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It's been a busy couple of nights in the shop. This is my first time cutting the beagle pattern. I'm really liking it. Will start stocking up on other breeds of dogs also. Thanks for looking Jim

I have already made layered bee project (it was ornament style), but this time I wanted to make more realistic pattern Video of making Bee project Bee pattern

I decided to try a portrait. So I found Steve Good's "Easy Elvis" and cut it yesterday. It's going up for sale at The Rustic Barn so I just stuck it in a cheap frame. It's 1/4" BB ply done with a Pegas MG #3 and finished with spray lacquer.

Did this one today

Finally I can give some advise back to you all, when stealing the wife's makes up brushes for cleaning the saw, don't steal the £30 contour brush it works great but wow was she mad lol

Well all is well but lots of meds to take now.i had no idea what was wrong but the pain was excruciating to say the least. Do I drove to the hospital knowing something big was going on,never thought it was a stroke.i had to rotate my shoulders as much as I could just to endure the pain while driving to the hospital.They put a stent in my heart via a vein in my thigh in minutes once the x-ray or ultra sound came back.BUT the good thing is I was surrounded with females all the time I was in the hospital. I didn't,take names as I,m behind already making names. About a week before this happened I slowed down to just about a stop scrolling. Yep the heart attack was building up.no damage that they know of! Glad to be back!!! Thanks for all the well wishing friends .God never left me!!!! The pharmacist got his name when I fill my meds. Can,t keep a scroller down long!!! He,s vietnames. The font is rage.

Finished cutting this yesterday. Think I’ll frame this one. Charles did a good job creating this one for sure. Any opinions on what stain to use?

Women aren't always forgiving when you find another purpose for some of their things. I once used my wife's favorite bread knife to cut sod around the contour of our walkway. Walkway looked great and so did the "new" bread knife I was so happy to purchase.

Kenny Hopkins pattern cut on 1/8" BBPLY (stack cut 2) FD #1 blades. (Flat & Spiral)

It hurt to do this one as I am a charger's fan. It is a very bad picture from my very bad phone.

Will do tomorrow.

Rockytime, care to post a few pictures of how you have it mounted?

This is how It looks finished. I went with danish oil on the wood.

Kevin when you get back to cutting, cut this for your shop

What is yours is hers--BUT What is hers is HERS! Marriage lesson #1

I don't want to beat an old horse to death but here goes. I purchased a 5X mag light for my saw. Too strong. Put in on my metal lathe bench. Bought a 1.5X mag lamp on ebay foe $25, a very nice lamp for the price. Worked quite well but it kept my nose to close to the table. I bought this 3X lamp on Amazon for $50. Wow, perfect viewing distance for me. What is unique is the lens. The lens is plastic but the quality of the viewing is great! It is unusual due to it's shape. It is like not looking through a lamp because there is no distracting outside frame. The led's are mounted underneath and just ahead of the lens. The led's are 24 volt . It is a unique looking lamp but works beautifully just wearing my reading glasses.

Beautiful.....I like it a lot

Beautiful plaque Brent.

I wonder with all the craft projects, if customers would buy scroll sawed projects with no stain or finish for them to finish to to what they like. RJF

I've had them on my dewalt for a year and started to have minimal slippage last month. I lightly sanded the screws and lubed the oring. No more problems. I was having to sand the factory ones every 2 months

Yeppers, I messed that one up. The thermostat is a value, and the measurement of water temp I was referring to, typically opens around 180*F, allows the cooler radiator water to mix with the engine water. The temp gauge is usually about midway on the block (front to back) and runs the gauge on the dash. Mea culpa, one day I will get the brain and the fingers to work together well.

Actually, the thermostat opens and closes at certain temperatures to keep the water at a certain temperature and a thermal switch controls the fans. The thermostat is actually a "dumb" valve.

That is beautiful!! I have the pattern to do, hope I can do as well as you did.

when the car gets hot.. they kick on to cool the car engine. Technically, since I just got back from PT and am feeling onery, the water gets hot, and the fan cools the water in the radiator, the thermostat measures the water temperature.

Thanks John! That's good to know...I'm taking this one to the flea market today and put it in my booth for sale. I might take the one of the boy fishing also, I posted it here a week or two ago.

Don't go this way if you live where temperatures can fall below freezing or your water in the system will need anti freeze added to it in case it's off when the temperatures do fall this low. The idea of heating directly or indirectly from electric power is an expensive way to heat too, unless a heat pump (reversible air conditioner) can be used. My shop has a 24K BTU window style heat pump mounted high and through the North wall of my shop. It keeps my shop above freezing and around 70 degrees whenever I'm working in there, but I live in North Carolina where heat pumps work quite efficiently, and not in the Great White North. No part of a heat pump system ever gets hot enough to ignite paper or wood, so it's very safe. With a good pleated air filter, it makes a good shop air cleaner too. When I lived in NY State, my shop was heated by an oil fired hot air furnace in a separate room from the shop, and I filtered the air going through it with good pleated filters. Charley

Wrap it up nicely and put it under the tree. Two problems solved

looking good Gary. I cut a few different Elvis' and all sell really well.

Beautiful pattern and very well cut Ron.

I bought an old house in NE years ago. It had hot water heat...in the winter the only way to really get warmed up was to sit on a radiator! A year or two later it was ripped put and replaced with a new gas forced air heater...much better!

Ah, so easy. Thanks Jim!

Hi Jerrye I just opened my etsy shop if you want to buy ma patterns just look around Etsy shop and email me what you need I will tell you village price and paypal account on E-mail https://www.etsy.com/shop/Namunolie email address: twityyel@naver.com

Bill, if you have anybody near you that has the clamps,maybe they'd go along with letting your either borrow them for a trial or let you use their saw. There was no reason for me to replace my "perfectly good clamps" either but if everybody felt that way, we might all still be driving model T Fords. They did the job well too but there was always a better car coming along. The size difference alone is worth the change over. Much lighter too.

Les, it's never "beating a dead horse" when you post about a new product. If nobody ever let the word get out, we'd all still be using handheld fret saws. Just sayin.....

I finished up Santa's Truck by Steve Good this morning. Had to laugh when I saw Dan put the same thing up yesterday...mine was in the shop letting the backer paint dry before I glued it up! I used 1/4" Maple and 1/4" Birch ply painted red but put it on an Oak base. I veined it with a Pegas #5 and followed with a 2/0 spiral. Following the #5 it was better behaved...but still tried to get wild a couple of times...lol. This method may be my only use for spirals, for now. I took it up to Red Barn to put in my booth and the owner really liked it. When I signed the bottom of the base I dated it and wrote "#1 of 10"...lol. Maybe people will think it's a limited edition...limited by how many I want to make...lol And she wants me to design a tissue box for the store! Cool!

Thank you very much Spirithorse (Bob). The customer loves it. I'm sure your pattern was the clinched. Tony

Great looking work you do. I like the sign too!!!

There's a time for everything, Thank you Brent!!!

Some of the scrap I have been using,I have plenty more.The 3D Ornaments I have made an attempt in the past,{bad attempt}.I thought I would give them another try.Not to shabby.My Wife help me paint them.

Excellent work by both you and your wife. You make a great team. Another title to add to our resume - Wood Rescue Specialist

fantastic ~~ tiger look real great~~~~wow

fantastic work i like soft coloring good luck on your show

I envy that you work with your wife cololing is beautiful well done

Sounds like you may have a death wish

I appreciate the feedback and perspective, Ray. I know I'm swimming upstream on this one, given the nearly universally positive reviews these clamps have gotten. Like I said, I have little reason to replace perfectly good clamps, at the moment. But if/when I need to, I'll certainly give the Pegas replacements serious consideration.

Simplified mechanism, no nylon screw to wear out. Just a better design and much more compact. JMHO.

OK I'll confuse the issue even more, I would use pegas Modified geometry #3 1/8 or 1/4 makes no difference in cutting IMO, stack cut two or three, they are all usable in my experience

I'd probably use 1/4" ply myself and stack 2, just because I think the 1/4 would make it pop a bit more than 1/8th. That's just personal preference though and it will look great either way. As far as blades go I'd probably use a FDUR #5 whether cutting 1/4 or 1/8th inch stacked.

I would stack 3 pcs of ply and use a #5 Olson match blades I never cut just one piece of ply you cut 3 pcs so you will have 2 good ones if you get 3 its a good thing but if you adre cutting only one piece I would use a #3 I verlly seldom use 1/8 ply unless i am cutting orniments then I stack4 to 6 pieces. IKE

It's always my wife that's at fault on that one.. When I first started sawing she sold pieces at work before they had a finish on them, LOL One evening she mentioned to me that she was going to take it to work and show her co-workers.. I said you can but I need to finish it first.. It disappeared and never returned.. finally came back as green paper bills.. I said next time wait until I'm done with it... Next time comes and guess what... disappeared again.. I finally got smart and stopped bringing them in to show them off until I'm absolutely done..