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Minor scroll saw work on the sign but a cool project.

Thanks @Fab4 Paul for your help with this pattern. The wood is one inch pine. The customer is going to paint it. Marg

Scrolling Steve posted this one the other day and I had to try it. At first I couldn't find the pattern but found it yesterday. Cut from the side of an old drawer box as usual finished with tung oil. It's strange the way that the camera has picked up the planer ripple which is not visible to the naked eye. Anyway, here it is: Thanks for looking, Rob

I cut this at the request of a John Wayne fan in a Facebook group. Easy cutting, only about 65 cuts. 5" x 7". Pat3tern design by me.

I just received the patterns yesterday but one of my puzzle zombies cut them right away... Harvey out did himself this time with these designs.

Anot.her mallard. Pattern design by me. 8" x 10"

Still cleaning the shop and organizing.But found some quiet time to cut these.

This is the second Steve Good Stick(wo)man project that I have tackled. It will not be the last. Both my wife and I find them really appealing. I made a change to Steve's pattern for one of the dogs. Steve had the fire hydrant but did not have a dog taking advantage of it. Our daughter Kristel walks dogs every day and I am sure that her dogs are tempted by both cats and hyrdants. She will be getting this as a joke birthday present later this month. Everything is cut out of Baltic birch plywood the stained using Samen stains.

Might need to add a snow shovel to it for those winter months to get you back and forth to the shop. Maybe a coffee maker on the side to help keep you warm -

On a plus side.. all but one saw is right next to each other.. I think what I need is some wheels on the one I have.. and a small motor Maybe just make one like this one.. then I just start it up and drive around to each shop tool.. wouldn't need to get up at all

Umm, Kevin - I think its time to invest in another stool or two then. Or perhaps, make one or two. Think of the time you will save not having to drag that one stool around - after all, time is money.

15P?? Kevin, its time to move into the basement! I complain when its 62F in my basement and am trying to work.

I guess it's my turn. Started out as an aircraft mechanic. Migrated over to sales and marketing for aircraft services that involved a lot of traveling. My wife and I are house-a-holics and are always working on some DIY home improvements. My collection of tools continued to grow and would occasionally tackle some furniture projects. One day I needed a scroll saw for a project and then it sat forlorn for many years. It's been almost 5 years since I retired and I used to play a fair amount of golf. One winter in 2014, I slipped on some Ice and that ended my golf career. I was in need of something to keep me busy that was also creative. One evening, friends came for dinner and brought one of their friends. He showed us pictures of his scroll saw work. I thought to myself, I can do that! I remembered I still had that old sears scroll saw hiding somewhere in the basement. Pulled it out along with some scrap wood and proceeded to create my first masterpiece. (not really!) Addiction and frustration kicked in. Loved the cutting but hated the Sears saw. Broke down and invested in a Excalibur and never looked back. I typically don't sell what I make but gift my work. I love the relaxation and focus of cutting wood.

At five years of age, found some scraps of lumber in my grandfathers garage and banged together a little table with a hammer and some nails. Probably couldn't support a 2 ounce vase, but the adults in my life told me it was terrific. Now my other grandfather was a master carpenter and furniture maker from Germany who was trained in the old apprentice style of learning. He retired to a little farm in Southwest Michigan from the hustle and bustle of Chicago to his village type roots. Hearing about my fabulous table on a visit, he walked me back to an outbuilding which was his shop. There was a magnificent workbench that he had made using all hand tools without a single metal fastener using mortise and tenons etc, etc.. This was typically a must build for any master of woodworking in Germany. So the love for what one can do with wood was impressed into my five year old brain and has been ever since. So throughout my life, even though I've had other careers, hobbies and pursuits, I've always somehow had a wood project going. And now in my later years, scrolling is the perfect answer for the technical and artistic things one can achieve with this beautiful thing called wood.

I did all the usual mummy crafts, knitting, sewing, embroidery, etc. But was never 100% happy with what I did. Fast forward too many years, I still went to show that sold beads, quilting material etc. and my husband always came with me. One year he asked if I would like to go to the Melbourne Working With Wood Show, they sold wood, finishes, large machinery, all things related to wood. Anyway off we went with me really not looking forward to it but low and behold I thoroughly enjoyed myself. At this time I was also doing tole painting with a group of other ladies and our 'teacher' was always asking Terry for different shapes that he would cut on the band saw or jig saw. We also went to a wood turning exhibition and it was the first time that it actually hit me that women could actually be really good at wood turning so I started to have lessons and I got quite good at it. One day we went to Melbourne and came home with a scroll saw so that Terry could cut shapes for the tole classes but 2 weeks later it all folded and I lost interest in painting and Terry never got to use his new scroll saw. One Sunday I took him a cup of tea into the garage and looked at the scroll saw and asked how it worked, he showed me, I messed about with it and the following week I got a book on scrolling. Never one to read anything like how to sections, I found a pattern I like sticky taped it down and cut it, I was hooked. I still have that first piece. Most of what I sell is by word of mouth, I make enough to keep in in wood and blades that's all I need. That first saw was a 16" Delta and I worked it to death, I sold it last year for $50 to a guy that was rebuilding his, so it lives to cut a bit more. Marg

Well here is my shop.

Not sure if its indoor or outdoor you are after Steve but if it was me I would copy one of these I have attached they should work ok from what I can see but if you put a little more detail of what you actually are thinking of using it for ie outdoor indoor full size etc etc then you may get others chip in too but for me I would try one of the ones i have found for you and see what happens worse case you are stuck on the inside just keep your phone on you

Just spoke with Adreann at Bushton, KS. They are shipping my controller and motor for my 220VS Hawk Ultra tomorrow. Total cost $253.40 including shipping and an extra bottom clamp. It should be operational this weekend. The controller is new and a bearing was replaced in the motor. I had wondered why they had to order a bearing. I checked the population of Bushton. Only 279 people. No wonder there was no bearing supplier. Happy with the price and service. With $453.40 invested I'll have a great saw. Also found out my motor was not the feared Fasco motor.

You all probably know this already, but it was an enlightening moment for me... First off: I'm in the process of cutting out letters - actually, trying to decide if it's better to cut letters or cut words. So far letters is winning for my needs since I only need 3 or 4 words. After making a dozen or so letters approximately 1/2" in size, I thought to myself "Self, these are going to be one time consuming bear to get the fuzzies off". So, I started to think... Hmm what can I do to speed this up... and "EUREKA"! I yelled! We are avid reloaders ( we reload 12 different calibers) and have a full loading room devoted to it so perhaps, our tumbler could be used to speed this up. I threw a bunch of the letters into our tumbler - which is loaded with Corn husks and set it tumbling for 45 Minutes Sure enough, at the end of the cycle all of the outside "fuzzies" were gone and just a few of the 'A". "P" and 'E"'s had just a small piece left inside which was easily removed! In case you opt to try this yourself remember the tumbler mixture should be dry. The corn cob in my tumbler had no residual wet chemical - it had dried out quite a while ago so nothing stained the letters/wood. For mixtures, you could use: corn cob (the cheapest), walnut shells (more expensive but a really good medium), bits of sand paper, buck shot (if you load your own shot gun shells) as well as marbles and more! Just thought I'd share in case anyone wasn't aware this worked. Thanks for reading

Not fancy or anything, its half of the garage (the other half has become our pantry/storeroom). But its mine, and its where I turn perfectly good pieces of lumber into sawdust, mis-cuts, and foul language. My half of the garage: Needed some extra space, so I slapped together some extra shelving from some recycled pallets. Hard to see from this pic, but there's a Y2K Jack-n-the-Box antenna ball on the end of the radio antenna. Jack's been with me through a lot, so he stays, despite what my wife says. Need to clean up the scraps there at the end of the bench. Fan is set up to blow dust off the scrollwork, I moved the scroll saw out of the way but didn't put up the fan. No biggie, I'm about to go start some sawdust again tonight. Anyone need some weathered fence slats?

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Not scroll saw work. Just wanted to share these cool guys made from 4X4s in case anybody wanted to make some fun Halloween stuff, in April. I drill a hole up from the bottom with a 1 1/2" fostner bit and use a battery tea light inside.

Great work as always but shouldn't that be "Mysterious", Kevin? Rob

Just need to put a hanger on the back, then find a place to display it!! Shout out to the wife for painting the background!! ( The real artist in the house! )

Nothing fancy, just a 13' X 15' room. I do all the major sawing and planeing in the garage. Picture one is from the door showing the sanding and drilling area. Second one shows cutting and layout area. Third picture shows wood burning and clutter area Jeff

Those are very cool Frank. Wish I had a place to use them.

Good! That worked. I have made a few changes in the 10 years since the time of the shop tour that I included in the previous post. The major changes are listed below: (1) When I started doing a LOT more scroll sawing about 2.5 years ago, I moved the my scroll saw out of the shed and down to the area of our basement where my tools used to reside: (2) In 2012, I replaced the Delta Planer and the Delta Jointer with a Hammer A3 Combo Jointer/Planer. This was a tremendous improvement! Not only did I save space but the machine is a dream to use. In use as a jointer: In use as a planer: Changeover (takes about a minute): (3) Last year, I replaced my router table with a Hammer F3 Shaper. The shaper weighs about 800 pounds, so it was quite a task get the shaper around the house, through the garden, and up a ramp into my woodworking shed. I'm happy the say that I can always call upon good friends and good neighbours to help me with tasks like this. He are a couple of photos of the move: (4) About a year and a half ago, I added an overhead guard and dust control to my General 650 table saw: (5) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (6) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

My story as how I got "here" - I have always been a "crafting" person. I have done many types of work and projects over the years. I have lots of tools for different hobbies. I still have most of them because I enjoy doing many things. I made lots of things for my kiddos, their schools, their sports teams, etc. I usually say I am the "jack of many trades, but master of none." As far as scroll saw work specifically, my husband had an Aunt who did beautiful tole painting pieces. I loved what she did. I have many of them and treasure them and would be devastated to lose any of them same as my mother's cross stitch work she did (new Christmas ornament for each of us each year until she couldn't do it anymore.) When hubby and I first got married, my MIL and I took a tole painting class together. I knew my husband's Aunt's husband used a scroll saw to cut all the beautiful pieces that she did. All of that was 33-35 years ago. Fast forward to probably to about 18- 20 years, we had small children at home and I had hubby buy a scroll saw for me to try and cut some things with. I wanted to learn to cut my own pieces to paint like his Aunt did. I quickly grew frustrated and couldn't figure out WHY I couldn't cut a straight line with that $#&*@ saw! Hubby's uncle was deceased so couldn't ask him. Nobody else i knew used a scroll saw, and no internet to research on. Plus, did I mention I had small children at home - so I put that idea to rest, for then. Fast forward another 16-18 years until about two years ago. Both of my kiddos were just off to college (it's true - time really does fly ), about the time they were off to college, I was helping my mom who was dealing with two types of dementia, Alzheimer's and Vascular Dementia (causes small mini-strokes). She passed away two years ago last week. Around about that same time maybe a couple of months before she passed away, my hubby's cousin had brought one of Judy Gale Robert's catalogs over to my MILs house. I saw the catalog, saw she offered classes and said - I want to try that - I need to try that. The good news for me is that she is somewhat local to me so I could do it fairly easily. She had a spot open, so I signed up to take her beginner's class. She offered an intro to the saw class for 1/2 day before the Beginner class. I knew I still needed to get some what comfortable with the saw though even before that class so I went out to the shop and played with the saw some. We now had the internet and Youtube so I did some research, I found Steve Good's site, Youtube videos, this forum and SSWC's forum, and looked around and read everything that I could. Figured out WHY I couldn't cut a straight line before. Worked on that. Did some basic cutting and did some of JGR's projects from her beginner's book before her class. (Those will not ever see the light of day but I do have them! ) After signing up for the classes, my mom passed away shortly after signing up but before the class (I had already lost my dad to lung cancer many years before.) I found working with the saw therapeutic. While at the saw, my mind was on something else, something enjoyable. If you have ever had to deal with a loved one with significant dementia issues, you know why I needed some therapeutic. It had been several long years watching my mother deteriorate. I took JGR's Beginner's class a month after losing my mom. I loved it. I took her Intermediate class 5 months later. I still loved it. At the same time, I became a regular here in the village, reading everything and every forum every day (and still do most every day!) I have learned so much from everyone here. I tried other things because of you guys and gals here. While I primarily wanted to do Intarsia work, I have done several other things because of things I saw here that I wouldn't have tried but for you folks here in the forum. I made compound cut Christmas ornaments for my sisters, their children and my children in honor of my mother and her annual Christmas ornaments she always gave us. I hope to do that every year until I am no longer able! I have done all these different types of work with the saw because I liked them and because I figured it would all help me get better on cutting on the lines something important with Intarsia work and fitting the pieces together. It has. I enjoy it all but am pretty sure detailed fretwork is not in my future plans! You know, those some of you do with hundreds, if not thousands of drilled holes to cut! I admire those of you who do it, but my patience is not there for that. I have strayed a while from the intarsia work that drew me in, but it still is what I want to work at the most. I have enjoyed doing other things and will do other things though for as I already noted, I tend to want to try new things. I am signed up to take JGR's two advanced classes this year. She will be switching the topic of her advanced class this Fall so I am taking one in May where it is a Giraffe and her baby (just their heads) and then will do something different in the Fall so I am signed up to do that one too. I am looking forward to them both. I do not do it thinking to make it into a business or into a way to make money. I do it for the enjoyment, for the fun, for seeing what comes from the wood. Have i added new tools to the toy err tool box, most definitely, and there are more I would like. Good thing Hubby is the one who taught me that it is important to have the right tool for the job!

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.

I do the same as JTTHECLOCKMAN, I would never use a spiral blade to cut veining work. The veining I cut is very narrow work, IMO it requires a flt blade for it to look the way it should. Len

For the Excalibur experts out there, how much do you think an Excalibur Limited Production Anniversary is worth? Would you go as high as $500 for a pristine, hardly used one?

Yeah, my shop doesn't have heat... other than a small propane "buddy heater" radiant heater.. and I work out there pretty much year round.. Not too bad in the shop until mid January once the concrete floor cools off to those cold winter temps.. On a plus side.. if I keep it shut up that cold floor acts as a air conditioner though about mid late summer.... seriously feels like an air-conditioned shop in the summer. and that floor somewhat heats the shop through my busy season... All that said.. I hope to ad heat to at least a portion of the shop in the next year or so.. Maybe this year.. but as usual.. Murphy has been tampering with my cars ( head gaskets ) and it's a big labor intensive job... common problem with this car.. but checking around the cost was $1800 ish to have that done.. I can get a new motor with 100,000 mile warranty for around $2000 LOL.. I'm going to do the job myself and have around $500 in parts.. been there done it a couple times so I know how.. just didn't want to... as making sawdust is much more fun, LOL

Around $850.00 according to this article I found. Came out in Nov 2012. https://www.woodshopnews.com/news/general-offers-limited-edition-excalibur-scroll-saw Larry

Great job on all Kevin make sure you post a picture of your tidy shop once done as if anything like mine it wont be tidy long

Tried this yesterday....very pleased with the results.....it will have a place mixed with my scroll saw work somewhere....”unique”is what I look for when I’m designing something new.....1st pic was after 10min....2nd pic was after 30 min....left side of board had more paint on it...

Thanks. A friend's parents were throwing it out when I was 17 and asked if I could get a truck. Had it ever since and it has been great for scrolling. Still lifts up and down and reclines, but is set for comfort at the saw. The reason you don't see too many is because they are heavy as everything Took me three moves to figure out that is could be taken apart into two pieces. Jeff

Beautiful work!!!!

There cool thanks for sharing

Just to add, If it has a stand or not would make a difference in the price tag too.. Even if you're not interested in the stand.. Last Nov. I bought a EX-21 still sealed in the box for $350.. came with the foot switch but no stand.. so by the time I got a stand for it I had $450 ish into it.. I had a stand to mount it on ( cheap Harbor Freight ) and the stand was too small.. so I mounted a 3/4" plywood to the stand and then the saw to that.. but it made the saw vibrate quite a lot.. The purchase of the actual EX stand made a night and day difference for me..The stands run $120 ish for a new one.. I was able to find one that someone else had and didn't use.. so I got the stand a little cheaper.. but still around $100 with shipping etc.

Thanks all, that is what I was thinking. The Limited Edition has a nice black paint job that is really cool looking, but I try to watch what the blade is doing when I cut. LOL

I've been counting down the days since I read about it a few months ago. Here's info about it for those that aren't already aware. https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/signatures-soon-may-not-be-required.php P.S. - Hopefully Square doesn't choose to continue to require signatures when using their chip reading device. If you use the magnetic strip swipe device, signatures will still be required, just so you know.

Do these people have to sign on your phone or does the chip eliminate that and can you take cards with chips too?? This summer I am going to look into this deeper.

Very nice.

Much the same as most of the people here. Dad was a registered carpenter so always was around wood and enjoyed working with it. Jan moved in summer of '98 and that Christmas wanted to build something for her nieces. My nephew's uncle had given him a maypole animal carousel as a present, so decided I would make three of them (two for the new nieces and one for me). Had an old 15" Delta single speed scrollsaw in the shop (not sure where or why I bought it) and used it to cut the animals out. At the same time, was in one of our local drugstores and saw a wolf (real weakness for wolf patterns) on the cover of a CWW&C magazine and thought I should try that. That was the beginning and am still loving it. It is my escape and gives me pleasure when projects are done. Like many others, do a yearly Xmas ornament and people have asked for the years they have missed for one reason or another, makes one feel good. We (or I should say Jan) gives more away than we ever sell, but not in it for the money. I just keep cutting and the "inventory" just keeps cluttering up the house. Getting the first Excalibur really changed things, was cutting crazy projects with the old Delta, but the EX made it MUCH more enjoyable and easy. Jeff

Congrats Edward. Glad it went well for you.

My dad always tinkered in his shop in the basement. I took "shops" in junior high the first time it was offered for girls back in the mid '70's. Didn't do much after that. Wasn't afraid to try my hand at repairing things in the house. Ended up taking a couple of woodworking classes in the evenings. That was doing "bigger" items. Built some things for around the house - fence!!! My daughters bed & night stand using a book called 2x4 furniture. Could only really do that during the summer and took over the garage. Needed to find something to do in the winter so I found a used Craftsman. It had pinned blades. Didn't do much with it as it wasn't really working well. Really got into it when hubby bought me the Dewalt 788 for Christmas about 4 years ago. For the first year or so, I felt that I went down to the workroom to cut out of obligation. That has changed and now if I don't get down to the workroom weekly I miss it. Guess I am hooked.

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!

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

I do as many others and try to find an intersection of two veins. If the veins are close enough I might create my own intersection. Remember know one will ever know after you remove the pattern. It will really depend on the pattern but I have also drilled pilot holes on both ends of a vein to give a balanced look. Be creative.