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Finished today a Sam Custodio pattern

This one is for my little sister who owns a similar Harley Fat Bob... 1/2" Select Pine... Pattern by Sue Mey, downloaded from ScrollSawArtist.com...

I love my Dremel router and drill all my pattern holes with it. There was a minor annoyance however. The knob on the right which can be used to lock the Dremel tool itself in position would always back out and I would keep screwing it back in. I solved the problem with a jam nut between the router and the knob. Perhaps this has not been a problem for others but I just throw out the suggestion. The nut should perhaps not be called a jam nut as it just prevents the knob from tightening and locking. A washer may do the same thing.

Made this for my sister’s 50th wedding anniversary. A Sue Mey pattern an used a signature coin that Steve Good made.

Completed this project last week. 1/8" Baltic Birch Ply stack cut x 4. 560 cuts, 2 spiral blades and 35 #5 reverse flat blades. Total cutting time is 34 hours. Glad this one is complete. Thanks for looking.

I believe you but I do not remember it. Probably never paid attention because I already had most if not all his patterns. If I chose to show all the projects I made from his patterns we would run out of web space I wish I had taken photos of all too but back then I did not even own a computer. I am going to at some time try to transfer my paper photos to a flashdrive so that I can save and share. Here is a couple shelves I made many of these over the years and this project alone he had so many different designs. Then I use to make them double shelves so that they were longer or even triple shelves some people wanted. Made from different woods too. Oh the memories.

Buy a fine crosscut blade for the Saw. That’s it, easy peasy. I buy a new blade for my table saw and mitersaw once a year. I can make my own frames, and I do.

Some time ago I did a picture of two hawks from a pattern by @grampa. He did two patterns of hawks that I really liked. Tonight, after a long time I finished the second one. Thank you Grampa, for the excellent patterns. They were both a pleasure to cut, I only hope I did them justice. The one on the left is the first one I did, the right is the one I finished this evening. Both are cut in Basswood. I love cutting Basswood.

Its the basic thread design with the tread angle and number of threads per inch. Wood vice has course a few threads to work fast and tighten down. Finer threads with an angle are going to take more turns to do the adjustment. More than likely the manufacturer offered a cheap option for the designers to jump at and here it is. Unless someone has some tap and dies and wants to recut new threads with a new bolt/ handle it's going to be some rigging. Even cutting new treads are going to be experimental on size and thread count. Locknuts, split washers, 'jamb nuts', Loctite. RJF

I know what it is Kevin I have it. As I said you are using this for something it was not designed to do. Different plunge routers have different mechanisms to operate the plunge system You do not need to push with 2 hands to drill. Push in center. As I said the only time I use this cheap thing is for certain router jobs. It will break with all that movement up and down. A good drill press would have been the better way to go. good luck with it and all that use it to drill holes.

I've been wanting to cut these for a long time and I finally got it done. The Wichita Flag has become really popular around here recently as a way to show some local pride.

JT, that knob on mine is a lock to set a certain height or depth.. otherwise the router will move freely up / or down.. in my case... I have to have that knob loose all the time in order to move the plunge portion freely to use as a drill press.. I have no need to screw the knob all the way in and lock it for drilling.. the issue is.. since it's loose you're always loosening and or tightening the knob and you'll be drilling and moving to other spots to drill etc and the knob either comes out so far it falls off in your hand or.. it locks down slightly and make the plunging motion to stiff to move easily.. a fix is that nut to lock the knob down tight while not interfering with the plunge motion..

Thank you. Rick did alot of Victorian style patterns and back in the day oak was the wood of choice in homes for this style and that is what got me started with working with oak. I use to do this is natural and some people wanted it a bit darker so I would stain. I always used Watco Danish oil and that is what is on this. I made magazine racks which the light one was his pattern and the deer one is mine. But to show the 2 different colors I offered back then.

Wish I had been one of them. I just don't have enough patterns,,,,,,

John, believe it or not, but he did sell all of the patterns he had, he did it after he made the deal to sell Berry Basket. It was a bit underhanded of him to do so, but he did it anyway. I could only imagine how cross the new owner would be, this would have ruined any chance of him selling the patterns. Everyone who was on the mail out list for the free patterns, got this offer in their e-mail instead of a free pattern. There was about ten large size clocks included in the patterns we got, those were the only ones we weren't allowed to sell or give away. I'm surprised that no one else remembers this, there was a lot of people who got in on the deal. Len

There have been several patterns I have tried to locate over the years the seem to dead end with "The Berry Basket". The latest one was the pattern for this one.

Okay, good thread, but the miter is not the hardest part for me. It is gluing. You can cut a perfect 45° miter, but it won't be perfect if it is not glued squarely. I have a couple, maybe three gluing jigs. The last one I made does the best job, but it is cumbersome to set up. Okay for me because I may make 5 or 6 frames a year, but if I were to do more I would want something easier to set up. My current one is similar to this. The other part is fastening the picture into the frame. In the past I have always used little nails, and it looks pretty "tacky" (get it?) to me. Recently I purchased a Logan Picture frame tool. It works great.

Kevin, as long as the pattern was in the group of patterns we bought from Berry Basket, before it was taken over by new owners. You can safely give away, or sell any of them that you want. The only patterns that we are not allowed to sell or give away out of the bunch, was the large clock ones that were at the end of the cluster we bought. If you wanted to, you could even post them all on here without repercussions. I found my copy of the original e-mail, we received back when the offer was made. I had thought that I had lost it for good, but I found it this year when I was packing things to move. So feel free to sell or to give any of them away, there's nothing that can happen to you according to the conditions of the sale. Len

Our long time neighbors retired at a young age and bought an old house that had been all modernized on 11 acres. It had been a tobacco farm about 100 years ago. Now, it has become 18 acres with the addition of some neighboring land. Check out Rowdy Dogs Farm on Facebook. She posts tons of pictures of all the critters that they have since added. We visited them a couple of years back when we still had our motorhome and we parked in their driveway. Every morning we were awakened by the braying of their donkey Jackpot. I fell in love with Tennessee and I know I would love their politics there a lot better than where I live. But, at our age, we ain't going nowhere anytime soon. https://www.facebook.com/RowdyDogsFarm/

That'd be a fun road trip.. TN is my favorite state that I've been too.. If I were to ever move.. it'd probably be to TN..

Saw @meflick's post on her little guitar pick boxes and decided to make on for my guitar playing son. Nice easy way to use up some little pieces of wood. The top and bottom are Black Limba wood, I do not know what the middle is.

Been working on this for 2 months! Been sick the last 7 to 10 days. Thanks to all that took the time to make patterns for the words, very much appreciated. Used Maple and Walnut. The buttons are for looks only, mounted from the inside of the shop. Didn't realize how bad the shop door needs painted. I also try to save the pattern when I remove them from the piece,, I was able to use it to spray paint the inside of the door.

Never thought to look in the hole, it appears there are several ways to fix the problem. I just went through my junk drawer and found this washer. I also found a nut to fit on it but I like the washer better as it keeps the knob closer to where it was. The space of the washer prevents it from locking the plunger part and allows me to tighten the knob down so it won’t spin freely. If I ever want to use the locking feature I just take the knob off and remove the washer.

If I'm not wrong here, I think the confusion is coming in from the fact that some folks are using it for only drilling holes and really don't need or care about the "lock" feature. I took a good look at mine and I see that there is a brass piston down inside of the hole where that knob attaches. When you screw the handle in it pushes that brass piston against the shaft and allows it to lock at a particular depth for routing. If you are only using it to drill holes with, you have no use for that feature. I took the brass piston out and stored it in a place that it won't get lost. I can just turn the knob in until it bottoms out in the threads and remains tight. I hope that I have cleared it up. I know that I understand what I'm saying. LOL!

That will look fine after a few beers.

Too fragile for me but you made nice!!!

My new pattern - Teddy Bear. I like such projects, it is easy to cut and interesting assembling (I used dowels, but it can be assembled by gluing) size - 9,5 x 5,5 x 5,5 inches

Father's day will be upon us soon so here's a nice sentimental sign. Nothing says Father's day like a fist bump. I cut the sign from variegated wood I constructed from assorted scrap pieces I had lying around. The base is from sapele wood and it is layered on top of a piece of pine. Simple and direct. The pattern is free on my FREE PATTERN PAGE.

Wish I'd have known about this as I lost my knob somewhere where i can't reach now.

Interesting jig ya got there Scrappile. I like it. Did you make it? And my apologies Rockytime for hi-jacking your thread.

Great tip.. Yeah.. mine backs out like this.. I had thought about loctite to make it not so easy to back out on it's own.. but I like this idea better.

I don't have one.always wanted one.Darn good tip to keep had.I will write it down. Thanks.

Beautiful job on that Fat Boy! My friend Mike rides one.

I was just at Lowe's and I was looking at the 7 1/4" compound miter saws there. I really like the sliding one at $133. It would take up less space than the 12" I have now and is a whole bunch lighter in weight. I'm going to put my saw up on C/L and if it sells, I'll bring one home. Nice little saw and really smooth operation.

Another awesome cutting Dick. Enjoy your summer and balloon ride. Je

Every year the first week in June it was up to the land of Flintabitty Flonatin. (Sp?) then up to Cranberry Portage. Those were wonderful days. You are close to God's country!

This is what I came up with.

I too have that Lion trimmer that Rolf shows, and it is a great tool to tweak miters. The biggest problem with cutting accurate miters is accuracy itself. There are many homemade jigs out there to do this on a tablesaw, bandsaw or even miter saws. The blade needs to travel in a perfect straight line when cutting and many saws have runout which causes the blade to wander and that causes open miters. You get what you pay for.

very nice

Maybe you will get a really good tip from this customer

Good job you do love her otherwise the new mum to be would not have had a gorgeous gift like that to cherish. Fabulous work Kevin. Marg

That is really nice Kevin..The new baby's own angel ...yes you better love that customer or you will be in big doo doo lol

Really a wonderful piece, Steve. Looking at it on her site and I thought not something I would want to cut. Seeing yours, hummm, maybe I would want to cut it. I really like how you did it.

I love this pattern - I actually enlarged it to 16"

You could put a mirror on the opposite wall?

Thanks very much. There are 3 layers. The blue background, the black backer and then all the individual pieces cut out for the characters

They all look great Kevin...I like the z28 also, the 93 is just a different shape from the Z28s from the seventies .

is it in here? https://www.scrollsaw.com/collections/mini-clocks-make-great-gifts

Love her patterns and her work is amazing. Great job on this one Steve. I cut the Viking one a coupe of years ago, turned out great. Jeff

Thanks to all, there is a lot to learn. I have read through some of the old threads and already want to upgrade my saw. I guess I am lucky to have a basement shop with heat to work in after reading old threads on how to heat a shop and the temperatures some of you have to deal with. I will try to contribute what I can to be part of the village.