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Just off the saw, a Native American with a Buffalo Skull, pattern by Charles Dearing. I modified it because there was a structure in one portion that, to me, did not represent anything except to take up dead space in the pattern. This is approximately 15" x 14" and, since I use strictly flat blades and do not have a saw with an upper arm that lifts, and therefore bottom feed, this took me over 6 1/2 hours to cut. I m don't know if I am going to leave it as is or add something to take up some of the dead space around the Native American. Suggestions welcome. God Bless! Spirithorse

I've been busy with pups this week and other 'stuff' that crops up in life. But I spent a couple of evenings making this for a good friend. 20201005_160449[1].mp4

This is the second Pink I have cut, but this one's got a softer pink not the fluro pink the last one had. Not sure what the wood is but it was nice to cut. Marg

Just finished this project for my mums birthday at the end of the month ,she loves Elephants and I saw this H Botas pattern and thought this would be just right. Made using 1/4inch BB Plywood using a # 1 spiral blade ,stained with danish oil then a clear varnish, Also made my first frame ,you think it would be easy to make a frame but it was a learning curve lol! My joints are not perfect but for a first attempt I thought it was ok. Frame made of oak also stained with danish oil and clear varnish then used black mount board for backer ,thanks for looking

Whew! Finally done. I took almost a month to do this Art Deco Weave Pattern Box. I used 1/4" Padauk and there are 200 holes per panel. I used a #2 skip tooth blade. Cutting Padauk definitely requires using a mask. It has a peppery smell but the fine dust can affect you. Finish is gloss lacquer. I had thought about doing another lamp but the pattern was going in the wrong direction. I like the feet. I mounted small blocks on the edges. I had left overs from trimming the panels and used my belt sander and set the fence of the disk sander to 45 degrees. I used the miter on the fence to hold it straight and ground down to the 45. Since it's only 1/4", it went very fast. Trimmed the pattern on the scroll saw and sanded a radius on the edges of each piece. I cut off the reverse excess trim on the long piece and ground off another 45 and repeated 4 times for for the left and 4 times for the right/opposite side. Laid down blue tape and place the opposing pieces down with the matching 45's, glued and squeezed together. I set the box on a flat surface. My 1/4" glass plate is perfect for that. I CA glued each piece to the corners and made sure they were flat. It definitely gives it a more finished furniture look.

Three more out of the to-be-cut stack. Two more to go....these last two may take a while, though. These three were all taped up and pilot-drilled so long ago I'm not sure what wood was used, some sort of ply, seems about 1/2" thick.

Here are my 2.

When I think of October in Ontario, I think of the leaves and changing colour. We get a great display even on our street but the best display that I have seen is along the Ottawa River east of Mattawa. Most years I take that route at least once in Autumn but, alas, not this year. Back to the topic at hand: We have a set of seasonal Welcome signs for our front door. I cut the original from Sheila Landry patterns and have, since, augmented those with some of my own design. One of my designs features Autumn leaves.

"Trained your wife"? Tell me how you managed that. I've been trying to "train my wife" for 50 years and have not done it yet.

Some Halloween Ornaments I make to hang on my tree or I will put magnets on the back and put them on the refrigerator

Initially I had thought about stack cutting but the cuts were so thin, I was concerned that one small slip would would have ruined several pieces. I may have considered if it was a larger (size) pattern. That's why it took so long to cut.

I am not into Halloween, so I don't make many Halloween projects. This is a project completed in 2014.

This is a backlit Voodoo Queen that I made a few years ago.

Here's a backlit ghoul that I made last year.

Sold one today for $10.00 the Didy one.3/4" plywood cleared. The horse cell phone holders are going up for sale in a shop and the "Scrollers on line" go to the shop lady and she will paint and then have me put it together.thevhorses are bamboo and the basses are various hardwoods

I just assembled my latest project. each panel is 7x10x1/8" baltic birch. Patterns designed by me. Backlit with LED light strip.

A friend of my son's wanted this for his wife. She is changing the decor in there house to owls. Sent me the picture he found on Google and I fixed all the floaters and cut it out. Got a little cross eyed but got it done. Thanks for looking and have a great and safe weekend.I Mimi

Way too cute. Very well done.

I try to catch them every year also. I feel cheated if I don't catch the Halloween and Christmas specials. Not that they're great entertainment, just old friends.

Hey Kevin, Have you checked Steve Good's site for your *B*? He has a few different styles to choose from.

Down Right Awesome job!!! I agree Frames are hard, I went to one piece. Doesn't look as great as yours ,but it is easier.

I meant to say it's on his Facebook page, it's a free pattern. Sorry, !!

Really nice, I like it. Add a little orange behind the breast.

Nice work Marg!

Sorry Melanie, I didn’t see your question. The pattern is by Sue Mey and purchased from her website.

Wow! That is a beauty!

My Robin (my lady) likes your robin. Very nice!

Well I was hope to hear your voice that would be nice to narrate your project. The mic was on!!!

Nice work Marg. I like it with the lighter pink.

Kevin, I suggest doing a trial, most are free, with any new software to see if you like it. Lightburn has a 30 day trail that they kindly extended as my initial control board was not compatible with it.

excellent job

Denny, that is so cute. Do you remember where you got the pattern from?

Then of course I had to make a golf tee game version... LOL

Hey stranger, good to hear from you. I hope all is well. Thank you, I'll look into all of this.

Scott, You have really progressed with your skills. I am impressed! I recommend you check out the Association of Games and Puzzles - http://www.gamesandpuzzles.org/index.php I joined and went to their convention in Denver last year. Nice bunch of folks. And we toured Liberty Puzzles in Boulder: https://www.libertypuzzles.com/ Chris Wirth, owner of Liberty Puzzles, gave a presentation at the Denver convention. Fascinating. Convention next year is in VA - not too far from NC. And they have a quarterly magazine. The last issue features an article by Janell Amely from GA who uses a laser to cut acrylic puzzles. Very nice article. You can see some of Janell's work here: https://www.3catmax.com/ Brian

I've been researching Lightburn software.. I can't use it with the control board my K40 has at the moment but I've been seriously considering upgrading my control board to run it on my K40.. There is another new software.. (well.. new to my hearing about anyway) that the guys on the K40 groups have been raving over.. I can't think of the name of it now.. but some have been saying it's better than Lightburn..

I have a NEJE 7w with a master 2 main board that allows me to use GRBL, I also use Lightburn software that gives me much more control. Laser power certainly comes into play as you can move faster with more power and get the same results. but the type of file that you input also has a lot to do with it.

Hi Kris: Coming from you, I'm not surprised how cool these are Outstanding job on these Fab4

The wood portion of this is the leftover part of a shield I cut for another project. It is just dipped in 50/50 BB. Red backer is 3/16" underlayment. The heart is 1/2" Poplar. The heart is the only thing that is scrolled. I shaped it with a belt sander, flap sander and a bit by hand. The shaping is very crude. It told me that I should never attempt intarsia. I abhor sanding!

A snow globe, how bout that!!! Your cooking with gas again!!!

Yes 250 of them

Might be able to.. probably take a better computer than the one I have in my shop for the CNC / Laser.. It has to think about what it's doing for what seems like 20 minutes, I'm doubting mine would do it but maybe a newer better one would work like that... as much dust etc that the shop gets.. I wasn't putting anything too nice and fancy out there.. Just to give an idea.. it's a laptop that I bought in 06 on clearance as it was a "old" model, LOL... Windows XP, .. Maybe my machines would run faster with a better computer... hmmm.. LOL

Made door hamging Pumpkins for the naeighbors on each side of me with their names in them, Then made a "Happy Fall Y'all" sign for the front of my house.

Would there be a way of hooking up 2 lasers to the same computer via usb's. Then have 2 separate sessions of the software open at the same time? Jim

@kmmcrafts Well, the Ortur does cut faster... a lot faster... 3 minutes by one person and 5 minutes by another for the sea turtle, same size. Looks like I'll be buying an Ortur. LOL

I can't imagine these things will remain popular among my customer base for long, so I'm hesitant to invest a lot into something for an item that I sell for $7.50 or $10 each... The cutting of the triangles, drilling and sanding take very little time per piece, it's the laser engraving that drags on. I trained my wife on it as she can go back and forth to the garage every 15-20 minutes and set up another one.

If you're making that many I would be looking at a CNC router, LOL... That's a lot of holes to drill.. With the CNC you'd just draw up the design of the triangle and where the holes are.. also will do the engrave.. however many of those you could get from a 2ft x 2ft board the CNC would carve, engrave , and cut them out for you in about 2 hours.. set it up next to your scroll saw and keep an eye on it while cutting puzzles,

The specs on the one in the link you posted shows maximum speed is 3000mm a minute.. if my math is correct that equates to 50mm a sec. and that's IF the machine is powerful enough to get the image quality you're looking for.. I don't know the specs of the one you have but being more powerful isn't going to mean it's faster..

How slow / fast is the one you have? Like... how long would it take to engrave the Brandy text on the Dachsund you posted above? The 40W C02 laser I recently started messing with would do that in about 3-5 minutes tops.. maybe faster.. I haven't experimented too much with running it on the max power and speed setting.. I've only run it at 8% power so far and 550mm per sec. speed setting.. Believe it will run faster than that but I can't imagine doing it n my makeshift table, probably fly off the table, LOL Edit to add: Just as a reference I engraved and cut through this 1/8" BBply at 8% power and run the engrave speed at 350mm sec. and cut (same power ) 10mm sec. These took 20 minutes to do the 4 ornaments and the keychain in the center.. The video is 4x faster.. Edit again, NOT 8% power.. 8 milliamp power setting.. That is misleading as my tube max power shouldn't run more than 18 milliamp .. you can but you shorten the laser tube life and or damage it..