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A couple off the saw lately.

I just love all my life cutting with #12-#9-#7 blades. Get in and get out quick and simple, always moving forward. Now having done some (a lot ) of projects for Rdatelle with his advice I fell in love with fine tooth blades! Even in 3/4" thick oak they performed beautifully. No where near as fast a cutting speed much like cutting with a spiral. Let the saw do the work. This project here I wanted to do but the pattern was not up to par. So high detail us scrollers are used to deminished. Thanks for looking!!!

After 7 months + with no kitchen cabinets, we finally got most of it installed last Friday, few doors missing and change of size in one cabinet which all should be install tomorrow. Granite installer was over yesterday for measurements and it should be install by the end of the month. My kitchen fabricator and installer is a one man shop, excellent workmanship and real nice guy, name of Company is “Harbers Millwork”. I asked Don in Brooklin if he could make a word art pattern of the company’s name. Don did an excellent job and here are some pictures to prove it. Also I included a few pics of the new kitchen.

Finished this Steve Good Pattern, added my own saying.

I did a smaller version a week or so ago and finally got around to painting it. The Bigger one Needs to be stained or painted yet. The streaks are the grain in the wood. These are a lot of fun to cut.

well this is a few things I’ve done since thanksgiving till now. How you enjoy some of gators gifts.

Hubby and I went to LL Johnson yesterday, it's a good hours drive but the weather was beautiful and perfect for a road trip. Hubby headed to the Machinery section and I bee lined it to the wood Section.......................Talk about a happy camper. $60.00 dollar later I had a nice little pile of lumber. Since I do mostly ornaments and refrig magnets I buy the 5-6inch width boards.

I had a real good craft show last fall and I decided to treat myself to a new tool. If I had the money all my tools would be “FESTOOL” This dust extractor is the best, I had to fight with my wife for the use of it during our kitchen reno. Might get a few more attachments but so far I am quite please.

WPAP is an abbreviation and stands for “Wedha’s Pop Art Portrait “. I made this French Bulldog WPAP style. Cut on 1/4” bb ply 215 pieces 86 different colours. I created the different levels by using a glue gun and glueing it where I wanted it. I attached a few spacers so that the head would sit off the backer. The backer is 1/8” bb ply covered front and back with cloth material. The 19 X 17” frame is made from wooden laths glued together.

+jerrye Thanks for the education on tape. Any day we can learn something ( and remember it ) is a good day. Gee I hope he don't plan on a pop quiz over this .

3/4" Pine from HD using Pegas #5R Modified Geometry blades. Took about 8 hours over two days. And boy, oh boy, did I get some experience with the letters (as in, "Man, That's Hard!"). And a lesson in how fragile pine is. The 2nd e in "need" snapped in two where it loops around and meets itself when I removed the pattern (at least I think that's when it happened). I was able to glue the piece back using wood glue, so am happy about that. Used the duck brand shelf liner and Krylon Easy Tack spray adhesive. Now to figure out what to do with it - clear coat/paint/stain/backing. The cutting was slow, but I am getting more comfortable with cuts and turns. Still working on relaxing, but I'm aware of it and working on that. All in all, I'm happy with it (another Steve Good pattern).

I like deer projects - they always looks great. Here is my latest cutting - deer family Deers Pattern Video of making Deers project

Hello to all, I joined the forum recently and I am very happy to show you my very first work ! It is of course not perfect but I enjoyed doing it. It is a light box based on the following https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2018/11/leaf-light-box-scroll-saw-pattern.html I modified it a little bit, I used plywood of 3mm thick and led lights replaced the classic bulb and cord. It was a great first project and look forward to my next one Thank you Stork30

First of all I found this so usable when I stumbled upon it today I thought I would share. It may be out there, but I have never seen it. For a long time I have looked for any resource to file and sand inside cuts on very small cutouts. I have tried mini files, dental files, hand held scroll saw blades, and even cutting down fingernail files. I am working on a very intense piece with hundreds of very small cut outs. The smallest needle file at any store will not come close to getting in the areas I need to reach. I do realize that a perfect cut the first time is ideal, but few of us make perfect cuts every time. Now for a long time I have used the opposite side of the scroll blade to "shave" down a slight bow or irregular area. It does work well but when you have say many hundreds of cuts on a single piece, you know you will have irregularities. I just don't like them, so I have looked for a long time for a solution. Sandpaper on a scroll saw blade on the saw? Yes I do that too. Self adhesive works well and is smaller than commercial solutions. But that solution is for somewhat larger areas to sand. I needed very very delicate control over the sanding blade. Perhaps ten years ago I bought a very used exacto knife set. The blades are now rusted and dull. But in the case there were Three mountable exacto knives in the set in good condition.{ Case had been closed for years. } The kind that you screw open and slide the blade into the top of the knife and tighten it down. So who says an exacto knife blade has to go in there? width size is perfect! See the pics I took two sizes of blades from 1/0 to 3/0. 400 grit The blades fit perfectly into the knife ends and tighten down nicely. I use used blades: Clean them and mount the self adhesive sand paper. [I buy it by the roll] The blades are cut in half with a fine cable cutter so as to add stability and less flexibility. They are sturdy enough to do extreme fine sanding with. And you can even use the knives to put a scroll blade into and "feather" a vein more carefully by hand. Now I can sand the wider areas on my scroll saw, and the most delicate of parts by hand. Sandpaper on only one side of the blade makes it even thinner.... Not sure if I explained this very well but if you experiment with an exacto you will no longer need to hold onto that tiny blade. Now you will have a handle and more control over your work. Try cutting the blades in half Two knives in pics with 400 grit. [One with the Exacto blade still in it.] NOTE: Scroll Saw blade edges are stamped left or right, and.... This can break through the paper and damage the work piece. Solution; Simply quick file the full edge of the blade to smooth using a grinder or file. Exacto knives can be found on the cheap at Walmart. Say three bucks?

I was looking at that saw minus the folding stand. I was going to build it into a rolling table. From what I read they are highly rated. But I ended up going with a Delta 36-725T2 that should be in any day now.

I wouldn't be concerned about having to wait for a new pegas because just like the Hawk.. they are good saws.. and well worth the wait. IMO .. unless you have to have the saw immediately for some reason.. It's unfortunate how bearwoods has handled the situation.. But I'm not totally surprised either.. I've not had a lot of respect for their service department.. or maybe it's the order / shipping department.. few years back and my first dealings with them I ordered blades and it took them 2.5 weeks just to get the order sent out.. I suspect it was to do with inventory then too... If a person get's their website set up correctly it's quite simple to put in little notes like Back Ordered.. etc..

"Barney's Bullet is complete. The pattern is by Steve Good. I used 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood approximately 12" x 10". Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using #! MGT blades. Of course framed at ArtCrafters. Comments welcome.

I do scrollsaw during the winter or rainy days during the summer. I play golf as often as I can and really enjoy the game and where I play. So most of my scrollsaw resolve around golf as far as sport design goes. Attached are a few pictures of some of the stuff that I cut and mostly gave away.

Yeah, I know. I did find a pretty good recipe for "crow" though.

I drew the dog. I draw stuff, well, I draw a big mess then go to work with an eraser. BUT . I could NOT get the heart right. So - with the help of the community - we got the heart just right. The heart on this is cut from a 2" thick piece of clear redwood. Old stuff. Big stuff. The dog is cut out of 3/4" cedar - when I got done planing and stuff, it ended up at 3/4". Then .. it has a backer of 1/8" BB Ply painted black, and, attached (glued) to the back of the heart is another 1/8" BB Ply piece. This measures almost 16" long and 11 inches wide. All cut with mostly a #5 FD, the itty bitty places were cut with my trusty 2/0 FD. It's MINWAX Spar Urethane brushed on for the finish. The little letters spelling out BRODY were done in that BURL WALNUT I get locally. I love that stuff. With the left overs from the piece I cut the letters from .. I made that Rose for my wife's birthday. So - that worked great. I think that's it. Except .. a big thanks to the community for helping me with that DANGED heart !!!

Get away from tape to cover your wood. I quit using tape 15 years ago. The best product you can use is " GLAD Press N Seal " from your grocery store. It is like GLAD Saran Wrap. About 10" wide and it sticks to the wood. Peals off easy when you remove it. It is clear and you can see your wood thru it. Pull off what you need and press it on. I use a roller to take out any bubbles. Leaves no residue.

I recently saw a aerial image of a port with this huge fleet of ships anchored off shore. What a mess. I need instant gratification when buying a new tool or car. This would kill me. I think all vendors should be upfront about delivery problems.

Having sold tape for a living in the past, I can say that 3M is good tape, with consistent quality control, and the most expensive option available. The problem with adherence to a carton these days could be that the carton has high recycled content. Shorter fiber strands are much tougher for tape to adhere to, requiring in many cases a better tack in the adhesive. The three types of adhesive in descending order of popularity and ascending order of cost are hot melt, acrylic, and natural rubber. If you're looking to use packaging tape, hot melt will be the type with an amber tint and a tackier release, while acrylic is clear with a freer release. Natural rubber is pretty much limited to duct tape. The perception is since acrylic releases so easily that it isn't as sticky as hot melt, but that isn't true. Acrylic has a faster and stronger tack than hot melt, so a release agent is applied to the back of the carrier to enable using the tape without having to fight it to get it off of the roll. In a freezer environment, acrylic is the adhesive used as nothing else will work on cases of frozen or soon to be frozen product. Look around and see if you can find Shurtape. It's a good quality tape that will cost less than 3M...if that kind of thing matters to you. This is likely more about tape than anyone really wanted to know.

Hello I have been rearranging my shop for several different reasons However I just started feeling cramped and having no real follow. In my task of organizing I did not realize I had the amount of blades that I have. Although you can never have too many blades. So I can up with this idea in the picture so that I would know what I had and start acquiring the other blades that I wanted/ or needed. I built a cabinet with having a special drawer dedicated for my blade`s.

If its a larger area especially on the outside of a piece, tape the sandpaper to it and trim it down. Then mount it in your saw. Be sure to grind the teeth off the blade first. I just figured this out this morning by accident. Wanted to post it to see if it would help others. Yep I use the files too. Anything I can use to make the work look better. I have seen so much work that people just don't finish it off. Bought a coo-coo clock in a garage sale last year. It was beautiful, and made on the scroll saw. Turned out the piece when closely looked at, the maker left every outcrop etc on the inside and out. [Where an inside blade cut is finished...] The maker was an old man from Indiana. There was a sticker inside. I tried to contact him to see if he wanted it back. He had passed on. So we will keep it. It is quite striking. Beautiful actually, We were going to return it to him. Most likely jr made pieces and sold them in flea markets etc. I am in Illinois. How it got over here I have no idea. I have considered taking it apart to re create the pattern and try to build my own. The sander I showed here, one was less than 1/8 inch thick or wide. Very small. If you only put sandpaper on one side of the blade it would be one third thinner even. Hope it helps harpolemond

Hi Joe I just went to the DeWalt website and the saw appears to be still be available. There was no mention of it being discontinued. It is still in stock on Amazon, I guess I better hurry, don't want to miss out on a good saw. Thanks for the reply. Ben

It’s not just Pegas and their saws. It’s many things that need shipped from overseas, or thiNgs that need parts shipped in from overseas. We have found many items, in many stores not available since the pandemic. Some I was surprised at. We waited more than two months for a new stove. My father in law needed a new refrigerator, they told him it could be a couple months at several stores, he got lucky and found one locally eventually but he had need earlier in pandemic. My son’s rental apt. In Atlanta, fridge went out and it took several weeks for repair service to get part to fix. We have a small RV and I am on some groups where people discuss, there are problems getting parts for service, as well as parts for building new ones on order delaying delivery of new ones by weeks if not a month or more now. I have seen similar in other industries. The laser I have, there are now delivery delays on those orders. While this is presently the norm, and what happens when you rely so much on Imported products during a worldwide issue, I do think if you are selling a product, and you are aware of delivery issues and delays you should be honest and upfront about it. It just causes anger and frustration when you are not. While I was frustrated with the timeline on the stove that was needed, at least I knew when I ordered that it was going to be a long delay which was unfortunate but we knew and dealt with it.

Love them. Marg

I've owned the Incra Precision T-Rule for a couple of years and I really like it when laying out cuts, especially when the tolerances are tight. I used it last week to layout mortises in a coffee table. Each end has five slats that mortise to the aprons and stretchers. (1 5/8 slats with 3/8 gap between each) My only issue with it has been my old eyes have difficulty with the very small markings. Do I need something this accurate. I certainly don't NEED it. But as the years go by I make an effort to make my work better, in some way, all the time. If I cut a mortise 1/32 too large the slat will rattle around, unless I glue it. And if it's 1/32 undersize I'll be trying to pair off a 1/32 for the tenon on the slat. And when it's all done will the customer know, not a chance. But I'll know and that's whats important. I bought a new set of extra strong 'cheaters' and that has helped. I also have their miter gauge for about 10 years, like it a lot. I always make an attempt to purchase American when I can. If I can't I'll try to purchase for any country but China.

This is my first time trying inlay, the box pattern is from Steve Good, the woods are 1 1/4" Mahogany an old hand rail from a shoe factory I had given me, and 1/4" Oak from off cuts, I started scrolling last Christmas, so I'm still learning, the hardest part for me is trying not to rush the cuts

I REALLY disliked the TV version of M.A.S.H., ... but ... I LOVED the movie version of it. I could watch it over and over. I still don't like much of ANYTHING that Alan Alda acts in. BUT IT'S A GREAT CUT .. for sure !!!! GOOD JOB .... Now .. let's see .. Can ya do the MOVIE VERSION ? haahhahaha ...

I’m jealous!

What I saw was him saying that the China tools had issues and he recommended the INCRA over the China tool. And in the next one he flat out showed the combination square was sloppy.

Then the question follows, does the wood stay fresh and tasty? RJF

That's what I call above and beyond. Way to complicated for me to do.

Well, now, that is pretty "dog-gone" amazing.... Great piece!

A couple of plaques for my daughter and wife to hang their medals on for each run they've done. They are cut from purple heart mounted on maple.

Thanks. At the size, some of the bridges were real close. If I do it again, I will enlarge the pattern.

Wow! Great project! Thanks for all the pictures on the work. Very cool!

awesome job

That is amazing, I love it. Marg

Interesting. When he first held it up I thought Woodpeckers.

The Chiefs is one of the first things I did a little over a year ago. Looking forward to seeing the Chiefs win the Super Bowl this Sunday!! Although Jimmie Johnson is retired from full time NASCAR the Daytona 500 starts this year's season later this month. Jimmie was on the 2nd place team in the Rolex 24 last weekend and will run several Indy Car races this year.

I decided to try this frame from Steve Good's catalog. I used 1/4" BB and FD-UR #1 blades and my Hegner saw. The pattern also calls for another layer (an oval vignette for a 5X7 photograph) but I am undecided about that at the moment. The cutting went fairly well and it kept me nicely occupied for a few days.

BEAUTIFUL!!!! Defently looks like the dog in the photo you did great!!

You are a very kind man Kevin. Great job on Scruffy.

I am along time eagles fan and was glad to see my team in the Super Bowl.

"Trained a Wife" you guys do live on the edge!

"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.

A good, comfy chair makes long scrolling sessions easier. A good magnifying lamp makes seeing the pattern and blade so much easier. The thinner the wood, the thinner the blade and lower the blade speed. Thicker wood = larger blade = higher speed. Spirals can be fun! There's absolutely no rush. Love the sound of a blade running through wood!!! Every project, no matter how daunting it seems, is nothing more than one-hole-one-cut. Some merely have more holes than others. NEVER end a cut on the tip of a delicate piece unless you're willing to risk losing that piece.