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One of my favourite Looney Tunes characters. Found the stencil pattern on Pinterest and thanks to Russell @Birchbarkfor the help with the pattern. The zebras are a Charles Dearing pattern. Jeff

A number of years ago I have made these for my parents spread out over several Christmas's. The Lord's Prayer and 10 Commandants are made from 1/8" Baltic birch and the 23rd Psalm is 1/8" walnut. Mp parents are both gone and my sister had gotten the house they lived in and no longer wanted them so I got them back. I felt that my parents would love the fact that they are now in a church. I donated them to the church my wife and I attend.

Some of you might remember my post about the used RBI Hawk 220vs I purchased a couple weeks ago. I had some initial issues with vibration and side to side blade travel that I eventually fixed. Well, after fixing those initial issues, I ran into more problems. The Hawk's motor was getting super hot and I was getting a lot of front/back travel with each blade stroke (older hawk that did not have adjustments to fix this). I called Bushton Manufacturing and they said the Motor I had on my Hawk was notorious for failing. Instead of throwing more time and money at the Hawk, I decided to put an end to my grief by purchasing a new saw. My initial plan was to purchase a new Hawk BM-26; however, after reading some poor reviews of that saw, I decided to go another direction. I eventually landed on the Hegner Multi-Max 22v. I ordered the saw last Friday and it should be shipping out soon. All that being said, since I'm new to Hegner, I was wondering if we had any Hegner owners that could give me some pointers to help minimize the learning curve. Any input/conversation is welcome.

Alex Fox pattern, cut from 3/8" BB ply. Fun pattern to cut!!! The rattle-can metallic silver didn't show up too well in the photo, but it has a glittery finish to it.

I'm not happy about joining the club but I finally did it. I put a blade in upside down. I blame it all on Pegas. I had used F/D blades and they have the little dimple ground into the top of them. So, I just got a gross of Pegas MG blades and they have marked the ends of theirs with a tiny, well I don't know what you would call it, but it denotes one end from the other. I assumed, and that is where I screwed up, that the marked end was the UP and the plain end would be down. I couldn't figure out why my pattern was lifting along the cut line. The blade was cutting fine because it is a reverse blade. So, I didn't realize at first what was happening. I finally had the "uh huh" moment and saw what was going on. So, a word to the wise if you use Pegas blades. They are marked but the opposite of the F/D blades. Dang!!!

I just gave it a try for about 15 minutes and was quite comfortable sitting on my raised stool at my raised saw. Now, I can get back to the many Xmas ornaments that are in the pipeline: All of these are from patterns by Steve Good. I have some Sue May designs in the wing, once these have been completed. I think that, tomorrow, I will try to saw for a couple of hours.

My grandson asked me for a portrait of Eminem and who am I to say no??????????? Any way here it is, I got the pattern from Google from a free site. It's cut from 2.5mm bamboo and it is an A4 size ( 8.3" x 11.7" ) Marg

Just finished this cardinal from Sheila Landry collection, will be giving to a very good friend of mine which is in assist living residence because of Parkinson sickness.

Those came out beautiful. Here's one that I did a couple of years ago. Everyone that see's it wants one but I say no. To much work and I wouldn't know what to charge.

I have just created a album with some photos of toys I have made. These are all MDF, with some other timber. I did this to show that MDF can be finished to a high quality, and is a very stable medium. The larger pieces I sprayed (Compressor and Gun) The puzzles are painted with a brush then a couple of coats of clear Lacquer. The Kiddies tables and chairs are MDF melamine coated and the edges and pattern I painted with acrylic paint, a couple of coats. The green VW was made for a 3 and 4 year old brother and sister. When they reached 10 it was given to their younger cousins. When they out grew it it was given back to me and with only a few minor scratches to be touched up and auctioned it for a charity. Many of these will outlast me. I have seen a dolls cradle at a garage sale etc.

Sorry I posted this first in the general section so will try again.This one is the second one for my special customer & am now working on number three.This is 12" x 7" & was cut using No1 penguin silver reverse blades..cheers Peter.

Hi Brenda: I don't want to steal away from this post but I had to let you know that YOU can do a Charles Dearing pattern Hold your tongue to one side, breathe, be patient, and do it ONE HOLE AT A TIME Try it, you'll be amazed You're right, Jeff did do an excellent job on these Fab4

Hi Frank All I can say is HIP HIP HOORAY!!! Nice to hear that your doing well Take care Fab4

Well I finally finished the project. My wife loves it. I have learned a lot that I can now better myself on other projects. I used Rapid Re-sizer to enlarge the pattern (42 pages of 8.5 x 11 ") cutting each staff piece individually and gluing together. This has been made from all 1 x 10 pine with the notes stained with dark walnut and the staff with semi-gloss spray. I left the staff to have a hand drawn effect hence the irregular lines/spacing.

The wife thought because of the Queen movie being out I had better do a Freddy. Sorry guys I can't remember anything anymore. I know I got the pattern from pinterest

Super saw. I have had mine for a year. Bought it new.

I love mine from 1996. A solid vibration free scroll saw and lasts forever.

Congrats! Nothing better than a new tool.

beautiful job on the ornaments, take it easy until the healing is finished

Meisel Hardware also sells a similar set of plans that have 2 different sizes included.

Good to hear it all went well, my best wishes for a speedy recovery. Take care of yourself .

Great to have ya back,Take it easy and slow.Beautiful work.

Good to hear you are feeling better Frank. Take it easy.

Good to hear that the surgery went well Frank. But please do take things easy, we don't want you back in hospital for Christmas. Take care. Marg

Glad things went well for you Frank. Please don't over do it though.

All of what RA posted and then some! Very nice work.

If you insist on using CA glue, of any density, for general wood working, I would advise against using the accelerator. CA glue dries very hard. CA glue with accelerator dries hard and very brittle. It isn't hard to break a CA glue joint where accelerator has been used. I have used the pair for temporary glue joints in many instances. Now, the only time I use the accelerator is on my pens or other turned accessory items.

Glad things worked out for the good, Just don't over do it and follow the paths the Dr's have laid out for you.

Glad your surgery went well Frank and your recovery is as well. Good to hear you are taking it easy and doing as instructed. Great to hear you are getting to spend some time on the saw. I hope it all continues down that path for you and you are back to 100% sooner then later.

Great news. Just don't over do it.

Good for you. Glad the surgery went well!

The differences are in open time and water resistance. Titebond III is waterproof and made for exterior use. Titebond II is typical yellow carpenter's glue and is water resistant and Titebond I is pretty much the same thing as white Elmer's glue. Any of these glues will work fine and are plenty strong for regular woodworking applications. Their website has a good explanation of the differences. http://www.titebond.com/community/the-big-three

Another happy Hegner owner here and no blade breakage problems. Rob

No worries, everybody learns differently. Me, I need to have something in mind to create or tweak before the lesson really *sticks* for me. For instance, I made it about halfway through the Inkscape tutorials, and the whole time I was sitting there thinking "okay, lets get through this so I can learn how to do wordart!" And I still can't design a vector pattern to save my life. So I just skipped ahead to the bonus wordart tutorial...watched it, and all of a sudden a lot of the other little lessons I'd gone through started making sense (especially all those curves and nodes and Bezier stuff). But I put the lessons into context of something I wanted to learn, and it helped me absorb them better. Will I go back and re-do the previous lessons? Yep. Eventually.

fantastic job

I would love a copy, I love the grinch. TIA

I think the thing with CA glues and the use of accelerators is keeping things in perspective. I would not use it on any joint that would see much load, as in tables, chairs, bookcases, etc., but for small decorative items that are going to spend their lives sitting on a shelf or hanging on a wall it's plenty strong enough. I've used CA glue on lots of small things, almost always with accelerator, and have not experienced any failures. In fact I recently made a business card holder with a CA glued butt joint. Knocked it off onto a concrete floor, could tell from a dent that it hit on the glued, cantilevered piece and was perfectly fine.

Very Nice Jeff. I like Marvin's attitude They are both super pieces. Charlie dosn't know how to do a simple pattern.

You did well Marg.

Back to aircraft again. Germans called it the Forked Tail Devil. It flew like hell at 443 kts top speed. I did a lot of pixel gobbling to get the design right and the lines are very thin. 1/8" BBPW on 1/4" PW and 2 coats Shellac and ? coats lacquer. Love the old birds.

Comparing Gimp and Inkscape is like comparing MS Word and Adobe Photoshop. Two different purposes, although there are some similarities and crossover. If you know how to crop an image in Photoshop, finding that function in Word (yes...it exists in Word!) doesn't mean you have to relearn how to crop. Just means you know what it does, and are mildly surprised that its in a word-processing application. LOL I use Inkscape for wordart and use Gimp for converting images to patterns.

Wow what a nice job on the portrait! I guess I know who he is but I am a fan of 70's rock/ pop music with a little(very small) country thrown in.

Great news Frank. Glad you are recovering quickly.

terrific job

Hi Andy: Boy, are you going to regret doing this... Once word gets out that you can design your own name patterns, PLUS cut them out, you will be flooded with requests Well done, on your first one - We can actually read it REMEMBER: If you get hung up on something,The Villagers will help you Keep up the great work but mostly Keep it fun Fab4

I’m thinking you meant where did I get the pattern? If so then it’s from the scrollsawcafe site.. If you really meant why then I have to say that I’m not that good yet to just grab a blank ,start cutting, and come out with something this good. Some day I hope to get to that level, thinking that’s probably not in this life though since I’ve been cutting for 12 years and even the the stuff I’ve done multiple times still need a pattern

only you can say whether youre too picky or not. as for the uneven sheen, that could be the finish soaking in to different areas a bit. ive had that happen and just needed a few more coats. when im sanding i dont bother sanding between coats. just spray the next coat when the last coat is tacky. let that dry,sand with 400-600 just enough to denib, then topcoat. one other thing- on something like that i spray with it laying flat. one other thing: satin finishes do wonders. they can hide little defects in the finish. gloss amplifies them.

That is cool!