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Saw this quote pop up in my FB feed, thought it was a solid line of reasoning. Threw together a quick pattern. 1" whiteboard, Pegas #3 MG blades. Pattern is stained Minwax "Natural Oak" and the backer is "Early American". ...don't quote me on either of those stain names. I'm still working on first cup of coffee, and its been a VERY trying, emotional couple of days for the family. No losses, but prayers/vibes/thoughts would be appreciated. Frame is built, just need some light sanding on the upper left corner to get a better fit.

My latest project - a helicopter made out of basswood. Used a mahogany stain on the propellors and Watson's Golden Oak on the body. Applied a satin gloss finish on it when done. Who knew I had all these toys justing waiting in my basement woodpile!

Hello everybody, My last job, I found this model from Steve Good and motorcycling is another of my hobbies so i tried to cut this model but i don't like plywood. Eric

I converted these Spotted Leopard and Cute Kitten patterns for the scroll saw from free images found on-line. The Spotted Leopard cut panel is a 5/32x11x17 Maple solid core ply attached to a painted black 1/4 BB backer. The cut panel was Hand Painted with Artist Acrylic Paints. Cutting was completed with Pegas #2/0 and #0 spiral blades. The finished panel was protected with many coats of Deft Spray Clear Gloss Lacquer. The assembled panel is set in a custom Poplar 1 3/4” wide Frame finished with multiple coats of Minwax Pecan Poly/Stain. The Cute Kitten is 5/32x11x14 Walnut solid core ply attached to a Hand painted 1/4 BB backer. The Walnut cut panel was darkened with Minwax Dark Walnut stain. This pattern was very challenging because of the many very pointy cuts. Cutting was completed with Pegas #1 and #2/0 MGT R blades. The Backer was Hand Painted with Artist Acrylic Paints. The assembled panel is set in a custom Poplar 1 3/4” wide Frame finished with multiple coats of MInwax Dark Walnut Poly/Stain. As always, critique and comments welcome. I'll post the PDF Patterns in "New Pattern Announcements"

Transformers Robots in disguise. Oh I remember that song, My girls used to love that toon. So while looking around I came across these familiar faces. I just had to give em a try. The Mystery Machine with on the right I like that on better. And the General Lee Transformers Flag is on his back I guess.

This is joint project with my granddaughter. I was her idea so I came up with a pattern and cut out for each of her friends. The inspiration for this was, at Halloween this year the 7 friends all dressed as a different colour M&M. Had sweatshirts with a big M and a matching Tootoo. Some had coloured streaks in their hair too. She wanted to come up with something to give each this Christmas and this is what she came up with. I cut - she painted the same as her friends costume.

G'Day, Just finished two knife boxes - "The Angry Stockfish" and "The New Zealand Stockfish". Why Stockfish? In my country - Ukraine, dry salted fish traditionally eated with beer instead chips. This salted fish named "taranka". I didn't found the detail product in US shops, so Stockfish. Made from pine, 2 layers of black oil for wood. Walls - 10 mm, lid and bottom - 6 mm, the inner insert thickness - 4 mm. Made with hand tools only. The pattern was fretsawed with jewellery fretsaw, blades @Antilope, jewelry blades.

My tree was designed by Sue Mey this year. The blue ornament is from our first Christmas together. 49 years ago.

Kevin, you get what you pay for, a cheap chuck will let the bit slip, a good one will not. I have never had mine let the bit slip at all. YMMV! My chuck is 0 to 1/2" I don't see it listed at this time .You might give them a call to see if it is available. I am 86 years old and learned a long time ago when it comes to tools you buy the best that you can afford. I made my living for 46 years using tools and I never regretted buying GOOD tools.

I submitted a photo of my finished model like they requested and was really surprised after a few weeks when I received a copy of their catalogue and noticed my model on the back cover. I added a few details to the model like doors that open and a different hub center on the wheels. beaver

Here is something you might find useful... https://www.mikestools.com/ownersmanuals/DeltaScrollSaws/40-540.pdf Mikestools is the best place around to find obsolete parts for these old Delta saws.. I rebuilt one of these saws back in 2006.. many parts were no longer available but searching online for parts and part numbers I found Mikestools.. He was a great person to deal with.. I haven't dealt with him in about 6 years now. He had a obsolete part for my old Delta jointer that kept me from throwing it in the trash..

I'm a little confused as I've never heard of one using pinned blades on the quickset ll blade chucks.. that saw should have a blade clamp that you use a lever to clamp the blade.. Photo is of one of the quickset style clamps.. does your saw have this style? If not them I'm betting someone had changed it over to a older style clamp...

Amazon $89 https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Drafting-Stool-Adjustable-Foot/dp/B072Y2S76T/ref=pd_lpo_2?pd_rd_i=B072Y2S76T&psc=1 Russ

WARNING! There are two tapers on the drill press chuck. One that goes into the chuck and one that goes into the drill press. They are not the same taper. Here is a picture of my old chuck and the double taper . The taper towards the chuck is a JT33 taper. The taper that fits into the drill press is a Morse taper #2

Packing orders in the nice warm house. About half done with the overnight orders in the top box. Bottom box is yesterday’s orders. Then I get to pack the boxes that contain larger items like clocks etc. So during the holidays I spend most my time packing orders or making custom / personalized requests orders. Usually turn those away the 1st of December. I have a dozen to make now so that’ll take me up to the delivery deadline. Many folks will order even though they won’t get it until after the new year. Then I spend a large part of January doing bookkeeping for tax season. Mid January- February I get to go back to production cutting and starting to restock next years sales.

Just finished this board for a very good friend as a Christmas gift. Wood used Cherry, Maple and Walnut also epoxy in the middle.

I built a gift shop in my yard last summer to sell my work. Thought I would take a couple minutes and show it to ya'll Lemme know what you think. (Video would not upload. My apologies)

G'day all, The kids stuck their "baubles" on the tree today. I cut the circles and painted them white and the kids decorated them. They used hot melt glue, so I will have to place a screw in each one to stop them falling of. Would of used super glue but I reckon we would of ended up with a few nippers stuck to tree amongst the decos The local Men's shed made 14 trees from ply and gave one to each school to decorate and paint. May add a little tinsel, we'll see what the boss thinks.

Just got back from a trip to my favorite supplier. We are fortunate that they are only 109 miles away, so when we buy a big amount, it's worth 10 gals of fuel to save any shipping costs. They are awesome folks, a family owned and operated business, always eager to please, and provide excellent materials. Check them out if you haven't already. https://ocoochhardwoods.com/

Hi, I have a Delta 40-540 variable speed saw a purchased used. I know it uses pinned blades, my question is, can it use both pinned and pinless? Kelly

One thing you might like to know about your clamps. If the closing handles are not bent the best way to keep them from bending is to not apply a lot of pressure closing them. Depending on blade size you first adjust the pressure with the knurled nut and then operate the handle. If you have a blade slippage issue clean the inside surfaces with alcohol and also clean oil from ends of blades. If you treat them right your clamps will work great for a long time. I had a Delta P20 with the same clamps and loved them. Good Luck

Yes, that is the clamp style I have. Learn things everyday. I thought it was a pin style. Thanks for the information.

I'm good with Photoshop and now learning Affinity Pro. Inkscape works considerably different, and I don't book learn well, so I'm sticking with what I know for now. I have over 20 years of Photoshop experience. Affinity was bought a year ago when I had a bit of a "falling out" with Adobe. It seems more capable of some photo editing than Photoshop, if I can just get my head wrapped around it. Only $50 and no monthly rent for it either. Charley

I have one of those and it wobbles. I'm replacing the chuck to eliminate the need for it. I may also replace the bearings in the quill.

It's difficult to get everything in just a few photos, and It's not really related to scroll sawing (It's a photo/video studio), but I have taken quite a few cell phone quality photos in different directions in here. Rather than post them publicly here on a woodworking forum, please PM your email address and I'll send some to you. I'm considering making a video, but haven't done this yet. Attached is a photo of my assistant, taken in my photo studio last year. Linda has been a great help when getting the lights adjusted. Her sisters help occasionally too. Charley

Welcome to the village! I don't know this answer myself, but am positive you will have an answer. Maybe @kmmcraftsor @OCtoolguy can answer this.

Maybe there is a keyless chuck that doesn't slip, but I have yet to see one. I had one for a few years, and I got rid of it because it would slip. The other thing I don't like about a keyless chuck is that inserting a new bit almost took three hands to get the bit mounted.

I use an add-on chuck from the local big box store. It goes to 0, and clamps into the existing chuck with the hex shape that all the screwdriver bits use. They are about $7 and work well enough. Drill press chucks are replaceable, but as mentioned watch that you get the right taper on both ends. Also, if you have a Harbor Freight press; your tapers may be metric or whatever they use and are not easy to source components for. If a hand drill, you've got what you got. When you change your chuck, be sure to keep that taper safe and clean. A little bit of dirt, a nick, or a bit of skin oil or machine oil and it won't fit right or slip.

Beautiful work Frank!

+1 on the Pets Package! My wife loves them! I just need to find time to make for 6 cats, 2 dogs, and 2 passed dogs. If there was a passed dogs and cats that would be great; i wish i possessed the skill to draw these things. Thanks!!

Just curious since I know very little about drill press / drill chucks.. Is there any reason not to go with a keyless chuck? Got to admit I hate messing with having a keyed chuck on my drill press.. and it seems so nice to not have that key on my cordless drill.. I'm assuming that the keyed chuck probably holds better? I think if I was to replace the chuck on my press I'll be looking at keyless unless you all think there would be an issue with it holding my forestner bits.. Though I have used it in my cordless with no slippage issues..

Thank you Franck, I have a 2004 BMW K1200GT. I'm lucky, near here I have a carpentry workshop that gives me scrap metal for nothing. I'll go see if he has something else

You're welcome, here is another plan I did from them, but added few details of my own.

Glad you're staying busy with the business, I am really enjoying the saw,making some Christmas ornaments.

Yes, lots and lots of spining. I first tried with a spiral blade but just could not get the points and pointy interior intersections sharp enough. Using the regular blades, in some areas I did the double cut to get into the interior points, but mostly cut spin cut spin, etc.

looks cool

I'm not either.. the seller has seemed to skip the important description.. In the reviews I found a person saying that it measured at 24.5 inches at the lowest setting.. But that review may be for a different chair too.. LOL

The last few 1000 of them I bought from a recycle place on eBay.. but they went out of business I think.. I try to use recycled and earth friendly packing supplies when I can. I just bought a sample pack of some Kraft paper ones.. as I'm not super fond of the poly ones.. shipping labels don't stick real well to the poly ones.. I buy packing peanuts from Staples that are a by product of wheat I think it was.. anyway they melt once they're wet.. and I had a hard time keeping my dog from eating them. Anyway I'm looking into a place that makes / sells biodegradable cushion mailers.. I might try a sample.. Meanwhile I just bought 500 of them from this seller and they seem to be decent.. just that they're poly and I'm trying to find a better source. https://www.ebay.com/itm/373087821222?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=641873188375&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

@John B it's funny that you said that. I've been playing an old game on my PC that I had forgotten all about. It's called "Sokoban" and it was from back when DOS was what everything was written in. Anyway, it's now been updated to run on Windows GUI. It's a warehouse man whose job it is to move and load containers into a warehouse. As each level proceeds, the job gets harder and harder and becomes a matter of how to move the containers, in what order and where/how to stack them in the warehouse. So, with what you said about taking hours to think through a problem prior to making the first move, it is very much the same thing in this game. I've had to learn to "think outside the box" and had to start over many times on each level. If you are interested, do a search for Sokoban free download. It's really addictive.

Beautiful work Sergiy! Please post more of your work.

We are down sizing the tree this year. Marg

Dried fish sounds better than cooked greasy potatoes. Do these boxes store the knives?

A pair of snowmen from Sheila Landry patterns, cut from 5/8" sassafras and finished with a couple coats of Waterlox. And a praying angel from an older issue of Scrollsaw Woodworking. Cut from 1/4" cherry and 2 coats of Waterlox. Love making Christmas ornaments!

Just finished this and I am thankful for the love of a lab. I am blessed to have a sweetheart. Have had a couple in the past and their love is unconditional.

Thanks alot Lawson56 Have a great day!!!

Thanks Frank. I'll definitely consider the 1X8 for future frames. I actually started a trio set today that each will be approximately 11X14 and the 1X8 would probably work great for them. The frame material I used with this piece was actually a pre-fabricated frame material that I cut to length. I liked this piece so much I just couldn't leave it without a frame. This piece will actually be a gift for my niece. She owns a tack shop and has sold several of my works to her customers. And I agree a frame can overpower the presentation. I have some framing material that is scalloped and about 4 inches thick. Something you would see on a large picture hanging over a fire place. I knew that was definitely to much for this project.

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I believe they are wire gauge bits.... And the higher the number, the smaller the bit.... anything to make life easier for us common folks... right??!!

Silly question time, I know about Metric and SAE drill bits but what is the system for the number ones I keep seeing? On Model railroads, it is hard to find stores for the hobby anymore but, if your in Nashville, TN. Philips Toymart has a railroad section and can order you in a lot of different stuff.