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I was having a hard time getting the knobs tight enough to hold the saw blade. My husband made me a wrench and it works great. I can change my own blades. I wanted to share with you and post a picture.

Both patterns from Steve Good, no finish applied on the truck yet. Busy, busy, busy

Did our 2nd show for the season and did pretty good, over $1300. Portraits and Sue Mey crosses were huge. Plus ornaments again. The best part of this was I got an order for 60 $20.00 items. Gonna be busy right up till Christmas.

I used for this jigsaw puzzle a poster "Tategoto" by artist Haruyo Morita. "Tategoto" is translated from Japanese means "harp", that is, a stringed musical instrument. Size - 42x28 cm 300 pieces

The way I do it is. Print my photo Spray a coat of clear lacquer on the photo Spray contact adhesive onto the back of the photo and onto the board you are going to fix it to. allow the contact to become dry (tacky) Carefully place the photo in position on the backer and press down from one edge. Roll or hammer (With a piece of timber between the hammer and photo) the photo down hard. cut you puzzle assemble the puzzle and give it another coat of gloss lacquer.

It sounds like it is going to an awesome year for those of you who do craft shows. I don't even do craft shows but I am busy doing cheese cutters and matching cutting boards and aggravation games for friends and family. I don't want this to be a job fun of working in shop messing around is my goal. I guess I started something that snowballed on me by making the cheese cutters and matching cutting boards for wedding gifts.

Had a great weekend show did $647 for both days about the same as last year give or take. Got cleaned out of my $5 ornaments and sold out on Steves round Nativitys , won't have time to make more have two more shows to go, and orders to fill. Next weeks show is a little smaller hopefully I will have enough. Sorry no Pictures haven't figured out how to put them on from my cell have to wait for my daughter. edward

My holiday market crush has begun... 4 Saturdays in a row. #1 was today and was solid, beating my best day at this event out of 3 years. I had a new display rack for my key/leash holders and it was a huge success. My location was excellent and everyone saw it as they were walking by. I took orders for 10 leash holders before I sold my first puzzle. LOL Final tally 26 puzzles and 21 key/leash holders. I have a lot of cutting to do this week to fill the leash holder orders and to prepare for events, 2, 3 & 4 in case they're as good as today was. Photos of my booth setup today and my view.

I took my Christmas trees to the craft show and my pictures. I sold out of the trees the first half hour. I took 10 thinking if they don’t sell they make great gifts haha. I sold 15 pictures. I was surprised. I wasn’t going to take anything, my hubby sells pens so I go along to help him but he encouraged me to take my stuff. He says I’m better then I think. I made $400. .

Holy Cow! We made it! In fact, we got 11 designers, which matches last year! Can we beat last year's record and add 1 more designer? @Travis @Foxfold - Received @meflick - Received @MrsN - Received @Fab4 - Received @don in brooklin on - Received @dvdneal - Received @RabidAlien - Received @Kris Martinson - Received @Phantom Scroller - Received @jollyred - Received

Thanks, I’m just slightly tighten them , a little more then I can do with my fingers. I have King scroll saw. I don’t have a lot of strength in my hands. Hubby has informed me and showed me how much to tighten.

We are going to be remodeling after the busy holidays.. and part of that is a a new heat / ac system for the house.. the old one has only been used one full season and very little other than that once season.. but it is from 1994.. I've contemplated putting it up in my loft and running vents down into the shop on each side instead of buying the Bigmaxx heater I wanted..

Till they turn off the electricity.....

The fine line between "being busy" and "I don't have time for all of this!!!" LOL... Fortunately I'm off from the day job this week and can try to get ahead of things... which translates trying to guess what people are going to want aside from the usual popular items.

Heating calculation is done by a heating calculation booklet called J calculation, which is now in software. It takes into account what the walls are made of, how thick, how much insulation, how many windows, what type, e glass, 2 pane, wood, vinyl, location lat, longat. sun exposure, cubic footage of each room, how many rooms, size stove in kitchen, how many bedrooms, IE people give off heat. This can be purchased online, fill out about 3 to 4 pages of infor and its plugged into software. The calculations of heat load are sent back and many calculate the size of ducts for each room. I did some intern work at GE and use to do the paper booklet, since no one wanted to do the math and reference charts. RJF https://www.loadcalc.net/ Software sample RJF https://www.elitesoft.com/web/hvacr/elite_rhvacw_info.html

Natural gas is the way to go for cheaper heating options.. I can't get it though.. so it's electric or LP for me.. I eventually want to get that bigmaxx furnace.. But the price of the furnace and the install piping etc etc.. is a bit out of my price at the moment.. being tired of doing this in the cold with no heat at all for the past 10 years.. I opted to this heater https://www.menards.com/main/heating-cooling/heaters/electric-garage-heaters/dyna-glo-5-000-watt-240-volt-electric-garage-heater/eg5000dgc/p-1562567355750-c-6328.htm?tid=-5823164050771698380&ipos=5 Already had the wire and breaker to hook it up.. Intend to make a temporary wall to only heat a small portion of the shop.. also don't intend to keep the shop at T-shirt temps.. I can deal with 35F - 40.. I've read a lot of reviews on these heaters and many loved them also many claim that it heated their bigger than mine shop great.. I will see once I get it hooked up.. hopeful it'll do the trick a couple years.. at least until my daughter is done with college and I can keep my money instead of giving it to the college, LOL

Having lived in Minnesota for nearly 50 yrs of my life, I lived in many places heated with boilers and hot water radiators. I don't remember freezing to death and got a chuckle about needing to top off my antifreeze, even though 20-30 below temps were common. I went to several schools that were radiator heated. Once again, never froze if I wasn't seated next to the rad. Not a fan of hot water heat mostly due to the lack of vents, so adding air conditioning was a problem, but a properly maintained hot water system is different then what some have said here. Many people painted the radiators which reduced the efficiency and they can be insightly. I don't know if a hot water heater would work anywhere as well as an actual boiler.

I recently posted a thread about my rendition of Fiona Kingdon's 'Drips and Dragons' . I have now cut a second one and am wondering how to finish it. I'm attaching photos of the original and the new one. I like the glass that I have chosen for the new one better, but that's not my question. What I am seeking is your opinion as to whether it is better to paint the dragonflies black or to leave them unpainted. One minute I think it's painted is better and the next I think unpainted is better.

I like this Steve Good pattern. It’s hanging on a pallet wood piece I made a couple of years ago.

14 the hard way! They were going to be bird houses and wanted the best side on front. But to do that I,d have to make the perch and nest holes by eye.so that means taking them out of there shell and find a good side.well my friend says to just keep it simple and make them ornaments! That saves a lot of time so I did!!! I could cut about 3" and my arms were dead.still more resting I guess

I thank everyone for their good grades! Ralpf, I create templates myself, using painting or photo, sometimes I draw by hand. This is another puzzle photo below: I use the FD Superior puzzle blades, it seems 3/0.

Santa looks great

You outdid yourself with art work. Outstanding. Did you have a pattern for this. What size blade did you use.

Great work on both!!

nice the kids will like changing the dates.

fantastic work

WOW, Absolutely gob-smacked. I have never seen a jigsaw puzzle turned into such a magnificent piece of art before. Beautiful.

Sounds like you would be better served with putting the Pegas clamps on your King. As others said there is a real danger of damaging your saw clamps with using tools and gadgets like that to tighten them.

There is so much awesomeness in this, I don't even know where to begin!!!!!

Amazing work

I have to agree, Totally Awesome

They are just Awesome!!! I Love the way you did the Border of the puzzle.Fantastic

Combined, it looks fantastic Charlie. Well done.

Tammi, what kind of saw are you using? As Ray said, you could damage your clamps by over tightening. If you are using an Excalibur, you can, literally, spread the bottom clamp by over tightening. You'll be blowing $35 on a new bottom clamp set. Been there - done that.

I've got one of those in my shop, but it's a different brand name...same heater. An electrician friend had it in a part of his shop for a couple of months till his big heater came in. It was just sitting on a shelf so I got a real good deal on it. Las fall I had my shop spray foamed! Now I work in an Igloo cooler...lol. A guy in KS was doing a motel remodel and had some extra spray foam liquid...use it or throw it away. So I git that job done at a real good price also. That combo does a decent job...when I need more heat I fire up a big patio heater for a few min...then shut it off. When we replaced the cheap crappy gas fireplace, that was in the house when we bought it, I had the guys put in a T and cap it for future use. Next summer I'll run a pipe from there out the corner of the house into the shop (about 10-15 ft.) and I'll be looking for a gas furnace. With any luck a friend with a plumb./ht./ac company can find a good deal on something.

Or, worse case scenerio, you could move to So Cal. Even when it gets "cold" here, I just turn on my little electric heater and set it come off and on as needed. The downside is, there are already 30 million folks here ahead of you. LOL.

Any chance of posting a pic? I have a 2010 EX but I have not seen one with the tension lever anywhere but centered. I'm curious to see what you mean.

Cool! I've seen patterns of a knob end that fits on the knob itself...like the hand end of yours. But never saw it with a shaft. Yea...sometimes it's hard to break it loose.

While on the discussion of heat, I thought maybe these little snippets may help some people for just a GENERAL idea of what is actually needed. GAS HEAT How many BTUs Do I Need? As a rule of thumb, you need between 40 to 45 BTUs to heat one square foot of your home. If your home is 2,000 square feet in size, you need a heating system that generates between 80,000 and 90,000 BTUs. ELECTRIC HEAT How to pick the right wattage to heat your room cadetheat.com/blog/right-wattage-heater If you’re using a Cadet heater for a little extra warmth in a room that’s already heated by a some other form of heat, you can use less wattage. In other words, a 1,500-watt heater will be great for a 250-square-foot room with central heat. If that same room had no other source of heat, you’d need a 2,000-watt heater. I have also heard it said many times that there just seems to be that little intangible between Gas heat and Electric heat where people insist that a room heated to 72 degrees by gas just seems warmer and cozier than a room heated to the same 72 degrees by electric heat. Please, don't shoot the messenger! Just passing on some tid bits. God Bless! Spirithorse

Great work all around,especially by your son....

Great suggestions, but for me the best and cheapest method to heat my shop was a natural gas bigmaxx furnace. It was easy to install and my son in law ran the gas for a case of beverage. The apartment above the shop is electric heat and it cost more to heat than the shop. I am glad the apartment is only used by relatives, or my older kids when they visit. I am going to covert it gas next year.

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

I figure if you plumbed a water heater through a pump, and had circulating how water in the lines and some car radiators, you don't need the fans. You could turn the pump on and off with a simple on the wall thermostat like in the house. With water circulating it is being cooled, when not circulating the hot water heater thermostat would stop heating the water and hold it ready just like it does now.

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.

If you live in an area with genuine "cold" in winter then you want to make sure your heating source can circulate to the entire shop - nothing worse than working on a cold concrete floor that never warms up in the middle of winter. In both my shops I've used a ceiling mount furnace - wouldn't use anything else. First shop was propane - expensive - shop I'm in now is natural gas - no where near as much to operate.

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!

Beautiful work and congrats on the sales

No wonder you did so well Brian! That is an impressive display.

I did this a few years ago when Kenny Hopkins put out this free pattern. The wood was something I found and chipped some when I took the tape off. I believe it captures farm life as I remember from my childhood.

I've not done anything really farm related and I made these a long time ago. I remember as a kid I spent summers on mu uncle's farm/ranch and my job at milking time was to feed the calves. I had to teach the very young calves to drink from a pail by putting my fingers into the bottom of the pail of milk, curl my fingers up and let the calves suck on my fingers. I'd slowly let my fingers out of their mouth and the would discover they could drink without my help. Those were the days my friends!