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Have made plenty of these names Plaques in the past , but a special order this time - since retirement have had so much more business and my wife has stepped up her game in the pattern making and hand painting part of of my Hobby/Business . A coworker ordered this name Plaque for his wife - but with a twist , roses and and the vine attached. Well my wife spent more time making the pattern and hand painting than I did cutting it and mounting/ glueing the base on . The Customer was delighted with the outcome .....

Received my new saw today from D&D. Didn't even have to make any adjustments to it. Run great straight out of the box. I am totally impressed with it. Time will tell.

It was interesting to make Celtic knot and I decided to make one more celtic ornament birch plywood 1/6 inch, size 7x7 inches Pattern Video of making Celtic ornament

Saw did pretty well....ran into an issue today, just before I got to the finish, where it was losing blade tension whenever I tried to cut. Disassembled and reassembled the saw, and whatever the issue was cleared up. Still have no idea what was wrong. But it finished the cut, so I'm happy.

Steve Good had a great pattern for Music - Piano that I really liked for my Granddaughter as she is really into music. She does take piano lessons but singing is her thing. Wanted to personalize so I came up with the attached. It is not finished as I will let her decide the colours then either she or Gramma will paint. Got to love Steve.

This is a clock like I made for my wife about 4 years ago and my grandson's fiancé told me that since they have been living in their own houses for a few years and have everything they need, they are not asking for wedding gifts, However, she did mention to my grandson that she would like one of Grandpa's clocks. ( This is the one she was talking about ) so I made them one. I have been working on it for about a month, due to all the company we have had and finally finished it yesterday, as everyone has left for about 10 days. I have two bells coming for the bell tower and then I will be completely finished. It has several coats of finish on it and in May we will be taking it to Oregon for the wedding. This is the most challenging piece I have ever made, along with the Eiffel Tower I made a few months back. Dick heppnerguy

Well its been a while since I added a pic, but this one was Different for my Style and thot it came out Ok.... Come on Back.... Comments Welcome.... Danny :+}

I have been looking for some Australian content in scroll saw patterns so when I found this one in the pattern library I jumped on it & thanks to Patch for the pattern,I made the backer a little larger to give it a framing effect.

I made so many errors I pretty much gave up on the project and just rushed it finished... It looks pretty good from 5 feet away... Shouldn't look too bad hanging on the wall as long as nobody gets too close to it... At least you can tell what it is... I used Walnut, Brazillian Cherry, Basswood, Sycamore, African Mahogany, Wenge and Western Red Cedar... Pattern by Bruce Worthington at intarsia.net...

Found this video on YouTube. I follow this guy as he does everything by hand. Modern day wood wright type of guy. Here he restores an old pedal driven scroll saw. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. https://youtu.be/FflO50fTr1I

A Great Big Congrats,I know how happy I was when I got my new saw.Still am.Keep us up to date on how it runs.

Just curious how long did it take to get the saw after ordering??

Congrats on the new saw. As others said, keep us informed.

Congratulations on your new toy, like they say we need pictures, enjoy it, RJ

I have a green eye of jealousy. I’m going to have to start selling some of the stuff I’ve got piling up.

Always a good day when the new tools arrive.. Glad you like it so far.. Hopefully it'll be a great and enjoyable saw to use for you.. That style saw in my opinion is the only one to have for someone that does angle / bevel cuts.. they are awesome to work with doing those cuts with the table staying flat.. Hopefully Iggy (Scott) will have the same experience with his saw when it arrives..

The way it should be!! Congratulations and hope it stays that way!

My original Craftsman jointer was a benchtop model similar is size to that one. Probably called a 6 in. but it was the length of the table, not the width, that was a problem for me. Any board longer than 10 or 12 inches would hang over the end and I could never get an edge that wasn't bowed. I got it when Craftsman was still sold exclusively at Sears retail stores, and it also came with damaged knives, like someone had run a board through with a nail in it. In taking the knives out, I stripped a couple of hex bolts. They were so tight that I had to use a pipe on the hex wrench to break them loose. Sears replaced the knives, but refused to give me bolts; they said I stripped the heads, it was my error. I think they were 5¢ each. Anyway, the Powermatic solved all those problems, and has the helical heads which give an incredibly smooth edge. I use it mostly for edges, but will occasionally use it as a surface planer if I have a board that is cupped slightly. I can get one side flat and then run it through the Dewalt planer.

Steve keeps us in the loop for sure.

I have only ordered from BW once. It took a couple of weeks to get part of my order because of backorder situation. The did finally ship the remainder but all in all, I think it was pretty close to a month to get it completed. I'll not be ordering from them again unless they have something that nobody else has. JMHO.

I told Dave at D&D in January that I wanted one. He called me the first of the week and said it was available. I paid for it and he had it dropped shipped the next day. Got it in three days. I love it.

Thanks John. You replied just in time. I did the second cut at 3 degrees and it has improved the drop. Bob

According to UPS, my is still sitting at Bear Wood.

If you want more drop you want less of an angle not more. Instead of 4 try 3. When doing those spiral baskets you do get tired in both your hands and also the eyes because they go in circles for some time. Just need to lessen your grip and back off your pushing. Helps if using good sharp blades too. Good luck. I made hundreds of those type spiral baskets over the years. I found a #7 blade at 3 degrees worked well for me and I always used hardwoods such as oak, walnut and mahogany and maple.

Floor underlayment is typically Luan, I just bought a square of it to demonstrate Pyrography. I would only use it as a backer on certain projects. The 1.5mm (1/16) 50" x 50" for $44.70 that equals $2.50 a sq ft. I use that for my 4" x 4" ornaments (30 cents). I sell the ornaments for $10-$12 The 3mm (1/8) is only $15 for the same size sheet. $.60 a sq ft. That is used for larger fretwork projects. It is good one side but I rarely find any football patches on the back. I also pre-sand all of my ply to 320. The 2 x 2 x 1/8 Luan that I bought from Lowes cost me over $4 so not so cheap.

Absolutely beautiful! Well worth the time.

Congrats! Looking forward to hearing your impressions after you put a few miles on it.

Great news Dave. Mine arrives Tuesday. We'll see how long it takes me to wear one out.

Great but No Pictures?

Where was my call to come and help. I would make the 80 minute drive to help for a share. I just got over 800 2' pieces cedar for free to use in the woodworking club's kids birdhouse day. That's enough cedar to last 3 years. We usually get around 50 kids a year and so far we have 40 signed up for this year.

I get mine the same place as Kevin in Charlotte MI at Johnson's Workbench. I am going to class on crown boxes tomorrow and also stopping at Johnson's Workbench to pickup some Baltic Birch before going to the class.

Sure looks good to me Greg.

Pattern by Sasho or Neptun.

Looks great! Hope you enjoy your new saw.

Well done very nice cuts

I agree,It looks FantasticWe do judge ourselves to harshly.I,m my own worst critic.

Well temps up to mid 30's and this is the first cutting I've done in a while.. in part, due to feeling blah from a sinus infection.. and another part.. I've been reworking my kitchen cabinets and doing some work inside the house.. I started out with the intention of video the whole cutting.. but.. my phone don't like the cold.. and died doing the first part of this cutting.. so then plug my phone in and then I ran out of storage memory on my phone.. LOL.. time to delete a lot of stuff I suppose.. Not sure you'll be able to get this since the upload in on Facebook on my business page.. you can find that searching FB for KevsKrafts... Maybe the link will work. Probably isn't going to be viewable to those that do not have Facebook.. Cutting is done on my Hawk 226VS Ultra Edit to say: I turn off my overhead light partway through the first part of cutting due to the light interfering with the camera..

fantastic job

Very nice work !

That came out great Dick!

Brilliant. I love the way you've cut Mitchell into the pattern. I'll have to go and find out how that's done, it's an amazing effect. x

You cut it well!!!

Love it.Though I don't Golf,It is a Beauty. Excellent job.

Nice one, I like it x

A fabulous looking clock. Sue Mey has got some terrific patterns, visit her site you will want to spend a lot of money. Marg

That's some sharp scrolling !!!!

Cheaper by the dozen,Glad you got some projects out for Christmas!!! Lookin good!!!

That came out nice!

nice job

I like this.Very Well done!!