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Well, I couldn't get a pattern made for the 1936 Chevy Truck so I made up the bottom part and the clock to the picture in inkscape and cut away.. so yeah I kind of had a pattern but not really, LOL .. Kinda just cutting and working along the design as I went, LOL This came out well enough I had another order request for a Dodge truck.. so I did that one the same way.. I think if I do this any more I'll at least make the photo black and white to save on printer ink, LOL Cut these both out of Cherry using a #3 Pegas MG blade and some of the veining cuts was gone over with a FD New Spiral 2/0 blade.. That Cherry on the old Chevy I've had this piece for at least 3 years.. It had some real dark streaks in the grain and was much darker in the center of the board.. I never used it because it just never really "looked" like cherry even though it is.. I suspect it had some metal in it around that area maybe that made it darker stained.. as it had a hint of blue hue to it.. I never found any metal with the planer.. Anyway I think it fits the old 36' truck well I will say... working with a pattern is much easier, LOL.. but this was a fun challenge to see if I could do it this way.. and just made the projects that much more interesting to make..

Took two tries but it turned out ok.

Thanks to both @Iguanadon and @kmmcrafts for their help as I made my first clock. The insert is too small for the hole I don't have the sizing down yet for the insert, but I did find a workaround - I put a screen tension spring in the hole and it worked like a charm Anyway, here it is: Thanks as always in advance for reading

"It is so cute" - it is the first what I hear when I show this project. I haven’t done 3D patterns for a long time (about a year), it’s quite difficult and takes a long time. But I don’t regret the time I spent on this new pattern - Christmas deer, I think it turned out great. It is quite small (5x6x2,2 inches), so it won't take much material. What do you think? Video of making project Christmas deeer pattern

I am skipping Halloween and working on Veteran's Day. This is a Steve Good pattern dating back to 2010. I will have all five branches. The wood is 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood and backed with 3/8" Baltic Birch plywood stained Azure with SameN stain. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw at ArtCrafters using Pegas #1R MGT blades. The finish is 3 coats spray Polyurethane Clear Satin sanding with a Mac Mop between sprays

I’ve suddenly realized its that time of the year again. Its when I put Spiral blades in my saw. Its also the only time that I use spirals. I’m running off a couple of Swibboggen (German candle arches) I did some last year but this time I’ve enlarged the pattern from about 10 inches to 14 inches. At that length I find the whole effort of holding my breath whilst I swing the wood to do the other angle of the cut to be too much. So the spiral does away with the need to rotate the wood at each change of direction. It also helps that snow covered scenery does not have many straight lines. Here is several of them, stack cut 2 at a time in 4mm, waiting on stain, varnish, glue, and lights. I think this year I’m also doing better on the straight lines than previously. I have managed to cut the grooves straight in the base, last year I would have changed to an ordinary blade for the straighter cuts. The two issues I've noticed with spirals, and I wrote a couple of years ago about them, I've no problem with large cuts. I'm also good when the cut is one blade width but I have issues when the cut is only slightly thicker than 1 blade thickness. The other issue is my spirals seem to unravel as I work. Each time I change holes, the blade shank seems to have rotated anti clockwise slightly so that over time the spiral twists don't seem to be as tight as when I started out with that blade.

Now that.. I see working quite well.. I actually have a few of those blowers.. Used to use them for venting my spray paint booth when I was doing autobody repair.. didn't work well for that.. paint never would land on the car.. too much air flow, LOL

That's the setup my woodworking club shop has. The down draft table works great. Between that , a dust collector, and air cleaner the club shop has very little dust in the air.

These were fairly inexpensive to built, pick up a used blower from an hvac co. Just vacuum the filters occasionally.

Friend stopped by and wanted a Trump 2020 ornament for his car. Baltis birch 1/4" wood and a #3 mgt blade from our member Denny. Only way I could take a picture with out my phone is with the lap top.3.75" x 5"

Found this little guy over on Etsy ("DXFpage") and thought it would be a fun cut. Not too many pilot holes, maybe 25 or so, but.....dang. All that fur is just jagged lines and thin margins! So...yep, DEFINITELY a fun cut! Double-cut from 3/8" bbply, Pegas #1MG blades (two, I think). Its been a busy couple of weeks so it took me a lot longer (calendar-wise) than I thought it would, but probably close to 10-12 hours tops. The project will be stained dark, I'm thinking Minwax Ebony or Provincial, and I'm thinking about a couple of backer options...may just go with a flat ply backer, stained a lighter shade to contrast. I have a bunch of old pallet wood that would look cool, but I think it'll end up too dark even with a light oak stain. We'll see.

I like cutting this Nativity scene. Something I saw on Pinterest a few years back. Someone gave me a scrap piece of Walnut that was sort of good for nothing and perfect for this.

I made this today with a twist......holiday fabric for the Christmas tree that I got at our local HL 50% off....black frame & black wording.....13.5" x 13.5".....Comments always liked. God Bless Smitty

Thanks Ralph. Not a vet, but thankful to all who served.

When the upper arm is raised, at the rear of the main frame there is a round "boss" that is cast into it. The arm is stopped from raising further by that "boss". By removing it the arm is not constrained from rising to it's fullest. Makes for a lot more room under the arm. Thanks Ray for this Info. Never would of known this. Now I will look into what you and others have said. Danny :+}

terrific job

very nice job, it's beautiful

I very much prefer the Trump item that I cut a couple of years ago: Just in case you think that this violates our rules here, I believe that it does not because Travis told me that a similar sentiment that I presented him with, namely 'Vote Trudeau Out' was OK.

Love it! You did Fantastic!! Love the Dragon.

I have done Palm trees in the past, I know how hard they can be, You did an Excellent job.

You did a fabulous job. Very clean and crisp. Marg

You did a terrific job. Well done. Marg

For my native neighbor from her soon to be husband. She saw the finished piece and wanted to buy it, and I told her it was for someone else.

Thanks. Yeah, lots of turning cutting the leaves.

That is a real beauty! I bet those palm leaves drove you crazy. Letters look really crisp!

Thanks Ray Gary

I'm hell when I'm well!!! Thank you sir!!!

The Hawk saws have this too.. Believe it's just a bolt with a rubber cap on the end though.. and could just remove the bolt.. My older saw arm raises way way up.. broke a blade once and the arm come up and busted my magnifier light bulb, LOL The Ultra and the newest saw arms don't really go up all that high.. I've thought about removing the bolt and drilling a hole below it and putting the bolt back in the lower hole.. as they don't go up nearly as high as that old saw does.. makes the old saw more fun to use on some bigger projects.. funny thing is.. the old saw is the smaller one so I'm limited on those big projects anyway with only the 20" throat instead of the 26" on the others..

I'm thinking about all the hours you spent making that beautiful fretwork and wishing I had the patience to do it. Just beautiful.

Different strokes for different folks. I like it but wouldn't buy it, my daughter however would order 6 as she adores stuff like this.

Dan, you never know what will appeal to people. What some people love, others don't. I don't love it, I don't hate it. I think its more the colors for me then anything else. For me, they don't say Christmas tree. I think the shape works with the star for me though. BUT that said - I will also say that sometimes I have to let something new and different "grow" on me. Plus, i readily admit that I am more of a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas decorations.

I am not sure I would want a down draft table connected to shop vac. One the noise, two, and this just my opinion, I thing you need more volume than velocity in the air flow. I would also think that some sort of baffling would be helpful for a more uniform distribution of the air flow. I look forward to some further discussion of actual results?

Thanks for all the replies, very helpful. It seems the problem is the drill and drill bit, not the packing tape. And I was using too large a drill bit. All has changed. I bought a roll of blue tape and a new Pegas scroll saw. (I might have the order of importance reversed.) Bottom feeding, or top feeding for that matter, are much easier with the Pegas. So I can use a smaller, and hopefully sharper, drill bit. So maybe it won't matter if I do not change the speed on my drill press. Did I mention I got a new Pegas today! I already love it. BTW, I love this SSV. You guys are great!

I have 3 different vacuums and dust deputies.. mostly just hooked to scroll saws for collection at them.. Then have a HF dust collection system for the CNC/ Bandsaw/ and Planner.. It all has helped a ton.. Never had much dust from my Bosch RO sanders until just recently so I took the vac off one of the scroll saws and hooked it to my RO sander.. was still blowing some dust through the side of the sander instead of sucking up into the vac.. Thinking maybe I have a plugged up area inside the sander so the air flow is backing up and out the one side vent.. Gong to try blowing it out with the air hose tomorrow and see what that does.

Very nice looking. Good job.

I cut a couple of the ornaments finally, had to buy some proper blades and my top chuck head decided to quit working properly. Anyway I cut the letter out first and filled with epoxy. This worked ok, but air bubbles get trapped in the letters, really need to use a pressure pot. The epoxy cut very easily and fairly clean (used a Pegas #6 super skip), after cutting the piece out I them sanded the epoxy to 2000 grit, finishing with tung oil. Wood is mahogany.

If money and room was no object I would buy a Hawk and a Pegas. I already have a Hegner Multi-Max 22V that has served me well for 12 years but I would like to try the some other saws.

Go with the smallest active surface for your work, like 12" square, with additional inactive surface for piece support. On my lathe a 10" square hood hooked to a 4" dust collector hose works OK at about a 3" standoff. A Shopfox downdraft table about 12"X20" was OK with a 2" hose to a shop vac using a DeWalt RO sander with collection bag if I stayed over the inlet. Then I found that Festool had an adapter from a 2" hose that fit snuggly over the outlet nozzle on the DeWalt. As an experiment, hook you hose up to something the size you are contemplating and see if it will pick up sawdust from the floor. Good luck on your search.

Why thank you, Thank You Very Much.

Excellent work and she is going to be thrilled when she receives it thinking it was for someone else. Rolf, Jim and his patterns as well as several others, can be found in the scrollsaw cafe forum. I believe you have to be a member to see and download patterns shared there. It is similar to the forum for the magazine, in that worthwhile information to be found, but not a ton of traffic there. It can be found here: https://thescrollerscafe.discussion.community/categories

KAG