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Had first holiday market yesterday and it went well. Started out chilly and a bit slow but picked up later and was windy all day. It was only 6 hours from 9am to 3pm. Always a good event each year. Sold 17 puzzles and 19 wall racks for a total in sales of $1180. Next Saturday is at the same location and should see an increase in traffic and sales as folks officially get into the holiday shopping mood. Weather looks good, cool, but less windy. Photo of a jumbo Stegosaurus wall rack someone ordered literally as I was packing up, shown in comparison to the puzzle version.

A few new ones I finished up and finally took some photo's of them. The Cheetah is by Russ Beard, the hawk is one by Ian Thorley, the crow is by Kenny Hopkins and the LA Kings helmet is by Jeffery Flick. Thanks to all you pattern designers for letting me have so much fun. The Cheetah, LA Kings and Crow are done in 1/8 A-4 oak plywood. The hawk is done in 1/2 inch oak strips that I glued up to make a blank for cutting. All work done with flat blades from a bunch of different manufacturers. All cut on a King Canada 20 inch saw.

Just completed the star to go on top of the Xmas tree and some decos to go with it. The star is double sided. I have given the deputies and office staff a decoration. Will take a pic of the tree when completed. It is going to be used at "The lighting of the Xmas Tree"street party on the 4th. Cheers all

As you can see, I have caught Car Fever, I have been cutting Cars out, and in doing some research I have found several popular cars that didn't make it on any of the movies, and they have also been turned into Transformers by some loyal fans. So I have begun to make them as well. One of them has a talking dog, and the other one is orange and jumps bridges.

After cutting out 180+ Christmas ornaments I needed a change. 3/4" Oak sure cuts differently from stack cutting BB plywood. It was a nice change of pace. A couple of Steve Good's patterns. . .

Only ones I know of are desk clocks.. https://woodenteddybear.com/products/sm164-rooster-clock https://cherrytreetoys.com/rooster-clock-pattern/

I will leave it to the experts like Charley and the others to give you the best information and advise. I did want to say, I do have a light box similar to the one you show from Amazon albeit smaller and it has worked fine for my purposes in general BUT I don’t take photos for selling purposes.

2021. Finished projects ,all made from Hardwood various oaks finished with four coats of Danish oil

Do you know where can get a pattern for a rooster clock? Preferably a wall clock, but I can adapt it if necessary.

Hubby and I went to Charlotte Dollar tree and happened to drive right past LL Johnson. Welllllll of course we had to stop. Below is everything I bought along with the prices to give you an idea of the *speciality* wood prices here.

Just finished 15 of these snowflakes. Kevin did most of the work for me. I had to sand them and paint them and glue the backe on. They came out good. Also finished these word art plaques that Don was good enough to make the patterns for me. Thanks again Don.

I was looking for a quick piece to cut for a new decoration and I found this one on Steve Good's page and liked it , so here is how it turned out. I only used BB Birch ply so it isn't anything really special but i still enjoyed cutting it and giving it to my wife. Dick heppnerguy

Hello friends, I show you my latest work. I made a modification to the original pattern and made it oval. Measures 12 "tall by 9.5" in 3/4 "pine wood Thank you very much in advance for your comments and I send you a big hug, greetings.

I don't have a way to mill my own boards. Am getting a planer in May for hubby's birthday so I can use some of the wood from the Amish and plane myself. don't use a lot of wood as I don't scroll that much with my eyesight being as bad as it is. Can't see the darn lines

If you have a way to mill your own.. it's a lot cheaper than buying the "store boards" I used to buy the store boards.. then I started buying the bundle packs ( bundles of 30 board foot or less ). Now I go out back and get the good deals of buying 100+ board foot at a time which gets you into a much lower price bracket..

The new BM series is basically a G4 with a better motor bearing block etc. so it's really a G4 with upgrades. They claim to have issues with the G4 motors bearings getting worn / hot and snapping the motors shaft so they upgraded the motor / bearing to resolve the issue.. Also machined the uprights from solid aluminum at the back of the BM series rather than having the casted uprights.. otherwise same saw I believe.

Good for you! When people ask me about buying older Hawks I always suggest staying away from the older ones. When I first tried a Hawk it was a pre G4 model and you had to reach around the Table tilt mechanism to get at the lower clamp. and it did not top feed. I still preferred it over the Hegner that I was trying. The main reason was that there was more room under the upper arm for my style of scrolling. The G4 was a dramatic redesign.

I was afraid of that after searching the internet didn't turn up anything.

Fabulous. Marg

Googled Decons but still don’t know what they are . Help

@kmmcrafts Kevin is the King of clocks perhaps he can point you in the direction of one.

LOL, I'll say! Thanks for all the help Charley. What's your opinion of prelighted boxes like this one? I was hoping to get away with something simple and "all in one" like this. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GIL6EU4/?coliid=I2Q8JA2K7X6EQJ&colid=1B3Z29M6Y4AM&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Very neat!

very nice

fantastic job

You captured it Superbly. Beautiful work.

You did a fabulous job Frank. Love your idea to make it oval, it seems better this way. Marg

Fantastic job, Frank. I've used pine for a lot of my projects. I have found that the grain in pine will push you off line if you're not careful. Anyway, it doesn't look like you had any problems with this piece.

Very nice saw. I was looking at saving up for one of those, but as of last week, I am the owner of a "new to me" G4, and after rebuilding it (PO used it heavily), I am very happy with it, so I'm sure you will be as well. Amazing saw. Dan

Greetings all. I just wanted to do a shout-out to Bushton Manufacturing. Last weekend, I answered a Craigslist ad for a Hawk G4 26" scroll saw, about 1-hour and 45-minutes away from my home. I don't think the price was great, but it wasn't bad either, about 1/3 of a new one. I offered a slightly lower number, and we met in the middle. I drove out to pick up the saw from a very friendly guy who was selling it for his friend's widow. Well, he didn't have much information, but the saw looks like it was in really great condition. He said his friend was meticulous about maintaining and cleaning his machines, so I made sure it powered on, loaded it in my truck, and drove the 1:45 home. After getting it into my shop and futzing with it for a while, I discovered that the saw was A LOT more worn out than expected. The pitman arm was worn out by the lower blade arm, and rattled terribly. The table tilt was broken and had a hard time keeping the table dead flat as there was some minor play in it, and the upper blade holder was cracked at the roll pin, and basically held on with tape. So, the saw was not very usable, and really loud. The saw was also missing the upper arm hold-down lever and blade guard. Neither of which I was going to worry too much about. Well, since I restore antique woodworking machinery, I decided I was going to fix it myself. I called Bushton Manufacturing, and spoke to the very, very nice lady on the phone and gave her a list of parts I needed to make the machine functional again. Bracing myself for a huge number, she gave me the total of something like $24. In my disbelief, I had to ask her again, and it was true. So... I ordered the missing parts, and the counter-weight, in case that was worn out too, but the total was still under $60, shipped. Anyhow, I went ahead and ordered them. She said a couple of the parts had to be manufactured, so there would be a delay in shipping those parts to me. I asked her to just ship them in one box since I wanted to rebuild the saw in one sitting, and it would save them on shipping. Well, 6-days later (today), I get all of the parts i needed and wanted. So, I went down to the shop and went to rebuilding the saw. How such a great saw can be so simple is beyond me. I had the entire saw rebuilt in under an hour. and now, the sucker works as good as new. I made a snowflake on it, and I have to say, this is the best scroll saw I have ever used, and I own quite a few (7 of them for a boy's club, and two vintage machines I restored). Anyhow, I just wanted to give a shout-out (that's what it's still called, right?) to Bushton Manufacturing for their absolute top-notch customer service and their great products. Thanks for putting up with me, Dan

That's great news to hear. The Bushton reputation has taken a hard hit here and on other forums so the more you can publicize your experience in the different venues, the better for them. Much appreciated here, I'm sure. Oh, congrats on your new machine. They truly are a working miracle in their simplicity. Once tuned and maintained, you should never have to worry about buying another saw.

Awesome painting skills!

Here it is - another puzzle from Steve Good's patterns. A few minor mishaps but overall I think it looks pretty good for my second attempt at scrolling. Painted this one rather than staining it. FIXED!!

You brought back such Happy Memories from Way Back. And Yes the big thing back then was Enjoying a RC Cola and a Moon Pie. Yes I didn't count how many but would venture a guess of over 50.... Danny :+}

Very nice job looks great

Long time Frank. This piece is a Eye Catcher. Such Perfect Scrolling and I LOVE THE OVAL.... Great looking (as your usual).... Danny :+}

You captured it beautifully.

A tremendous amount of work very well done.

I was looking for a project to cut for one of my granddaughter when I came across this Steve Good pattern and showed it to my wife. She said that is a great pattern for the granddaughter I cut this one for. I started to cut it out of Red Cedar but the sawdust would not blow from the pattern and continued to build up in front of the blade. I was using a #1 Pegas blade and no.... I was not put on upside down. It became so much of a problem, I quit cutting it and made if from BB Ply instead. I still liked it well enough but I was a little disappointed by not being able to cut it from the wood I had chosen for it. Dick heppnerguy