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My first finished project two months into my scroll saw journey, this is being given away to my MIL who has a liking for Giraffe's, and for once I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. It's been a busy week, I framed it last Friday and has been in clamps since then, and today was the first chance I got to finish it. Cut on 1/4" BB ply with 1/8 ply backer painted black. The frame is 3/4 reclaimed hard Maple also painted black. The frame and cutting were finished with 3 coats of lacquer. Thanks for looking and even more for the help and advice that have got me this far.

This is my latest cutting, it’s from one of my own stock photos which Russ Beard so generously made a pattern for. It took me between 60-70 hours due to load shedding in our corrupt country. It’s a first time for me try and introduce some colour to bring out the aggression, not good at it but I tried. The whole pattern was cut with a #0 blade, we don’t have a big selection of blades available to us we have to make with what we got. It will be framed and a back round added when I can find one in my stock photos. All this work is done on a modified Wen Scroll Saw.

Hi All Finally got round to framing this at the weekend. Its been in my draw for ages.

Cardinal Puzzle designed by Sarah Lyn Chamberlain, found in the new issue #89 of Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts. I used 1/2" Hard Maple and cut on the EX21 (at home) using FD UR #3 blade. Stained with Samam Stain and dipped in Shellac diluted with denatured alcohol. Sanding with a Mac Mop between coats. Fun to have artists in studio to add the twigs before shrink wrapping.

Hi All I got asked to do another F1 Light for a mates girlfriends birthday. f1 Light video.mp4

I'll start by saying this is extremely close to a pattern by Charles Dearing so I would never share or sell this pattern. I saw his pattern on Scroll Saw Association of the World on Facebook and liked it, so I found the original photo he worked from and made my own pattern. I've seen a post from Charles himself about pattern designers using the same source photo and that nobody should have a problem with that so I don't think he would mind. If you like it, as I said his pattern is very similar and is for sell on his site, Wooden Visions. I did some checking and Matt shot 158 men and 7 women. He was shot 56 times and lived. So probably best not to draw on him.

My new Christmas ornaments set. All items made in the same style. I think it is a great variant for small presents for the family: each will get one piece from the set. Or use it for Christmas tree or as home decoration. Each project consist of 4 layers, size about 5,5 x 5,5 inches. Pattern at https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexFoxUA

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.

That is terrific. It appears that you are progressing extremely well. Don't forget to enjoy the journey. For me, I was way too hard on myself that I couldn't do the challenging things right off the bat. Then I finally learned to strive for excellence but more importantly - enjoy the journey.

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

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

More time to practice, this was out of my skills level but I wanted to give it a try. If I'm annoying you all with my frequent posts of my butchery , let me know I'll slow it down

I think you did a great job cutting that pattern. That being said I never understood why Steve Good created that pattern with most letters being backwards on 2 sides. If the ornament is hanging showing one of the back sides it is just...........

Wow! Great job on the compound cuts.

Another beautiful piece, RJ

best cop show ever, been watching it on hulu. I did not watch it much when it was a regular series. ran 12 seasons.

very nice job

Great job on the framing and backer.

He looks as if he saying "Hello, what you looking at?" You did a terrific job. Marg

CHARLIE! I really enjoy your Celeb pictures... I have two words for you "Andy Sipowicz"

Those turned out great! That's the nice thing about that project, you can use any jack-o-lantern pumpkin pattern.

A tire for air .. Yeah I got out of it partly because of the safety liability of the corrupt owner wanted the workers to perform on salvaged cars. Putting unsafe cars back on the road because the owner needed to scam people for more speed boats I guess, LOL.. Plus my passion was custom work. I did air brushing some doing multi color flame paint jobs for show cars since back then flames was a big thing, LOL. I found that the badger air brush I had didn't have the paint capacity I needed to do most of the bigger flame jobs I had and found that a small half pint devilbis touch-up gun worked better for what I was doing. They've probably improved the air brush since my days or I just never learned the ins and outs of the set I had. Also back before the internet days you relied on the tool sales guy to know what he's selling or by word of mouth.. now days you can look up reviews and see demos etc. online. My experience with them is limited as I just preferred the touch-up gun I had. The issue I had with staying in the business was finding enough customers that actually had the money to have a car done up that wasn't a insurance claim type work.. I was working with cash paying customers only because I wanted out of the liability of doing crappy repairs for the insurance using aftermarket panels that don't fit right etc.. They've since improved repop panels and parts but I have no desire to go back into it other than doing my own cars.

Thanks a million. I have only painted the backer on one project because I didn't like the way the original backer turned out. Since then I have always stained them. I use either Ebony, Dark Walnut or Red Mahogany stains for my backers.

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.

very nice job

Rodney, Just like you, we have only a Lowes that is 2 miles away that has the same selection including red oak. I always have to pick through the 1/4 inch stuff to see if it has blems like warped or cupped. Their 1/4" PW is not bad for backer boards but not when the end grain shows. My local woodcraft store is 30 miles away we always combine it with a trip to Greenville (great town). Up until recently the BBPW sheets have been good and I'll get the 2 sq' bubinga or padauk packs when it looks good and instock. I recently started using Ocooch with good results and will order from them for the better quality exotic woods.

If I recall correctly, once you have installed a font onto your computer, just open Inkscape and it will automatically find the new font and make it available. If you have Inkscape open when you install the font, you must close out Inkscape and reopen it.

Hi Rodney: Not to hijack Ray's post but @don in brooklin on wrote something about this awhile ago. I can't find his post but if you are using Windows 10 once your font is unzipped just right click on it and Install for all users let us know if that works for you (in a separate post) - It works for me. Fab4

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

Excellent restoration. Thanks for showing it and also for saving it from the scrap heap. I love old stuff. Probably because I am old stuff.

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.

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

A small aquarium air pump works great if you can't find a replacement bellows for your saw. Wire it and the saw to both run from a foot switch and it will only run when you are running the saw. Charley

I would put the Festool on the scroll saw and use something noise on the router and track saw. Who cares how noisy the vac is with a router or saw??

Thanks for the heads up Charlie E!

Just a heads up. Pertaining to the drilling rather than cutting the hole and using different/harder wood. I have a really hard time drilling from both sides of, say 1 1//2" oak and having the hole come out perfectly centered in the middle. Maybe others don't but I sure do. So I just drill from one side since it only needs one hole anyway. Not saying this is the way to do it, just what I've done.

I made this for my son Christmas 2016. I am now making 3 "new and improved" versions for his three children.

Most recent "scary" cut was H.Botas' pirate skull. It just checked all the right boxes for me, and was a fun cut. The pirate owl (cuz why not?) and wolf were fun as well, and the six cuts are my standard Halloween decorations at work (pirate skull has been added to that group now as well). Not sure if there's any defining "requirements" as to why I cut what I cut. Its just gotta hit me the right way in whatever emotion it evokes.

I work from home and have to use my phone for MFA authentications, many times a day (SysAdmin, I jump into a lot of different servers requiring MFA) I typically lay my phone down, and pick it up every time I have to allow myself access. So, I figured I should make myself some sort of phone holder to hold it upright so I can just tap the allow button. I had some left over white cedar from a bunch of bird feeders I was building, so looked online for some ideas. I saw one that someone made that I sort of liked. I printed the picture out and followed it as my pattern. Because it's cedar, and smells good, I just left it raw and unfinished. I sanded it a bit, but I didn't want to spend more than 15 or 20-minutes making it. This is what I came up with: Dan

I like functional projects.. I have posted these earlier this year. This first picture shows me using it. Everytime I leave the house I put one of these on.

I think this fits the Theme. Made for my Lady's young Grandson, who loves Dragons, so he can learn to tell time that is not digital and learn a little Chineese at the same time. Edit 9/4/22: Just remembered my Cube style Tissue box covers...very functional projects.