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G'day all, Well finished the box for my Sister's birthday. It's late but better late than never Radiata Pine, Jarrah inlay, blue felt lining with blue flocking in the tray. 3 coats of lacquer, cut back with 320g between coats.

I'm very, very new to this hobby of 'making' stuff, so I've tried several different things. A scrollsaw Butterfly, A 3d Reindeer, burning wood and an ornament from the forum book. I guess I'll settle down and chose just one thing to do, but for now I'm enjoying the freedom of retirement and flitting from thing to thing.

My new box.

I forgot the Butterfly

Finished this pattern from Steve Good.

Just finished this yesterday Made from Cherry.

Here is a piece I just finished.

Ben down but not out.Finally a job came in.I made the 36" x20 something, and thru in the marriage plaque!

Yesterday I had the opportunity to sell my stuff again at the VA hospital. This was my second day, the first was about a month ago. After expenses, I came home with around $450, so I think I did pretty good. It also opened up more opportunities for me. A lot of people loved my work, and I was invited to sell at other VA’s in our region. It was just dumb luck that I was set up on the day this hospital was hosting a meeting with all the regional canteen directors. I made quite a few contacts I will be following up with this week. I would saw I did good. Aside from sells, I made opportunities. Hopefully I can make this work.

Hi everyone. Just finished this a short while ago. I want to thank Wayne and Bob for doing two different patterns. I liked the writing on Wayne's and the butterfly on Bobs, so I combined parts of there pattern together. It's about 12 inches long. I have a question for you all. This is basswood and I haven't put a finish on it yet. Not sure what to finish it with. I was thinking on just dipping it in mineral oil. Any suggestions. I giving this to a teacher friend of mine who gave me the idea to do this. She had a picture of the saying on FB and I liked it. I have one more to do. The writing was really tough to do because of the letters being so close together. I did the best I could. P.S. Do you usually put a backing on something like this.

First try to make layered sign 4 layers (3 and 1 background), laminated MDF 3mm (about 1/8 inch), 11,2 x 4 inches, blades: NIQUA Ultra #1 Pattern available at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexFoxUA

This is from a pattern kindly made for me by Don in Brooklyn. Ontario that is. 1/2" Poplar, #5 Pegas.

Thank you all so much for your kind comments. I'm trying all sorts at present. The Reindeer was done on a bandsaw because I'm a little afraid of the Scrollsaw LOL, I have a cheap and cheerful Scrollsaw that only takes Pin End blades so I'm limited to what kind of pattern I can follow. I tried this today, but I think this is the 'smallest' I can go, for two reasons, The Pin Ends means I can't get 'small' holes and my arthritic fingers locked up just doing this, so any of the beautiful intricate pieces that some of you do would probably put me in a sling for a week.

Finished some Christmas ornaments for the grandkids. Made out of 1/4 B/B. I want to thank Keith for doing the patterns for me and also Marg for sending me to him. I liked the ones that Marg did and I mentioned that to Keith and he was nice enough to do the patterns for me.

School starts in 3 or 4 weeks! Can you believe it!? What happened? Did your summer seem to go quicker than normal? Mine sure did. With school right around the corner, I thought a Back To School challenge would be fun. Make something for your kids or grand kids for school. Perhaps something for their teacher. Or maybe some learning toys for a school or preschool? Have fun with it and get creative. I can't wait to see what y'all come up with.

My first jewelry boxes. This is how they looked after I cut them and after sanding and staining.

Client from Amazon asked if I could make her a 66 Dart.. not sure how I did on it but it's all I could do.. I made a sloppy pattern myself but I suppose it was cuttable as this is what I came up with.. If I make it again there will be a couple of slight changes but over all I think it came out okay..

Break a leg. If my wife shows up don't sell her any. They are on my to do list and they will be done some day. LOL

Looks great, very nice. jim

That is so cool... I am a punisher fan. How did you get the curved logo? -chris

Nice work thanks for sharing

nice job

About 10 years ago I worked on a solar panel system on top of a FedX roof. It was a large system because they had alot of flat roof. I use to walk the grounds around the outside of the building and I saw package after package laying on the ground. What happens is the conveyor system that goes into the trucks for the drivers to load their trucks just keeps packages coming and if they do not keep up they spill over onto the ground or floor inside if your lucky. One day I stopped to pick a few packages up to just put inside the building and I got a ration of garbage for touching them. they said they have some one come around and pick these up. But I saw packages that must have been there for days if not weeks. soak and wet and just mangled. You never know how your packages are handled for sure. It is amazing to watch those conveyor systems in action.

A postal worker once told me that they won't cover poorly packaged items.. they require a minimum of 1 inch space between the item and the box itself.. for the most part.. All of my shipping for my woodwork i wrapped in the large bubbles bubble wrap and about two - three inch thick of just bubble wrap.. then.. I use packing peanuts for fill to make the item filled in the box so it cannot get bumped around inside the box.. When I had items damaged several years ago.. I only used wrapped up news papers.. well not news paper but actual packing paper, LOL.. Anyway I showed my postal clerk how I package my stuff.. and they said they could probably get run over by the mail truck and not get broke, LOL.. On a side note.. just three weeks ago I had a return customer message me and said it was a good thing I wrapped all that bubble wrap on his order.. He said the box was delivered sopping wet and dripping all over the place.. the box was mangled and had a tire track on it just as if it had been run over.. he said he was sure it would be broke or at least damaged from being wet.. He said as he unwrapped the bubble wrap.. the item was dry and un-damaged.. He couldn't believe it wasn't damaged.. Bubble wrap is cheap compared to a scrolled piece.. well at least for me.. I buy it 1000 foot at a time.. and cost me $120 usually last me about a year.. Use about 2 bags of packing peanuts a year as well.. that's the big 20 cubic foot bags..

That is the coolest crayon holder I've ever seen. Thanks for showing it.

I like it !....Nice work !

Some very nice work... You are retired, you can do all the "flitting" you want to... I do.

Great news. Congratulations.

If you are wondering if it is time to change your blade, it is! Response unnecessary.

You would know after all the beer totes you've made that I like so much, Thank you, Bobby!

My Grandkids went back July 23 re here in Georgia.

I made this crayon holder for my friend's grandson. I found the pattern in a book of woodworking projects. The truck body and trailer are made from poplar wood. I bought the wheels from the local Hobby Lobby. I painted it with acrylic craft paint and finished it with a few coats of polyurethane. And yes, he's a big fan of dinosaurs.

My teacher stuff starts next week and kids start right after labor day. I am looking forward to the new year, although I do love sleeping in during the summer. I will try to get some of my classroom projects posted.

Ours have been back in school since August 6.

The question is what look are you going for?? Whatever you do it will be bland because there is no grain to absorb the stain to make it different shades along the piece. You would be better painting it. If you want to try staining use a gel stain and not an oil stain. There are people who will take a comb and run it through after stained or a wire brush to give lines and texture. Can do this with paint as well.

Believe it not Travis, many around here have already started back to school. They do get a Fall Break though and will be done for the year by the end of May. I remember when we didn’t start until after Labor Day.

A couple of Steve Good pieces I did a while back for a friend who's a substitute teacher (I did not, in fact, shut up and kiss her, she wanted that for her husband ).

Here is another design I created today! I scaled this one more conservatively and the finished piece should turn out to be 12" wide x 9" tall. Hope you all like it. Bull Elk Oval Scene.pdf

Hey Everyone, Thanks for all the kind reply's. I am hoping to keep contributing. If anyone needs some help with custom designs for scroll saw cutting let me know. I would like to learn more by working with a few individuals on creating and cutting some custom design work. You can email me at jasonhenrylives@yahoo.com or message me on this website. Here is a couple new designs I was working on today. Hope you all like it! Bull Elk Oval.pdf Bull Elk.pdf

Hi everyone, well I,m not very happy today with the Post Office. You all remember the Navy word art plaque I made for my Grandson. Well I mailed it out priority mail on 8/8/2018 from Ga to N.J. Well it got to N.J. In two days which was great. Well for the past 10 days all the tracking would say was in transit to next destination. Well today I get an envelope with the cut out label from the priority box that I sent out with a note saying my package was damaged in transit and there very sorry for the inconvenience, so I go to the PO to find out where the package is and they don't know. They said to file a claim. I say, how do I file a claim without the damaged goods. I tell them how could that get damaged when it.s made out of wood. They said just take a picture of the label they sent you and a picture of what was in the box. So I guess I'll have to make him another one. It was insured for $50.00 when you ship it priority mail with tracking. Thank God. Let's see how long it takes to get a refund. Well that's all I have to complain about today.