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Had the desire to make a few new belt buckles honduran mahogany, acacia and wenge sapelle, Honduran mahogany and wenge acacia and wenge teak and wenge

Here's a couple of Halloween projects I've done.

New for 2018 - Happy Halloween pattern is from Steve Good. The Pumpkin pattern is from Kathy Wise. Forgive me for my "Intarsia sins" as I dyed the pumpkin and stained the cat.

Unexpected money came in along with a non-related job! So i was able to order blades I needed for 2 years,SSV members have donated me plenty of blades, and I could go month's yet on them. I chose scroll reverse 1 gross, FDSR#12, 1 gross of SDSR#9 & 1 gross of FDSR#7 Should be here shortly!One order is 16-10.5"custom puzzles& another order for 10 Tiny 3"ohm's!

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

Weather getting pretty cold up here so I made some stuff for the coming season, nice and warm in my basement. Halloween and Xmas decoration from Steve Good, leaves from Sue Mey (compound cut) and of course I had to make some more bird houses to get rid of some scrap wood.

Very simple, but I like simple!

Hi my name is Irene. I bought a scroll saw last November, now I’m hooked. So many things I want to scroll, so many techniques I want to try. My mind is racing with ideas. I use spiral blades and have made many projects, now I need to figure out the straight blade, I find it challenging. I’m glad to be on this forum and I will be absorbing all your years of expertise.

Here's my offering

When I make one my signs I paint everything first and then glue it together. I use good old Elmers yellow wood glue and have never had any problem .

I always paint my stuff and then glue together with Weldbond glue. I have tried them all and this holds the best for me. After it is glued I spray the whole thing with clear lacquer.

Holy Moly! Now I'm scared to go to bed! Great job!

A neighbor of mine is moving and doesn't want to move all his woodworking stuff so he is selling it. I went there to look at his bandsaw and noticed he had a Dremel scrollsaw. It's the old 2 speed model. So I bought the bandsaw and scrollsaw. Anything to look out for on the Dremel? I haven't tried it out yet but at 25 dollars I thought I would try it out. The only scrollsaw I have ever used is my RBI Hawk so this will be a learning experience.

I love those. Seems to me that would take more natural ability than scrolling. I mean I can't draw a decent looking Santa so I wouldn't think that I could carve one.

I had a little time this afternoon so I played with it. It doesn't vibrate as bad as I thought it would and it will probably be better when I mount it solid. Pin end blades are easy to change but you can't cut any small fret work with them. I tried the adaptor for pin less blades it worked okay but you can't do it very fast. To set the blade tension worked okay but again not very fast. My opinion is if you were not in a hurry and just going to cut outside shapes and no small fret work it would be a decent saw.

Hi Ray, Each time you alter your scan of the image you have imported-hit the "update" to see what it will look like, O.K. Bob, P.S. If you want you can send Me the image you with all the nodes on and I will see what I can do!

Ok, I saw that but I thought it was to update the drawing being bit mapped. When I open that window, it always displays the last thing that I did so I hit the update key. I'll have to try what you suggested. The one I am working on right now has so many nodes all crammed in around the lines that I thought it might be nice to just draw a box around them and hit the delete key but so far it hasn't worked.

Finally got these done, hopefully they will be good sellers.

welp, put em on last night and have about 5 hours of scrolling with them so far. ive read people saying they remove/smooth out vibration in the excaliber but i dont notice that. what i do notice is blade changes are a lot quicker. pretty nice to be able to see into the clamp. the blade clamps seem easier to get to and i dont need the wood knob i added on my old ones. more dust to make on this nice sunny fall day!

I just finished a piece made from Sapele for my wife, she sews fabric pinwheels that we bring to local nursing homes. Sapele is a very nice wood to work with, and I think it is the Mahogany family. I will try to post a picture. I hope it works. Ornament stand

Hi Ray, If you click on "path" then select "trace-bit map" on the pop up window bottem right corner you will see "update" O.K. Bob

My philosophy is when possible paint or finish before assembly. I often mask areas of projects before finishing and think it's the easiest, I hate runs and sags. If you go back to the original thread the blue, pink and yellow were all sprayed before assembly and of course the numbers had to be sprayed before assembly. For glue on this type of project I've been using WELDBOND. (not to be confused with Weldwood) It's kinda hard to find and I got my last bottle at Ace. I couldn't find it at the big box stores.

One of the hazards we all face - tools know we like them and will follow us home.

I see many of you all run a vac line at the bottom or your blade and one at the top of the table... While collecting as much of the dust as possible is important.. I wonder how much dust actually gets collected from the top hose.. and is that one really all that important.. My Hawk has a plastic plug at the bottom of the blade in the base of the saw.. I often thought this must be for some sort of dust hook up thing that maybe Hawk was planning to do? I don't see any other reason as to why they'd put that big hole there right below the blade.. I think the hole is about 1-1/4 diameter.. (just guesing) .. I've thought about inserting a wide mouth dust collection fitting in that hole ( provided there is room) such as a jointer DC fitting.. and hooking the hose up underneath the stand.. I'm thinking there may not be enough room.. Anyway, I just know that the EX-21 dust port get's about 98% of the dust created.. and thinking that probably a box fan on the opposite side of the dust blower tube would probably take care of that other 2% and a lot less noise.. I don't know but at any rate.. at a minimum I'll be running the EX-21 with the vac hooked up until I decide what I'll be doing with the Hawk for dust control.. Plus.. I bought that saw to use.. so I might as well use it and give the old Hawks a break for a while.. since I am only cutting ornaments right now anyway.. as I hate cutting anything very big on the EX-21.. blade is way too close to the end of the table on the EX-21.. or something.. as I'm not too fat but I end up hitting my gut when spinning the wood around on much of anything larger than 10-12 inch.. maybe the stand design and it allows me to practically sit on top of the saw.. I don't know but at any rate.. I don't like sawing larger stuff on the EX-21.. which is why I say ( for me ) a EX-16 would do me just fine.. in the EX line of saws.. cause I'm not cutting big stuff on one of those.. My hats off to those that can and do cut large stuff on them.. doesn't seem like much table support out there near the end of the table..

Several years back I tried gluing up a painted backer to one of the themed crosses that Sue May designed.. While it held together... some areas did pull apart and was clearly not the best bond.. It's been so long ago now so I couldn't tell you what glue I used.. It could have been the glue, not enough glue since I was trying to not get much if any squeeze out etc.. I don't know... I posted on one of the forums and the consensus was not to paint first.. if you can avoid it... Ever since that experience.. I stay away from painting.. and now pretty much just use natural wood colors for contrast.. Typically use Birch and Walnut together.. Still think on certain projects.. some color would look nice.. but I hate to have a customer contact saying the piece fell apart too...

My first Dremel saw took 4' pined blades I used it a couple years before I upgraded to a Sears IKE

Wow!

Neat. Very nice work. You are going to cause some of the rest of us to make some now!

Sound great Ray. Maybe you can help me set up my new shop.

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

I do the same. My paint booth is the trash can with a lid and I place my item on it and drag it to the driveway to dry. Unfortunately we are not having much 60 degree weather. My trash lid is becoming quite attractive. Perhaps I should frame it.

Looks almost like the packaging from my DeWalt set. This might well be the most ordered accessory EVER for a scroll saw.

I usually paint then glue. usually Aleene's Tacky Glue. It dries clear, so any squeeze out is better hidden. If I can't find the bottle of Tacky Glue, I will sometimes use super glue. I also use a high-temp hot glue gun for some projects. If the paint is dry the glue holds well enough for decorative pieces.

I think it looks great and is so true. Great lettering. Marg

Welcome Irene. Glad to have you aboard the scroll train. Great group to share ideas and work and helpful hints. I'm finding a spiral blade challenging since I've only ever used a strait one. Interesting! Janie.... woodpecker

Hi Irene and welcome to the Village, a very friendly place to hang out. It's really my wife should be greeting you as she is also from Alberta.

Welcome from East Tennessee. Glad you have joined us. Look forward to your participation and seeing some of your work. I have not been brave enough to try spiral blades yet. I hear it can be a love or hate relationship with those. I originally started with Intarsia work about 2 1/2 years ago. Thanks to all the great folks here in the Village, I have expanded that out into other areas of cutting,

Welcome Irene. This is a lovely friendly place to be. Wow, you started with spiral blades ! I've not been scrolling long and I have some, just not been brave enough to try them yet Your avatar says Tomanydogs. LOL, I have 8 so we have 'too many'' too

Welcome aboard, if you started with spiral blades, you will find straight blades will be boring for you.

Welcome to the Village, Irene !....Glad to have you join us !

Had a request to make a "girly" snowman for all the girl names, so I added some pink....they also wanted ear muffs.....she stands 18" tall......comments as always.....thank you

I was alone this afternoon when my wife took my granddaughter clothes shopping so I thought I would take advantage and cut something simple in my shop while I waited for them to return. So I opened up my pattern library on my hard drive and started searching for something that would be fun to cut. Almost immediately I ran across a pattern that I have had for some time and was not sure If I would ever cut it, but now this pattern of Birchbarks stood out as the one I was going to cut. I made one mistake and made the pattern quite small and it quickly became a little bit nerve racking. First of all, there were a fun cuts that were smaller then the drill bits that I presently had on hand. I did find a couple of smaller ones in my Dremel box and got by using them, even though I still needed them to be a little smaller. Secondly, as I began cutting I also discovered that the pattern was lifting from my board, as I must not have gotten enough spray glue on the back of the pattern. I worked around it and when my wife and granddaughter returned, I told them that I had cut a goat pattern. "A GOAT PATTERN?" they both said with a look of 'why would you cut a goat pattern?, on their faces. I went out and brought in the piece I had cut and showed it to them, and they both replied, " That is really cute". That my friends is why I choose to cut that pattern and now you know my story and I am sticking to it Dick heppnerguy

Hate to burst the bubble however girl snowmen don't wear top hats. A pink stocking cap would be more girly. I love your snowman but it is a Boy...………:(

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

my Wife had this figured out for me. I love these challenges, even though they are only for fun and no judging is going on. I missed the back to school challenge and I knew I just had to get on the Halloween Challenge. I told me wife that I wanted to try and post the spookiest Halloween Challenge item of all. When I told her about it, she said," if you want to post the spookiest piece, that should be an easy one for you. All you have to do is make a self portrait and cut it." Right away I knew she was correct and so that is just what I did. Hence, here is my entry for the Halloween Challenge. Dick heppnerguy

Hi All, Been awhile since i was on here what with moving house and doing it up i did not have the chance but i am back now (sorry Travis) looking forward to seeing all your art........Paul

A Steve Good Pattern. (I changed it a little)

Creepy skull I found on Pinterest, couldn't find any artist reference to give credit to. It is now stained a VERY dark walnut. Also...Halloween tends to have a lot of parties, and scary stuff at the parties, so who better to DJ the party than the Big V himself? Cut this one yesterday, had one tiny bridge break on me (bad cut planning on my part, cut the wrong side leading towards the bridge first, the thicker rim around the right-hand side of his shades). And for the record (har....DJ's...records....okay, I'll keep my day job), I also have a DJ Yoda to go with Darth Vader.

Let me be early on this one, because I was just taking to a guy about it yesterday. I may have showed this here before,,, but can't remember. This a pen I made for a Halloween pen making contest several years ago. I did use a scroll saw to make it. The black is strips of cut PVC Drain, Waste, Vent pipe. I cut and glued three strips together, to make a thicker piece and scrolled the little bats in to the piece. Glued three more pieces and scrolled some more bats. Doing it that way made it so there are bats on both sides of the pen. I filled the bats with epoxy mixed with red paint. When that dried I glued to two halves together to make the pen blank. I then mounted the blank on the lathe and turned the pen. I had no idea how it would turn out, but I think it came out pretty neat. One of the funnest to make pens I did. Oh, and it won the contest. Coarse there were only 6 or 7 entries.

I think I need a tombstone