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Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi, from the Karate Kid movies. I thought this quote was a little deeper than, "Wax on, wax off." The wood is an old piece of pine I had.

This wood tank consists of ten wooden gear wheels. When you move the tank, the wheels turn and make a sound similar to the sound of a tank tracks. It is an automata toy in which ten gears turn on a tank with the power of gear wheels. Wooden Gear Tank.mp4

Played around yesterday cut this out of a piece of scrap 1/4" BB. Well I say scrap but with the cost of BB any more, none of it is scrap! I have a couple more to cut. I am a sucker for the little gnomes! This is a Steve Good one. And check out this beautiful piece of canary wood, being prepared for another project. May be my favorite wood.

We have been quite busy since before Christmas and I finally found some time to get back into my Scroll Saw Village family. Yesterday my wife asked me to make something new to add to her Valentines decorations so I found this Sue Mey pattern and asked her if she like it and I got a resounding "YES, VERY MUCH". I immediately went to the shop and cut this one for her. I have been away from here for about 2 months and I am so happy to be back here with all of you. I will go back and try to post some of the items I have not yet posted just so you know I have been doing some items in my shop as well. Dick heppnerguy

Pattern by Jim Blume. 11” x 16” BB ply within 16” x 20” frame.

This one is a partial Steve Good design I cut a few days ago. I modified it with a pencil and then cut it.

Correct. Over-tightening the clamp screws can also lead to spreading the clamp body apart, especially on Dewalt blade clamps. I think these kinds of supplemental knobs are great for those with reduced grip strength and/or other physical issues that make it difficult to properly tighten the clamp screws, but if they are being used simply to solve the problem of blades slipping out of the clamps, then they can be problematic.

An Alex Fox pattern he lists as C12. I used 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood 10" square. Cut on the Pegas scroll saw using Pegas #1 MGT blades. After gluing, two coats of spray Lacquer clear gloss. Comments welcome.

Collapsible basket in bamboo cut from a cutting board. Roly

Go to Steve Good web site and search for knob in tools and you will get the pattern

Spent a couple hours this morning designing my version of "The Tomb", with the 3 crosses of Calvary, made from 3/4" standard pine, just free-handed the pieces on some thin boards for templates, then traced the templates to the pines boards, then cut each piece out, then took each piece to the spindle sander and contoured the edge of each piece to give a carved look, stained red mahogany and early American, glued all 4 layers together to make it 3" thick and stand very solid.......comments always welcomed. This was a gift for my mom for Easter this year.

Pattern by Marilyn Carrman 18” x 14” x ¼” Maple with a walnut finish. Moon ⅛” BB ply.

Here re my latest bowls. The odd shaped one is a Steve Good Patter. The others are patterns that I did on the computer. The orangesh oak bowl is the finest bowl I have ever made and my favorite so far. All the angles turned out great and there was very minimal sanding.

Pattern by Jim Blume. 11” x 16” BB ply within 16” x 20” frame.

For that problem, I fold a piece of 220 sandpaper in half and slide it between the clamp screws every once in a while just enough to rough them up. Just a bit.

I didn't want to hijack someone else's thread, so I brought this here. The program I use is " Big Print " by Wood Gears. I've been using it for several years now and it will easily do what I need. The first pattern I used it on was a Steve Good pattern of an old Ford truck, I enlarged the 8.5 x 11 " pattern to 7' long; about 28 pages all told and the program will add an alignment grid to each page, that really helped. The second pattern was the fancy Welcome sign pattern that I have. The pattern is 5" wide as is and I have some 1/4 " stack that is 4 1/2" wide. I as able to easily resize the pattern to fit my existing stock. And the third use was for compound patterns, When I printed the patterns the first time they printed at 1 3/4" and the stock was 1 1/2". The patterns were "supposed" to print at 1 1/2" but.....computers. Big print solved this issue. I had previously used every graphics package for Linux that I could find an every single one of them had issues printing to a specific size ( GIMP was the worst, 5 different settings, spread all over the place, I was chatting with a GIMP Guru and even she missed a setting, and there is no way to save a "printer configuration file" that could be loaded ahead of printing. With big print I can adjust the printing characteristics for each printer and get the printing accuracy down to a pixel. Normally this is not really necessary but it's nice to know it's there.

Travis just released the new book. I try to cut my designs beforehand. This year I did not have a chance until this week. Everything worked out okay. This is a great effort by the village.

Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. The pattern is in the library but I added a few strands of hair as I cut it. Listened to her music as I cut. Brought back some good memories. *Added some feathers to give her a little more attitude.

Just be aware that with the knobs it's easy to over-tighten them and strip out the threads in the aluminum clamps.

If you search Steve Goods blog spot, he has a pattern for round ones also.

Thanks Melanie, the one I made was round. I think I can do something with one of those. I remember my thumb screw was glued into the wood knob and was permanent. I think the Pegas knob is a little different.

Is this the one you had from Steve? https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2009/12/dewalt-dw788-thumb-screw-upgrade.html A search for “thumb screw” on his blog gives a lot of articles he has done in regards to different ones, easier methods to try, etc. so may be worth a perusal through to get some other possible ideas or sources of different types of knobs to use. one idea he shared was switching to a round thumb screw offered by Seyco: https://www.seyco.com/qkm-05-round-knob-assembly-metric/ Also an old video he did on different ways to make more comfortable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlCFMK4n5nE This is just a few things he has shared over the years.

Thanks Ralph. It’s ⅛”.

Hey Everyone! In this scroll saw project video I make a unique decorative bowl. This Steve Good design uses 1-4 inch material and I think it shows the versatility of the scroll saw! Not only can a scroll saw cut out 2 dimensional items, it can also make Beautiful 3D works of art! Hope you all like the video! #ArtisanPirate

I will make more patterns and upload them free any of my patterns are free too old for a business now. I like to see new & old scrollers having fun. Roly

Hi everyone. Just thought I would put a pic of a fan I cut out a while back. I stacked cut these out of 1/4 inch B/B Ply. I put a picture of part of the pattern while I was cutting it. I have them hanging on the wall in my granddaughters room.

Its been about 5 weeks since my back surgery (MIS TLIF) and though things are getting better, they are not back to normal yet. Its going to be a few more weeks until I can back in the shop to start cutting again (too cold also). Before my surgery I had some interesting discussions with my surgeon about my procedure and aviation. It seems that he is a pilot of the Cirrus SR22 single engine aircraft. This aircraft has be out selling Cessna aircraft for several because of all the latest incorporated technology. He has some business in the midwest and he can make it nonstop there but he would really like to upgrade to the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet. It's the least expensive single engine jet, fastest selling single pilot jet on the market today. It has the most advance avionics and also an emergency parachute system and a automatic navagation/landing system that will take the aircraft to the nearest airport and land. It seats 5 with a 1,200 mile range and max altitude of 37K'. It goes for about 2+ million. I made it before my operation and gave it to him on my followup visit after my surgery. He was amazed and really surprised I made it for him. Maybe I can bum a ride some day.

Wallace Shawn as Vizzini from The Princess Bride. Pattern is in Library under New Patterns.

Check out the poll at the top of the thread. Just a quick poll to see what kind of materials folks are mostly putting on their saw. Just out of curiosity.

Right now it's mostly hardwoods. But there are times when I do portraits in BB ply.

Going to be beautiful, Dick... Love how you paint the backer. Well don't know if I love how you do it because I do not know how you do it. But I love the results. I purchased a pretty good air brush a while back but have not had the nerve to try it yet. Is that what you are using and what kind of paint? I think we are glad you are back also you alway seem to liven up the place some.

Just finished this bowl, a little bit different I glue 2 pieces of 1/2” and one piece of1/4” together and then cut the bowl at 17 degree. Some sanding/shaping required but I am pleased with the result.

Marg, I don't mean to butt in on your conversation but I often think about Australia when I think about time differences and I believe you are 19 or 20 hours ahead of us in Arizona. Blows me away to think about that. It is particularly interesting to think about on New years as we are in different time and years for most of our New Years Eve. Dick heppnerguy

Nice. Never got into making them. Might have to give it a try.

awesome job

A cute little guy. Lovely piece of Canary wood, never seen it in Australia. Marg

Beautiful! I have a few scraps now in my scrappile. I will be purchasing more sometime.

Cute! Canary wood is beautiful!

I have never see it like the top picture. I have used quite a bit of it over the years.

Your Granddaughter will appreciate those for years.

All very beautiful and well done Timothy. I like the second one best.

Yes I put pop rivets in mine glue into the outer case and it spins on them here's another you can have a go at on A4 Size paper you can see the pins. I've modified less rings as they were a bit thin to cut in A4 MAD ME DIZZY. bunny sample.svg

I'm confused... so are you trying to hold the upper arm of the saw up? That's what it looks like and if so.. all you need to do is adjust the arm tension set screw at the back of the saw on the opposite side of the motor you'll see a bolt / screw with a slot in it and a jam nut on it.. loosen the jam nut and use a flat head screwdriver and turn it in slightly until you get enough resistance to hold the arm up.. don't make it too stiff because then your arm will get sore trying to raise it up, LOL.. should move freely and fairly easy yet have enough tension to stay in the up position on it's own.. might have to play around with in a few times to get it where you want it but man that sure beats having to hold it up in some way.. There are instructions in your manual for the adjustment as well..

There might be a better search term but, I went to Amazon and searched for "plastic stencils" and there are a ton of designs.. I think they are made for painting.. come think of it the wife has some she got from one of the local box stores that are some sort of flower and leaf stems etc.. she got them to paint a decoration around our cabinet door in our utility room.. Hmm, I'd have never thought about searching for those.. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=plastic+stencils&crid=1GFV05Q4N36NW&sprefix=plastic+sten%2Caps%2C194&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_12

Beautiful cutting Charlie

Thank you! At least 8 hours sleep a day. I don't do well without it. I probably do spend too much time on my hobby though.

Great job on all of them.

awesome work

Very nice work. I especially like the vases.

It appears that you have learned well. Nice stuff and thanks for posting. We love pictures.