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Repeat customer now wants an outside version of the same. Lucky me the Marine Carpenters threw away P.T.3/4"x2"x8' long pieces cut from many big wide boards. So right away I knew this will work for her. I hand planned the front and sanded, the back just sanded.will 123 zinzeer primer sealer tomorrow .thanks for looking 2' x15' glued with titebond 2 glue.W-E-E-T-R & P were cut with a spiral as I couldn,t urn the 2' wood.

Been working on this one ever since I finished the Lord's Prayer a couple weeks ago. FINALLY getting to the point that I'm putting finish on it. Pic was taken about 2 minutes after the spray gun first hit it, so there's a lot of "shine" that won't be there when it's all dry. Minwax Spar Urethane, semi-gloss. The cutting is 1/4" aircraft-grade Birch ply, background is dark-stained 1/4" oak ply from the bigbox, and lettering and overlays are 1/8" aircraft maple. Had some question for quite some time as to whether I wanted to stain the first overlay like the oak background - finally decided to do it. Sure am glad I did. This one was FUN, and just adds to the addiction. Looking for another design to play with now.

This great pattern by Bernd was the one that almost had me flicking in scrolling. I wanted so much to cut a really good pattern for my neighbor who owns a 1967 Chevy convertible that he restored and had owned for 17 years. He, like so many car enthusiasts loves and cherishes his car. I know how important this car was to him and how much he loved having it that I wanted the best pattern I could get to cut and give to him. Bernd stepped up to the plate and made the great pattern for me and then he cut it and made the video of it, that so many of you enjoyed in this forum. I was unable to do a satisfactory job cutting it and got myself really depressed, as this was to be a perfect gift. I messed up very badly and I was thinking I should just give up and flick in my scrolling hobby. Well, Bernd, being the giving and caring person he is, Sent me the plaque he made in his video to give to my neighbor. Following the chevy plaque failing, I followed with the nurse bear screw up. So, things were just not going well for me. Because of the encouragement from Bernd and several of you, in my previous posts, I am now over my depression and moving on. Thank you all for what you have done for me. I am not usually depressed and take things in stride. I just wanted this one to be perfect. My thanks especially go out to Bernd and all he did for me. Dick heppnerguy

Tony has finished my new workshop and I must admit to being very proud of him. He's done a brilliant job and I absolutely love it. It's 13' x 10'. And I managed, eventually to put a small video up,,, 20200516_120340[1].mp4

Just finished these two patterns by Paul(Grampa). I want to thank him for his hard work. The heart one was hard to do. Almost gave up on that one. A few more coats of lacquer and they will be done.

Finished this Sue Mey pattern done on 1/8" Baltic Birch

This week I realized that I haven't any sport patterns. I decided to start from football Video of making football project Football pattern

I've dealt with depression for over a decade. A poor performance on the scroll saw can set mine off as well. Depression lies, tells us we may as well quit because we obviously don't have what it takes. The most comforting thing is sometimes just knowing you're not alone.

I'm probably wrong but I was in the understanding that the letters came out to be just additions to the base model.. ie G0555 is the very first one and the base model.. The GO555LA35 is the same saw but a special anniversary edition.. (custom black paint), and the GO555XH is also same saw but larger 1-3/4 horse motor.. I believe all the GO555 saws are the same basic saw frame.. the letters indicate different editions to that.. I believe there is a 3/4 horse model too.. or there was.. it was slightly cheaper. I went with the 1 hp anniversary model because it wasn't but $10 or so more and had the 1hp and fancy black paint & stickers

Both styles have their place. Just curious, what do you do for mounting the one with pegs? Keyhole slots?

I made the infinity heart, I used poplar and stained black walnut.

@Kris Martinson. Big thanks to forum member Kris for sending me this fantastic pattern of the great John Wayne. I have used Cedar for the pattern and Yew for the frame. Cedar is a fantastic wood to cut and smells great. This was cut with a Hegner and Olson 2/0r blade. I just need to add a few coats of Danish oil and John will be ready for the wall. Regards, Paul.

Now I am starting to be able to do a bit I am looking at the patterns that are on here since I have been gone and came across this and could not resist as my daughter is a front line NHS worker I felt a need to give this a go great pattern @Helder Botas Thank You . Please excuse the odd iffy line I am only just able to stand and saw after a long lay off but saw this pattern and had to give it a go. Not so much bragging my work but hoping to brag a great pattern I gave all 3 to my daughter to give to her work colleagues .

Very good! Welcome !

It really is not something I have to deal with most of the time. I am not a down guy normally and do not have this happen to me. I am fine now and sorry to hear that your wife had this type of problems as it is not easy for those you love to deal with either. Thank you for sharing this with me. Good to have people you have never met, care enough to listen and share with you Dick heppnerguy

Welcome to the forum from TN. I own a DeWalt, EX21, and a new Pegas. The Hawk is a very good machine. There are many here in the Village who own Hawks.

I,m a die hard DeWalt man.I,ve tryed and wore out the cheap stuff to learn on and really really appreciated getting a DeWalt for some of my practice piece intarsias. I now have a Dewalt managery of many!!!

Very nice shop like the layout and everything is very well placed.

i find it quite easy the way it is,to channge the blae on the bottom clamp or just to fit you will still need to remove the top clamp

very nice shop

beautiful job

nice job

Well done Kevin. I sometimes use spirals for the same reason.

Looks brilliant, a place for everything and everything in its place. take care Don W

Don't sell yourself short Ralph you did a fabulous job on both. Well done. Marg

Look good. Well done Kevin. Marg

Great Job!

I understand about depression very well. I've lived with it for many years, not mine but my wife's. Depression can destroy a person making one feel absolutely unworthy and useless. Not something to trifle with. I'm so glad you are getting free from it!

All this talking about bandsaws got me to cleaning mine up and giving it a tune up. It works great now. In fact I used it yesterday and again today. Not resawing as it is under powered. I think it has a 1/2 hp motor but it might be more. I will try to use it more now. Thanks guys for pushing me forward.

Very nice Kevin!

lol I like looking but now my computer times up so ttul

woundeful work!!! it looks great!!! I use both the regular blades and spirals for that very reason and because its sometimes just easer to not have to turn the wood in tight corners.

wow!! that is great!! your daughter is one lucky girl im sure she will treasher it forever. when I first started working with wood I made my little sister ( she was 8 at the time ) a box with a secret compartment it in, and did the line cutting to make a couple of pictures on it....shes now in her 50s and she still has it to my surprise ! lol

Would take some work and very hand but, a dremel with a very small tip would give you the 3d appearance. Wood burning would give you solid contrasting lines that would easier to do . The way Kevin mentioned makes sense too, but I would be concerned about the "bridges" showing and being strong enough to keep things together. I'm sure he has that worked out.

I like both but for different reasons. When selling to the general public you have to accommodate more people and their tastes. Limiting yourself to one option could cost sales. You also need a space to store them waiting for a quick sale. The contrast between the dark metal and the wood looks nice but also sort of reminds me of China ( nothing personal in that ) and the wooden sort of look towards Shaker or Amish types. Cost wise I'm sure the wood provides a better profit margin providing they are priced the same. The wood can also be stained ( I know extra work ) to give you a contrast that looks more natural. So all that said I like the wood for myself personally. I know from my experience that options pay off though.

Bernd rocks! I had the pleasure to meet him in person as we live quite close and my world is better for meeting him. Dick, don’t toss away a hobby you obviously love and clearly excel at high levels in the pieces you post here. Bad days always fade away eventually. Be blessed!

Both look nice. I prefer the wood.

Scott, I thought the puzzle gods got you, haven’t seen you around lately. I would go with the wood pegs, the metal look ghetto to me, which ever you decide you will sell a van full, RJ

Like this one

I obtained the "pattern for this from an unattributed photo that I found on the internet. It is cut out of 6mm thick White Oak veneer and backed by the same. I first saw this "truth" on a set of T shirts featured in a thread on this site. I do consider myself to be a scientist in that I have a BSc degree and did work in science for part of my career. And, with some folks in positions of trust and/or power refuting scientific evidence these days, I consider the plaque to be particularly relevant.

WOW!!!!

As a woodworker and crafter, I always prefer wood over metal. If I were selling these, I would even consider turning the pegs myself!

I purchased the 4x24 Triton belt sander today. I need it for a farmhouse table my daughter wants made. I was all set to buy it from my local woodworking store but they have curbside delivery and wouldn't take cash. So I saved $8 and ordered it on Amazon. You try to buy local and pay a little extra and they didn't want my cash. So if I had to use a credit card might as save money because I will have it to use before they open backup.

this youtube link should help anyone that is having any questions about re-sawing wood. It is really informative and I used it on my HF 14 in band saw and it worked perfectly for me

Jim I see there are different prices for the GO555. Which model do you have?

I too enjoy resawing lumber. The only downfall, okay, one of the downfalls is setting my saw up to resaw, tuning it to a gnats butt. Once that is accomplished, I don't like switching blades to do other work. So now I'm looking for another bandsaw, and then I'll have two, one of which will be die dictated to resawing. I have the Shopfox 1706 with a riser.

The sander could imbed sanding grit into the wood, not good for planer knives.

I went through a bit of a Japanese phase so did a few Mt Fuji projects. Here is a black and grey one I did on the scroll saw. Painted it with an airbrush.

I do constantly look for "New" customers as only about 5% are return customers.. that said.. I think any business is constantly looking for new customers.. You can surely tell who is in it for business and who isn't when you look through websites.. well that statement is wrong.. as some don't know how to do it as a business.. My wife has a co-worker who's husband does etsy.. makes rustic looking signs and coat racks etc.. business was booming for them at first and he quit his decent paying day job to do etsy full time.. Now their shop is dead.. and he has had to pick up a part time job.. His issue IMO.. is they never did any advertising.. they never did anything to build a following.. they just list and the buyers came... What many people don't know about etsy is.. Etsy gives "NEW" shop owners a boost in searches to get them off their feet.. so naturally a new seller is going to get some boosted page views for the first year.. but as a seller you should be trying to build a customer base to "your shop" . build back links.. The links in my signature here... every time I post a message or reply.. that is a back link.. The more of those you get throughout the internet the better boosted your website gets... especially when someone clicks on those back links.. Some of the way googles search works to put a site near the top ( first pages of search results ) is popularity.. If people are using links to a page from another site that boost your page in search.. so basically.. every time I post here it's as if I'm building popularity to my web page ... This is why they say to do Blogs..social media, and pins on pintrest etc.. building backlinks and followers etc.. Anyway.. this co-workers husbands etsy site has fizzled out.. I told my wife to tell them to raise their prices 15% and take that money to advertise.. I've never seen a retail ( that's what etsy seller are if they are selling ) store whether online or brick and mortar not advertise.. yet small online business's such as artist and crafters are cheap and don't want to pay for advertisements.. You have a choice to ether pay for ads.. or sit at your computer all day and build back links and post on social sites all day long trying to get attention or to be seen by new people... Or you can do both paid ads and work the social pages etc. too.. if you have time for that.. Either way you must not just list and sell if you want to survive... I do paid ads in multipal places.. from right on etsys promoted listings to instagram and facebook ads.. Just one example.. I paid in one of these places $420 but sales directly from the ads resulted in $3200 in sales.. so basically I spent $420 so I could make $2780.. A lot of "new" seller will run a daily ad budget of $1 run it for a week and no sales so they say they aren't doing that again.. as it was a rip off.. Some times my ads might not get any result in a sale for a whole month.. but over the coarse of the year there are results.. people aren't patient enough to see results.. many don't know how to do business.. Brick and mortar stores pay big money to print fliers advertise on the radio and tv etc.. what makes a person selling crafts think they can succeed without taking a portion of their sales and pouring it back into placing ads is beyond me.. If you don't do it.. your sales are going to be about as good as a local craft show that doesn't advertise well.. Its like opening a brick and mortar store and never put a sign out saying what you are or sell, LOL people drive by and wonder what that building is.. LOL I honestly think people are wrong when saying that one cannot make a living at scroll sawing or crafts.. I think they just don't have the mindset of how selling crafts works in an ever changing world.. Not picking on anyone here and saying you don't know how to sell.. but the way many people buy these days is not the same as they did 10, 20, 30 years ago... where is everyone's attention at these days?? The buyers are out there still.. but where they are at has changed..and still changing..and will always be changing.. faster changing than ever before as technology grows... so one in the business needs to constantly roll with those changes or sales will be dropped and go out of business..

Long video here but here is one that is pretty informational about business / money etc..