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Hey everyone, Joined the village a couple of days ago, here are my latest creations. Still a lot to learn but enjoying the journey ! Regards, Alan. .

This Sue Mey pattern caught my eye. Made out of birch and cedar scraps. Linseed oil on most but the colorful one has oak stain on the front part. I think I light the white light one best.

Bruce (aka Blaughn) Posted back on 10/4 about his cutting of this S. Good Pattern. Well just like Bruce I happen to have a few pieces of ¾” Walnut amongst my scrap pieces that were the perfect size for the cutting and the base. Additionally, although I do not own a Piano or play an instrument, I just happen to have a need to make a piece for my collection of sculptures and this was a great choice. The sculpture is overall approximately 9 1/2” High x 6” wide. Bruce and I both deviated slightly from the original pattern in the area in the half circle just above the base. I also tapered the base about 4 degrees just to add a little more detail. And like Bruce, I finished mine with multiple coats of Clear Gloss Lacquer. Comments and Critiques always welcome.

Good morning all. I just wanted to post this as I thought you all would get a kick out of it. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I restore and use mostly American-Made woodworking machinery, as much as I can. Heck, the machine in my avatar is a 1935 Delta 700 24" scroll saw that I restored and used for many years before purchasing my Hawk G4 last year. Anyhow, I recently picked up Delta's first machine, which they patented in 1923. Mine is not the earliest, but still in the first few years of manufacture. It is a Delta 8" American Boy scroll saw. I just finished restoring it over the weekend. It's a simple machine, and can be hand-cranked or run by a small motor. I picked it up for display purposes, and will make a crank handle for it, once I figure out the mounting hardware, and will even mount a blade, but I will not motorize it as it's just going to be a show-piece, but I doubt I'll be able to resist trying it out once I mount the crank handle to it. Anyhow, just thought you all would enjoy this, especially those of you using a Delta machine to see where they started. Dan

I made Ham Shack plaques for 2 of my good friends as a gift for help they freely gave in times of need. I am working on another for myself. I used 1/2" Poplar finished with Zinser Shellac spray. I saw this posted here on the Village website. I think it was @Danwho had posted it. Thank you Dan, they were a big hit with both Monty and Mike.

Scroll saw basket per Steve Good pattern. I added extra layers to make it taller and alternated woods, walnut and poplar. I intentionally did not put the ring on top per my lady's request.

I showed my wife Alex's pattern and wanted it right away. Got online and ordered. Not too complicated to cut but the wife wanted a backer. Then she decides she wants 2 more to gift to neighbors. They are all sad because the Hummies left last Tuesday. We'll have to wait until early April to see them again. I stacked cut and it went pretty fast.

The font you are looking up is called a serif font (with feet) sans serif is without feet. Those are the two main groups. You can look up fonts on the internet there are tons of them. Most sites show you what they look like. Your word processor will do the same thing.

Here is my latest puzzle. I got the idea from a Pintrest post. I cut and painted this before getting crook, just took some pics and decided it was time to post. I have about a dozen tray puzzles in various stages of completion in the shed. Will post those when finished. This shrink wrapped, I normally take pics before wrapping. Cut from 30mm Radiata Pine

That looks very nice Frank. But it just doesn't look like walnut - must be the lighting.

Woohoo. I got my books today from Amazon. I saved $184 on postage thanks to Amazon. Now all I have to do is find time to cut some great new projects. Marg

I am hoping to do the same. Fingers crossed that it this year and not next. Marg

Yes !!! Especially people at stores or doctors that I see often. Their smiles when they see me melts me!!!

I like that!

Marg, so glad you were able to get them via Amazon there and save a ton of money. I look forward to seeing what you make with them. I got the people and pets book myself recently. Need to break it out and give a few a try. I was going to do a few for Christmas gifts, at least that was my thought when I purchased it.

Nicely done, it should look good hanging in your Vet's office wall. Len

Well done Marg. Proves the old adage, "There's more than one way to skin a cat"

Hi all, I have been busy with actual work. Too many hours and have not done much in Scrollsaw stuff. I have a big project half done. But I wanted to cut something and get it done. A simple project. So I have I have a VET appointment for my cat Monday. So I can give them this Cat project. Total time about 7 hours. 4 hours of cutting, 3 hours of painting. This is my first layered project. @alexfox has a great handle on what makes a good layered project. Some small simple details adds quite a bit to the project but it keeps it simple. I can see I missed a couple of places for painting. But overall it is decent. The slots and holes in the birds adds the simple details. The slots for the curtains allows the depth for folds in the curtains. I like the layered concept. I left the backer off. I think that seeing thru it can work in different places. This picture shows it hanging on garage cabinents dark grey. The vet can put this in the window or set it on a desk to get the see thru look. Most of my cats are white but I wanted a bit more color on this project. So I attempted to color a calico. I might have got too many sections of color. So I will give this to the vet. He just opened up a second building for the wellness care. They probably could use some decorations to spruce up the office. All layers were done with 1/8" baltic birch plywood. Cut with 2/0 MGT pegas blades. Me. Mark Eason

Been vegetating to much. Not worth my salt lately. But found some time to make sawdust.

Dick heppnerguy

I tried Harbor Freight, Home Depot & Lowes. No luck. Maybe Menards.

There was a topic on this maybe a year ago? I'm not sure when it was but they talked about a site that you could post a picture and it'd give you a font or one close. I'm not sure what search terms you'd use for that topic... @Scrappile seems to have good luck using the search term "Harbor Freight" maybe try that one.

I don't remember who posted it, but there was a topic with a site / app that did just that.. never tried any of the sites but if you google the term " font finder" it'll bring up site where you load a image and it'll find the font or the closest match.

There has to be an app for that! LOL

They will open with Microsoft photo editor.

Very neat project, Ron. You did a fantastic job. That took some time and a lot of cleverness!

A nice piece Frank. Like you, It would look nice in my cabinet, but can't carry a tune in bucket.

Yes the lighting and the wood itself. It is walnut, but the cut off I used had been from the end of a long 16" wide board where the board was changing to areas of almost whitish coloring...new growth area I suspect. As a result it is not quite as dark as one would expect. Posssibly, I shoul have given it a quick coat of walnut stain to darken the wood a little, but in live view is looks nice as is.

John your projects never cease to amaze me always beautifully well done. Thanks for showing us.

Yeah a air brush isn't probably the best option for spray finishing unless you're finishing very small items like ornaments etc. and just a few at a time. I haven't used my spray equipment that I have for painting cars until the other day. I really needed something better than spray cans to spray a lot of the water based poly. Since I had a quart can I bought a couple years ago to do just that but then didn't want to use my nicer spray guns for these type of paints. I took my cheaper gun ( which actually works as good if not better than the high dollar ones LOL ) a gravity feed Astro 2000 I think is the model with the 1.4 nozzle. It did a nice job and I can see myself using it more. I'll likely buy a new one as the real only reason I did use it for other paints than for cars is the gun it old and been used a lot but more important is that the chrome is peeling off and to hold it it's rough and hurts your hand, LOL.. definitely not something I'll hold long enough to paint an entire car, LOL. They still make the same gun but now they're colored chrome looking rather than plain chrome. Definitely don't need a large cup that they come with. Plastic spray gun cups are junk.. now they might be okay for cheap oil and water based paints but the potent car paints and solvents sort of distorts the plastic and then you can't get the lid to unscrew.. ( not a good thing if painting a car and need to refill and can't get the lid off ) I would shy away from a plastic cup.. that said I believe the most spray guns may have the same threads to replace the cup with a metal one, that's what I did with my Astro gun. Since you don't need a large cup I'd find a small metal cup for the smaller projects. If you're good with fabrication and have some common sense for safety with air pressures etc. and you only spray the same material through the same can you can customize your spray can to be refillable.. then buy the quarts and just refill your spray can if you're good with the spray quality from the can..

Thanks for the kind comments. @rjweb, I live in Magnolia, NW part of the greater Houston area. Where are you? @Eplfan2011, I am not a pattern maker. I just worked from a picture of this that had been posted previously. I have attached a *.jpg of the basic template. You will have to insert the call sign and name individually for each plaque. I did it using a drawing program (PowerPoint). It was tedious, picking fonts, saving as *.jpg, inserting, stretching, curving, etc. Maybe one of our fellow scrollers who is a pattern designer can come up with a better way to do this.

I use these hoses and recommend them.

Hello Alan, Welcome to the village, I like your projects! Especially the wall hanging piece, Thank you for posting, Bob

Beautiful work as always John. Jeff

I get the feeling that you are referring to tension and not blade clamping? If so, what Roberta and Kevin have suggested would make the most sense. What you need is for all the tension adjustment to be in the most relaxed position so that when you insert a new blade and get both ends clamped in place, then you apply the tension by moving the slider until it feels like you have it tensioned correctly. A ping of the blade will tell you. Now, if you have already done that, you may have damaged the tensioning mechanism or knocked something out of whack which might necessitate the disassembling of the saw. There is a rod that connects from the slider lever clear back to the rear of the upper arm and moves a wedge and that in turn forces the upper are to rise and apply the tension to the blade. There is a very good set of videos on Youtube that shows how to do the disassembly of a Dewalt and since the saws are so similar, I'd think that you could dope your way through it. Good luck and do keep us all informed of your progress and just what you find out. And also, WELCOME to the Village.

I made these Steve Good Ball Ornaments for our Christmas Tree this year. Steve designed them for a Laser cutter, but they were easy to cut on a Scroll Saw. I used a lot of 3/32” solid core Maple ply cut offs. Repeated pieces were stack cut. Small details were cut with Pegas #2/0 spiral and long curves and rounds cut with Pegas #1 MGT R blade. Images were hand painted with Artist Acrylic Paints after sealing with a Krylon Spray Sealer. I did a dry fit ups of each ornament to insure all fit before glueing. Where some tab openings were too tight, I adjusted them with a small flat file. I then used Locktite Superglue Gel for assembly. After assembly, each ornament was protected with multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer. A few personal notes here: Using a plywood for these ornaments was OK as they are just for our tree, and only come out for the month of December. However, they would look much better if a solid wood was used. Also, I would have prefered Images that were viewable from both sides. The word NOEL on two of the Onaments makes the opposite view read wrong, but that is just being very picky on my part. And BTW, the center Image piece would make nice flat ornamentss just by themselves . Comments and critiques always welcome.

welcome to the village

Hey Everyone! In this scroll saw project video, we make a cool skull themed box! The pattern is designed by Steve Good and uses various thicknesses of material. This box is perfect for the Halloween season and shows the versatility of the scroll saw. Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

Welcome to the Village Alan. Marg

I agree with you Kevin I really like the layered designs but hate consuming all of that BB for one project.

great project and I like Akex foxes patterns but agree Kevin they take a lot baltic birch and that is quite sarce and expensive in our neiborhood

As long as they loved it,, job done. !!

Very nice cutting and painting.. I like the layered projects but have to say they're very expensive to make. I recently did a few layered ornaments.. it's just one ornament but 4 layers.. so it took 4 times the plywood that a single one would take.. not sure it'd bring 4 times the cost if selling it.. LOL. Plywood has recently skyrocketed in price and harder to get.. I may not be making too many more of them layered projects unfortunately.

Now I know why we haven't heard from you, Kevin. You've been busy on the saw. Nice job. I'm sure you have pleased a lot of people.

I wanted to layout the board to visualize the cuts. I did this and it takes 42 inches of board.

One of my granddaughters moved to another state a couple of months ago and has a new neighbor who has been very generous to her and her family. He has given them several items from his farm and from some of his hunting successes. She wanted me to do something for him in return. Apparently he has a bar in his house and she wanted me to make him a plaque to hang in his bar. She wanted something on the humorous side and I choose the one I am posting today. As you can see I went a little out of my bounds and decided to use a little painting to make it stand out a little better. As you may or may not know, I have been very unhappy every time I try to add some color to my work but I tell myself, if I don't keep trying to improve on it, how can I get better. I am more satisfied than I normally am on this one but I also understand I have a long, long way to go to understand how to add my colorization. That said, this pattern is a Steve Good pattern that I thought might satisfy my granddaughter and hopefully the man she is giving it to. Dick heppnerguy

Yeah, It's plugged in..

I spent some well deserved time at my Scroll saw cutting out a Steve Good Pattern for Me! I am tickled pink with the way it turned out! I just wish the the photo would have showed off the stars better! Thank you Steve Good for always providing such Awesome Patterns! Dick

Red Oak planed down to 5/8" thick. Its about 10" x 8".