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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.

Perched Bald Eagle. The pattern is by Jacob Fowler and found in the book Woodworkers Pattern Book. It is made from 1/2" solid Walnut with a 3/4" solid Walnut base and stands 15 1/2" tall.. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1R MGT blades. Dipped in Shellac diluted 50% with Denatured Alcohol and twp coats MinWax spray Lacquer Clear Satin. Sanding with a Mac Mop between coats. Comments welcome.

Made from shop scraps. Design by T & E designs. a little of all kinds of wood, Some 1/4 plywood, a few unknown species, and some pine in the wheels. Used scrollsaw for most of the cuts, Drill press and hole saws for the wheels.

Hello Everyone. Sorry I haven't posted in quite a while. Two young kids and a lot of work responsibilities have really cut into my shop time. Anyways, I was able to crank out these two graduation gifts. I used a couple of pictures from a friend to make both patterns. A couple of good kids who are headed off to college to continue their basketball careers. The frames are dyed pine. I was hoping to do the blue and gold (school colors) for both, but ran out of dye. .

1938 Lancia Astura Cabriolet Lancia is one of Italy’s oldest car companies being founded in 1907. The Lancia Company still exist in Turin and now is under the umbrella of Stellantis Auto Group which also includes Chrysler/Fiat, Citroen, Alpha Romeo, Maserati and Peugeot. The 1938 Lancia Astura was the epitome of the late Art Deco auto design period with its large flared front fenders and extensive use of chrome on the windshield and grill. The Tipo V-8 3-liter engine provided plenty of performance for either touring the Apian Way or along the shores of Lake Como in style and comfort. This model was only produced for 2 years with WWII disrupting car production for military purposes. I designed the pattern with MS 3D paint and used 1/8 BBPW with ¼” luan backer. Finish is shellac with Gloss lacquer.

This is a sign for a house that will be given to the daughter and son- in-law to be,on Saturday when they wed. It is made from 3/4 inch cedar with a 1/4 inch baker board painted black. The receivers of this are horse people so that is why the horse head was chosen for this item. Dick heppnerguy

3M WorkTunes with Bluetooth is what I wear in the shop. They are noise reducing not noise canceling. I were Peltor electronic muffs for shooting.

Great job, You are getting this lamp thing down pat!

I suffer from Tinnitis, Still hear very well, I just wear the the headphones to keep from getting worse and to enjoy somewhat of a (little) more quite time.

No they are just regular noise blocking headphones, No music, I can hear someone yelling at me if there in the shop.

I wear hearing aids that amplify everything except the human voice. I can hear an ant fart at 40 yards but I can't hear my wife sitting next to me. And it's not Selective Hearing. My hearing is actually still very good but she insisted that I get them so I could hear her. Didn't work. When in the shop, I don't wear anything to protect my hearing. I did everything possible to ruin my hearing. I have tinnitis in both ears. But, I still hear very well. The hearing aids were a waste of $2800.

I recently bought some thumb screws and new set / anvil screws for my blade clamps for my old Hawk from McMaster. When browsing the website I seen they have flat end set screws and also seen they have them that have a swivel end similar to the swivel on the Excalibur/DeWalt. If they had them in the thumb screw I’d have tried them but figured probably useless in the set screw side. Anyway the flat bottom set screw the flat portion has a smaller surface than just a plain set screw. Probably would work well with larger blades but I had trouble with my #3 blades so just a heads up don’t try them if you run upon them as they probably won’t work. Now the thumb screws, every time I order these or get them from a hardware store the center in kind of concaved and they don’t work either unless I screw them into a board and dress the ends flat. If you’re not careful about dressing the ends you can get them on a angle and pretty much deem the new one useless . Which kind of puts you back to where you was and why you got new screws in the first place. I’m wondering if anyone had purchased them outside of the saw manufacturer and how / where do you find them machined with a flat surface to start with. I normally have decent success with drilling a appropriate sized hole in a scrap wood piece and screwing in (straight) the screws and sanding them. But even this sometimes for some reason not always presents me with a true square flat surface. I’m wondering about maybe the board warping or using the same one over time may make the board itself becoming unflattend. I have thought about threading a piece of flat stock steel to use which may be more stable? Anyway just a heads up on those flat set screws. Oh they do have smaller and larger flat end ones and yes I did order the larger ones. Possible they sent the wrong ones? I don’t know. I’m just not going to try them again. They would take a lot of sanding / grinding to get them down to the larger portion of the screw so dressing them wouldn’t work too well.

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

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.

That is a beautiful cut. All that grill work! Wow!

Nicely done.

There is Nothing more I can think of to say that hasn't already been said...........Did have a hard time to Stop Looking at the Pattern and the Car. Perfection For Sure.... Danny :+}

Wow! You did a fantastic job! Those picture don't look like they would be easy to work with. Great work.

Very nice job! That would be nice to look at while winding down waiting on the Sandman.

Here is a Bald Eagle cut in plywood that measures 44 inches tall. Cut with a Jig Saw and stained with Ebony stain.

Search amazon for diamond needle file. Then switch the search to "low to high." Scroll down until you find one yo like. There are lots of them.

awesome job

Excellent. We like it a lot. We also like nautical items, Our family room is nautical themed and has many nautical themed pieces. Some I made and some I bought. In fact, I'm working a Intarsia Mermaid right now to add to our theme.

Great work by both of you. Marg

Lovely. You did a great job Frank. Marg

Les, when you go to Amazon and find the ones you bought, go up to the address bar, click on it and then right click. It will give you an option to copy. So copy it and then go to this place on SSV and right click again. This time, instead of copy, hit paste. That will place the link where you want it.

Well done all the way around from design to finished project. God Bless! Spirithorse

I'm not sure how to do that but if you look for diamond files in Amazon it will be pretty hard to miss. Only one there for $5.94.

Hahahaha

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.

Thanks. Are they Bluetooth allowing you to listen to music or speech? My hearing so deteriorated that I can no longer understand music but I can understand some pod casts depending upon the person speaking's voice.

I wear HA's also. Mine are not BT compatable but do stream our TV sound via a transmitter plugged into the TV. However, my HA's are programable and have 3 different setups. One if for streaming the TV sound, a second is normal sound situations and the third is for noisy situations such as crowded places. When I'm in the shop I use this third setting and can listen to my "Alexa" while cutting or working. Yes the router, bench sander and table saw are loud and will block out the music but those noises are very short lived. When scrolling I can still hear the music while cutting. This setting is like what a normal heearing person would hear with ear plugs.

I use regular headphones, The Muffling type, Big ones like you can find at Lowes or Home Depot. They work Great for me. Looks like this emoji

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 also have the Grizzly Baby Drill Press and if scrolling was the primary usage for it, it is perfect. It also takes the smallest bits with no problem. And it’s on sale for $94.50 today. Great price.

Very nice !

UPDATE Amaz has the 3m 45 for 10.51 At least as of 5am this morning (5-24-21) that was the price

True enough and agree completely. I have enough time invested in the patterns to not want to try to figure out which patterns I can fit on a sheet - with over 500 different available items the time the task would take me would be best spent elsewhere in the shop I've yet to throw a can away, and I keep a jar of mineral spirits near our glue up area - quick dip of the tips and good as gold I also save all my spray nozzles from all products just in case I get a clog in any of them. The nozzles are kept in a mineral spirits solution and if a paint can clogs, pull out a comparable nozzle and attach and away I go. Add the clogged nozzle to the solution for a rainy day. I am such a darn pack rat and hate to throw things away that I think I may be able to use in the futuere. I can't help myself , probably comes from my formative years of being less than well off.

I know most patterns come in PDF.. really quick and simple to go into inkscape and make a quantity of two per page.. Also if you have a scanner and can scan the image to your computer.. then right click the file you can select print and a pop up opens and you can select to print two that way.. also can resize them to ornament sized and print 4 per page. I rarely waist half of the shipping label.. but it does take a minute on the computer to do this editing.. I typically do it anyway as I like to change the print from black to red anyway. Everyone has a different method in which works for them and none are wrong.. one persons version of convenience is different from another persons. To me no sticky fingers, no clogged nozzles, messy over sprays, and no throwing a 1/8 can of glue away because the cans air died before the can was empty is all convenient.

Nice cutting and great pieces... Love the little kids silhouettes.

You did credit to the car with your pattern.

You have done justice with both creating a beautiful pattern and tremendous cutting! Wonderfully done!

Extreamly nice cutting of the font.

Another marvelous piece by my favorite car pattern maker. I have never even heard nor seen this car before. It is outstanding. I really enjoyed reading all the information on the car and it's designer. Great history lesson included. absolutely marvelous. Dick heppnerguy

Awesome!!! Both the car and your work!!

Wow, quite a thing to do justice to such a beautiful car, but you sure did.

I was never impressed with the Dremel router base even when new it seemed a bit sloppy. I have used it a few times.