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Super happy with how these turned out. Alex Fox pattern that I shrank to 80%. Left the backer piece off. Finished with Tung Oil. Shadow box frames were free and missing the backer. Used foam core as the backer. The backer on the dragonfly is rainbow scrapbooking paper (from my mom's stock). The boarder is another type of scrapbooking paper. One is pale green and the other is a blue. Took the photos outside so, unfortunately, the reflection is in the way.

Something new I am trying. (This is why I needed spray glue) Starting local because it is easier to find the fabric. Team fabric backers on upcycled (Goodwill frames) with hardwood logos. Trying to judge a fair price since I always price too low. Comments welcome.

thought I would try something with colour .I think it looks ok

Here's the latest off the saw. 1/4 hardwood, #1 polar FD blade, 1 coat BLO, will be putting at least 3 coats of shellac ( 1/3 shellac to thinner ). Original pattern by Steve Good, modified by myself.

Hard to stop a train! Here's one for the Starbucks girl at Publix

Here are some new ( to me ) ornaments. 1/4 hardwood, #1 FD Polar blades Various artists, including our own Travis.

I have both a planer and a drum sander that I bought from Johnson’s Workbench. I planning on going to the Wood Expo at Johnson’s in a few weeks and take advantage of the good deals.

material cost + (hours worked x say $15 or how much you consider your time is worth) + desired profit, say maybe 1000% (or maybe more realalistily 10%). I'm happy when I can recoup my material costs, but that is just me.

Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. “Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”-Bilbo

I hope it will.done some trees of life as well

Jim, you are asking a serial "that;s too cheap, not enough" bloke here. That's what my daughter and missus continually tell me, I have even had customers buy an item and throw another $5 or $10 in as they say I never charged enough.

The inner timer put in by the manufacturer of item with a warrantee, that tell the item when it can fail,, usually set and warrantee period, + one day... mine was a mistake went 3 months longer than it was suppose to.. I guess I should be thankful for the extra time.

Well there you go! TO THE LUMBER SECTION!! My wife owes me mucho time in the wood section... Me and the dogs have spent many hours sitting in the car waiting for her to come out of the Quilt store...

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. I improvised from a tee shirt image I found on Google. It's about 7" X 8" on 1/2" red oak.

Thankyou all for you're nice comments .I cheated a little and printed the coloured backing then sandwiched it between front and back.it saved buying different tins of paint .

Surprising my beautiful daughter-in-law with a portrait. She's a wonderful wife and mom so I'm a blessed father-in-law!

I would like to say a big thankyou to Don and Wayne for making two lovely patterns for me. I sent both patterns to my girlfriend and she chose the one she liked to remember the passing of her sister. Attached below is a picture of the finished Item. Thank you both again for the patterns. Keefie.

Age is A good consideration at how long you will use it. The other point with age is health. The scrollsaw makes a lot of very fine dust which is the most harmful and a good real HEPA vac protects my lungs. I do not like just blowing the dust away as the fine dust will float a long time. I could wear a N95 or N100 mask but I find these difficult to deal with. Before I retired, we had to wear N100 masks most of the time and they are tiring.

Nice job, and sorry for your loss.

It's weird but now, at 79, I look at many things I'd love to have but then I step back and ask myself just how much use I'd get with the few years I have left. I look for deals on used equipment and if I find something at a price that fits my age I'll buy it.

I just started making a Sue Mey multi layer nativity. It has 4 layers 3mm BB. It is not as smooth as I like so I cut the 8" W x 60" long strips put 220 paper on my drum sander and one light pass on each side and done. I would rather be cutting and building than spending hours sanding.

fantastic job

Pirate: lighthouse, compass, ships wheel and or anchor, 3d shark, jolly roger, mermaid. Renaissance fair: knights, fair damsel, dragon, daggers and cutlass ( letter openers ) , castle, fairy's, magic wands, basic sword ( blunt edges ), sword with inscription, unicorn, shield.

girl, that is excellent work

To a certain extent, but unless you use a push stick you are still pushing in direct line with the blade, especially considering that band saws in cabinet shops are not only used for cutting thin material. They are mostly used for cutting uneven shapes. Before gauntlets and cut proof gloves, you rarely saw a butcher with 10 fingers and most were lost on a Band Saw. Sadly the same with Wood Machinists, the band saw and overhead shapers loved fingers.

John, if the upper blade guide height is adjusted to the thickness of the wood wouldn’t that effectively act as a blade guard?

Nice and bright. I can imagine having that on a stall would be an attraction.

I believe, there are two reasons. One the blade is not guarded, Two, A band saw will not kick you hand away, it tends to grab and pull. Even when doing my apprenticeship in the early 70's when safety was not so much a priority (Safety Glass's, ear protection belt guards not required) you would never see a circular saw that was not fitted with a proper guard in cabinet shop, unlike most DIYr's who seem to discard the guard. I have see a few accidents with a circular saw, thankfully none to serious, I have seen one with a band saw, finger and thumb almost surgically removed and two with buzzers, tips of fingers lost. It was common teaching, that the band saw is the most dangerous machine.

I looked at those and thought about it seriously... They get great ratings... But for now I am using the blower on my saw and a box fan... thanks for your input.

That's what I was missing, LOL.. I was tired last night, actually still am as I've been really busy.. I must have missed that part or didn't comprehend it when I read that.. LOL.. Thanks for pointing that out..

I use a Festool CT26 on my scroll saw and it goes on and off with the saw. I having been using it for more than five years and no problems. Most of my scrolling is puzzles or Intarsia so I do not turn it on and off like those doing fretwork. I have it plumbed with dust pickups above and below the table and does a good job.

If my wife tells me that she has to pick out a few birthday cards when we go shopping, I stay home. I've spent too much time leaning on the shopping cart waiting for her to do that. Not any more.

He wants to be able to fold the table up. Not sure why that's so important.

You did an Outstanding job I have never watched the movie in it entirety.

Yea I agree, a Most Excellent job!!! Like the stand you have them on as well.

Now that is just Awesome!!!

That gets an Oooh aah from me!

I got my first scrollsaw from Johnson's, it's the Delta P-20 I still have. That place is a dream , I could spend all day in the lumber section, but I dont have that much money, plus the wife would leave me!!!

maybe make un-official wooden coin made from scraps.? put small amount in a plastic bag to sell.

It is done with the router Don. Just because it's 'different' and I only use one piece of wood and don't have to find a 'backer'