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Terrible corners with a Harbour Freight saw and round blades... Also no clue about wood, so it's spray painted MDF: The sawdust gave me 6 weeks of bronchitis!

I cut these projects for my future VooDoo-themed bar when I move to Kansas City. The two framed pieces are back-lit with multi-colored LED strips.

This was one of my first projects. Don’t on cheap plywood. I did a lot of small projects just to learn how to turn the wood, which never worked out for me. I didn’t think I was ever going to get it, then I learn to use spirals. Everything got easier for me. Then after listening to some of the YouTube shows, I found that I was not alone and others used spirals too. Then I got a better saw, dewalt, which changed the whole game and really made it easier!!!

My first cross project 6 layers (5 and 1 background), painted MDF 3mm (about 1/8 inch), 7,5 x 9,5 inches, blades: NIQUA Top Cut #1 Pattern available at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexFoxUA

This is my first attempt at whittling. It’s a little rough but I’m happy with it for first one.

For the forth year in a row I won the woodworking division open class at our county 4H fair.

Daughter wanted a soap dish, so I came up with an idea. Not oiled yet. (Hickory)

I cut this for my son's Fender Telecaster guitar. He requested an octopus.

You may want to leave off the outer ring like the jewelry items. Still robust enough not to be too delicate.

With the new Pegas clamps you will find that you barely need .to apply pressure to the screws and after 5 days of cutting not one slippage, love my new Pegas clamps.

The thumb screws from the Dewalt, Excalibur, and Pegas clamps are interchangeable. The set screws on the Pegas are longer to accommodate the lock nuts, but the thread size is the same. Before rushing out to buy new thumb and set screws, have you tried dressing up the old ones? Here is a trick I learned from Ray at SeyCo. NOTE - You need an aligned drill press to drill holes at good 90° angles in wood. 1. Take a 2" X 3" piece of wood about 5/16" to 3/8" thick. 2. Drill two 7/32" holes complete through the wood. 3. Screw the thumbscrew and set screw into the wood so the faces of the screws are just flush with one side of the board. 4. Place a sheet of 220 grit sandpaper on a flat surface. Sand the face of the board with the faces of the screws showing until any marks on the faces of the screws are cleaned away. If you want to, you can repeat with finer grit papers until you are polishing the faces. I have never done that. 5. Remove the screws from the board and put them back in the clamps. Remember to align them correctly in the clamp. I do this every 6 - 9 months during a maintenance period and I have never had to replace the thumb or set screws in the clamps. I have had to replace the old OEM bottom clamp on my EX, because I'm guilty of over tightening and keep spreading the clamps. I haen't had this problem on the Pegas clamps, yet.

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Kc.has some great bbq on both sides KS and mo. Fred fret wichita

My son and his family moved there a year ago, and I can't stand missing out on my grandson's life. To me, KC will be the best place on earth, because that's where my family is.

I guess any of those will work. I have used the 2 wing ones for the length of my ownership and still like them.

You have cross grain situation. Top and bottom section the grain runs north and south and the shim are east to west. Wood movement over time will cause failures even in no sunlight. Especially so little glue surface. A flexible epoxy could probably help. Definetly not contact cement.

This was the project that got me hooked last November and my first project.

This Christmas box was the first project I done on the scroll saw and now I am hooked. I try to do a project every couple of weeks. I would do more but too many other woodworking projects on my plate.

This was the first project I used a scroll saw for. Made three for Xmas presents back in 1998. Jeff

I bought all this wood for 80$. I am set for a very long time. Well a coup!e of projects and get my money back plus more. The guy I bought it from had it for two years and never did anything out of it so just wanted it out of his garage. My son thought I was crazy. I think it is really cool and already got projects going.

I always make a lot of Wedding plaques this time of year.

Cut, oiled and waiting to make mind up on frame style. Thanks again to John Browner for sourcing the pattern. 11 X 14 stack cut three 1/8th BB ply. Jeff

If you go to a Wood craft or Klingspor or other wood working specialty store you can buy pure walnut oil, tung oil, linseed oil, etc. They are oils like mineral oil. They are labeled as pure. They do not contain drier or other substances. Stuff you buy from Minwax, Watco, Deft, etc are not pure.

Thank you John for your information. I am slowly learning. Problem is whenever I learn one thing I forget two things. Soon I won't know anything.

Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing this with us. DW

Many turners I know make a "home brew" of 1 part mineral spirits (MS), 1 part polyurethane and 1 part pure tung oil ( not the stuff that Deft or Minwax sell).

The Oval idea might help do the trick. I may toy around with that idea when I rework my pattern.. Thanks for the suggestion

Thanks Jim- I did that already. Maybe I could have done it a little further but I already stretched it a long ways.. and the feet of the A are already almost twice as fat as the legs on the M.. so I thought it might look too obvious if I went any further with the stretching.

Thanks for the tip on dressing the screws.. I do this but never heard of the method.. I've never been an over tightener until I got my Excalibur... from day one straight out of the box I've had the loose tension / blade slippage issues with it.. always thought it was user error being a new to me saw.. But.. those clamps aren't that much different than the DeWalt that I had been using for the last 10 years. (which happens to have the original clamps and set screw /thumb screws in it ) and is still working flawless for me.. The saw itself has worn out twice and been rebuilt.. but clamps and hardware still the same.. I'm going to buy the Pegas clamps and see if this will take care of my issues.. Love the saw when the blade actually holds good, LOL..

Awesome job thanks for sharing

One of a kind designer soap dish, brilliant. Great idea Monti. Marg

They are awesome. You did an excellent job, well done. Marg

I'm thinking the font used in the pendant that JT posted could solve part of the problem... Anyone know what font might be similar to that?

I love that! My uncle sill had two teams. We used them for hauling hay bales. the tractor need a driver. The horses just needed a git and whoa. is that pattern for sale?

Neat looking and functional, wicked combination. Jeff

Nice job, can't wait to see pic with it in place. Jeff

Looks great !

If I am glueing something to a stained or painted surface I always use Weldbond glue. This may not pertain to your project. I used to have some problems with Titebond until I started using it.

That should do the job !...What finish will you use ?

That is going to look great. I bet he is really going to like that. Thanks for sharing this with us. DW

Kris, Those are super cool. What did you use behind your cutting to disperse the light. If you are going to have a bar in KC when are you going to have time to scroll?

Yes get a good acrylic paint, high gloss if you want shine, but I would put a primer on first, RJ

Even in such a small shim cause problems? The other three that are made the same are as strong as the day I made them three years ago.

Yeah, I bought some aftermarket knobs for my older (first) Hawk as I kept breaking blades, I bought the round style like you have shown.. I personally didn't like them one bit.. I know others love them.. I think I'm just accustom to the standard 2 wing style ones as that's what I like.. I bet I'd like that other 4 winged type you have shown in the next to last photo of it on your saw.. But those round ones made me feel like I wasn't getting a grip on them to get them snugged up good.. so it made me keep over tighten them... My newer Hawk came with some steel knurled knobs which might have worked out okay other than the knob portion was quite small.. was maybe about a 1/8" larger than the actual threaded part.. and they made my hands hurt trying to grip that tiny little knob.. Thankfully it also came with the standard two wing style and those are what I use on it..

I know nothing about glue but I recognize some GREAT cutting. Those are beautiful.

The problem looks like, form the picture that there was no provision for wood movement, wood expands and contracts with weather and temperature changes as well as humidity. The picture makes a great example of this. Nice work and you can repair this and it will be as good as new.

Thanks for the photo and by the way very nice cuttings. Not knowing exactly how these are assembled and what part you are talking about I can make some assumptions. Correct me if I am wrong. From what I gather it is the walnut inserts that fell out. If this be the case I see that if they are not cut to the exact diameter of the next ring there are gaps where it gets glued. If they are glued only to the sides of that ring then the glue surface is small and is compromised because of gaps. Edge gluing is always weaker than face gluing and I can see where heat from sunlight can cause these weak joints to fail. Also two dissimilar woods with a smooth surface from the cutting action of the blade can compromise the glue from penetrating. Now if you are talking about the entire center coming lose of the background substrate then it can be a painted thing and wood glue and that is always a problem. Just some of my thoughts. Epoxy would help with the gap problem and allow more glue surface. Probably if I were doing these and ran into this problem I would try to work out some sort of alternate pattern design. I would add a dado the the ring that holds the walnut pieces so that they are glued to a flat surface and not just the edges, Harder to explain than it would be to do.

Those came out great Marg.Love how you got that white in there.

AS you may know, we moved a year ago this month from Oregon to Arizona. It was a long move, luckily my son and grandson helped a lot. They picked up a Uhaul truck, helped load it and drove it to Arizona. We sold almost all our furniture before the move and a lot of shop tools to make sure we could get everything into our U haul. Professional movers wanted over $10,000 to do the job. New furniture was less then it would have cost us to hire a mover. We ended up way ahead going that way. Good luck on your move..Getting old sure has it's drawbacks, even though it beats the alternative Dick heppnerguy