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just tried this with sunset behind

Made a grave marker for my brother in law’s beloved lab. She lived 16 years.

I thought I needed to add the B-17 Flying Fortress to my collection of Aircraft. My design was the typical pixel gobbling exercise. I tried to leave some shadow elements in the pattern. I did go smaller on this project since I am running out of wall space. It's 9 x 14 1/8 BBPW on a 1/4" backer shellac/lacquer finish.

This was my first go at cutting a record It sure was a learning curve but I learned a few things while cutting it , I taped it to a piece of cardboard to cut it , next time I think I would use a thin piece of MDF to give a more solid base & have better control over the blades. The Mustang I cut for a friend.

Black and white walnut together!!!

Bob come through again to help keep me busy! My brother passed away several ago ( 4 years ). We had a get together at my sister in laws home for a neice that was in town for a couple of days about 2 weeks ago. Long story short - sister in law has an area in her kitchen perfect for a Coffee Bar. She had a little bit of extra room and my mind immediately says "MAKE HER SOMETHING FOR THIS AREA" . Of course I called on Bob for help, we came up with this - THANK YOU BOB!

This was some tough cutting ,3/4 flooring plank.A #7 scroll reverse was used for the letters and a #12 scroll reverse for the outsides I worked on it on and off as I don,t like to not move when I,m cutting.Fair days work finally!

Again I forgot to take pictures and the 2 projects are gone already but here,s the other 2

Well, another batch of little boxes finished. These took a little while longer than normal as it has been bloody cold. Single digits at night and maximums in the teens during the day. A maximum of 12 one day.. The good part is I can take my time doing the flocking as the paint takes a lot longer to dry. I'd rather be grizzling about the heat any day. The larger Rose box has a Nyatoh band. The other bands are Jarrah.

I found this goldmine while searching the web. I don't speak Russian but the hundreds of images speak for themselves. http://glavmex.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=711&start=10

The garage I hung around at as a teenager had an old mechanic who kind of adopted me. I watched in amazement one day as he pulled the spark plug wires, one at a time while the engine was running. Holding the wire he would point his finger at the engine block and watch the spark jump, no spark or the wrong color spark and he would proclaim, that's the problem!

Trace the wires to where they terminate, use a metal object or a piece of wire the same gauge and jump those connections If it was me I would just clip one at a time. You are going to have to either wire spice the new one in, or solder the new one in where the connection was made 250uf is not going to be that much of a shock IMO, but then again I have been doing that sort of thing a long time, so I am kind of numb to it

Ok, she,s right,and yes always right Soo, I,LL get rid of projects I,ve made not the scrap wood I have 2 lifetimes of .it,s a win win situation as far as I see it,lol

You could put Pegas clamps on any one of those saw and work miracles with it!!!

I often think we need a translation reference document for those of us down here John. It took me ages to find out Mineral Oil was called Paraffin Liquid in NZ! Rob

Fascinating! Thanks for posting. Love looking at all that old iron.

Thanks for posting. I love all the ideas and innovations of the early scroll saws. I used to stand and watch a guy in Old Colorado City who would set up his saw on the sidewalk and just cut away. All foot powered like riding a bike. The hobby has come a long way. I wonder what the next big change/idea will be in the design of the scroll saw.

For years I used the cheapo inkjet printer. They were about $30 and came with ink. Of course when it comes time t replace the ink, it costs about $35 for it. That always bugged me. I got mad at that and figured I would just buy a new one every time I ran out of ink which worked good but it was just not an environmentally nice thing to do. Plus they do not print that many pages. Pulled the trigger on a color laser printer a few years back and could not be happier. I got a Brother 3170CDW. It cost me about $170 or something like that on Amazon. now that is a chunk of change no doubt but it is well worth it. For starters, it comes with all the colors toners, red, blue, yellow, black, or whatever fancy words they call them. The initial ones printed about 300 pages. The ink jets did about 25 -50 pages at best. I get the generic replacement toners that cost me $45 of so on amazon and they all work great. You know how it is with pattern printing. There is always some resizing and printing and moving something around, printing again and so on. before i would be very cautious about the pages but now i just hit print like i am at the office or something. I can print 25 pages per project and not even care. Well worth the money if you are getting frustrated with ink and such. Plus the wifi part connected no problem and also have a phone app to print from my phone.

Well here's something a bit different. I've been working on and idea for building a foot lift for my Excalibur scroll saw arm. At the tap of the toe you can raise and lower the arm easily -- saving wear and tear on your arm and making it easy to lift and lower when you have a lot of cuts on a piece -- fretwork, for example. I designed this for the Excalibur, but I think it will work with any scroll saw that's arm is lifted. You can check out the build and the use in my new video on YouTube: Free pattern can be downloaded from my Free Page at my site:

I live in the foothills of North Georgia Blue Ridge mountains. I have enjoyed working with wood since I was a teenager. Now that I am nearing retirement, I hope to spend more time in the shop. I cut my own wood and mill it on a Logosol chainsaw mill. I have cedar, oak, maple, cherry, pine, sweet gum and a couple of black walnut trees growing on my property. It’s old growth for the most part. I have enough trees to last me the rest of my days and still leave some for the kids and grandkids to enjoy. My scroll saw is a Delta 40-150 15”. I bought/bartered for it several years ago. It has been a great little tool. I’m having an electrical issue with it right now so I hope this forum can help me solve the problem. Looking forward to hearing from everyone.

Haven't finished much lately. Waiting for my hand to heal up and so many new things I am trying to work at. I did finish cutting this this evening and I really like it. This is a Charles Hand pattern caller "Tigris" pattern "orno5". Says it is approx. 215 cuts, but I really feel it is more. Took me awhile and not finished. I have to sand it and finish applied. I want to mount it on a red background as pictured, only maybe silk...pictured it is sitting on felt. This pattern was unique to me. It said it was a challenge, and it was, only for me in the time it took. But I also felt it was a good pattern for someone that was wanting to do detailed fretwork. I gave lots of practice. Many of the same cuts repeated only getting smaller and smaller with each one... A close look at it will show what I am trying to describe. Anyway, although it took me a long time to cut... I really enjoyed it and have another one of his ornate ones to do. Thanks @Charles Hand

I like it !

Thanks guys for the help. As a kid, I “gophered” for a couple of older mechanics and boy the stuff I learned from them. After a while I graduated from “go and fetch” the wrench’s/tools to actually helping rebuild small block Chevy’s and air cooled VW engines. Did the same thing in a cabinet shop too with two old craftsmen. Learned stuff that you don’t get in high school wood shop. I’ll be forever grateful. Again, thanks guys for all your help. My parts came in today but it will be Monday before I can install the capacitor.

For me power tools are extensions of your hands, but CNC tools are extensions of a computer. The mistakes you make are part of the art of creation.

Ok, let me amend my comment, I love looking at old machinery. No matter what it's made of. Sticks and rocks still fascinate me.

Kevin, many times those insulated pliers will get pin holes through the rubber coating from general use. If there is enough juice, it can find it's way through those pin holes and zap ya. I've pulled many a plug wire with my bare hands. I always made sure that I wasn't touching the cars body in any way though.

I did the project in the cheapest 1/4" ply. Lots of fuzzys on the back and I used a scroll reverse blade and a spiral for the letters.13" height x 15"wide

The way my dad used those old Craftsman picture frame corner clamps was to pre-cut the pieces as close to 45 as he could and then assemble the pieces in the clamp. He would then pass a hand saw down through the mitered gap at the corner, which would trim off the offending cuts, making both pieces match, possibly at slightly off of 45 degrees, but they would then fit closely together and form a tight joint, at least at the accuracy of the clamp. He would then glue and staple the joint together. We had quite a few of my dad's picture frames in our house, all made this way. He had very few woodworking tools, and what he had were cheap, but his picture frames always looked great and stayed together. I have the MiterSet jigs that I use for setting the miter gauge on my table saw and I make picture frames and segmented circles and arcs using these gauges to get the perfect angles needed for doing this. One of the jigs sets the miter gauge in 1/2 degree increments to .001 degree accuracy. The other produces the same accuracy, but it's for making segmented circles, where the angles for some of these segment cuts need to be in partial degrees to the third decimal place. These MiterSet jigs are very precise, and made like aerospace hardware. Each comes in it's own foam padded blow molded case. https://miterset.myshopify.com/ I'm just a very satisfied customer.

Started early today and got these 3 done. Cowgirl, Cowboy and Rodeo Crosses. 3/4 inch Poplar and Sue Mey designs.

Looks good. We'll done

I just looked up the current price on the sander my wife bought me a while back. I could buy 13 of the HF sanders for that price. But I love it.

I don't think the rubber handles will help much but I could be wrong.. Back in high school my friends car was running bad.. his dad told us to take a plug wire off one at a time until we found what cyl. was misfiring.. We said no way we are doing that.. so his dad said get the rubber handled pliers and do it.. we refused again.. so he was talking crap about us being chicken to to it and said he'd do it then... we warned him.. he got nailed with it.. jumped and hit his head on the car hood etc.. But like an idiot went right back in for more.. He finally got the wire off.. but after than he had us hut down the car first, Thanks for the old funny memory. For what it's worth.. those rubber pliers handles was more of a plastic.. I'm not sure that a real rubber handle may help? I wouldn't want to be the guinea pig to try it though.. Maybe rubber gloves and the whole works will work.

terrific job

Really a great job of cutting a very nice pattern. Well done.

That blade looks rather thick but I would love to give the saw a try.

Got a chuckle out of your comment.. While there is iron in the picture.. it looks mostly made from wood..

I wonder that too sometimes.. but with this computer age stuff.. I'm guessing it's more along the lines of a CNC or Laser that will eventually take over the scroll saw.. I think probably before the treadle saw was just a hand copping saw?

Click on this, scroll down a little and it will be the first pattern on the right http://baggetta.com/pebooks/FreePatternPage.htm

Thanks for letting me know. I think I've fixed it. Al B.

I feel your pain Kevin. I haven't used ours in so long that I think I will have to go back to square one and relearn what all I learned and fear I have forgotten. I may have forgotten how to use my scroll saw too. First one thing and then another has kept me out of the shop then not. Cousin's daughter's wedding this weekend. Maybe next week. I never figured out the touch plate yet either. I do have several successful projects with it, so I know it can be done.

That is definitely not clutter Kevin. Clutter is what I am getting rid of now, I have a bad habit of saving ALL of my scraps, even the cutouts from everything. I just filled up a 35 gallon trash can with sawdust and minute pcs of wood you could vacuum up.

That's a nice one you've done there Kevin, Thank you for posting! Bob

Just beautiful works of ART you are showing us Kevin!!! Great scrolling! Thank you for posting, Bob P.S. There ain't any clutter that comes out of your workshop Kevin...Just works of ART!

It must be the week for cats I've done three in a row.

Thank you Marg, I make my own finish with Beeswax and mineral oil.. No drying time and no smells to get the mail lady high, LOL

Pattern - vk.com

Lovely piece Kevin. Hope you can get rid of the fuzzies without breaking anything. Rob

A project finished yesterday, June 10th. The pattern is by Sam Custodio. I used 1/2" Bloodwood and backed with Baltic Birch plywood stained with Saman Azure. It is approximately 6" x 16". I used FD Polar #1 and New Spiral #5 blades. The finish is spray Shellac. Comments welcome.

When my HP bites the dust I'll make the switch.

I have the model that superceded yours. I'm still using the toner cartridges that came with it. I wish I had pulled the trigger years ago. I wasted a fortune on inkjet printers both in ink and paper. Oh, and time too. I recommend Brother laser printers 100%.