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Yesterday I finished my first 'box' of any kind. It's from a 1928 pattern of an Egyptian Biscuit Box offered by Hobbies at that time. For those of you who remember, my wife loves ancient Egyptian artifacts and art. So. I decided to try my hand at making something Egyptian for her birthday. It's made mainly fro 1/2 inch birch plywood with oak corner pillars and trim. The cartouche I copied from a bracelet my wife got from Egypt and is her name in hieroglyphics. The cartouche is the front and the winged scarabs are on the other three sides. The darker stain is English Chestnut from Minwax and the lighter woods are just clear satin finish. The main box is 7 inches square and the overall height is 10 inches.

…About a Man Named Jed. A Charles Dearing Pattern of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, pretty small at only approximately 5 1/2” x8” Cutting the fretboards that small was pretty challenging. I used Pegas spiral blades for about 90% of the cuts on the project, though I did use Pegas MG flat blades for the longer straight cuts. I got a little sloppy in a couple of places with the spirals.

I was telling my wife about the fact that the Big Foot wall rack was very popular yesterday at the market and she asked if I'd thought about doing a bigger version as I did with the Carolina Beach sea turtle... Hmmmm... so, today I'd like to introduce Bigger Foot. The key/leash wall racks have been hugely popular and a boost to sales.

Thank you Don for helping modify this Steve Good Pattern. I hope the person likes it.

Hi all Not sure if I have posted this before. Made it awhile ago for my girlfriend to give to her daughter when she went to uni.

This Night Lamp is made from solid Red Oak, is 12” high overall, the base and top are 5 1/2” square made from 1/2” thick material, and the lamp body is 4 1/2” square by 10” high made from 1/4" thick material. The body side walls were stack cut and cut using Pegas #0 spiral blades. The top is loose for bulb replacement purposes. The Red Oak was enhanced and finished with multiple coats of a combination of Minwax Red Oak Stain and Minwax Satin Wipe-On Poly. The Clear blue Plexiglas was frosted by using spray adhesive to affix sheets of clear velum film to the inside surface of the Plexiglas. The Electrical components include a premade 6’ lamp cord with an inline rocker switch, a threaded nipple w/nuts, a nipple mounted candelabra bulb socket base and a round 25 watt bulb. I created the Lamp body Seahorse Pattern to supplement my collection of nautical themed projects I’m putting together. The construction of this lamp is almost identical to the Hummingbird Lamp I made for my Lady a while back, but this time it went together better because I knew what I was doing. Also, this time all the chamfers and the body corner joint bevel cuts were completed on the Router table. This pic shows the bottom of the top with a gluded on piece of 1/4 Oak Ply that acts as a retainer to keep the top in place. A similar piece of 1/4" Oak ply was glused to the base to provise a greater gluing surface for the lamp body attachnemt to the base. This view also shows the installed velum coated Plexiglas difuser.

It was quite difficult to draw some details of this pattern - I tried to make realistic, not to difficult to cut, good looking 3d effect and high quality at the same time. I think Jesus patterns are popular, so I tried my best. And here is what came out, what do you think? Video of making Jesus project Jesus pattern

My Grand Daughter is nuts about lacrosse. It has been a rough 2 years. The team has only been able to get together on Zoom. They do drills etc. and the coach sent everyone a shirt with the saying so I made plaque just for fun. Designed on Friday night cut and painted yesterday and delivered this morning for the zoom meeting. Actually I did too fast as the chevron is not centered in circle. Didn't see until I was nearly finished cutting. I doubt she will notice. The front is 1/4 BB and backer is 1/8.

Hey gang, long time no see... I hope everyone is doing well. A buddy of mine snapped some drone photos of my weekly market today. Great start to the season. Everyone itching to get out and spend a little money. And a shot of my booth setup today.

This Grizzly handles bits even smaller than #70s.

I’m a little late to this party, but I have this drill and not only do I really like it, it makes drilling the holes in patterns with hundreds of cuts go much faster and they are dead on. I also use it with Forstner bits to embed signature coins and again, it makes it a breeze. Bit changes are fast and easy, and I sometimes use micro bits the size you’d use on a circuit board. I’m talking tiny! No issues tightening in the chucks. Sometimes it does go on sale, but I just got an email from Grizzly saying that due to increased costs from their suppliers, and also due to increased shipping they will be having price increases coming imminently.

In the Catholic church they perform baptisms on your children and babies. I have a great grandson that is getting baptized on my birthday, in Los Angeles. Several of our family members are going there for the event, including us. I wanted to find a plaque commemorating this event in James' life and looked to Sue Mey to see what she had to offer. I came up with this one and decided to also make this cross for his parents as well. I have not posted anything for some time, although I have made many things in my shop lately. So, here are two of pieces I made this week. Dick heppnerguy

Who among you use noise cancelling headphones or ear buds?I'm particularly interested in those who hearing aids. My AIDS are Bluetooth compatible. When sawing I have them on mute. It obviously curs down the noise meaning the aids no longer detect the sound but nevertheless my ears still receive the full brunt of the noise. I just can't hear it as well. I would like to hear what others are experiencing and are using if anything .

Done on the usual 1/4 inch BB A4 plywood sheet with black mount board,still needs sanding as lots of fuzzies on this one,then will stain and varnish,done using #2 spiral blade lots of delicate pieces on this one ,thanks for looking

I use the Shop tunes earphone set to listen to music while sawing and doing other noise making tools. Or wife and I do where hearing aids just got them a couple months ago. My wife decided I could not hear so good and could not believe it may be I just don't pay attention to every word and insists on talking when your watching a TV program. The hearing aids stream the phone through them so if someone calls texts leaves message what ever I hear that and I can just take to the phone and voice goes to the caller. Of course you need to shut tools down or caller can't hear you. I wear them mowing and can hook up to the CD player I don't have a Alexa or Herman for that matter

No hearing aids but I have IsoTunes ear buds. 87dB noise reduction. They work great for me. I use noisy equipment at work and these do great.

Thank you but couldn't do it without Jim. He's a great guy and I'm proud to call him my friend

I agree WOW!! Beautiful job!!

wow, very nice!

We have two daughters and they both live in Heppner. Our youngest,Liz was the one who requested the sign for the wedding. By the way, Sharon decided three hours before the flight back to Pasco, that she would like to fly back with Liz and stay for three weeks, so I am home with the dog. We are going to Heppner the first week in July and staying until the end of August. See you then, my friend Dick

Nice work on Jim’s part crafting the pattern, and yours in cutting it.

Beautiful piece.

Awesome

excellent job

Great pattern and excellent cutting!

Pretty impressive cutting!

Yep I can hear the blue grass with the banjo.

WOW! that is going back some! Great job!

Well done! Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

I have done the math and my way works for me. It may not work for others but... I do know about cutting the label (there is where waste one occurs) - 8.5x11 sheet for 1 pattern = $60.00/1000 each page costs $.06 At most (being generous) you may use 3/4 of label so 1/4 of that is throw away or 1.5 cents per label that really adds up over time - your link has the price at $80 or .08 cents per but I'll use your post info Regular paper (I use recycled paper) costs $30 per case 10 reams in a case, 5000 papers = 30.00/5000 = $.006 or less than 1 penny a paper. If I waste half a sheet, I throw away 1/2 a penny (actually .003) I also know I can spray each pattern (which I do sometimes) - Saves me even more but spray the whole board for convenience - it's also how @Iguanadon/Scott showed me when I started. it is very convenient when laying out a lot of patterns to do it this way - and saves a lot of time! I was getting 66 units out of a can of adhesive which cost me 7.98 at the time = .$.12 cents per pattern (checked my spreadsheet for the exact numbers) - now with the 9.98 price obviously it will be slightly higher, but not enough to make me recalc costs (just adds .03 per pattern). So using this as my baseline, I pay $.13 cents per pattern as opposed to $.18 per pattern for labels just on paper and adhesive alone with less waste I do have to add in the cost of the self paper as well 12"x36' Shelf paper costs me $16.31 or $.45 cents per pattern approx. I can get more than 1 pattern in a small area which is not calculated as a cost but added as a "freebie" pattern since the cost is already absorbed by the first pattern So my total cost per pattern is approx. $ .45 + $ .13 and that does not include the cost of the wood, ink etc. An example pattern costs me approx $2.77 which includes wood, ink and everything incendetal but not the cost of the pattern which I only pay for once and use multiple times for more savings. Once I add my time overhead and establish a baseline price I add my profit So, while using a label may save me .50 per pattern, it does not save that much because of waste. It actually would cost me more because I would have to use multiple sheets to fill an area that I can fill with multiple paper patterns. So, logically you might say - print more than one pattern on a sheet - that takes time to figure out which patterns can be added to a sheet which increases the time overhead Whew - my head hurts now LOL Hope that helps

Remember them well. Fantastic job.

Now that is a Beautiful box. I bet she is gonna Love it.

An Ian Thorley pattern. Approximately 7" diameter. Pattern 1/8" BB, backers 1/4" BB. Rattle can paint. A fun cut. Just taking a break from fretwork.

Rocky that is a Outstanding Looking Project. I agree. I have thought the same about Scrolling Projects like that for just down right getting a Feeling of Comfort with a difference. Well done and Love the Colors. Danny :+}

Nice job. I also have to knock out fun ones occasionally to keep my sanity.

Beautiful work!

fantastic job

Great cutting.

Awesome cutting and an Awesome pattern.

Don't know how I missed it. Neptune does some amazing patterns. Thanks!

I enjoyed the way it came out, as well. Thank you for the nice comment Dick heppnerguy

glad I am not alone on that. Dick heppnerguy

They are excellent! If you stick with the Corian versions (which looks great), that will help you in the finishing department. Well done!

Im originally from the UK but now live in the USA. My first introduction to scrolling was back in school on a Hegner saw, and I always told myself someday I would like to do more of it. Finally decided that the time is now! In doing my research on what saw to buy this forum keeps popping up so thought I would sign up and join the community. Don't have my saw yet but will be buying one really soon. After much deliberation I think I have settled on the Pegas since it looks so user friendly. Just trying to decide what blades to go for at the moment before I place an order!

I too suggest an assortment pack so you can figure out what works for you. I have scrolled for over 12 years and I still use the blades that I got in an assortment pack from Mikes Workshop. I use Ultra reverse (usually #3). I have tried the Pegas MGT blades and they are a lot more aggressive than FD-UR but I think with a little practice they would be fine. It is just a matter getting used to a blade.

Another option is to consider a variety pack of blades. Think Pegas has one. A lot of people here like the Modified Geometry blades... They are a little too aggressive for me for the types of scrolling I do most the time. Don't be afraid to try several types,, several sizes... Heck,, I have over 30 different types/sizes... I use most of them. And as I am writing, my opinion,,, I see Larry has a sorta different opinion.... Well I don't mean go crazy buying different types,,, but you need to buy more than one or two so you can compare... Just my thoughts.. I did start with a variety pack, and it took me several years to end up with a many different blades as I have not.

Beautiful pieces Dick. Like Frank said, they will be cherished. Marg

Just plain beautiful. They will be cherished.