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Some wood burning (shou sugi ban) and a Kamon symbol .I hope you will like it.

Hello everybody, It's not our tradition but for contribute from far to this one, I made this skeleton found on the website of Steve GOOD (Thank you Steve). I found it funny. But I think I'm not the only one who did.

Dick (hepperguy) led me to this pattern and from the Very First Look I knew I wanted to cut it. The Poor Mans Inlay was an Addition. Anyway what you all think? Danny :+}

Steve Good pattern that hubby saw and requested after a particularly bad day. Stack cut 3. He gets one,( that had a mistake), the other two for the craft sale.

I started scrolling 4 years ago - but life happened and I had to stop for the last 2 years. My first machine was a Ryobi, which was great to learn on, and it paid for my upgrade to a Pegas. I'm in love with it all over again. This is my first piece back into this, a birthday present. It took 5 days start to finish. The color differences in the bare wood only show up with the flash on the camera The wood is all Baltic Birch plywood - 3/4 for rim, 1/8 for main body and 1/4 for lettering and the heart

These things a fun to cut and put together. So here is old Wile E Coyote. I got to use my air brush for the first time. Took some experimenting, but I think I have it pretty well figured out now. The gun was easy it was figuring out the paint. Getting the right mixtures.

Yes, I find the same thing and just he nature of the wood. It seems cutting across the fibers is easier than along them.

Very nice. Lots of little pieces to keep up with. My grandkids love Jack Skellington. I cut this for one of them a couple of days ago.

Nice job Barb! Maybe cut a little shovel to hang from it.

Hello everyone, hope everyone is doing well. I've noticed that when I'm cutting my puzzles that the saw/blade struggles cutting through the wood when I'm cutting in the direction of the grain. This is on 3/4" Poplar and Pine. It has no problem cutting across the grain. Has this always been the case or has something changed in the wood and or blades? Thanks Jim

This is my Halloween project. It used the scrollsaw, drill press, lathe and some carving. Paint is acrylics with lacquer over the top. The lights are a string of micro led lights with control and battery in base. 20221016_195210.mp4

I too have this pattern printed and will be cutting as soon as I have the time. They sure are a cute. I love how yours turned out. Dick heppnerguy

Very well done. And thanks for the two new things I learned about today. I had to look up shou sugi ban and Kamon symbol.

I find it is always easier to cut across the grain.

yes I like it you gave me another idea thanks. curious on the Kamon symbol

could be blade tension , or defective blades then again some wood gives us surprises.

very nice

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

This is a Steve Goode pattern of Noah's Ark. I did not want to share the pattern so I shrunk it down,. Steve does great patterns, but, well, this one, although a good pattern has a pretty obvious fault. I had a good laugh and so did the War Office. Not really the chimney, I suppose they had to cook their tucker somehow

Had 3 of the grandkids for the weekend. The thirteen year old, Bodhi, selected Steve Good's Door Sill Sleeping Dog, the ten-year old, Harper, chose Rocking Kitties, and the seven year old, Maddox, did the heart out of the practice sheet. What a great way to bridge the years with smiles and more smiles.

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.

My latest piece of wood art cut on my scroll saw. Pattern by me.

These were both stencils found on the internet. I wasn't a huge fan of either singer in the day, though I do like a lot of Queen songs now and David's, "Space Oddity." I also love David's duet with Bing Crosby on Little Drummer Boy. I found this piece of heart pine at a curb where some people are remodeling a century old home. Still highly prefer cutting oak but free is free. When I get this hung it will make number 99 on my shop walls.

I saw a post about this the other day, I've been using it for about a month now and it works well and it's saving me money ! I was blowing through blue painters tape like you wouldn't believe and @ $7 a roll for the good stuff it's not cheap. I just cut a piece the size I need and stick it on and glue the pattern on. It seems to lube the blade just like clear packing tape too ... I used to blue tape then glue the pattern and clear tape over the top, now it's just add the liner and glue down. So far it's stayed put until I've tore it off and it hasn't peeled on me even when I've left it a week and come back to it, also there's no noticable residue left when you take it off. Bonus I'm still on my original roll.

Like everyone else says, yes.

I think you will find that Poplar varies widely with the type of Poplar (Yellow, Tulip ect.)

It's not you, it happens - specially noticeable with poplar! I've noticed this for a long time now but it hasn't always been so - IMO the blades have changed slightly. Not sure if it's the metal or the production, but when I first started cutting poplar I did not notice as much resistance cutting the grain. Then again, when I first started cutting poplar, I didn't know what the heck I was doing! LOL

Thanks everyone, I was concerned I was having a senior moment. lol Jim

great job

awesome job

It's not even a really bad error. Unless you were looking at two of them together, not sure that anyone would notice.

I have for it somewhere ill have a look for it.

ONYA Barb, Funny how family end up with rejects I'd never do that......................................................................

I used to have that problem every now and again on both the Dewalt and the Ex21. For years now I just drag the blade ends through a piece of 600 emery cloth and never a problem. Occasionally I will lightly clamp the emery cloth between the blade clamps and pull it through.

Nice job Danny. I love cutting that font.

Nice work! I love the font.

Very nice!

Is your upper arm parallel to the table? I've never tried putting the blade that high up in the upper clamp.. and I'm not sure I'd even be able to clamp the blade in the bottom clamp if I did.. It'd have to be pretty close to the very tip of the blade I think on that bottom clamp.. Maybe wrong and maybe some difference between the China made saw and the Canada one, LOL. I'll have to look and see on mine. I always "try" to mount the blade so at least a couple of the reverse teeth would go up beyond the top of the table level so they're being used to keep fussies at bay but also not so high that I'm not using the full potential of the actual cutting teeth. Ideally the reverse teeth really only need a couple of the teeth to surpass the table top since the fussies are always at the very bottom edge of the wood. Obviously not a right / wrong way so long as the blade is the right direction. Would think being that high you might be cutting slower since possibly only a few of the "cutting" teeth are actually being used. I think I probably mount my blades more like Denny does with about 1/4" of blade above the top of the thumb screw.. This just goes to show how everyone sets up the saw differently and why I tend to shy away from offering advice on those questions of "what blade to use" because saw set up and blade mounting can vary greatly between users. All that really matters as it works for the user.

Denny, I place the top of the blade even with the top edge of the red clamp body. I then feed the blade down through the table to the lower chuck and tighten the clamp. Then I go back to the top and loosen it , oull down on the mechanism to remove any slack and re-tighten. Seems to be working as I have no slippage or breakage. I also wipe the oil off the blades before insertion.

You mentioned blade placement. The blade should be about 1/8" above the set screw on the upper chuck.

You're welcome Barb, it's obviously not silent but it's a big improvement for me at least. I've never used the app before but it did what I needed it to do. There are other vacs out there this quiet but at triple the price, as to how long it will last time will tell but DeWalt stuff tends to be pretty reliable.

Gun smoke, another favorite

Light box I made few years ago and a haunted house I did about 8yrs ago to go along with a cemetery scene I made around 10 to 12yrs ago. 20221017_231247.mp4 20221017_231142.mp4

Looks like you are really getting in the spirit. Really nice looking projects.

the kids did some very nice work

Those are perfect. Looks like everyone had fun!

Awesome, Teaching the next generation and making memories. I remember my Grandpa teaching me how to use the scroll saw at 14 years of age

Step aside Pops, the kids are here ! They did a wonderful job Bruce.

You bet it is Bruce! I can still remember all the great time I spent with my grandson in the workshop.

You certainly have been staying out of trouble mate. A great selection.