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Did this as requested by a friend. I hope she likes it. Happy to be back at my saw. An A4 piece of 3mm B/B, #3 Niqua ultra reverse blade, 3mm birch painted black for the backer. The frame is Oak and was a tad fiddly to make and not perfect by a long chalk. 12½" x 9". H. Botas pattern.

Something about old Brit Sports cars, like wearing a bowler or saying "Bond, James Bond" . If you're not dusting off bugs from your right( left, U.S. version) elbow, you're not going fast enough. A true classic. 4 and 5 speed trannies at 190HP, TOP SPEED 120/130MPH. Cut from 1/8" bbpw with 1/4" backer.

I love my... Cat or Dog? I had two dogs and now my pet is cat. Here is my new project for cat lovers. Making of Paw project Paw pattern

You only go clockwise if you live south of the equator!

I would like to extend my thanks to Lawson 56, Grampa and TD Painter for creating great patterns for of the VW van from the attached photo. Of the 3 pattern creators, I chose TD Painter, he had the detail I was looking for on this project. I still hold down a full time job so with work, this project took my a week to complete with doing a little at nights. I already had the frame made from my last setup on making a number of frames for future projects, just had to apply the finish. There were approximately 90 cuts overall and the pattern was enlarged slightly to approx 10" high by 14" long. I used baltic birch ply at 1/8" thick and stack cut 4 pieces. I also cut the 2 mats for this project and even included a dust cover on the back of the frame along with appropriate hanging hardware. The frame is made with Philippine Mahogany with an inlay if Purple Heart. The interior dimensions of the frame is approx. 16" high by 20" long. Thanks for looking and I look forward to any comments.

Needed to take a break from doing framed, flat panel portrait work and make something different. I have had this Side and End wall bird battern for a very long time and have revisited it often. It did include the base pattern, but there were no patterns/details for the top or bottom. I had to design them on the fly. The box is nom 12” wide by 8” deep and 4” high. I really did not realize how large the box was until I began to assemble it. Since the box was quite large I decided it needed a divided drop-in tray. The box outer walls, base, top and bottom is solid red oak. The red painted wall backers, inside box bottom, inside base top and the inside box tray supports were made from 1/8” BB ply (cut from my cut-off scrap pile). The tray was made from 1/4" Red Oak solid core ply and has a depth of 1 1/4 inches. Because I did not realize the size of the box, I was forced to purchase a 6 foot length of Red Oak 1” by 12” (3/4” by 11 1/2“) to make the top and bottom. Big $$$$$. The available 2 foot long boards at Lowes were not quite long enough as I need 26 inches. So I now have a nice 3’-10” length left for another future project. I planed the bottom down to 1/2”. For the top I rabbeted the bottom perimeter 1/4"deep so the top has a lid keeper that projects into the box. I sanded a small round on each corner and I used a small ogee router bit to put a decorative edge all around the top and bottom. Everything was finished with many coats of clear gloss Lacquer after which I lined the tray and the lower box with red felt. A very sticky job as I was using contact cement. I'm contemplating installing some small hinges as the top is heavy and will be cumbersome to remove and replace during use. I’m attaching a few pics as it is hard to show all the detail in one. Feel free to critique my work. . Edit 7/3/21: It was requested I post pics with the hinges installed. I was able to mortice the hinges into the box and lid to get the lid to land flat on the box. The lid does not need a hold open device because of the lids overhang.

I agree with all of the comments and I will add my 2 cents worth! I too have trouble with the 2/0 blades and it is more my trying to do what I do with other blades and it just does not work with the 2/0 blade or finer! 1/4 inch wood, hardwood or softer wood is just about the limit for this blade! They do require much more tension than the larger blade which you wouldn't thank so but it is true! Also you do have to turn down the speed, you cannot be in a hurry with this blade! As you have already found out you cannot turn the wood at sharper angles like you do with other blades, the blade will not track around like the larger blades do and you will have to do as Frank and I do, and that is make minute cuts to get the sharp angle cut. If you happen to be cutting 1/32nd or 1/16th material the blade may track around the shape bends, that i couldn't tell you, never had any material that that thin! As far as splitting lines, I have found that for myself the thinner the lines the easier it is for me to to stay on the line. It seems to force my brain to stay there and not wander off as I would with thick lines. Since we do not make our own patterns I have to do it different with patterns with the thick lines and track to either one side or the other of the edge! This does require more time for myself to make the cuts but than I am not employed by China! The worst ones to cut are the solid black patterns and that is the only choose to cut them! Just go by the advise and try any or all of the ideas but do put the tension to them and slow down the speed and let the blade do what it is supposed to do, cut the material! Erv

I have had this pattern for a long time and I believe I got it from the Scroll saw magazine, quite awhile back. I just ran across is as I was looking for a different one and I showed it to my wife and she said she would like one of them. So here it is. I do not remember who the pattern maker is. I am quite disappointed in how it came out, as I found myself having to take it apart but still could not seem to get it right. From the far side of the room, it looks ok though. I only posted it because I don't want anyone to think I am sitting on my duff, watching TV Dick heppnerguy

Iv been doing all kinds of crafts lately. These are some pictures of the wood crafts. My grandson was out for the weekend last weekend and we were looking through some of my wood patterns. In one of the books he saw this wood box and told me his mom used to have one just like it but it got ruioned so spike went out to see if we had the wood needed to make and since we did we made his mom a new box lol . I would have liked to have done some carving on it but we wanted it to be like the orginal so just left it blank, i would have liked to have put a cousion on it too...but her orginal didnt have a cover sooo we just left it lol . I am going to make some more of these if the wood prices come down so i can cave on them and put cousions on them. As i was looking through my wood i discovered 2 fret work peices all ready to be cut out. I have no idea how long they have been sitting in there but its been at least 3 years. I know because until last year I hadnt been able to do any of my crafts for about 3 years. there just simple easy fret work peices as when i tried to do more complex things i always wound up with breakage. since being here iv learned the reason none of my attempts to do more complex work is because i have cheap plywood. lol I am going to try to get some better plywood once the price of wood goes down somes. then i will ask you guys which type of ply wood i should get for the more complex patterns. at least now i know its not because after all these years im still just not good enough to do them lol I also love plants so i got out steve goods dog planter pattern and made that. I painted it to look like our new 1 year old dog bonnie. lol as soon as the paint drys im going to put the one plant i ordered through the mail that didnt arrive dead in it and put it outside. I have far to many plants in the house!! lol we're being over run with plants and the houseplants need to be thined out again and everbody put in new pots..... where im going to put them God only knows. My daughter in law said she will take some for her and my grandson connor as he started getting into plants at school this past year. I used to give my overflow to my daughter to take to work with her when she worked at the caseno.... for her friends but since she graduated collage shes moved to maryland with her husband and is teaching art in the schools there. My friend who i used to give plants to has moved so thats out, espically since she got good at keeping them alive. lol she now has as many plants as i do the only thing is id like to get rid of some of the plants i have so i could get some different kinds but i dont see that happening as like i said its time to thing out and repot the plants i have again! somehow i just cant just let them die or throw away the offshoots that are ready for there own pots. not only that but im not sure spike will be willing to buy me more pots to put the over flow in to. lol humm maybe my brother will take one or two again. so far he hasnt learned how to keep them alive yet. lol Im going to make the swan plant holder to and im going to send these patterns to my friend and see if she can make me a cat and a turtle planter....i do miss my little turtle spock, but it was just getting to hard for us to change his water and clean the apuriam and he was ready for a bigger one already so i gave him to one of the elemantary school teachers for her class room. she already had some land turtles so i knew hes be in good hands. Iv been thinking of maybe getting a land turtle if spike would let me but id have to look into more. I dont want to get one and then have to give him away .... but thats kind of mute spike said i cant have any more animals inless i get rid of one of the ones i have lol and thats not going to happen. He thinks 2 dogs, a cat and a bird are more then enough animal children to help me cope with my empty nest syndrume lol anyway the other 2 pictures are of the things my grandson cut out while he was here. ones a christmass solder and the other is of a knight jumping toy we still have to put the strings on. now i just have to find some new patterns to start on tomorrow lol time start some woodcarvings i think. My friend who moved up north wants me to make some for her to sell up there..... well off to go through my crocheting patterns a woman at the store asked spike if id make some hats to donate for giveing out this winter. lol I have several usb fill of crochet patterns to look through. lol Iv already made 3 of the baby grover hats. now im looking to find another pattern, for older children lol

I don't split the line. I cut to the side of the line. I always cut counter clockwise. If I cut clockwise, for some reason, I lose control. In sharp corners, I cut up to the corner, and back out a tad, then sometimes I come in a little to the side to make it so that when I finish getting to the corner, I have cut just enough that I can then spin the piece and put the back of the blade in the corner and start cutting again.. leaves a nice corner for me. I have a hard time on like 1/8" thick wood spinning the piece and not screwing up a turn especially with a new blade. What I do a lot if I'm doing a sharp turn but not a full 90 or if it's past a 90, is I cut up to a spot, I take my foot off the pedal, I spin the wood like 30 degrees, and tap the pedal to make the blade do like 2 cuts, which lets the blade straighten out again, and I may do that a couple times till I'm around the corner. On sharp rounds, I tend to keep doing small taps of the pedal as I spin it letting it take like one or two strokes per tap till I get around the super tight turn. Someday I may break out the spirals I have so I don't HAVE to turn it... but the person who had them when I bought the saw from him, coated them in a ton of oil.. and I am not sure I want to use them and get oil residue on the wood..

Got my medical issues under control and ready to start slicing and dicing lumber again. But the Florida summer heat out in the garage is not helping. In lieu of spending a fortune in air conditioning solutions, has anyone just used those desktop personal chillers right at the saw to keep from melting? Not trying to AC the whole garage, just the 4 sq ft around the saw and me.

I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was! I heard that somewhere.

Lots of knowledgeable folks here. Thank goodness caus I couldn't even understand the question

I think Pegas makes blade clamps for the Jet scroll saw.

I too am left handed. but left handers know how to adapt easier. so why does angle matter? the blade is just cutting a tad more wood.

You could just make it actual size but you might need a lot of wood and a huge saw.

I am a counter clockwise cutter. if I go clockwise i have issues oddly. Not that the wood reacts any differently, its just not as comfortable for me.

Hi all If you need a photo converted TD is the man for the job. Here is finished pattern he did for me from a photo I sent him..

A very beautiful box, Frank. I really like your explanation of the construction. Red Oak was perfect for this one.

Very well done both in cutting and framing.

Wouldn't you love to drive around in that beauty.... Nice cutting..

Frank, that’s beautiful, I have looked at that in the past but have not made it yet, RJ

My basement shop is warm in the winter and cool in the summer... But those stairs are the beast, and to think i used to fly up those stairs 2-3 steps at a time.

Geez, you can still move it ??? Great, I will be 77 before the year ends and dread the thought of moving those heavy floor models. Jointer. TS. Sooo I will just wait till they move me.

very nice job

that's a beautiful car and a fantastic job of cutting the picture

Looks pretty darn good to me. I wonder off of my lines often when I am in too big of a hurry. I do not use lines though. I have my pattern filled with a 40% gray. I leave the white and cut out the gray. I saw rotation. I do best cutting counter clock wise. Thats just easiest for me.

Looks great to me!

Or you could take the easy way out and cut this Steve Good pattern.globe.pdf

Paul, I think that Brimarc were the distributors for Jet but I've heard that now it's Axminster, you could try them but being as it's an Excalibur clone maybe parts from Axminster saws will fit your Jet.

eReplacementparts worked for me. I needed a blade keeper for my Delta, as a backup. They had it.

Not sure if they ship overseas or not but give eReplacementparts.com a try. They seem to have parts for most tools.

It will make a huge difference if you start cutting anything angled. It makes the difference how what you are inlaying will either drop down into the layer below or rise up to the layer above. Hard to explain.

If I calculated this correctly your angle of cut would be 18 degrees. 360 degrees in a circle, and 20 layers would work out as 360 / 20 = 18. You would need to calculate the circumference of each layer divide that by2 to get the radius of the circle to cut, then divide that in 2 to setup your compass to draw the next circle. Another way which is simpler would be to to take your compass. put it in the center of the piece you just cut on the shortest side. Keeping the it on the center expand the other side to meet the outer circumference of the piece you cut ( on the shorter side ). Once it is equal on both sides 180 apart you can draw your next circle to cut at 18 degrees. Repeat till all pieces are cut.

This caught my attention. I don't remember seeing any discussion on which direction to cut. And I haven't noticed any difference in my cutting. Am I missing something? And does it make a difference? And most curious as to why. Thanks, joe

What a beautiful classic! Wonderful job of pattern and cutting!

That's some interesting plumbing in the last photo Ray. The wood clamp on the metro looks cool.

It's really not much to look at but here are a couple of pics of it upside down. The first two just show how I constructed it. Like I said, not pretty. But the 3rd pic shows how it looks in place on the vac. It is aimed toward the rear of the saw and what noise does still emit, goes away from me. It's really very quiet. And I don't think there is enough restriction to harm the vac. I just added a pic showing looking down from above but before I added the muffler. You can see how it shoots toward the rear where the little cyclone is mounted.

on the topic of splitting/following lines, i dont split lines. i pick an edge of the line and follow it.

LOts of good avice above, but lets talk a little differently. I really can not speak directly to skip tooth blades as I don't use them. I very rarely use blades larger than #1, I use very samall Pegas MGT R and Pegas sprials to do more tha 99% of the cutting I do. If you are using a 2/0 blade to do very intricate fretwork and having difficulty tracking the line, I suspect you are probably pushing too hard and have the saw speed is up too high. Proper tension is important, but yolu must let the blade do the cutting. I do not like to spin the work piece to turn a corner when Im using a small blade so I tend to use what I call the double cut method. Fully enter the corner, back out and cut a new cut over to the corner on the oppisite line leaving a small cut out that the piece can be rotated around the stopped blade to continue on the new path. Rotating a work piece around the blade while cutting always leaves a rounded corner/intersection, rather than a very sharp point, especially when the corner is supposed to be very sharp. I'd rather double cut than bugger up a corner or sharp point rying to rotate the piece while cutting. Oh, just one other thing, you must look at the blade and line you are cutting and not look where you do not want go...if you do the blade will goi there...trust me, I know. Now lets talk a little about tracking along the line. When I'm able to, in Inkscape, I make the line width just about visible in RED at .005 inches and try to use a very light Grey fill. Since I use a very thin line, I do not attemp to split the line, but rather keep the blade tracking as true as possible tight along the waste side of the line. If I lose some control, I attempt to do so on the waste side so I can shave back to the line or even sand it smooth with my dremel burrs later if necessary. Also, as you are well aware, in many intricate patterns adjacent cut lines may be very close together. Using a thin line allow me to move the blade to the other side of the line to provide a little bit more space between parellel cuts. Since the cut line is so thin this variation on which side of the line I cut is not even visible when all said an done. I do not find the wood thickness to be of concern when using small blades. However, the thicker the wood the slower the piece must be pushed. Again the blade must do the cutting and it can't be rushed. Unless I'm cutting something like block font or long straight or smooth curved lines I have personally gone to using spiral blades for cutting fretwork. No rotating the work piece and much better line tracking once you master using spirals, That being said I stll use the same method of tracking the blade along the cut line as I described above. For most fretwork I do, the pattern cuts are very forgiving if there is minor deviations in tracking the cut line. HTH

Finished.. 1/4" thick hickory. Measures about 11x15 inches. Has a black backer glued to it. Forgot to mention, it's another Sheila Landry design.

wounderful peace!! looks great!

Sue had a sell, buy 2 get 1 cross pattern free. Why not. Been raining here all day! Toying with the idea of making a light out of the rose pattern one. We'll see!

I agree with Ray.. take the EX upstairs.. you don't need a stand for it if you have a table top to work on. My excalibur came with some rubber feet that I never installed.. I'll mail them to you if you want them. They are designed for benchtop use..

Ben, if you get another saw, will you stop going downstairs to your shop? I ask the question for this reason. Why not just bring one of those saws upstairs? I get the feeling that your days downstairs may be ending so having the Ex upstairs would be better than having some lightweight, noisy vibrating saw.

terrific job

Oh I love it. Great work too. Marg

Nice and clean. I like all 3 fonts that you used, especially the top line.

Ditto

I do have a 10 inch table saw. You have a great suggestion! Thank you.