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This is my favorite Johnny pattern now. Thanks Charlie for the super awesome pattern.

I downloaded Steve Good's mantel clock. It was easy to cut. I had a poblem with the 1/4" BBPW. It was a 3 x 4' sheet and it looked good but once I started cutting the pieces, I saw there were voids in the layers. I figured I could fill them in on the edges. It sortof worked but was not happy with the result. The edge grain is what makes this an interesting project. I call the place where I bought the wood and they said they have been having quality problems since the wood comes from Russia. Offered to refund if I returned what I had not used but it is a 60 mile round trip and I would use it in another project. Has anyone else have this issue? To cover it up, I painted with Black lacquer and my wife had some gold leaf markers to cover the end grain.

This is another one of Sue Meys patterns. The top part is birch with linseed oil on it. I put some spacers in between the front and back and threaded a string of lights thru it. The back is a piece of plywood that I got from my old high school a few months ago. It was a shelf in the library. . School closed many years ago.

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

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.

Did an easy cutting of Alfred today using a free stencil that I tinkered with a bit. Sometimes when you hold on to those ugly pieces of wood a use for them turns up. Happy October!!!

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. .

I was asked a while back to make a snowmobile clock. The customer sent an image of basically a half circle with a snowmobile silhouette. While they did a nice job on the cutting and even design wasn’t too bad but I felt there was a lot of air space with nothing in it. So I designed this by combining a few different patterns to create one. Cut from Cherry using my Hawk saw with a #5 Pegas MFG blade. Finished with Danish oil, may put a top coat of poly on it in a few days as it’s currently drying ( dipped today ). I'm kind od torn on whether I should have cut the hill area on the right by his head off.. kind of blends into his head.

I get a "low memory" error several times a day, but nothing due to the compurter!

Hello, my last cut is a Lynx or a Bobcat, I don't know, but I loved cutting them. I made the pattern from a photo. I used oak wood thickness: 0.393 (10 mm) length: 8.661 (220 mm) width: 7.086 (18 cm) I hope you enjoy. Eric

UPDATE: fixed the upload problem!!!! Here's a couple of pumpkin lanterns I made this weekend .

As a matter of fact, I do. I didn't actually take a before picture myself, but the PO reached out to me, on another forum, and sent it to me. An after-market attachment was used on the saw to use coping saw blades. It was gone before I purchased the saw, but that's fine as I would have removed it myself. Dan P.S. I just realized how small this little saw looks on my table saw.

You can spray quite large areas with an airbrush using the proper tips. I used to work with someone who painted full-size cars with an airbrush. He had a wall full of trophies from car shows.

This is close, I think.

I am going to go way out on a limb and say it is Times New Roman that has been kerned to make the letters touch. Kerning is an old printers trick to adjust space between characters. To do it in Word, highlight the word, right click for font and go to spacing. You can make the spacing positive to spread the letters or negative to close them down. Doesn't affect the size, just the space.

I have a mini HVLP spray gun that I got from Grizzly a number of years ago. It works really well for spraying smaller projects. it's similar to the one in this link; https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-deluxe-mini-hvlp-spray-gun/h7673

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

This is what I had to do with my Delta P20! The part that the bellows mounted on broke in half and the part was no longer available! I had an aquarium air pump that had been used on another saw that i sold and decided to hook it up to the P20. It actually puts out more air than the original bellows did and it is hooked up to run when the saw does and shuts off when the saw does! Erv

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

I went to a flea market Sunday and saw a plaque that I liked. I want to make one like it but not sure what font to use. I don't have enough life left to wade through all the available fonts. Is there an easy way? This is the plaque.

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

quallity of wood has gone down hill lately. Whats bad is the price has gone up drastically

For Windows 10 it is exactly as Rodney say. You have to right click on the font and then say install for all users. For Windows 11, I just installed an OTF font, and it did not give me the option to install for all users just install. I did that and opened Inkscape 1.2 and it was there. It also works on using File Explorer click on TTF font and it gives you the character map and just hit install and it works. I was reluctant to upgrade to Windows 11 but there are lots of hidden tricks. So far quite happy.

Charlie I am handing it off to my brother now. He wanted to make a frame for it. He moved here from Denver a month ago and is also a wood worker. I am anxious to see the frame he makes for it.

Too bad about the wood, but still a nice looking clock... Last time I purchase a sheet of BB was 2 years ago. It had no voids but more knots than usual. Still useable, but not as good as I had always purchased before and at $60+ a 5' x 5' sheet, I doubt I will be purchasing more. I will buy in small quantities. Oh and that is a nice looking Jarguar in the background!

I use my android phone 99% of the time. No issues. I did upload a couple of pictures into personal messenger yesterday with laptop. No issues. Me. Mark Eason

A lot of the lower-cost airbrushes are not suitable for spraying lacquer. It will dissolve the seals.

https://www.harborfreight.com/quick-change-airbrush-kit-93506.html

Cut out 1 small bowl Stack it. Make another small bowl and stack it upside down on 1st bowl. Then so on and so forth until you get what you want..

Google "what font is this' it will give you 3 sites that might work

I have a font on my system called BodoniPS. It is very much like Times New Roman, except the serif on the bottoms are square. I have no idea where I got it. Bodon1 in a commercial font but there are lots of free look a likes. I would adjust the kerning in Inkscape and then fix a couple of characters like the "i'. Send me a PM if you want me to try. I just need to know how tall it is. Don

Also, you need to remember sometimes people don’t use a specific font. Sometimes they edit letters and their shapes, use combination of different letterings from different fonts, etc. so finding the exact same font even in perfect photo may not be possible. You just have to find a font look you like and work with it.

This one might could work https://www.dafont.com/gm-hiptop.font?text=Give+Thanks&psize=l&back=theme

There's a few websites for this, off the top of my head What the font and Font squirrel Sorry you'll have to Google them for the actual address as I'm just taking a quick break right now and I have to get back at it !

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.

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

Do you have a photo of this first Delta scroll saw before you started the restoration? It's great to see what the P 20 that I have that I bought back in 2005 just before Delta was bought out by Black and Decker, evolved from! Thanks for sharing! Erv

Blue loc tit on the threads is the cure. I had that problem on my Seyco

Pretty cool! Nice job on the restoration.

That is a great pattern and you did a great job! Thank you for showing us.

I have done two soldiers and a plaque so this might be of interest too

Those are mighty fine. I also enjoy compound cutting and have done some. It always amazes me, when you pell away the waste, there is something inside that piece of wood that was not there before. One of my favorites is from JEplans.com. If you click on "all plans' and scroll down you will find a Christmas Nutcracker. I have made four of them, very fun to build and paint. I have made them the size of the pattern and enlarged the pattern by about 20%. Some how every time I make one, it disappears.

Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. 1/2" Red Oak. About 7" X 9"

Sounds like it's time to fix it. The easy way is to just wrap a heavy rubber band around the shaft just under the knob, twist it a couple of times and then stretch it down to the right side and find something to hook it to. That'll keep it from turning. Not a fix but sort of. The best way of course requires a tear down. Sounds like it has gotten really loose. Strange. You might give Denny a call and see if Pegas has gotten any feedback on the problem and maybe a fix from them. A re-engineered part or something. I doubt they want negative feedback on their saw.

Welcome from Delaware and you are gonna like it here

Welcome to the village from East Tennessee. Look forward to your participation.

Hi Matt: Welcome to the forum! It is a great place to gain and share knowledge. Bruce

I've got two Harbor Freight models. One is a 5-gallon and the other is larger but I'm not sure what size. I built a cyclone dust collection system for the smaller one and have it to where I can hook it up to my saw. It's a little loud but I'm usually listening to music or books on by bluetooth headphones so the noise isn't an issue. I have it plugged into my foot switch so it cuts on and off with the saw. I have lost a few pieces that have broken off and had to retrieve them from the dust collection bucket. Now, if I'm cutting delicate pieces, I will turn off the vacuum and just vacuum up the dust after I've finished the piece. Yes, there is sawdust but nothing like a planer or router.

That's dissappointing from a new saw. It's no wonder they are selling them at dewalt prices right now. So glad I bought the king