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3 hours work,3/4"plywood, printed picture, Rattle can paint and a new font"Birckley scripy,small ohm's 3".

I have an unheated finishing shed that I try to heat with a small electric heater. After spraying a light coat I would allow to dry four hours or overnight. I recently purchased a used heat lamp, that was used for automotive painting, and have reduced my curing time to fifteen minutes per coat. I am using a rattle can of finish. I applied five coats on four items today before lunch.

This article has some great information in it. It does deal with fine art that costs more but there are a lot of points that seem to be spot on for us. https://www.artbusiness.com/artists-how-to-price-your-art-for-sale.html

Very simple, but I like simple!

Sorry. I found this and had to cut it. My wife and daughter just shook their heads at me and my sisters laughed. I can only hang it in the garage though.

I am a dust collector but i like mine in a nice even layer on all my stuff in the house. lol

The quickest way to find out what it would be good for is to throw it out. Within a couple days after the garbage it picked up you will find something you really wish you had it for.

Howdy All. I thought it would be fun to start incorporating some Scroll Saw Challenges on SSV. So let's start off with a Halloween challenge! The theme for this challenge is "Halloween." Post your Halloween themed finished project, or a pattern you designed here. The theme is open to interpretation. You can post something spooky, harvest, or fall related project. When you post it, say a little something about it. Maybe a little story related to the project, what inspiration you took, materials or techniques used. It doesn't have to be elaborate. But it's nice to read a little about a project and seeing the picture or pattern. I'll start. I went back to MT recently and my dad got a new DeWalt scroll saw. I've been looking at upgrading mine (an old craftsman 16") and I figured I'd try his out to see how well I like the DeWalt. I picked this pattern from SSWW&C to test it out. It was a fun project. I dabbed craft paint on the surface, leaving the inside cuts raw wood. Then I used antiquing paste wax to distress it a bit. You can find the pattern here: http://scrollsawer.com/2017/08/01/nr-festive-jack-o-lanterns/

Yeah I know what you mean about the hearing protection.. Spent many years working in a sawmill..with various job duties including making pallets with the noisy air nailers.. Then several years working in a factory until I started doing autobody repair.. which is also very loud.. My intent is to buy a higher end vacuum ... I've been looking and have had demos on fein and Festool.. both quite pricey.. however I am one that doesn't like hearing protection to much.. having the big headphone style ear protection tends to give me headaches and the others bother my ears.. I do wear hearing protection when running loud equipment.. as this doesn't bother me like wearing it all day in the shop but for short periods doesn't bother me.. So I plan to buy a quieter vac system.. and the higher end ones have the speed adjustment.. pretty sure one could run it on lowest setting which is quieter yet.. and still be plenty good suction for the fine dust.. also designed to turn on / off a lot with the tool.. Thinking the lower power may not hae as loud of a sucking noise too.. May put the vac.. upstairs in the shop and run the hose through the floor... so I'm betting the only noise will be the sucking sound.. hopefully more tolerable.. Even with this dust collection.. I still wear a my mask...

Love my dust collection system on my saw. I would much rather wear hearing protection over a respirator. I have a repurposed dyson vac that I use exclusively on my saw and it's not the vacuum that is loud, it's the "sucking" sound on the hoses.

Interesting comments....hearing or lungs. Some have built enclosures for vacuums to lower noise. I think a vacuum is much better than a dust collector for a scroll saw. The vacuum has much higher suction over 50" while a dust collector is about 10" of suction. This is important when using smaller diameter suction pickups.

The noise from the vacuum is the thing has stopped me. I have a dust collection set up for my other machines, which I only use when the machines are being used and then with earmuffs. I had a "Shop"vac once, it sounded like a B52 taking off, mind you it would suck paint of a wall. Hearing protection is so very important, I suffer from industrial deafness, from my time as cabinetmaker working in workshops with huge thicknessers, shapers etc. Well before any regulations.

I need a quieter vacuum or a 50ft hose to put it over in the neighbors garage. But I have to say.. I really like having some sort of vacuum dust collection rather than just having the blower blow it away and the box fan trying to handle all that dust blowing toward it.. Also need to hook the other saws up to the vacuum..

CharleyL, thank you for the information but I don't need help with scrolling, I am attempting to learn Inkscape. Dave, thank you for your help. I imported the image just as you said, but I didn't have any luck with it. I couldn't spend a lot of time on it this morning because I had an appointment, but I will try again later.

I'm not entering this as part of the Challenge but it seemed an appropriate place to share it. My grandson is a huge Halloween fan. He did some chores for his parents and me so he could buy a $10 skeleton, he pronounces it skellington. I've been setting it up in his front yard doing something different each day while he is at kindergarten. I'm going to try to continue till the 31st. I did use my scroll saw on the skeleton fish you'll see in one picture! I borrowed his cousin's skeleton, not his actual skeleton you understand, and added his skelly-dog for a few. j

I made this plaque for my Dad, an Air Force Veteran of 30 years. I'm glad I did as he passed away a month ago at the age of 88. He was able to enjoy it for about 3 years. It was challenging for me because it was one of my early scrollsawing cuts not to mention my first attempt at making frames. The Air Force plaque was one of Steeve Good's designs.

This is a plaque designed by Sue Mey that I cut for one of my granddaughters wedding

This is one of Steve Good's designs that I cut for one of my grandson's, a very capable hunter.

Heres my effort...

Sure............Happy to help.......I am far from an expert.......send me an airline ticket.

With the node tool clicked I click on the nodes that I don't want and hit my delete key. If their are several, I drag hold down my left mouse button and drag a box around them and they will be highlighted and then hit delete.

I am no expert on this. I just know the bigger the opening the quieter the sucking sound. Keep in mind these dust extractors are made to be attached to orbital sanders, hand held belt sanders and other tools. They do not 1 1/4" connectors to attach the Fein to. But it works great with them.

they made it! nice packaging! think i'll just look at em for a bit.

Awesome.

I'm not sure how many times I have said "been there, done that".

I guess I'm going to have to get busy on my vac system for the EX. The one I made for the Dewalt works great.

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Thanks all, I'll try again. I don't just do scrollwork and jewelry. If the grandkids ask for something I get busy and make it for them. My youngest granddaughter is a dancer and gymnast. She wanted a balance beam so of course Gramma had to fulfill her wishes. I found info on Pinterest as to specs and what have you. Here is the result. I have to brag too on her form.

Brushing paint onto delicate scrollwork is difficult. Your attempt is not really that bad. When I want the edges painted I spray paint. Leave the pattern on to try and protect the front side. Then use something for a sealer coat on the front side, I use Rustoleum 2x clear. I use it as a sealer and a top coat for most of my projects. I use Deco Art Americana acrylic paint (I buy mine at Michaels locally). Get a decent flat or angled brush, 1/4" or smaller. I noticed a big difference in quality when I jumped up from the cheapest brushes, not the most expensive just not the cheapest.

Spray paint for me all the way. Too much frustration otherwise. I would rather spend time taping stuff off than redoing a nice piece like this.

Nothing quite the sound of a piece of stock slapping the table when the blade lifts it. Admit it or not, everyone has done this a few times.

One of the reasons i use a lot of FD Ultra reverse blades, the top has a slight crimp in it !

Loving that one Doc. Thanks for starting this, Travis. I think it had great participation, and I really enjoyed watching what people came up with. Hope all had a fun Halloween. We had the usual "ghost" Trick or Treaters, you don't even see them.. I live out in the country and the two kids on our road that use to come are all grown up now so we get none. But I still really enjoy all the candy we by,, just in case...

That's great Don!

My 2 sided sign for Halloween. Front and back. We are expecting 150 or so little goblins.

Brilliant work

How correct is Scrappile. When I was at his house and saw the beautifully done items that he had cut, I had to go home and challenge myself to up my level of cutting. So I did. I went home and took out a spiral and worked with it more and soon found that I could cut things that I had been shying away from. Now I feel confident that I can cut almost any pattern and even find myself looking for things that are more challenging. One hole at a time... correct analysis. Thanks Paul for being so good at what you do and for becoming a good friend to me. Dick heppnerguy

Love that! beautiful wood and a superb cut. Alex does some outstanding patterns. Maybe one day I will be good enough to try one. Rob

thank you

Nice. I like the colors and custom frame

Well here is my entry. A tattoo inspired piece made from magnolia, Spanish cedar, walnut, Peruvian walnut, bubinga and aspen. The Grim Reaper

Halloween Mobile, not a very good picture, Sorry The web is about 16" across to give you some perspective. 1/8" Baltic birch

Here's a few I finished. Sold some already. A couple are Sue Meys and some are Steve's Goods.

This is a modified Steve Good pattern. I changed "Boos" to "Booz" and did some pencil torching on the spook. John Old Dust

Dang Florence, that is cool. You and your child make a great team.

WOW!!! Love the Light and the Hat,Awesome work Guys.

That is a great job cutting that difficult piece, Lawson. WOW!

Well here's mine.I know the photography is not that great.Sorry.

All these are Fantastic!!! I almost have mine done,will be posting soon.

I think these are all Steve Good patterns. The one is napkin rings.