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I had a request for Psalm 23, but with the King James version wording. Sheila had a nice pattern, so asked if Keith if he could change it. No problem. More reclaimed laminated maple from a dresser. Really enjoyed cutting this because of the various fonts that Keith used. Jeff

Rapid Resizer spit this out for me in 3 minutes.I know nothing about patterning but this is great.Enter your picture,slide a few levers to your liling and print it out.I'm impressed and always have been overwhelmed at Rapid Resizer for al it lets me do so simple.health was already on the watermelon crooked.the company makes a watermelon drink and kind of gave me 2 cases of it.

I have had some time with my son in the workshop, I was teaching him basic tecniques of woodworking, he made some cuts with me in the scrollsaw, after few hours he went to his computer and came back with a printed pattern, put it on a pine table and this is what he made for his mom.

Just finished a Charles Dearing design of a 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk. I was always impressed with the Raymond Loewy design. I had to go bigger than my EX16 just so I could drill and cut all the 300+ holes in the grill and the text. Lots of very skinny lines and holes in both directions to make it work. Stuck back all the cutouts and blue taped so I could sand the back. I was able to find the original Studebaker font thou I had to modify it to work. 1/8" BB on 1/4 BB black background. I was able to quickly cut the picture frame on my table saw miter saw sled. Several coats of lacquer. On to a '65 GTO for my next project, thanks to SSV design patterns.

Three sizable events in a row coming up and I've been stockpiling all winter so that I won't feel crunched on a week to week basis from now thru December... Here's the inventory sheet as of 10 minutes ago... 560 duplicates on hand, then add to that the 140 that I display plus the 100 kids puzzles I also put out... 800 puzzles. Holy crap. LOL

Here is the Frame with the project I used for the Tutorial Stained with Sedona Red and semi-gloss spray lacquer Thanks for looking

Cut this a few weeks ago but couldn't decide how to finish it....stain...mount...?? Finally decided to paint it and hang like a Dream Catcher should. i distressed the paint with light sandpaper and then finished with Briwax. The photo doesn't show the distressed wood very much.... I just didn't want it to look like a arts and crafts project at Summer camp!!!

Took me awhile, but here is my shop tour.

Lovely, I love getting showed up by a child LOL - seriously, sign that kid up and get him a wood shop!

I am gluing up a detailed fret piece that has sections the need to be glued together. I was wondering how I was going to clamp the pieces, I did not have any real small clamps. Then I thought of something. Wood clothes pins. I ground the ends down on my disc sander so they would fit in the small spaces and it has worked great. Here is a picture of one clamped section. I stood up one of the "clamps" so you can see how I sanded it. It only took a few minutes to sand the ends of 10 on the disc sander. I don't know what my wife will say when she discovers some of her clothes pins are gone.... She rarely uses them anyway.

Just thought I'd show one of the custom / personalized orders I got this week.. I actually do this pyrography to a lot of my work.. Typically give the customer the option to have it cut out for X amount of $$ or woodburned for X amount of $$.. Woodburned being much lower priced because they don't have to pay for artwork for custom pattern design, typically less time involved and many times less amount of wood used.. Many times I can woodburn an item that is already in stock too.. so turn around time is better... Not to mention that I can woodburn name or year etc on small areas of Christmas ornaments.. so I do quite a lot of personalizing of ornaments.. Don't think I've ever showed that I do this so... Here it is, LOL... Burning on hardwood is harder to do than on the plywood that I typically do for the ornaments.. Sort of like sawing.. you find the soft spots in the wood grain.. LOL.. I do tell the customer that I do the burning free hand so it's not going to look like a machine did it.. I'm better at scroll sawing free hand, LOL

Finally got some time today to check in. Been a busy 6-8 months. Sold our old house and downsized to a new one. Went from 4 bed 2 bath to 2 bed 1 bath. It's an older place on 1/3 acre so I have plenty of room to build my dream shop with my wifes %100 approval! Have a couple bids out for a 30 x 50 x 12 pole building. Should be starting soon. All my tools are in the little tiny 1 car garage. I have a little path down the side to get to the garage door and the light switch, haha. Spent most of this last week doing yard work, cutting trees, removing stumps, flattening the yard etc... now it's ready for grass. Hopefully by this fall I should start posting some more stuff in the bragging rights section, my sister already has a project for me.

Birch plywood 6 mm New bowl pattern (available at http://alexscrollsaw.wixsite.com/scrollsawpatterns) Here is video of making it

If only it could pay me enough at my current sales volume. :-) In order to make a living doing it, I'd have to sell over double what I do now and then it would feel like a job rather than the enjoyable hobby that it is now.

I currently don't seal them but have thought about spraying them with a coat of something. My puzzles "usually" end up on bookcase shelves versus being played with.

Good question. That's why I'm thinking acrylic. Especially when I want to paint only one side.

Do any of you seal the colored pieces? I ask because... I've seen kids running around with blue mouths before .... On a more serious note.. I just wondered if perhaps the wood would bleed out the color if it was to accidentally get wet / damp.. would be a bad day for someone if they spilled a water or something and the puzzle turns someones nice white or light colored carpet blue .. I've been considering doing some of the bases similar to like what Iggy showed with the blue puzzle base..

Well Done, both of you! My grandson Ethan, has been doing woodworking with me since he was two (he is now 15) and that is very rewarding for both of us.

I glued the rised squares the board using Gorilla Clear Grip glue. This worked very well even though one of the surfaces was painted, even though I only applied glue to one of the surfaces to be joined, and even though I did not apply much pressure. A test is that I can lift the whole board holding onto only one of the squares. Here is a photo taken when I was starting to apply the squares and making certain that they were square to the underlying board: Here is a phot taken when the board was half assembled: e The above photo also shows the six pieces that I have completed so far. The reaminder are all cut but not yet assembled or painted.

This is taking longer than I expected it to. It's not so much the scrolling, rather it's everything else. I decided yesterday that the 64 rising chess board squares that I had spray painted were not good enough. The reason for this was that the spray painted top surfaces were of inconsistent quality. So, today, I sanded them then painted them by hand. Here is a photo: By the way, in the left background are two spray panted pawns (one green, one black). They seem to be OK which is just as well because I don't fancy hand painting all the chess pieces.

I liked very much

Awesome work! I've seen a lot of portraits with a lot of details in the face and it didn't look well. You sir, have the perfect amount of detail. Well done!

That is interesting.. I do know that is the day they say retailers finally show a profit.. guess I never correlated the meaning of the name.. black Friday in terms of meaning black as a profit.....sounds a lot better than green Friday LOL.. Last few years.. I was not in the black until around October.. this year is going pretty well though and so far I'm in the black or was that green

Neatly framed. Roly

I'm happy to share information and I hope others get inspired to try expanding their hobby into something more, whether it's woodworking or anything else. Now that I have my LLC I'm tracking my costs, etc more closely this year, but yes, I operate very much in the black. Some things to be sure to take into account if you do decide to start doing this to make money, think about ALL of your actual costs... The easy stuff is wood, blades, etc, but also keep close tabs on your booth rental fees cuz they add up quickly. For example booth fees I've paid for so far in 2018 for several events coming up total $1,930 and I still have a few more that haven't asked for payment yet. My estimated costs per puzzle off the top of my head are roughly: Wood $1.75 Blades, mineral oil, shelf liner, shrink wrap bags $0.25 Booth fees $1.50 Misc (gas, food, new tent every couple of years, new saw every 2 years, etc) $1.00 Round that up and it's approximately $5.00 per puzzle to cover "everything" except my time. I hope this information helps and feel free to ask any questions you have. Iggy

I have several of those tiny, plastic spring clamps. Some of them have extra long, skinny jaws for extended reach in tight places. I rarely use them, but once in a while, they really come in handy for things like what you show. Problem is that since they are so small and I use them so infrequently, I usually can't find them when I need them.

great job

Nice work thanks for sharing

Nice work thanks for sharing

Fantastic Luis....I think he has an excellent teacher...

Jeff,that is Down Right Beautiful cutting!!!

Looks great. Well done Lew. Marg

Awesome Jeff. Beautiful work.

Great looking dream catcher.

One of my favorites. This is beautiful work. Love the reclaimed wood you used. One day I hope to try and make one of these, but first will need to get over my fear of letters.

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

Nicely done. Jeff

I believe that Record Power here in the UK used to sell rebadged Hawks when they first ventured into the scrollsaw market.

Hope you got more than one saw Luis because it's looks like you lost that one. Brilliant work. Roly

Great idea Paul and one I will be using so many times I have wedge this here and weighted that there to try and keep it together while it sets and all the time the answer was hanging on my line looking at me laughing The simple answers are always the best and the good thing too is they are free i can see lots right now just do not tell her indoors I will blame the mag pies

Finally managed to cut a bit of vinyl again and cut this Bowie one for a friend stack cut 3 with #4 Spiral Pegas . Bowie pattern from the library here I just added the name Bowie to it hopefully Neptun will be ok with me pimping his pattern

Looks great. I love word art. Would rather cut word art and puzzles than anything else.

Excellent job, Mr. Kevin! I'll have to locate that pattern, Sir. The last few months, I've had several awesome nurses! Thanks for showing. She may consider ya a keeper;)

What a great way to thank someone. Dick heppnerguy

Very cool! I like it a lot. Looking forward to the finished set.

Nice work thanks for sharing

I buy mine from Klingspor. I am lucky that I can drive to a Klingspor store and I belong to a wood working club that gets a small discount. I use mine a lot on hardwood puzzle pieces. I just "soften" the edges. I also like them for doing the same on hardwood ornaments and compound cut items. I do not use it on plywood.

Wow Frank you are getting on with it I can't wait to see yours finished. Roly

OK, I have made a start on this. As much as I like the chess pieces, what I find really unique about this is the "rising" chess board, Therefore, that is where I started. I did not use my scroll saw for this. Rather, I cut 64 squares of 6mm thick Baltic birch plywood on my table saw and I cut 16 pieces each of 1/2 inch high dowels, 3/4 inch high dowels, 1 inch high dowels and 1.25 inch high dowels using one of my bandsaws. Here is a photo of the bandsaw part way through this task: Next, I had to glue the squares to the dowels. That's a lot of sanding, gluing, and clamping:

I saw this pattern this morning, I haven't gotten it yet but plan to. I like the chess set that doesn't require compound cutting or lathe work. I also like the fun board to go with it. It will be very cool when it is done, I can't wait to see your photos.