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Commissioned heart shaped box made of Padauk and Maple with a velvet bottom.

As Kevin pointed out, the cutting is a small part of the time you consume especially when doing fretwork. That becomes very saw dependent. It literally takes me seconds to switch holes on my Hawk G4. If you have a lower end saw with clamps that require tools that time goes up dramatically. Blade TPI and of course experience will also impact the cut times significantly.

Did you calculate your time figuring all this out, I guess I take the easy way out by just adding an hour meter to my saw so that it turns on / off with the saw.. LOL You'll find that with fretwork type of work that hour meter is actually going to be a very small portion of your "real time" ..

Got two Russ Beard patterns done, both were a lot of fun but each was over 400 cuts. The wolf one is done on a 3/4 inch oak TV tray. the 2 tigers are done on oak also but it is several strips I edge glued up for a cutting piece, it is about a 1/2 inch thick. Blades used were on the 3/4 piece #5 UR dutchman and for the 1/2 oak # 3 UR dutchman blades. All worked good for me. Had a small issue on the large 3/4 inch oak but Charlie Hand helped out and gave me a couple of tips that worked great. My thanks to Russ for both patterns I really am happy how they came out.

Did a portrait of my sister. She likes it so I guess it's a win. 1/2" red oak.

Us humans seem to add complexity to everything. Look how many reaponses to attaching patterns. Getting lines on a piece of wood has so many methods. Responses to blade questions are many. We humans Especially any engineers like Me make things complicated. Me. Mark Eason

No, it's an itch I HAVE to scratch. Until I found the method to figure it out I just had to let it itch, now? Down the rabbit hole.

Nice truly a great Christmas gift. My watched a glowforge add and liked the lamp. I told her get me a glowforge and i will make her one. All was going good until I told her the price. I doubt I get one for a Christmas gift ever.

A few pictures of my She Shed. The Scroll Saw part is finished. I still have to bring up the Stained Glass stuff.

Another goblin. I saw a photo on google and decided to print it to make my pattern, here is the result. I painted it with watercolors so as not to lose the grain of the wood Thank you in advance for your comments, greetings to all!

Preventative maintenance on any mechanical device always equals dividends. Thanks for the reminder Kevin.

When I took up scrolling, I never dreamed it would become so complicated or confusing. Thanks Wick.

Once you have the drawing converted to paths, you can use Path > break apart to separate the drawing into individual objects. The total number of objects (holes) will be displayed in the bottom notification bar. Note, this can take some time for the program to process. I just did this on the "roses a bunch" pattern; 317.72 inches 118 objects. I'm still learning, so take all this with a grain of salt.

Thanks for the tip. Never used that extension before. Interesting, I drew a 6 x 6" square and did the measure path and the size was 23.71" Must do something with the nodes or the options available. The thing that really slows me down is the number of holes should be in the equation too. Thanks again.

You have every right to brag. Beautiful. Barbara

I am happy for you and dream of mine to come. Barbara

Love the window - makes it look so bright and inviting!

Yes, I did use Cute Cutter on this.

A few cutting in the new shop. The Ice skate, Dream Catcher and Cupid are cut from 1/4 inch Furniture Grade Pine ( my new favorite) . I bought the pine at Johnson workshop and I really like it. It cuts easy and there is very little sanding. Has anyone else used this wood? Thoughts?

When I saw this pattern by Kenny Hopkins I knew it was a must cut. I am just starting to try to learn to make frames so I hope to have some good improvements with them as I go a long. I will try to make a frame for all my future cuts so some day they will hopefully be much better. I cut this one with Pegas #2 MG blades on 1/4 inch BB PLY. I am pretty satisfied with the end results. Dick heppnerguy

It took all year so far to choose and make a project. Any shape can be a bowl. So I decided to make a boot bowl. More specifically a desert boot bowl. Bowl: Wood is from a free source of discarded wine aged oak slots. I had to glue up 3 slots to make a boot. The cactus is Baltic birch plywood with a really thinned down green acrylic paint. The white oak slots were 0.3 inches thick so I needed a few rings around to make a decent height of a bowl. White oak is a bit different than red oak in ways of grain structure. The glue up of oak slots was bad because not all slats are the same thickness. I don't have a planer so I attempted with palm sander. Lot of work. Hard to get a straight edge without a table saw. Anyway not having a perfectly flat wood to start with causes issues when gluing the rings together. This bowl will NOT hold liquid. I had to use baking soda mixed with saw dust any instant glue to fill in big gaps. The cactus had some really sharp turns. I had to go very slow around the tight turns since I was using stack cut inlay technique the thickness was 0.55 inches. With really tight turns I decided to use Pegas #1 mgt. Some of my learnings from this site was to make super high tension on blades and go slow. General Finishes finish "Armor R Seal" was used. I still have 2 more coats to make it shinier. Bottle stoppers: Niles Bottle stoppers web site has a gallery of customer art work. So I noticed that some of the turned pieces look like bombs and missiles. Of course you get other ideas in the middle of a project. So I came up with a play on words "Lets Get Bombed" and used that idea on 2 bottle stoppers. There was no "bombers" on her gallery. Since these stoppers are used for alcohol consumption. I had to play with words "How can you get bombed without a bomber" ? So I had to make a B2 bottle stopper. Oh your doing shots !!!! Then the A10 is the best. Ok someone else can make the AC130 gunship. Actually this would be a great theme for military bars. B2- wood black walnut. Armor R Seal for final finish. Since this was a quick 1 day project. I only did a silhoette. I needed thickness to mount the bottle stopper. Since you getting higher I wanted to point up. So thickness on bottom does not match the actual thin wind trailing edge. A10- Red Oak shows some good grain that indicates wind around the wings. I should have made dowels for the engines. But this was a quick get it done project. Again thickness of the wood is needed for bottle stopper usage. I don't drink but I can always find someone that likes the stoppers. For once I already know what my next project is. It will take a long while to make. I only have weekends to play. And it will be something I have not done. I know there will be re-starts. My order of wood from "Cherokee woods" gets here tomorrow. I am getting excited. Me. Mark Eason

I've had this made but unpainted sitting in my shop for months. There are several more in the series currently suffering the same fate.

get printable clear sticky sheets and make your own sticker with your printer.

Not sure Santa was that nice, but pretty nice. I mean you coulda gotten a new Jeep Wagoneer or something but besides that I think you need to donate that great new gift to me since my Jet bandsaw is giving me alignment problems...Merry xmas lucky guy!!!

Dan, Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. Got it. First one post repair, second pre repair. Graduated to the 4th grade. Thanks again, Jim

So I cut this pattern this evening. 5/16" hardwood, FD #1 polar blade, glued directly to the wood, tape added as needed to support the pattern (next time I'll cut the inside first, outside last). Found a feature in Inkscape that will (I think) measure the length of all the lines in a pattern: File in svg mode; import, ungroup, trace bitmap (only use the bitmap image). Select the pattern then; extensions > visualize path > measure path (measurement type, length) Inkscape said that the total path(s) length was 242.78 inches (when I enlarged the pattern and remeasured the length increased proportionally). To compare, Splat Cat, came in at 412 inches. I took 90 minutes to cut out the pattern, so 90 x 60 = 5400 seconds / 242 inches is 22.31 seconds per inch cut. (Yes, my brain melted about then). The whole point of this exercise is my attempt to extrapolate how long it should take me to cut an unknown pattern. If I can get the extra big panels to work it's something I'll need to know. Here is the item: