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Had an enjoyable afternoon in the shop with an old friend. He'll live on the cowboy wall in my shop. Gunsmoke and Bonanza make me think of my daddy. Thanks to @wild bill for a super pattern.

I just finished this Alex Fox pattern. 330 cuts, Baltic Birch Natural Danish oil, mounted on 3/4” Poplar board stained about as dark as I could get it. I may move on to ornaments, or baskets, or maybe boxes for awhile.

Hello everyone!! I know that I haven´t been here for a time, but i´m back with this beautiful project. I really love cooking, but sometimes I don´t remember with the accuracy that i would like some of my recipes and have to think a little bit more about them. That´s why I imagined this project: a recipes notebook. But because we love scrolling , i had to include some cuts, and there is the result. The covers are made from 5mm plywood, in which i cut the letters, the fork and the knife. In english, it says "Ruben´s (that´s me) recipes book ". After that, I inked the cuts in walnut and glued back together in place, varnish all, put the spiral, a colored cardboard and a short dedication. Hope you all like it!!

Jessica has her paint’s out again and with mummy’s help she brightnened Santa’s day. We will frame it next.

I've been scrolling for many years now, but every once in a while, I have to re-learn what should be a common sense lesson. I'm cutting animal and dinosaur puzzles for our club to donate to Toys for Tots next month. It was a good way to use a bunch of off-cuts and scraps that I've had laying around. I used cherry, sassafras, white oak, beech, sycamore & walnut. All of the pieces are at least 3/4" thick, with a few closer to 7/8". All was going well, until I got to one dinosaur puzzle in a piece of cherry. As soon as I started cutting, the wood started smoking. I was using a new #5 Olson MS blade and they had been working well, up until that point. I figured it was a lemon, so I put in another fresh one and it did the same thing. I then switched over to an #5 FD UR. Same thing. I only cut one piece out of the puzzle and it burned the whole way. I set the blank aside and went on to other patterns, in other woods, with no more problems. I brought the topic up at our scrollsaw club meeting, on Saturday. The first suggestion, was to put packing tape on the cherry. Now I consider myself a veteran scroller and I've long known about the packing tape trick and used to use it or painters tape a lot. I got away from it a while back, because I didn't enjoy picking all the little bits off of detailed fretwork. Eventually I convinced myself that the tape really wasn't worth the extra effort. However, I went back to that dinosaur pattern, put clear tape on both sides of the blank and it sawed as smooth and cleanly as anything. Now I've cut a lot of cherry over the years. It's one of my favorite woods, but I've never had a burning problem, like this. In fact, I had already cut another puzzle out of a different piece of cherry, without using tape, that came out fine. No burning. But when I saw how much easier the problem piece cut with the tape on it, I have to admit, that perhaps I need to re-think my strategy and go back to using tape, at least in certain applications.

I do not like making frames either. Not sure why, but I don't. One way I get around it is to cut the picture into a 3/8" or 1/2" board. But before cutting I route the side of the board to give it more of a frame finish look. Example:

This is from sue Mey’s lighted projects book. Would love to see other lighted stuff if youre willing to show them!

I've been getting increased requests for cats lately so I'm going to broaden my offerings. Including this new one which I have a feeling is going to be rather popular. Harvey's attention to detail still blows me away sometimes.

I don’t like conventional frames for fretwork and if possible I cut a backboard of ideally 1” stock, but will settle for nominal (3/4”) 1” stock. I feel that for many portraits they display better without being enclosed in a frame. I also virtually always rout out a keyhole slot for hanging them.

Cherry is one of those woods that does burn easily as well as many exotics. The tape trick does work. I use blue tape under all my patterns anyway so I really do not notice burning.

A while ago someone made a pattern for me from a picture, forgive me for not recalling. Used Oak ply, frame is red oak tongue and groove flooring, I cut the groove ends off.

Finished this yesterday and gave it a few coats of spray poly. This is Steve Goods pattern. It's made out of Oak and Walnut and it's 8 inch in diameter. The backer board is painted red. It killed me to do this for my brother because I'm a Yankee fan. I suffered through it though.

I am starting to put some of my things in a shop in Colorado. A gal called me and said she really likes the items she has seen on my page and wondered if I would like to put any of my work in her shop. So I agreed to do so and made a few of the ones she liked for starters. I will see how it goes from here. I also will be putting a few other items in the box to mail to her. Just letting you know I have not been laying around the house and staying out of my shop this past week. I have a few other items to add to the package and I will get them mailed off this week Dick heppnerguy

I'm beginning to wonder if the amount or concentration of natural resins in cherry can vary from one tree to another. I've used a lot of cherry. I've scrolled it and built furniture from it. I'm well aware of it's propensity for burning, but with a sharp blade and proper technique, I typically don't have much more trouble with cherry than any other hard wood. That's what made this experience so surprising to me. As I had mentioned, I had already cut one puzzle out of cherry prior to the one that burned. I had no problems cutting it, so when I grabbed the problem piece, I was shocked at how quickly and how badly it burned. These were pieces from different boards, but I couldn't if say they were from different trees or not. My cherry lumber comes from trees harvested on family property. We took down the trees, hauled them to a local sawmill and air dried the lumber ourselves. Sure the clear tape helped, but there is something else going on here. Ultimately, the lesson is that it's prudent to take precautions to prevent this in the future, but I'm still curious as to why this happened in the first place.

I use blue painters tape on all my projects. If it's thicker cherry I add a layer of clear packing tape to the top. This has worked for me. On the table saw I use a 24 tooth to cut it then sand any blade marks that may be there.

Try putting the clear tape over the top of blue painters tape. Much easier to remove.

In general, cherry is prone to burning on a scroll saw, table saw, or bandsaw. On this thickness wood, I use a skip tooth blade and no burning. On the table saw, I do not use a fine tooth blade. Lots of solutions to every problem.

+1 Pretty much my sentiments, exactly. I typically use FD 2/0 & 3/0 New Spirals. The 3/0 are really small and fragile, but are ideal for very fine detail. I also turn the board, selectively. It's always more natural to cut when feeding the board directly into the blade, so on critical cuts, I try to spin the board so that I'm pushing from the front, if possible. I generally try to avoid cutting while pulling the board directly towards me. I feel this is the most difficult to control and on some blade clamps, the most likely to make the blade pop out. These aren't hard & fast rules. I'll cut in any direction, if the pattern warrants it. I just try to be selective and make use of the best combination of the blade's capabilities, the pattern's requirements and my comfort level.

It is a hassle and getting worse but good paper work backs you up. Yes it may take some time if you have problems. I was audited the very first year I started my business. I had to go to IRS twice to get things straightened out. I finally took all paper work and placed it on the ladys desk and gave her the header page so that each bill and numbers were listed and told her to call me when you are done of if you had any questions because i could not sit there and walk her through every bill. I told her my time is money too. 2 days later everything was squared away and I picked up my paperwork and believe me it was in the same order as I left it with her. My business is way too small to go after me. She realized that I am sure and her boss probably told her move on. I fill out quarterly sales and use tax. If I get behind they send a letter threatening to add penalty. Some quarters are 0 income so I say go ahead. It was just a matter of time when all states want a poiec of internet action because it has become so huge and the brick and mortar stores are becoming a thing of the past. Good luck to all

Wow, that is great. I use to love Gunsmoke.

Yours look very pretty. This is the only one I have. Would like to make more....

Great job on Festus Charlie,now you will have to do Matthew and Miss Kitty.

Forgot to add I use a jig to hold parts in no tape.

Has to be the longest title I ever seen here for a new topic

With all the help and advice on learning to use the scroll saw I decided to make a gift for my father in law today. He has been a fisherman all his life so you can imagine my delight when I found a mariner based pattern by Travis. Also it was the first time using “real” wood instead of mdf or plywood. I reduced a lump of wood on the table saw and got it as smooth and flat as I could. I have no idea what the species is The base will be from the same wood I am still making mistakes but my confidence is growing and there was a brief moment when I found myself in the groove. As soon as I started over thinking the mistakes started. I have ordered a clock from Amazon and will make the hole for it when it arrives.

Jerry, if you had as much money as you think I do, you'd still be poor. There was a time, but that time has passed. On the subject of being quick, I don't get phone calls from my grandkids. So, I knew right away that it was a scam. But he knew just enough about my grandson that he did a pretty good job. I may have been born at night but it wasn't LAST night.

Ray, If I had as much money as you have, I would just pay them any amount they asked for. Good, quick thinking on your part Sir! jerry

Ray, (octoolguy) I know I'm pretty new to this scrollsaw stuff, but I find that a clamp works brilliantly. I made mine after watching this. If I'm overstepping the mark, please feel free to ignore. ....

You know what I'd tell NYS? Well I can't print it here! Tell your housekeeper to forget about it. However, the housekeeper better not set foot in NYS or they could arrest her. What a lovely state! bb

Sorry about the mishap with the Forstner bit. I'll just reiterate that a drill press is absolutely necessary when using Forstner bits. Another thing you need to be cognizant of is the spindle speed. Generally speaking, you want the drill press running at pretty slow speeds when using Forstner bits. There are all sorts of charts available on-line, that give proper speeds for various bits. I keep one hanging on the wall, next to my drill press. This is the one I use, but there are others. http://images.meredith.com/wood/images/pdf/speedchart.pdf

nice job

nice cookbook

Couple places to get some in the U.S. : The ones here were designed by Helmut, He use to be a member here and passed away a couple years ago. http://schwibbogenbyhelmut.weebly.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html This is where I purchased the pattern for the one I did: http://woodyoubelieveshop.blogspot.com/p/patterns-on-cd.html These are done by a person named Volker from Germany. He has his own website also, but I can't read German.

Super cool. Well done Ron and Scrappile.

Really looks good.

Just got back from a craft show, wasn't the best did $124 which was mostly $5 ornaments, and one larger item for $25, those little items do help out. They never advertised in the local paper. Hopefully the next show will be better.

Made with spiral blade. Steve Good pattern Irene

Great work. Marg

Here's the finished product she wanted!

Very nice work on the letters. I use a cake pan. I dip both sides then blot it on a newspaper. Had never thought about a bag.

Lovely words for your daughter. They are the best words ever

Thanks Kevin !...That helps....I went to Seyco's site and it looks like a speed control will about 32.00 for everything...not to bad !....Thanks again.

Someone else had this problem not too long ago.. Maybe some info in this posting

Good to hear. The economy looks to be solid this year so this could be a good season for shows. Nice display and lots of variety. What would you say was the best seller and did things from past years sell this year that did not do well in the past?? Were people looking for anything in particular?? Usually at shows there is someone selling something that everyone is buying. I did a show many many years ago and there was a person selling snowmen on a stick as we called it and all it was was a snowman cut and painted and mounted on a stick that you stick in the ground. Everyone was walking around with them and it became the joke of the show between vendors. We all were staying we should go out and get some sticks and just mount whatever it was we were selling on a stick and we would do good. Another year was the growing stick gauges. Put it on a wall and kids mark their growth heights. You never know what will sell year to year.

very nice display

Very nice work. Nice display. Glad you had a successful show grizz Oregon

Very nice setup, Scott !...How were the Alex Fox type layered crosses and projects received ?..Did people buy them?...Glad you had a good show !

First pic is of me holding my grandson. Second pic is of my son and his family. I just moved from Sacramento to Kansas City, so I could live near them. I love living here!

Charlie , those lawn skeleton decorations are fantastic. You are defenitly a fun grampa!!!