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I just finished this a few days ago. It was my first attempt with spiral blades, and I broke 18 blades grand total!! Towards the end though, I figured out what was happening, and didn’t break another blade! This was an extremely fun project, I am looking forward to do more with spirals in the future.

I did that bike for my wife because of her love for biking ( as me ) This is the more delicate cuts I made so far, the wood is 3/16". planeur

I wanted the inlay to be subdued cause I really like the wood pattern of the top (red cedar) - almost too subdued I think.

This is my 2nd attempt using Spiral blades. I'm not displeased at how it turned out. The pattern is an @alexfox so thanks to you Alex for such a lovely pattern. I hope I didn't make too much of a hash of it

yesterday I joined this village and said hello to you this village was kind of adventure to me I want to say thank for your warm greeting it was touched really english and village stuff is still strange I feel like I traveling around world now I will get used it soon hopfully in Korea there is villages like this and I know we just same as we like to make scrollsaw stuffs I made shark recentely coz of my son wanna see that movie Megalodon he is too young to see that movie so I made Megalodon puzzle for him

Here is my new 3D project, I rarely do such projects because creating such patterns takes a lot of time, but it is fun and easy to cut it Video of making 3D dog project 3D dog Pattern

As the others have said, this really is more of a scrollsaw with a continuous blade. Not meant to do what other band saws do. If I were doing lots of band saw boxes or thicker (3/4 inch) maple toy puzzles I would have one.

that is one healthy vegetarian!!! 100 Atta girls.Learning curve is all old news now for you.Master Spiralis BRENDA

Steve Good Pattern 1/8" BBPLY Attempt at painting

Well it's exactly 9 wks since my run in with CA glue and I've just taken off my final dressing. Hurray !!! The 'redness' will no doubt fade in time, but I'm no longer in any pain and I can get my shoes on again (I just can't pull my laces too tight on my trainers)

I've used CA glue since it came out years ago. I would say I've been very casual with it and never considered it hazardous other than sticking yourself to the project. From your postings, I'm going to be treating CA differently. RJF

I think burns are the most painful. So sorry you had to endure it but am thankful you are recovering.

Glad it is healing. That may always be a tender spot.

Gadzooks I can't believe how long it takes a burn to heal.

fantastic job, it's beautiful

Glad to see you are healing, and thanks for sharing, it is so important to develop shop safety attitudes. Your pictures of the injury will be a mindful image every time I use CA glue.

Wow, so glad to see that you healed and things are progressing.

Aww, I'm touched... Thank you all so, so much for your kind words and support, it means an awful lot to me. You all are the very epitome of what a 'community' should be. I've said it before and I'll say it again, '' I knew nothing about scrolling when I joined the Village last year and everyone of you have played a part in my 'education' and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart".

Oh Brenda you have come a long way, you exceeded yourself with this one. Ten thumbs up for you. Marg

Great job Brenda. You are a brave and talented lady!

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Steven Steven Steven, Your amazing and a natural with these blade's. You really clicked with them and made mince meat of the wood of choice ! Keepyour work coming!!!

I’m in the groove Charles Hand pattern thank you charles Hand and Charles Dearing for pushing my limits. There are many fine designers out there but these two have produce most I want to cut so far but I’m always looking for new challenges

I saw your post so I thought I would try to make a pattern you could cut without losing the middle of the letters. I am not much of a pattern maker but I thought it would be worth a try for you. I hope this helps Dick heppnerguy

took awhile thinking im loseing interest

Cut these from 1/4" birch ply, they measure about 3"-5" for Santa, Spielman-Reidle patterns. I coat the sides and one face with poly , this allows someone to sign the back and attach it to a present as a keepsake. Stack cut 4 at a time. Thanks for looking.

I have logged virtually 100's of hours using the air models to remove burrs from tooling plate when I was running a METLSAW back in my worker bee days. Doubt if I will ever pick one up again. lol At least an electric one doesn't have that annoying howl the air models have. I bet it worked well on the mower blade though. My lawn is stones and sand and there no mowers anywhere to be seen. I do miss the smell of fresh mowed grass and trees with leaves instead of thorns.

Very well done. Great idea of leaving the back unfinished for signing

This is my first attempt at flocking. As mentioned in another thread I was not very happy with the outcome. The first time I did it my coverage was not great. I went ahead and put more coat of glue over the existing flocking on the bottom. I did a lot of research and no one recommended doing this but I am always willing to try something once. The results weren't great. The coverage is good but ended up with small bumps. I won't try that again. Octoolguy inspired me to do the round box. He made one and posted it probably about a month ago. I did change it up a bit.

she wanted me to do an elephant for her. I put it in the back of my mind intentionally, letting her think I forgot - have to keep them guessing. Last night I gave her this one

thank you dave yes I draw that puzzle I like both sawing and design ^^

A customer drew just the deers and sent it to me. Do you know I never knew why he wanted me to cut it. I could not see the deers and never asked. Just thought it was a tattoo or something. You did real good here!!!

Charles Hand pattern

Looks like you cut the outside of the antlers, then looped back around to the inside. That means all the stress of blade vibration/pressure sits on the tiny connection piece. I try to find all the little islands and cut around those first, then loop back around the outside. Looking at it another way, if the thick black line is a river, cut the part that touches the inside of the antlers first. That way, you have all the rest of the piece of wood to help provide stability to the weak bridges. Coming back around the other side of the river, the antler points still have the rest of your project for support. Its a hard lesson to learn. All is not lost, though....wood glue is your friend!

This is what I'm using now. Picked up a 2'x4' at Lowe's the other day. I haven't ever used this before. Looks a little strange to me...is this what you're using?

Outstanding job!

It would be a great tool for a miniaturist. When I was model railroading I would loved to have that thing.

Thank you a lot!. And yes, finally I was one of the winners

Thank you everyone for your comments and support. @Rockytime Thank you too and I actually use Gimp for making the pattern itself, and Inkscape after to vectorize it and get a smooth final design. I animate you to learn pattern making, because I´m not an expert with computers, and it´s easier than can seem at first thougt. I leave you here the link to the series of videos that I used to learn pattern making with Gimp (with an image of William Shatner), and animate you to do it, cause with time you can make beautiful pieces

As the others have said it really depends on what kind of projects you do. My band saw gets constant use, I use a lot of thin material so re-sawing has saved me a small fortune.

good job new guy it is kind of story board that is alot fun inside

Last week Steve Good posted these patterns and I thought it would be fun to make. I used 1/4" Walnut. It is 3 1/4" wide and 6" high. I tried to make the 3" out of Cherry, but it broke and I was unable to glue it together. I used FD UR #1 blades and finished with sanding sealer and two coats spray Lacquer Clear Semi Gloss. Comments welcome.

Any time I cut 1/8" or 1/4" I always stack cut at least 2.

Very nice. Would make great ornaments after used as a gift tag. Thanks for showing.

I still use FD UR #1 blades. Lots on hand.

Welcome from Arizona. You are doing a fine job. Keep making sawdust and displaying your projects. Looks like you have a pretty good handle on things. Dick heppnerguy

Try a sawmill. you need a planer or a friend with one.... Old pallets

I like to echo what has been said about wood selection,I use 1/4 B,B myself, And I echo what Scrappile said as well.

Darn Good Job!!!

I second what Scrappile just said. First of all, we all have had a lot of firewood. Sadly, I have no fireplace. Second, wear a dusy mask no matter what you are cutting. Scroll saw make a ton of fine dust. Many of us have a 20 inxh box fan sitting along side of us to draw the dust away. Put a furnace filter on the inlet side. Make sure your dust blower blows the dust away from you toward that fan. I vacuum off the furnace filter after every session. It's amazing how much it catches. 3rd, Rockytime buys sheets of under layment plywood ay H/D for just a few dollars. It's about 3/16" thick amd seems to cut well. And, 4th, do tell us a bit about yourself. Welcome to the village. It's the friendliest place on the web. 5th, no such thing as a dumb question!!!