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I just finished this Alex Fox pattern. BB with natural oil mounted on Red Oak stained with espresso. This one had some (for me) intense bridging.

hi all, ive been away from the forum for a bit,but my recent piece i thaught deemed worthy of sharing, its a light of the world piece,designed by the late dirk boelman, made from MAHOGANY,ASH,PINE,AND PLY,

Almost finished with this. Just needs a base and lid. What would you guys use as a light source for this nightlight? I dont want cords coming out of it so anything battery operated is what in looking for. I'm thinking those fake candles they sell at Walmart? Any better ideas?

I was looking for a pattern and came across a file of photos of work i have done. I was surprised at the variety and had completely forgotten about some. Prendiville and Christian Bros have combined to form John Paul college. St Mary's is where my wife is assistant principle. These are bout 400mm high and are made from Pine and Jarrah with coloured felt backing.

This is the latest and last footy plaque for this year, I have too many orders and other things to do before Christmas. But having said that I do have 4 orders for this one to do before Christmas, Luckily I stack cut the word part. This is another pattern by @scrollriffic (Bobby) The team colors are black and white. Marg

Iv been busy last few weeks with work and my wife and kids strong armed me into getting a puppy. Lot of work. I put in picture of puppy also.

I have never seen an air cleaner with exception on line. Old Joe mentioned he has used a box fan with a furnace filter. I have done that but wonder how a air cleaner is different. I assume a fan sucks air through a filter into the box. The box must have holes in it for air to escape which the box fan does without the box. So I'm wondering just how it works. Perhaps If I had one I would be able to inhale instead of only exhaling in my shop.

Call it the way dog does, BARK

Ray live edge is just a natural edge of the wood.. ( ie saw the log into lumber without cutting the edges off.. so the outer part of the tree with the bark is still on the lumber ) well actually the bark doesn't have to be attached to be live edge.. but just have the natural slab.. rather than the lumber being squared up into a dimensional board.. This piece I cut out a few days ago is on a live edge slab.. notice the edges are natural tree's edge rather than a squared off 1 x 12 or whatever size I think most of what the hobby stores carry are smaller pieces.. and rather than cutting the length of the log they are cut through the log as in like firewood is cut.. except in small 1" slices, LOL still live edge though.. just different cuts... sort of like sirloin or porterhouse Hahaha..

Hi all, I'm Jackie from Alabama. I've been scrollsawing for about 3 years now and am always looking for new ideas. I also enjoy making jewelry and love incorporating the two together.

A few Halloween Decorations I made. Steve good patterns on the Skull and the pumpkin with witches hat. The plain pumpkin was just a google search.

The ceiling fans like the Wen, Jet, Shop Fox, etc removes fine airborne dust particles and helps to improve the overall cleanliness of the shop. My box fan with a furnace filter sits on the floor next to my saw and it sucks up a ton of fine dust. I hate wearing a respirator and rarely use one unless I am cutting some exotic woods or MDF. So, my system is as follows: I have the ceiling unit on most of the time, and usually set it to run for 4 hours when I leave the shop for the day. I also run an unfiltered box fan on low from about five feet, on a bench, away pointed towards my sawsaw. Then I have another box fan with a furnace filter cable tied to it on the floor a couple of feet away from the saw. I find this works great to keep the scroll dust out of my face and lungs.I learned the box fan trick years ago when working residential remodel work. I have seen examples on-line of extravagant boxes that people have made to put the box fans in, though I believe in the KISS theory on this i.e. Keep It Simple Stupid. If you want, I can take pictures of my setup and post them tomorrow..

The box fan with filter works quite well... The hanging filter probably does the same thing.. I have only had mine up a few days.. but see the filter is already picked up a hint of cherry color to it... I run the box fan next to my saw.. but won't be doing that so much in the near future since I'm planning to run piping to each saw for my dust collector to get right at the source.... Hanging a box fan in the ceiling could very well be an option for someone.. on a small budget.. But I don't think those furnace filters are designed to capture the smallest of the particles like the box air cleaners are with their double filtration.. Not saying a box fan couldn't have a double filter added to it.. not sure how many CFM a box fan moves.. My brother uses box fans with filters and has 2-3 of them that he hangs in his basement ceiling to filter the air in his shop.. he says it works really well..

Just tell her to send them to me.. I go through about 4 - 5 gross of just the #5 Pegas MG a year.. and almost that many of the FD UR #5 not to mention the other sizes and styles I use.. even the least used blade I run through about 1 gross a year.. which is actually the #1 FD New Spiral.. Good thing I only saw about 3-5 hours a day

Think positive Les, you will go through a gross of blades long before your demise. Buy 2 gross.

Pegas MG is my go to blade these days. However I also use the FD polar blades a lot. the other day I was cutting some 1" pine and cut the outside of the pattern with Olson skip tooth blades. I do like them. Tuesday I went to Woodcraft to look around and purchased Olsen skip tooth blades and several Pegas blades. Their selection was very small and I seldom buy things there unless there is no other local source. The blades are $4.99 per dozen. 42 cents each. A bit expensive but unless I mail order blades along with something else the shipping eats up the savings. I generally wait to order a gross but I don't scroll enough to buy that many blades. My widow will have enough things to dispose of without adding a bunch of blades she knows nothing about. I do love Pegas MG!

I like Pegas and Flying Dutchman. I found Olson to be less consistent and less responsive. The difference in price is negligible.

I think most refer to it as "live edge". It just always puzzled me.

Have no idea why I refer it as live edge.. guess it's how it was refereed too as I was introduced to it.. Maybe I should call it Dead edge.. .. If you google live edge wood.. it brings up what you call natural edge.. but then... so does natural edge, LOL

I gotta ask, why do you refer to it as "live edge"? It is dead! I call it natural edge or bark edge. When I use a piece I will but CA glue along the bark on the back edge and CA any loose pieces on. When you put finish on after cutting a picture, the CA will not show.

Get the larger candles that use AAA batteries. The tiny tealights use very expensive coin style batteries.

Great job on a rather difficult pattern. Any music coach or student would love that. It's a fantastic piece.

Excellent cut Thanks for showing . Roly

The roll pins are hollow as you well know so less mass as opposed to solid pins. All the ones I have are roll pins and just pressed in. In fact I moved a couple to get them centered more so equal force applied. The solid ones maybe manufactured all one piece and not a dowel that moves.

What quality work you turned out back then! Perfect in every way!

Nice clean job!

Thanks, John for the kind words, Mate! So you have a few landlubbers there,lol

One of the only good friends I have besides SSV!!! Thanks, Bobscroll!

I think mine are actually dowel pins.. I call them roll pins as that was what they remind me of.. but they are not really roll pins with the slot cut down through the pin.. mine are solid I'm pretty sure....

Maybe this has been an issue and they made a change. I believe if that roll pin is turned just the right way when you apply pressure the slit will deviate some. Over time it could bend. Being solid will give more mass so it may not deform. Saw has been running great since I made the change.

That' some awesome cutting!

Looks wonderful.

This has to do with the 220 Hawk lower clamps. Out of curiosity I checked my three clamps. One has a roll pin. The other two have dowel pins. I'm guessing the one with the roll pin is the original that came with the saw. The other two are most likely the new ones I ordered.

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

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Awesome pattern and cutting!

I’ll guarantee you that I clenched my teeth and other body parts more than once!

Those are beautiful John! Your projects are awesome!

Awesome job !....Some very nice cutting !

Very well done!

I bet you held your breath a few times cutting her hair, great job.....

Really like the backer also. You are right there isn’t much wood holding the face an other spots.

Excellent job there Joe. Thanks for sharing this with us. DW

My brother owns a sawill business.. and yes he does sell the bark.. LOL... there is no such thing as scrap in the mill business.. he sells the shredded bark.. slabwood for fire wood.. and anything that doesn't make slab wood sawdust or lumber gets run through the chipper and he sell the wood chips.. though last I talked to him sawdust was paying more than woodchips so he was grinding it into sawdust.

I can almost hear the music. Fantastic work.

Wow

Beautiful! I love the backer board.

The project I'm working on now requires 8 panels of compound cutting in red cedar. The short side is 3/4" and the tall side is 1 1/2". I have been experimenting with all the different blades I have. That included Olson, FD, PS Woods, and Pegus. I've tried everything from 3 to 9 in regular and reverse. After much cussing and a lot of mess, I have decided that the Pegus is by far the best. I'm using #5 MGT and they seem to stay sharp the longest and clear the sawdust out of the kerf the best. I'm going to place an order for all sizes of Pegus from 2/0 to 7, a gross of each. I'm tired of trying to figure out which blade to use. Just trying to keep them all sorted out and remembering what I have is too much for me.

Now that is a real winner.. love this one Dick heppnerguy

Kevin I used the red because back then it was all I had and really did not know the difference between the 4 different colors that loctite offers. But do now and will use blue from now on. Well I did some investigating today and here is what I found. First I put a block of wood behind the blade and turned on and I drew a straight line down Placed behind the blade and watched the blade flutter. I could see this with the naked eye but with the block of wood really shows up. So I went to the 226 and did the same thing. I have not used that saw all year this year so had to clean the table top off as I used for blade storage and small wood pieces that you hate to throw out. We all have those. Put the block behind that blade and it was as true as can be. Dead on. So I took the blade out of the 220 with the bottom holder and switched to the 226. Well the flutter showed up now on the 226. I put the 226 holder on the 220 and sure enough the flutter was gone. Now I had mentioned earlier I switched the blade clamp on the 220 when it all started. I had 2 that I constantly use for that saw. I have 2 that I leave with the 226. So I figured it has to be the blade clamps but what could it be. Well I compared the 2 bad ones with the 2 good ones and what I found was the roll pins have distorted ever so slightly from constantly sliding in and out of the bottom clamp. But what I think the real damage came from is when you insert a new blade and you use the hole on the upper arm that is designed to hold the clamp steady as you tighten. Well I believe all this time the constant torque put on that roll pin caused it to deflect and bend ever so slightly. And being I constantly change those 2 clamps because I like to preload one when I really get into scrolling production wise. That is why they both are bad. So the outcome is I am using the 2 clamps from the 226 and I will order a couple new clamps along with a couple more quick release levers for future use. Yesterday I could not even get close to a small piece or it would just jump at it and cut it off. Or we all know how to plane with the edge of a blade, well I could not dare do that. Had a couple mishaps that I was able to cover up but put a halt to the sawing because that Navy Plaque has so many delicate cuts. Today finished cutting it with no problem. Huge difference. Chalk this one up to the knowledge bank. I probably could just get some roll pins and push those out. May ask them if they have those too. Thanks everyone for the help. I am back in business.