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This is a Steve Good pattern I just finished for my brother who is a golfer. I'll give it to him for Christmas or sooner, if I can't wait. LOL. It's made out of Cedar and Paduk and layered with the differend wood. The name is B/B ply. Hope he likes it.

I was wandering through Pinterest and came across and picture of the Dassault Falcon 900DX. In an earlier life, I had been an aircraft mechanic and had worked on some of the previous versions of this aircraft. The twin engine Falcon 20 came out in 1965 and was initially marketed by Pan AM. This was one of the first corporate jets for major companies like Pepsi and Bristol Myers. When the economy turned down in the early '70's , many were sold. The fledgeling Fed Ex was being started up by Fred Smith and he purchased several and had them modified for a large cargo door. They eventually had 33 aircraft but had to migrate to larger aircraft as the business grew. The economy started to turn around in the mid 70's and Dassault started building larger aircraft like the F50, F200, F2000 and the F900 series to satisify the demand for more fuel efficent range, more seating and updated avionics. The F900DX was in production for '04 to '11 and is still sought after as reliable large mid size corporate jet. The plaque is 11 x 14" on BBPW with a shellac/lacquer finish. Hardest part was probably the landing gear because of all the small cuts and I used the "paint-in" method on the engine cowlings and tires. The aircraft looks to be in the approach mode with flaps down and the DLE (Droop Leading Edges) down to slow the aircraft down for landing.

I did a very quick cut of a Horse Head pattern I converted from a free stencil I found on-line. The cut panel is 5/32 x 10 x10 solid core Maple mounted on a ¼ x12x12 Cherry Backer that I stained dark with Minwax Honey. I added the “Mr Ed”(*) to the pattern, and yes I had to glue in the center of the “d”. The Frame is ¾” wide pine, primed and then painted with Glidden Max-Flex Chocolate Pretzel/Satin. It is not the Tan I was hoping for. Their colors are strange! Everything was competed in just two days. Comment and critique always welcome. * I recently delt with a Hearing Aid Specialist that treated me very well. When he mentioned his name he made a point of saying it was “Ed”… like “MR. ED”. The Show and the horse popped into my head and just had to cut a piece for him to display in his facility. Could not quite get a good likeness of the actual horse from the show, but thought this simple horse head pattern would do. I have a follow up appointment with him tomorrow and will give it to him then. EDIT 7/22: He loved it. Hung it up right next to the reception desk. I was pleased.

Another Sheila Landry design. 5/8" Red Oak, 8" x 14."

Commission piece all done and waiting pickup! BB ply, #5 mg blade, acrylic paint, blue is a custom colour, shellac finish.

This is my latest "Barn Find" that needed a little love. (a tutorial on how to re-pack a bearing with new grease)

Denny, I have thanked you in the past for your dedicated service to the scroll saw community. Again, Dave's issue is a great example of your outstanding customer service. I thank you for this and look forward to our business dealings in the future.

About six weeks ago I purchased a Pegas Scroll Bandsaw from @Denny Knappen. I received the saw quickly. After Setting it up and using it I discovered that the table was not flat. There is a split through the table that allows you to install the blade. The back half was a touch higher than the front so the edge of my wood would catch on it when I would push it across. It was useable but annoying especially considering the cost of the saw. I was expecting more precision from Pegas. I couldn't find a customer service number on line so I contacted Denny. I was really disappointed in the lack of technical support that Pegas has. I will say that Denny bent over backwards and got Pegas to replace the table. I sure am glad I bought the saw from someone that is all about customer service. If you do intarsia I highly recommend the saw and of coarse purchasing it through Denny. In the past couple of years I have purchased a new dust collector, table saw, drum sander and band saw. The table saw and band saw was the same brand, the band saw was different, and the dust collector was a Jet. The table saw the blade was not mounted in the saw straight and there was not enough adjustment to line it up. Finally after about six months of emails and being ignored I finally got a hold of someone in management that said they would have to replace it. On the band saw the bottom blade guide had a piece missing and I had to make a wood spacer to make it useable. It took me about three months to finally get a hold of a guy to take care of that problem. About two months ago my drum sander died. It took a week before tech support responded to my call. For the past month my dust collector occasionally popped the small breaker on the control panel. About a week ago I called tech support and they called me back in about an hour. Within two days I had a new breaker. That didn't fix it so I called tech support this morning and they called me back within five minutes. The technician explained to me how to take the cap off the motor and adjust a switch. So far so good. Jet has won my future machinery business. Customer service and tech support is more important to me than the cost.

Nice work. Kinda reminds me of the Flintstone mobile. I think I'll make one for my grandson.

Denny Rocks!

Hello, thanks everyone for supporting me and my family, your help important for us at such difficult time and it gives me possibility to continue making patterns - I have many more ideas.

Just cuz I love playing with numbers... I sat down and created the spreadsheet below to look at my material costs and in theory how much I make "per hour" based on 2 scenarios. I have 2 types of "Typical 1 day event". My weekly market which is 5 hours every Saturday during the summer and I average $775. And other festivals and other type events that are generally 8-9 hours and I average around $1550. (Believe me, I've done some dud events, but over the past 6 years I know which events are worth doing and that's what I stick with). I do some multi-day events as well, and they average around $1500 per day, so this covers everything nicely. I tried to think of all my costs, but please let me know if you notice anything missing or bad calculations, etc. I'm glad I did this as I didn't realize that booth fees were my second highest cost. I'm just so used to writing the checks when I register for the events. REMINDER TO THE NEWBIES!!! I've been doing this for 6 years and I have busted my ass perfecting my setup, my sales pitch, my products AND I live at the beach with an abundance of markets and events to choose from every year. I do 25-30 events a year. I still have my day job, this is a side hustle that I enjoy more than I can say.

I hung George among some other great country music singers.

I find their shipping costs, in Canada, to be very expensive. I had previously ordered a sample pack of blades from Mike @ Mikes workshop. They arrived, from the US in a regular envelope so the cost to send was under $3. When I ordered 1/2 dozen blades from Bearwood, the shipping was going to be, if memory serves, about $15.00. I asked if they could put them in an envelope for $2 in postage. I was told that it couldn't be done and I didn't know anything about shipping! I had just finished a job where I was the shipper and sent items like gaskets up to concrete mixers across North America!!

Absolutely beautifully done, both the pattern and the cutting.

good job sir!!!

Whoa!!! your the plane guy.Amazing knowledge you kept all these years too. Quality cut, right on the money!!!

To be clear, these are intended to be rustic and use nearly free material. Why nearly free? There is some cost involved in using this material, as with any reclaimed material, there are processing costs that you would not have if using prepared wood. I have just started putting these in my shop. I haven't sold one there yet, but sales are extremely slow. However, I sold one cross before I had listed any of them.

Nice find! Awesome job restoring it. Chris

Great find!

I think I should respond here. That was the first and only Pegas Scroll Band Saw I sold. I told Dave I was reluctant as I had no experience with the Pegas Scroll Band Saw. As for the Pegas Scroll Saw, I can answer most questions and if not, Pegas support was there for me. Now, I agree with Dave about Pegas technical support being almost nonexistent on the Pegas Scroll Band Saw. I try to provide the best customer service possible, especially with Pegas Scroll Saw Blades. If anyone has problems with the blades, I would like to know rather than anyone getting upset.

Yeah, I also had issues with Bear Woods...

My policy is just a very basic one that is more for liability but they include $10,000 for machines used to make my products, and also includes my inventory.. but only at a raw material cost, not retail value.. A lot of shows ( my understanding ) require you to have some sort of liability insurance. If a customer trips in your booth and breaks their arm the show ( organization ) is liable but it can fall back onto you as the seller too.. The injured person may not sue you but their health insurance can and probably will so they can get their claim payout money back.. It may not even be a thing that was your fault.. it just happened at your booth..

Man that is hot!!! The ships right carpenter needs one of these here at the warehouse. It is gorgeous!!!! You went the extra mile on this baby!!!

Here is his guitar with the shellac finish. He is quite proud of it. Everclear, if available, would be way too expensive to use for this. The isopropyl alcohol is what the guys at Woodessence recommended.

You know me I can knit pick that list of expenses to pieces.. but I'll keep it out of the equation. though the knit pick list is very long it does add up to be a substantial total. You have some bigger expenses not mentioned though.. Just to name a couple of them without writing the whole list I can think of off the top of my head is.. (Even if I knit pick this down you still do fairly well for just having fun..) Business Insurance? Mine's about $400 a year.. but I don't have a business vehicle or maintenance and insurance fees for one either.. How about credit card processing fees? Any shows you do that you travel more than a couple miles? All day shows do you pack lunch, stay in a hotel etc. It was nice of the IRS to give us a whopping $0.04 more for mileage deduction when fuel prices doubled as well as everything else vehicle maintenance etc. related to travel just about doubled too.. I guess they thought that $0.04 should help cover those mileage expenses, LOL

They are really cute. Great paint job.

Since everybody is so unhappy with Bear Woods, maybe you all should let Steve Good know. They are one if his sponsors and he does push them. At the same time write/forward your emails/letters to Bear Woods. Nothing ever improves if they aren't aware of the problems. I've only ordered one time from them and my experience was that it took way too long to receive my order. I just figured it was because they were in Canada and I'm not. I've never re-ordered. I get excellent service from Denny Kneppan.

I took a copy of this pattern when Steve first posted it with the purpose of using hardwoods instead of bb py! Now that I see what you have created I will be hard pressed to work one up to this measure! Very, very well done! Erv

Jim, if it wasn't for the fact that everyone knows you and that all of your projects are indeed cut with a scroll saw, it would be very hard to believe that you are not using a laser to produce these beautiful plaques! The cutting is absolutely perfect! I have been doing this hobby since 2005 and have yet been able to turn out letter cutting any thing like this! At times I come close until I take a closer look! You are the master with the steel brush! Erv

Shouldn't that be "I see, said the blind carpenter, who tripped over his hammer and saw!"

terrific job

Now I have two more reasons not to deal with Bear Woods.

I use denatured alcohol.

Very nice cutting and I learned some history as well....Thanks for sharing!

A great present and nice work Ralph. I had the same thought as Dan, that Fred and Barney would set it off.

I use Methylated spirits (Metho). I think it is roughly the same as your isopropyl alcohol. It has been altered slightly over the years. Now it has some additive that tastes really bad, so they say, to stop the drunks from drinking it and it has a purple colour added, but it does not effect it's use..

Amazing all you have to do to cover your butt!!!

What DaKota52 said.

Thx for the information on different companies, customer service is a big deal now a days, RJ

You're absolutely correct and my insurance broker is the one that brings it up. LOL She'll nail me down on it one day.

I had ordered a couple from Alex before. I will definitely order more. Be safe Alex.

You might want to check with your insurance broker. Because you are earning an income from your hobby, ANY claim you may have on your house might not be covered because you didn't disclose the "business". Just call me a paranoid, now retired, insurance broker.

Truth is I need to start cutting for Christmas the day after Christmas!!!

Your well versed as a showman!!! Straight to the point, no dead air time!!! Keep up the great work!!!

Hi Kevin, it's really nice and well finished with the nice colours you used, Thank you for letting us see! Bob

Another fun project. i again love how you do your videos. You do a swell job with them and I can't stand the videos that others make and do their work with no talking and a lot of annoying music all through the video. Thanks again for your presentations, and keep up the good work and postings. Dick heppnerguy

When in doubt - I always ask my kids.

Mate, I got what you got to start with. Asked my son and he said try to try 10pin

Thank you Brenda.. I might be able to work with that one.. seems if I search for bowling Christmas ornament pattern I get bowls and baskets instead of bowling, LOL