirloom (with at least one family having a serious squabble over where that clock should end up when their parents passed on). I first thought about scrolling shortly after retirement - despite the fun and the satisfaction of clockmaking it is a lot of money - the wood is expensive - the movements are ridiculously expensive (all mechanical movements) - and anything close to cost recovery is pretty much a very vague and distant notion ...... So I guess you could say I got into scrolling because I'm cheap: the wood may still be expensive - but the work is labour intensive so you don't use a lot - so that makes it cheap. you can use scrap wood to make a lot of great stuff - that means the designer firewood bin is a LOT smaller. most projects don't take up a lot of space - so you can do multiple projects at a time without a whole lot of problem - and the workshop doesn't look like a major cyclone hit it (most of the time). projects generally take less time - so you get the satisfaction of seeing more done and more finished. ..... so I guess at the end of the day I still may not actually make any money - but I know I lose less money ..... Worth mentioning is that the saw has a rhythm about it that allows you to put your mind in neutral and just cut away to your hearts content ..... (or your back gets sore - whatever happens first ....) ...... think in my old age I would call that therapeutic ...... in my younger days my teachers called it daydreaming ..... (or I seem to recall the term "wool-gatherer" appearing on my report cards .....) There is one more thing that is really neat about the scrollsaw that, at least for me, has become maybe it's greatest attraction - that is - with the scrollsaw you can craft genuine pieces of art - not saying I'm an artist - but I still like doing those one-of-a-kind projects that become someones family heirloom ..... Jay

Love it. Marg

Hi Jes: I agree with you 100% about the $5 but that's just enough to get you back into the doghouse ask me how I know.....LOL Fab4

I got started in my high school woods class. I had an amazing teacher who used to tinker with all things wood and metal (even ended inventing his own process for what he called Metarsia). He had our Woods 1 class each do an intarsia. I'm pretty sure he had us blow up pictures out of the Scroller magazine because he wasn't going to blow his budget on patterns. I continued through his woods classes, learning other types of woodworking as well. By my senior year, he had me design my own intarsia pattern. Fast forward a few years to college, I realized I could save a little time and money by making friends and family gifts, and crafting things to donate to the various fundraisers for the clubs I was in. So I got my very first Delta SS200 scroll saw and started work in my bedroom. I started looking into other types of scrolling from magazines and kept at it. Finally out of college, I really started to play around with fretwork during my nights and evenings with a shop set up in my basement. I started running out of space for the projects I hadn't given away or donated. So, I started asking local bar owners to display pieces for sale. It helped create conversations at the bars, but did nothing for sales. After I moved on from that job and house, my shop went into storage for a few years. I finally got it out again about 3-4 years ago, and with my wife's encouragement, have been going like gangbusters. That was about the time I found the Village. Since then, I've been selling at craft shows and getting my name out in the community. About a year ago, I finally retired the old Delta and replaced it with a Jet. I still do some intarsia, but also do quite a bit of fretwork and word art. I've also branched out into turning and some furniture making. I really enjoy watching a chunk of wood turn into something. Hoping to some day be able to expand and build a bigger shop for all the tools I've acquired over the years, and keep developing my abilities. I do all sorts of different woodworking, but scrolling is definitely still my favorite.

That what I was told also.

Back in the 60's (19 not 18), I went to an auction with my Grandfather. He purchased a box of what I thought was junk that I gave him a hard time about. After he got it home and put back together he had an old Delta scrolling jigsaw (the old cast iron floor model). I had to eat my words but learned a little about running it. In the 70's, I went to a yard sale and found an identical saw all together and working. There wasn't much info available back then so I just experimented. Started designing Christmas ornaments that I painted and included the date. Gave those out instead of cards and found out that a lot of people collected dated ornaments. In the 90's I became unemployed due to a hostile takeover of the company so I sold out and moved to the hills of Arkansas. Bought a company that did wholesale craft supplies from a couple wanting to retire. Most of the business was mail order but I opened a small store and sold to tourists. Also built quite a business cutting wood blanks for tole painters. My old Delta wasn't keeping up so I bought a new Delta Q3 in 94. Also accumulated 3 Delta 350s and eventually a Hawk 20vs. I got out of the business and moved to Missouri in 2009 for retirement. Found a DeWalt which I am still using along with my Q3. Don't do very much selling now but enjoy making things to give away.

I started scrolling a couple of years ago. I look at a lot of you tube and sow some videos. I had a Ryobi scroll saw I used to cut off small pieces of wood used for model railroad structures. It did not work out well. A few years ago I purchased a scroll saw from Grizzly to try cutting out brass clock plates. It was fairly robust but was so poorly made I gave it away. After viewing several scrolling videos I purchased a 14" Hawk. I knew nothing about Hawk except it was purported to be good quality. It was made to be used on a ShopSmith. It had no motor of course so I provided a motor with a two step sheave. It worked beautifully. I then saw a 216VS Hawk which I am using now. I also have a 220VS Hawk ultra which is waiting a controller and motor repair from Bushton which I should receive soon. I do not scroll for profit. In fact most of what I cut just stacks up in a corner. I have neither the strength or interest in selling. I enjoy sitting at the saw listening to it, relaxed with not a care in the world. I've also done a lot of pen making but find scrolling much more relaxing. Finding SSV has been the highlight of scrolling. What a fabulous community. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Probably more than you want to know.