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From the Daddy Do-List Hi Dad, Is there a chance you could make me any of the animals attached so I have a place for my glasses at night? My Version

This was a gag gift from the guy who just loves chocolate chip cookies. My wife makes the best. Made with Cherry 14 x2 filled on front with Sculpey clay

I found this online. I don’t remember where. Shudderstock maybe. I made the oak frame myself. I liked the way it came out. Comments welcome.

For a change I thought I would do a Intarsia pattern and then cut it ....

Yes, he lives next to Danny and Sandy/Grease. There goes the neighborhood.

Actually a pretty big market for them too.. but not so much for a generic one maybe.. I can't tell you how many request I get on etsy for a sign to hang out in front of a campsite with names and a campfire graphic or other graphic added. Actually just got a request yesterday for one, LOL.. Big reason I bought my CNC router was to make this type of signage.. Now to find time to actually run it.. LOL

Hello everyone. Dave here. I'm an old, retired guy who loves to play with my woodworking tools. I was a "boomer" sailor many years ago, so I am also an avid "yard sailor", meaning that I'm cheap and looking for bargains. Yesterday was a good day as I picked up a 30+ year old, JET SS-26 26" scroll saw, with it's original box and accessories for $40. It looks and runs like new, but jeez it is heavy! I'm just learning how to do scroll work and I'm pleased as punch with this latest edition. Oh, and got a propane torch for a $1, still in the sealed display pack. This has actually been a great year for yard sales here in the mountains. I've picked up a decent, small Delta 10" table saw with stand for $10. A Kobalt router table with plunge router for $5. A couple of Skil saws for $5 each and a Skil 16" scroll saw for $10. I just have to keep them all separated so that dear wifey doesn't start asking "Isn't this just like that other thing you bought last year?". I like having these cheap backups for when I tear up something good. Anyway, I am so happy to have Scroll Saw Village as a resource and folks for me to beg for help from. I've always wanted to learn how to do scroll work and now I have no more excuses. Dave B

I had a bearing fail on my dewalt 788 and have been looking for a company to order from as I live on the central coast of Calif. wanted something local think I have found one in Los Angeles bearing is only $3.26 ea. other company's want close to $10.00 each this is for the HK0609 bearing it is from bearingsdirect in Glendale.

I agree with Ray, Not all bearings are created equal. The first time I ordered bearings for my DeWalt when I had that saw I bought some cheap ones off eBay.. they was really sloppy.. the needles was almost falling out of the cage.. and you could tell they was not very good quality, I never even used them.. I ordered some from VBX and they lasted 6 years of heavy use.. The next time I ordered I got them from a local bearing shop and wouldn't you know they came in VBX boxes, LOL. I sold the saw before rebuilding it but sold it with all those parts.

As long as it's a quality bearing. There are different grades of quality. The bearings from VXB.Com can be counted on for quality.

i use it to attach backers to portrait work. run a bead around the outer perimeter, on fragile pieces, then a dab here and there. set it on the backer, weight it down, a minute later done.

Does anyone recognize the type of wood @Wichman used for this project? It looks somewhat familiar. Some types of wood are more brittle than others. Doing fine fretwork with ¼” panels will emphasize this. And it may be more so if the particular panel is especially dry or has flaws. I had a similar experience and wrote about it last year – see Monkeypod - General Scroll Sawing - Scroll Saw Village. I adjusted my expectations, changed to a smaller blade and, in time, finished the project.

I am just north of Spring Lake on 24-27. I have an older Excalibur 21 and a Dewalt 788 set up if you would like to check them out.

The next scroll saw club meeting will be in Cary at Klingspor’s on Sunday May 1st at 2pm. You are welcome to attend.

welcome to the village.

Custom signs I understand.

Welcome to the Village Tony.

Here is the fixed piece, just wanted to show the grain. The hardness was variable throughout the cutting, hard, then suddenly soft, hurky jerky cutting.

It's 1/4 hardwood, don't know the species. This will be just some random patterns to use it up, I won't be getting any more.

Welcome to the Village Dave. I guess you have discovered that scrolling is addictive by now and that there is no known cure. Marg

Welcome form North Carolina. There is a lot of experience from the members here. I've learned a lot in the year I've been scrolling. I won't take long for you to find your way with scrolling. And remember the members here like to see pics of your projects.

Hi Tony: Welcome to the Village. It is the perfect place for scrollers of all skill levels. Bruce

Hi Tony and welcome to the village from across the pond in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee. Never to late to start to learn the saw. Feel free to ask questions and show your work, everyone here is always happy to help, and loves to see pictures.

An Alex Fox Basket C-12 completed yesterday. I used 1/4" solid Hard Maple. Cut on the Pegas scroll saw using Pegas #1R MGT blades. Actually, only one blade. The finish is two coats spray Lacquer Clear Gloss with sanding between coats. Comments welcome.

Nice looking saw/ Welcome Tony

Beautiful work. Both colors are nice.

Just a thought, the wood appears thin, perhaps double the thickness by gluing 2 together cross grain would keep it from splitting? Very nice clean cut for it's size though. Chris

I am retired and also a nuisance in the kitchen so shop and scroll saw has become a passion I buy patterns from pattern makers, use the help yourself pattern makers from SSV pattern site. I have tried a few pattern making projects using the HB pencil as the inkscape programs are bit beyond my computer ability. A few days ago I down loaded a picture of a kitten that I found on Frank Ev's brag site. A simple easy cut pattern .

I like that a lot! A+

I like that a lot! A+

I think they ran the reruns back to back for after school “babysitting”. We watched them both - plus the original Batman and Robin show with the cartoon “Pow” and “wow” (I had a brother who always wanted to watch that. I also remember liking to watch a show that I think was called “Dark Shadows”. It was sorta like a soap opera style show about a vampire(s) as I recall. Barnabas was the vampire guy’s name.

Nice you get those Daddy requests. Means they appreciate your skills. Excellent job and sure to be loved and appreciated.

One thing I do not get is signs/plaques. Steve Good makes a lot of patterns for these. Most of them look like a waste of time and wood.

There is a scroll saw club that meets at the Klingspor Cary location the first Sunday of the month at 2:00. Maybe you can check out the saw and club at the same time. I would call the store to see if they have one on hand.

That would be me. Although, I occasionally see one I like.

What I wanted to learn when I started with a scroll saw, thanks to Kevin, for offering to sell me a nice saw to practice on. I learned a lot on this project. Inlay is what I like to do.

Portrait art is what I started out doing. My very first projects was more complex and not really beginner type portrait projects. I do not have pictures of my very first few projects as they was given away and the pictures are long gone from a computer hard drive that crashed and wiped out all my patterns and pictures. Fortunately I learned to make back-ups and back-ups to my back-ups and also have cloud storage for some of the more important things like patterns. Frank is quite fortunate to be able to get into the art museum to sell off a few of his works of art. Portrait work is what I started with but as has been mentioned, finding subjects to cut and in my case finding shoppers that like the said subjects.. Portrait art is probably one of the hardest things to sell as it is just that.. " wall hanging art " not to take away from shelf sitting art. In one way shape or form we all are creating art.. I think some use the term with a lot of emphasis while others don't put in enough on the term, including myself LOL.. some see portrait work as just a piece of wood full of holes.. Just as I see some of those art paintings that look like several paint cans exploded onto a canvas just that.. paint can exploded, LOL I'm probably one that doesn't use the term art strong enough.. BUT, I do that because of the wide open opinion of the term and many forms of art out there. I show pieces to my friends / family / customers and let them say the term for me if they see fit. I've had many "most" folks say my car clocks are works of art.. I've seen people say they're just a clock too.. and that's okay.. In my head they are art and I don't need to prove it or point it out to anyone.. I just don't push the term. My favorite things to make is the things that people want, LOL.. ie I like making that special personalized gift that's exactly what the customer wanted. Aside from that my favorite is Christmas ornaments because being a Christian, Christmas time is a special time of the year for all Christians. Making ornaments that people buy ( some personalized ones ) that are gifts bring a couple different things to mind. First being the purchaser got a gift for someone special in their lives. Second is the fact that that person digs out the gift every year for decorations and is reminded of the moment / gift giver etc. of the said gift. Many return customers come and custom order a design that is themed to special moments of the said year. I have pieces that are special to people that they hang up as a decoration in many peoples homes all around the world. Selling online ( in my experience ) opens up a communication / friendships so to speak with many customers. While craft shows you get the one on one in person interaction but many of those customers you never hear from unless you run into them at the show again the following year. You hardly ever hear back from them or get any kind of feedback.. While you hand out business cards.. most get lost / tossed so said customer may not ever give you any feedback or reviews. I have a large number of emails/ messages because the customer has online records of their orders and my contact is all over the place for said customers to freely contact. It's really cool to get a follow-up story and some even send videos of my item ( their gift ) being opened to see the reactions etc. So at the end of the day, I do this for the smiles and the special gifts.. doesn't really matter to me saw time is saw time.. doesn't matter what I'm making. Some think it's about the money for me and it's totally not. But without the money I couldn't stay in business to do this kind of thing so it does have to be a little about money. If I was mostly worried about the money I would be doing a different business that created larger profits. This portrait is one of my first few projects.. How to know? I didn't learn about the stability of plywood until I progressed 6 months or so into my scrolling. This piece is made from solid 1/8" red oak. I also learned that red oak while it was widely available in 1/8" also has a lot of distracting grain when doing portrait works.. I switch to basswood after red oak, before finally discovering plywood. LOL

Lovely. Excellent work. Marg

Cool, I would use it to keep M&M's!

Those are some clean and crisp cuts, Dan. Excellent job on the frame. Wish my corners would mesh up that nicely.

I used to sell Ca glue and Accelerator when I worked in a hobby shop. Accelerator is not necessary. Just blow on it and the moisture from your breath will accelerate it just as well.

I've already posted these, but they all were sent to various people as presents. I made two of each so every one who received them didn't complain so all is well!

A piece I finished cutting today, this was cut from a piece of wood given to me, when I took the pattern off it fell apart, it "broke" on a grain line. I'll fix it with super glue, but still. It seems all the wood in this batch is very brittle, most of the panels have a split in them, the board this piece is from had a split down the middle, I thought I had avoided the split, sigh.