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A few Unifinished puzzle cuts - I need to get a finish on them maybe this weekend or next week. Heck, at least I finally cut something... It's been 5 months since I last even looked at my Delta I forgot how much I don't know LOL and how much technique there is to this!

Made from upcycled bookshelves. (1.25" thick)

This is a phrase used often in many families, I'm sure. It goes back to the days when the phone was just a simple contraption sitting on the end table. I put this into wood by using a blank I made from various woods:Torrified Maple, Red Oak, and Cherry. You can make good use of your scrap wood by saving all small cut off pieces and then gluing them together in strips to make some nice looking blanks for scroll saw cutting. This board came out at about 1/4" thick. Of course I salvaged the top piece of the blank to convert into the top of the base. I used a piece of plain ol' pine for the bottom. You can of course just use a single blank to cut this just as effectively, but don't be afraid to use your imagination when the opportunity presents itself. You can download the pattern if you'd like to cut it, at my site Real Wood Crafts. Just scroll down to the FREE PATTERNS page.

Just a heads up about this product Evapo Rust... Thanks to Hurricane Michael, many of my tools, including my table saw, scroll saw as well as the blades in some of my tubes, and power tools all had a layer of rust settle on them. I put some Evapo Rust on rag, and wiped down the power tools, soaked my scroll blades in a tube filled with the liquid, wiped down the table tops and the rust layer disappeared within minutes. I was then able to wax my tools and all looks like new again, the blades are none for the wear and my table tops all shine and wood slides right off them whee! Good product this Evapo Rust which can be purchased at HF. Hope that helps anyone else with a rust problem

edge gluing, between not having a really large empty surface to do it on, the multiple pipe clamps, the cauls, the quick clamps, and ... drove me batty Saw this and gambled, it works! 4 Way Pressure Clamp For Clamping Panels https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073QSF8JR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Heavy duty steel clamps, and the rest of it is also quality goods. I spit a 2x4 to use as the cauls and mounted the notched tracks. I put blue painters tape on the cauls to prevent them from being glued to the panel, that worked, I am wondering if wax paper would have been better? the tape did stick to the panel in one spot. And my new jointer works great too (maybe its me but I think it ought to be called an edger instead) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Q0I8YU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 EDIT: I figure someone will ask, that is a 20"wide x 24" panel

I want to welcome home all my fellow Vietnam veterans on national Vietnam Veterans Day, RJ

I've been conveying for a week with some retailer.. ( might be Walmart the way they tried bargaining LOL ) They been trying to bargain with me for a lower price since they want to quantity order some of these.. I think it's a wedding shop.. Anyway I wouldn't budge.. was kinda hoping they'd give up and walk.. well they didn't and now I'm the lucky guy to cut 10 of these.. If I can get my Hawk dialed in maybe a good chance to get some hours on the machine..

For one week of the last two summers a good friend has taken us Jeeping in the Colorado mountains. I wanted to do something special for him and had been looking for a Jeep pattern when I came across grampa’s @grampa depiction of a Jeep. It was exactly what I’d envisioned but didn’t know where to start. I got rid of the Christmas tree on top and did my own lettering. It’s cut from 1/4” BB. The finish is Watco Danish Oil followed by several spray coats of satin lacquer. I used camouflage fabric for the backer. The fabric was sprayed with the lacquer on the back side and allowed to dry. I then sprayed a heavy coat on the front of the fabric and on the back of the BB and mated them together. It dried so quickly that I didn’t get as good of a bond as I’d hoped, but should be ok. Fitting that I finished this on Vietnam Veterans Day. Gene was my Squad leader and I his Medic in Vietnam. I’ll deliver it to him next week on our way back to Illinois from Arizona. Thanks grampa for your design. Tom

I dont know if someone will want to make such project, but I am sure that it is interesting to watch making of such project and see final result For making this project I used three graphic programs T-Rex skull Pattern

Just when I'm in the middle of and totally engrossed in making my first ever 'box', on Tuesday I get asked to do this. And then they said ' can I have it by Thursday' !!! Well here it is all done and ready. Now I can open the 'flocking kit' that arrived this morning

IMG_4332.MOV Among things I have to do, I find time to do some scrolling projects. The Chalet box I worked on through the winter. Highly detailed, I had to back off at times and re-focus doing other things.I adde I'm in the process of restoration of a Model T, also. The clock is a nice addition to my garage workshop.

How about using aspen?

kmmcrafts --- I must be a lot older than you. We turned in pop bottles for 2 cents. Three bottles got you a pack of Topps baseball cards with 5 or 6 cards and a big piece of gum inside and you got a penny back in change. You could get another card and a small piece of gum for the penny. We found the bottles underneath hedges on the way to school and turned them in at the deli on the corner opposite school. We were set for flipping cards at recess.

I did this Steve Good pattern a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post it.This train runs on a regular schedule these days! 1” Red Oak, engine stained with Golden Oak, steam brushed with Ebony.

This sign is for the Imelda Marcos wannabe. I cut mine from a nice piece of Peruvian walnut (looks like chocolate good enough to eat) and mounted it on a double layered base of walnut and pine. Pattern is available for free on my FREE PATTERNS page.

Finish gluing the together today. The pattern is from the Holiday 2006 SSW&C magazine, issue 25. I haven't been able to order the lights for it yet. All the 10 count battery powered white wire LED lights are out of stock at the moment. I am on a list to be notified when they come in. This is my second Lichterbogen and I really enjoy making them for some reason. Hope to make a few more before Christmas.

It is good to know there is this dislike for oak. I will have to stop showing my projects here because many people hate looking at oak and being that is about all I use and cut no sense showing any more projects done in oak. Or maybe what I will do is include a disclaimer when I show something. I can include this warning " graphic photos!!! oak haters do not look" I love working and looking at all woods. I did learn something from this thread though.

I like those clamps, but wow, I'd have to do a lot of glue ups to justify the cost. You would have buy at least two sets. Then again, maybe if I had them I would to more glue ups... Maybe I can place some hints to my kids. They are always wanting to know what I want at Christmas. I always give the good answer, "just to spend time with my kids". Next your I will say "stay home but send me a set of those clamps"!!

Thank you to all who served our Country. I salute you and thank you and your families for your service.

My brother was in the Army for Vietnam... I was quite young since I was born Nov. 1968.. so I don't remember anything he went through or any details.. I think I remember hearing said that he was drafted in.. Not sure what job he had or did while in... I just remember while he was waiting for my dad to pick him up when he was coming home this stray puppy kept hanging around him.. and he played with that pup.. when dad got there.. he picked up the pup and brought him home to me.. was one of the best dogs the family ever owned.. Thank you to everyone who served not only for this particular war.. but to all who serve or have served...

It will all come back to you. They look terrific. Marg

Love the smell of oak. Been using it for so long. I pick my own boards from a lumber yard. I had the opportunity to have 2 very good lumber yards for my wood choices. Unfortunately one closed because of fire but the other still is a good source. So I can choose wood that is clear and I know what to look for when it comes to color and cuttability. Now that project is about 1-1/2 hour to cut for me and everyone is different and cutting speeds are determined by the cutter. pricing is always subjective and determined by many factors. You price things by how it is being sold, where it is being sold and some times to whom you are selling to. Since I have been here the only people I have seen here that do this basically for a living is Kevin. Iggy does alot of selling of items but has another job and have not seen others here that do scrolling for a living. So Kevin is coming at this from a whole different perspective than most of us here. So that too will have a play in the pricing as well and also his love for scrolling. I do not love scrolling that way any more. I could make more money these days if I were into selling homemade pens that I do. But even that is not what I would want to do for a living. My point here is determining prices is not easy and many factors play into it. I would not base my pricing on anyone elses pricing. pricing gets brought up many times on many sites and it just is not a fair question to ask. Kevin why not make them out of cherry??? Did they specifically ask for oak?? Should have shown them both examples.

Very nice! I thought the librarian's creed was this: When I was a kid my teacher told me never to crimp the page corners of a book be cause the book would be hurt and cry. Oh what the heck, what did she know?

We used to get tuppence for the small cool drink bottles, a penny for milk bottles and threepence for the large 750ml bottles. Kept a young fellow in lollies and had enough for a comic every week.

Believe or not I loved going to school everyday for 40yrs. It was a great job. I taught industrial arts and engineering and it was something different everyday. To teach something you enjoy as a hobby adds to the pleasure. The biggest challenge to teaching is not the students it's the administration and parents lack of support.

Aspen is a white wood. Holly is another choice. Bleach will not turn a wood white unless it is white to start with. Trans tint dyes are the purest dyes possible for wood that I know of. Costly though.

Spent 9 months there, thankfully I saw no action. God bless the ones that did.

Amen! - 85 missions off of USS Ranger including 38 during Linebacker II (Dec 72 to May '73.)

Yeah I pick them up all the time.. I also pick up soda pop cans.. Here in MI we get $ 0.10 for them.. funny thing is everyone that buys a soda / beer pays that deposit.. then throw the cans / bottles out the window when driving etc... Those are a gold mine around here.. years ago they implemented the deposit on them and it helped a great deal cleaning up the sides of the roads from the cans etc.. but now people just toss them out.. well not like as bad as it used to be.. but I walk a 3 mile block about every day in the warmer months.. and almost every day I can come come with $1 - 3.. As a kid.. that was gas money for my car.. I remember riding my bike and picking up the cans... I'd leave them in piles along the way and then come home pick up my car and go pick up the piles ... Someone got smart watching me do that.. and picked up all my piles one day.. I dang near ran out of gas.. was counting on those cans to be there when i went back and someone stole them.. They probably thought they hit the jackpot.. and they did.. usually would get $5 piles.. I even hid them off the road and usually behind a tree.. maybe even 10 -15ft off the road.. so pretty sure I was being spied on and then robbed LOL ... I've never piled them up like that ever again.. I usually would get $20-30 worth of them in piles scattered about a 5-8 mile radius.. and back then that was a tank of gas, out to eat, and a trip to the movies with a girl...

I will send a pic of the Chalet box to Pedro. Wow, he has so many projects to choose from. Still deciding on the next one. I've got my T project to complete also.

Got these done finally. Stack cut. Took about 2 1/2 hours to cut, using a Pegas #1 MG . High gloss spray paint for the black.

I did some practice cutting text again.. fun project from Sheila Landry's website.. I cut this from 1/8" BB ply stacked three.. then the backers are 1/4" Walnut ply with solid walnut strips in the back to hold all together.. I have a few other patterns of these type plaques they have on their site.. probably take a short break on cutting text though.. and I have to cut the 36 Ford pickup that Jim made a pattern for me anyway.. This measures about 18" tall x about 15 wide if I remember correct.. Cut this on the Hawk 226 Ultra.. ( Pegas MG #3) was cut before getting my new Hawk.. actually cut for a while.. just gluing the backer and assembling took almost as long as the cutting..LOL

I don't have an EX so the repair means little to me. I do, however, enjoy seeing things out of the box. You have done great in that area. Also you made an excellent video. I am hearing impaired but the audio was clear and your photography is excellent. I enjoyed watching it.

Hey Kevin...How are you doin! Will this be alright for you? Bob Kevskrafts Workshop.pdf

Awesome job Paul. I love the Lichterbogen. I hope someday to cut one out myself.

That cutting would take me 3 days, of course I don’t do much cutting but it gets done, RJ

Kevin I agree with you I have no love for red Oak, don't like the grain or as you say the smell. The only Oak I do like is the quarter sawn white Oak that I used for a dining room table insert. How long is it taking you for each one.?

Since I got those fancy timers.. LOL they really bring to light how much time it takes to cut a project.. I did the first two cutting on the Excalibur.. I have the saw set up so the blade is almost straight up /down.. The Oak I'm using is quarter sawn.. quarter sawn oak is a pain to cut.. because you hit many dense spots and then ll of a sudden it lets go and like cutting paper, LOL .. I wanted to cut these from regular sawn Oak.. but the boards I have on hand are not wide enough.. or still not dried out.. I do have a local lumber store where I go and hand pick lumber as you do.. my store is about 25 mile away.. which where I live everything is 15-20 mile.. LOL but its in a town that I just don't go to often.. so every time I go.. it's more of a special trip.. I wasn't going to take the time to make that special trip when I have this Quarter sawn here and plenty of it.. Anyway.. back to cutting times.. The first one I made running the EX too me 2 hours and 3 tenths of an out.. The second one took 2 flat.. I switched to the NEW Hawk just to play around with tuning the saw.. I've got almost 1 hour in and I'm more than 3/4 done cutting.. now... I know that even the same boards have different densities etc.. and I laid out 6 patterns all on this same board once I plained it down to size ( 1/2 ) .. That short parallel link design even set to be straight up down less aggressive cutting.. is still too aggressive cutting this type of wood.. I can feel those soft spots using the Hawk.. but it's not nearly as difficult to cut.. and the table has a lot more support out in front of the blade.. Normally cutting cherry etc.. that aggressive style blade action of the EX isn't an issue.. many times I like that style so I can get projects knocked out.. Anyway.. There is the reason to have both styles of saws.. also a reason to own several saws.. Part of the reason it's taking time on the EX too is.. I've not had much cutting time on that saw... but then.. only have 2 hours on the New Hawk too.. but it's so much like the older one that It comes natural too me.. I need to buy a couple more saws... I have ten of these to make.. and only 6 saws to cut one on.. already cheated and made two with the Excalibur. LOL About those hour meters.. Love them for timing my works.. but.. have to say if I was to do over again.. I'd probably not bought all those digital ones.. I like the fact that I can zero them out for each project.. but.. since the 10's digit only changes every 6 minutes.. you could be 5.9 minutes off on time.. at least with the regular meter that I hooked up to the new Hawk. I can see that 10th digit is almost changed to the next digit and round it up to that 6 min.. mark..

Steve did this awhile ago. I had to try it so I used a 3/8” piece of cherry. Took several hours but I’m not sure of total time. I liked it so much I hung it on my dining room wall. It’s about 11x14.

Fantastic job

I saw no action either,Bless those that did,and A BIG THANK YOU, and Salute.

That is awesome. A very impressive work of art. Well done. Marg

An odd choice but would be multiple colors, countertop veneer. RJF

Thank you all for your service. I was in the Army Reserves for 6 years during the Viet Nam war. I thank God I didn't have to go. For those of you who did, THANK YOU!

Thanks for the review. I'll put that on my shopping list too.

That is pretty darn cool. Nice job. Being you were a Medic in Vietnam, you are a very special person. Some of the bravest, dedicated people I met in the service were the medics. I thank you for your service.

Thanks Roly. It just "flew" right over my head.

One day project... Just a quick logo commissioned by a fellow facebooker... It is all 1/4" Birch Plywood... I don't know if it is easy to tell but the words are applique...

Les, couldn't you glue another 5-6" piece of wood to the end of this one and then add the switch to that with double sided tape or something? No muscling needed that way.

All I can say is WOW!