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I already told that the key-holder pattern that I made it a bit bigger for our dog leashes. And I am finished Now just need to hang it and use it

These kept me busy for the last few days. Used 1/4 inch BBply # 1 Balde and # 1 spiral and 0/3 spirals Patterns in the library - Animals Pg 14 By David B Huntter 2/2008

old piece of pink dogwood

Game of Thrones fans will understand. Valar Morgulis.

this little nick-knack shelf was in the latest scroll saw woodworking magazine, I had in the mail when I returned from Oregon and my wife ask me to make it for her, so I did as I was told. (keeps peace in the family, that way). It is quite small but an easy one to cut. She liked it so that made me happy about doing it for her Dick heppnerguy

I enjoyed making my Peacock Night Light so much I decided to pull out the patterns and try it again. This time I broke out the expensive wood, Babinga, for this project. It is definitely a denser and harder wood but does not change colors and darken like Padauk. This time I stack cut the 1/8" BBPW twice. I get too much blade drift with this fine pattern with anything over 1/4" total. I decided to Stain the panels to match the base, top and sides and found a red walnut stain at Lowe's. I applied a pre-stain to prevent any blotchy appearance and it helped. My wife thought it would look great if there was a pattern on the top. Knowing that Babinga can be a little brittle, I was hesitant cutting 1/2" material with such a fine pattern. The cutting went fine but when fitting it all together, I leaned on the top a little too much and broke off a piece of the pattern. Thanks goodness for CA glue, all better! Finished with shellac and gloss lacquer. I was kind of hoping that the top cutout would project up on the ceiling but I would need to add some kind of lens. I'll probably revisit the first one I did in oak to add the top design cutout but may "hog" out a 1/4" of material since it is 3/4.

I personally think you should buy another scroll saw. You can never have too many scroll saws.

So a bunch of us (most of us in our mid 40's) get together once a week after work to do some old-school tabletop gaming. Dice, miniatures, junk food, the works. We've modernized, though, with dice towers, 3D printed minis (I still paint mine, although our "enemies" tend to show up as a uniform Whataburger-orange color). The dice tower I made recently works great, and then someone took a look at youtube. Apparently the big thing now is digital maps (if you could see our DM's drawing skillz, you'd agree, digital is better), but not just displayed on a wall-mounted TV. Nope....lay the TV flat on the table, project a map and grid, and put your minis right on the screen. So of course, being the woodworker in the group, everyone pestered me to make one. "Sure....you got a spare TV?" Sudden silence. Fortunately, I did have a spare 32", having just replaced my wife's bedroom TV. 1x6x10' Lowes whiteboard, with a plexiglass cover cut to fit the frame. Had to do a bit of tweaking to remove the bezel from the TV, then added a ledge around the edge to hide the sharp edges and exposed electronics and also, conveniently, give a place to stash minis when they weren't on the map. Scrolled out openings for vents, speakers, input cables, and the power button (ledge covers the IR port, so no remote) and had to rasp a groove for the power button, which protrudes below the bottom of the TV just enough to be really annoying.

I did something last evening that I know is not going to be excepted here. I don't ask for forgiveness, I'm not proud of it but it had to be done, for now at least. I removed my Pegas clamps from my Seyco saw and went back to the old original clamps!!!!! I know, I know, I may be banned from here but I ask for your understanding. Here is why: I started cutting a picture that is my kind of fun scrolling. Detailed. I have to use Flying Dutchman 3/0 New Spiral Blades to accomplish it. I could not clamp the 3/0 Spiral in the Pegas clamp without getting the "Hockey Stick" bend in each end. I tried every trick I have learned in my years of scrolling to prevent it, but no matter, best I could do was get 3 or so clampings and it would happen. I am convinced it has something to do with the fact there are more exposed threads in the back of the Pegas clamp where you put the blade. The back of the original clamps has a very small area that has exposed threads and they are not as deep. That is the only difference I could see. I suspect the twist of that thin spiral is catching in a thread. I had it happen more often with a 2/0 pegas spiral also than I did with the original clamps. That is my second go to spiral blade. Anyway, I am back to the old clamps, at least when using the 3/0 spiral. Don't know is it is worth changing back to the Pegas clamp when not, I have to think on that..... maybe get a third scroll saw... several nice older Excaliburs for sale with in a couple hundred miles of me.........

A friend told about a tool called Scotty Peeler. Librarians use them to remove stickers in books. Just google it and you will find a lot of places to get them. I use a Zyron machine to put my patterns on and this tool peels the pattern off so easy . Bob

Made these for a stall at my local Men's Shed open day next weekend.These would be ideal for a childs bedroom etc.

This pattern was purchased for me as a gift from a Scrappile. He knows how much I love his work and I had told him I was interested in trying one of these patterns. So low and behold, Paul bought it for me to try. I was excited to give it a go but then I realized I would not be doing it as planned. First of all, I wanted to stack cut it on 1/8 in BB ply, which I discovered I was out of so I decided to use 1/4 inch. I made another change in plans, thinking with 1/2 inch total thickness, I was going to cut it with a #1 spiral instead of a 0/3. This being a little larger blade I thought would make the job a little easier. I have never cut a piece this size with so many fret cuts while stack cutting, but what the heck, no problem. It started out pretty good but was taking way more time then I thought it would. As I entered the middle of the project, I realized the drill press could not reach the middle of the board to drill my holes, so I decided to use my Dremel for the job. After drilling and cutting many holes I discovered that some of my holes were not a straight up and down as they needed to be and the back piece was getting some holes coming out into a previous cut or extremely close to it. I also discovered that the bit was too aggressive for the close cuts and some of the close by holes were getting torn out on the bottom of the cut. Because of all the hours I had already spent, I decided that I was not longer going to spend a lot of time on an already lengthy piece that I knew was not going to come out as planned. I thought I would go ahead and try to finish this already self destructed project, do to my many bad decisions. I decided that I would just cut out the background and trees in a simple manner and not waste my time putting in the details that made the pattern so interesting and challenging. So I did and parted my two layers. Once I had that done, I found that it turned out better then I thought it was going to, even though I had made all those bad decisions at the beginning. So Now I had only one layer and the trees needed more cuts to make the plaque look a little more like it should. So I got out a #03 spiral, drilled a bunch more holes and cut in me detail to the trees. I looked a lot better. ONE MORE ERROR......this morning I entered the shop to put on my second coat of finish. I thought to myself, "It is not what I was hoping to get with this piece but it was turning out better then I thought if would after all my bad decisions at the start of the project. Well after applying my second coat of spray finished and putting about the spray can, I suddenly realized I had picked up the spray glue instead of the finish. I was able to get the glue of the piece with mineral spirits, followed by sanding and go it finished. Now you know why it turned out the way it did. This was a big learning experience in not trying to make things work by altering the method needed for a successful project. Dick hepppnerguy

I agree with Jim.. But that said.. did your pegas clamps come with the thumb screws that have the swivel end? If I remember correctly mine did not and I swapped out the thumb screws from my DeWalt.. I had a backup set for the DW so i used the new set of the swivel thumb screws.. I also had some issues with the thumb screws that came with my Pegas clamp.. but not sure now what I had issues with other than I remember the knobs on the Pegas clamps was bigger and smooth.. and I liked the smaller style that I had for my DW.. so I swapped them..

I drilled the holes for the rivets about 1/4" deep, then installed the aluminium rivets.

Can I presume you drilled through holes? Would not ever have thought of pop rivets. Good thinking out of the box.

What a great noveltie for the warehouse bathroom.Steve Good pattern.toilet paper holder.

I enjoy the old west theme and use it in a lot of my patterns. Steve Good came up with one the other day I could not resist, so I tried my hand at it. I use cherry and maple woods and a photo I took in Monument Valley as a background, instead of a plain black. Came out pretty good. Go on over to Steve's blog and download the pattern. I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Here's a picture of my rendition of the project. A little bit different than Steve's. '

I'm getting ready to add a gallery and want to know if I can edit my pattern designer info etc. after uploading or do I need to do it 1st? I have the photos but need to research the pattern makers to give credit where credit is due.

Um, I use my thumb nail to remove patterns.

@kmmcrafts, yes they have the swivel end, which I cleaned well.

I have been using the #18 chisel blade in my x-acto knife for years and it has worked very well for me. This tool may even be better. Thanks

Does this help any? Not sure when this was last updated.

Really well done!

That turned out great !

awesome job

nice job

very nice job

That came out really nice, kudo's

Very nicely done Miran. Great idea and I really like the pattern.

Love it and I'm sure they will too. Marg

I've cut a lot of crappie in my life. A little cornmeal and hot oil, they make a fine sandwich. [Wrong forum??]

Those are really very well done. I should do the Crappie one for my son. He has lots of Blue Gill and bass in his pond. This looks close to the blue gill. He could hand it in his garage where he keeps his fishing gear.

Great cutting! I've cut the walleye but not the crappie. I need to get started on it.

I do the exact same thing, BE/19 and I use a fine point sharpie.

Means absolutely nothing I am afraid. Could be not many people were looking for a phone stand. Who knows if you sold for $6 you would have sold 4. Would be $4 richer and 2 stands less. You will drive yourself crazy pricing things and trying to figure out potential customers especially at a show. Good luck with further sales.

Looks great but I first will take my time sometimes if I dare with your howling wolf I bought whahahahah.

Or you two could make a saw like the Hegner with your ideas and add another scroll saw to those available. While you are producing these saws, add a bigger table to it.

them solids/pigments that make the color really like to settle at the bottom of the cans. the longer the can sits on the shelf the more difficult it can be to get em back into suspension. ive had cans ive had to shake for 5 minutes until i could hear the rattle ball hitting metal on the bottom of the can. when i pick up a can for a project, one thing i do is shake it, then set it upside down on the bench for a day or so. then shake again when ready. seems to help break up the pigments/solids.

Here is another modification to my Hegner saws I made. Helps to center the blade in the clamp. Just pop riveted in place.

Brenda, You did an excellent job on the project and you deserve to be remembered as the artist. Hopefully, this may also generate some contacts and more sales! Your signature is absolutely beautiful! I have used home-made address labels, ink pen, sharpie (ink markers), wood burning and now also have a branding iron that says "Hand made in America by" with my name and two American Flags. As Kevin said, I do not date the pieces only because if I have a piece that did not sell for a year or more and people see the date they may feel a little concerned that the project was not just made recently. Thanks for sharing your work and God Bless! Spirithorse

Brenda, I just checked out your "gallery" and let me say this, your work is awesome. You have come so far in such a short time. Cudos to you. Wonderful work. Great cutting and finishing. Fantastic!

Nice signature and a wonderful piece!

Been a bit busy and falling behind on posting any cuttings. My thanks to the pattern designers on these you folks help me look good. The Native Amerian is white robe from the buffalo nickle, and wonder woman both by Multitiom, The horse in a horse is by Gayle of Scrollers Cafe, Hulk is by Botas Helder The these are my brothers pattern is from a while back and I can not find a name on it for credit. Thanks again to the pattern designers. jim

I can see it's going to take time to get used this site. I'd put some effort into an introduction and see not a bit of it made it into the intro. It was not my intention to just post a few pictures. Will correct that, once I get past the current shiny things keeping me distracted.

Question is not silly. DUH! That was exactly my problem. Thank you. Signed, Dumkopf

When I was around 13, my uncle asked me if I would like to come over and help him paint a car. I agreed and later found out he was using rattle cans and my "help" was to shake the cans. Wish I could remember how many cans it took but it was many. I don't remember if it came out OK or not. I'm guessing not.