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My son asked if I could find a good pattern of Jimi Hendrix and scroll three one for himself and two to give to guitar friends. So I found this pattern by Charles Dearing. My son approved it. Stack cut 4- 1/8 thick" 16" tall x11" wide.

Another Steve Good design finished over the weekend and I spent way too much time and trouble... I hate to scroll ovals, especially two with one being slightly larger for the backer. Nothing seemed to go right. Drilled the entry holes a tad too little in the tight spots and bent new blades trying to bottom feed. I ran an old blade in first to make the holes a bit larger and it helped "some" of the time. Got so pissed I loosened the clamps and tried to snatch the bent blade out but, forgot to loosen the bottom one and sliced my thumb. Good thing the blades have small teeth. It kept going downhill when the flat black paint on the wood backer showed fish eyes and had to repaint even though the wood was prepped properly. I also wanted to line the backer up to have an even reveal all around and didn't want to chance it with glue and have it set up before I got it centered. So, I ended up using double stick tape which let me move it around before I put the pressure on it. Whew, didn't mean to write a book but sometimes something that I thought would be easy to do ends up kicking my butt!!!

Found a maple leaf in the yard, used a glue stick to hold it down to trace outline, spray glued it to a board and scrolled it in less than 5 minutes. Since I wasn't overthinking every turn as I usually do, I was spinning and cutting like a seasoned pro. It could have been because I wasn't too concerned if it got messed up but it was good practice for making better turns with confidence.. Figured I might as well draw some veins and scroll them too... Then what the heck, throw some color on it too!

Just finished this Edmonton Oilers NHL plaque for my father. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta and came to live in the UK when he was 5 years old. He is now in his early 90s and has been a lifelong Oilers fan. The letters and border were cut out individually then painted accordingly and glued back into place, finished with a few coats of clear lacquer. I myself am a Colorado Avalanche fan ! Regards, Alan.

Jimmy, that is might fine scrolling. My advice to you is when you find yourself having some issues just take a break. Watch a good western or somthing to make you laugh. Maybe even a walk. When you get back to it you will find everything seems to fall into place. Jerry

Last puzzle for the upcoming craft sale. Cut from Poplar with MG#5 blade. I have painted the hardboard backer to represent the sea. There are about 4 shades of blue that I sponged on. Didn't get a picture of the backer. I have priced it at $50 so we'll see!

Just remember 2 things. You are your worst critic and once the pattern is removed nobody knows what "shoulda been".

That looks really good.

I haven't used that product. I have used this for patterns. Haven't tried it for stack cutting. Don't think it would be strong enough. https://store.workshopsupply.com/catalogue/scroll-saw-stick-and-release-tape-12-20-p-4418.html

I was commissioned to make this plaque for a client who works for American Airlines. He plans to give it to a long time colleague who is retiring after the first of the year. I combined fretwork and intarsia. The lettering was so delicate that I decided to fill it with black wood filler. I used blue pine for the background and frame.

Has anyone used this? It is advertised as double-sided woodworking tape. They say it has good holding quality but removes easily from wood, leaving no residue. Sounds interesting. I wonder if we could use it in place of blue painters tape. We could put it on the wood in place of the blue tape, then stick the pattern directly to it with no need for any additional glue. And we could use it to hold pieces together as in stack cutting. I am sure there are / will be many other uses. XFasten Double Sided Woodworking Tape, 1-Inch by 36-Yards, 3-Pack - Double Face Woodworker Turner's Tape for Wood Template, Removable & Residue Free - Amazon.com

Love this beautiful piece of live edge Cherry. Pattern is in the Library. For some reason it's blurry until you click on it.

Nice job!!!

Regardless of your troubles the piece turned out great.

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Ok Last one. I put some of my cutouts together on one of the round wood discs I got from Menards (pay attention Ray) and this is what I came up with. Have a Happy Halloween Everyone. Hope you have lots of little trick or treaters.

I have been using 2 sided carpet from Lowes for positioning hinges for alignment and drilling when making boxes, I'll also adhear it the base and top surface edges to sand them flush. I've also used it on small pieces of wood I cut on the table saw to keep my fingers away from the blade. I have also been doing more stack cutting and I use 3M 77 spray glue. I'll spray both sides of printer paper and stick it between the pieces I am cutting and also apply to the bottom of the pattern I am cutting. I was using Goof Off to remove it but it can leave a pink tinge of color on the wood. I have gone to Acetone. I wet a paper towel and dab the pattern and it comes right off (often in one piece) I use an acid brush soaked in acetone and brush along the edges and use a scraper to widen and separate the pieces. I wipe down with acetone to remove any remaining glue and it leaves a clean surface.

When i came home from Nam I was 135 put on weight to 220, now at 76 i am 118, RJ

There is double sided tape and then there is double sided tape. I have some I purchased to hold a piece of wood to a face plate when turning on a lathe. You could stick to cars together and one could pull the other. I have some double sided carpet tape that is not nearly as strong. I would not use either to hole a paper pattern on but the carpet tape would probably hold pieces of wood together for stack cutting.

@RabidAlien True! lol This is a Sue Mey pattern.

awesome job

I use it to stick wood patterns to wood stock for pattern routing. It holds well for that purpose. It's a bear to remove, though. After you peel off it's protective cover, what's left is the relatively thick adhesive. I have to roll it off the project piece with a thumb. It would be quite expensive to use it to hold paper scroll patterns. And, I'm not sure it wouldn't gum up a scroll saw blade.

It was 1959 at Lackland for me. Airforce chow ain't half bad. Weighed 160 then. Put on 15 pounds in the 6 years of service. Now, at 82 I'm up to 240. My wife is a great cook. And, there's always a cake, pie, cookies and/or brownies to tempt me.

This is a Jim Blume pattern cut from 1/4-inch Baltic Birch stained natural with a Birch backer stained Ebony. The frame is pre-fab framing material cut to size. The piece has four coats of Polyacrylic with light sanding with 320-grit sandpaper between coats. I primarily used Pegas 2/0 spiral blades with a few Pegas 2/0 MGT blades in a few areas. Overall it was a really fun cut. Thanks again, Jim Blume, for a great pattern.

Beautiful work!

Great job, perfect choice of wood. Thanks for the patter too.

Great job!

If it's the excalibur 21 or 30 its to adjust the upper blade holder arm to get the maximum up and down movement from it. Why it was there in the first place was to extend the the arm length from the excalibur 16 too the 21 or 30 with out having to change out the full assembly. That same part broke on mine as will and had to replace it then the bolt in in kept breaking. Got so bad I had extra bolts on hand all the time. Eventually had to change out the full assembly no problems since..

I think it turned out excellent, RJ

Paul, you done an excellent job, I remember seeing him in a concert in Philadelphia, at the spectrum, many years ago, RJ

Nice pattern and very well cut Paul.

Spinning it. Once the first one was out of the way, it wasn't too bad. Could use a smaller belly, though.

Sounds good, I'll have to give that a try, thanks!

Here is my attempt at this great pattern. Not sure what the wood is, except thin! This is only my third attempt at spirals. Used a #1. Some lines became suggestions . Finished with beeswax/mineral oil.

Another bottle opener. This one has a silicon wafer inside a clear cavity. This is made from a beautiful piece of myrtle. I tried to have the grain show liquid pouring action. Me. Mark Eason

What a fun project. You certainly have turned out quite a few projects with a lot of variety as well. I always look forward to your posts to see what you have chosen to do. Keep up the good work Dick heppnerguy

With very little traffic on Halloween night this is how I feel sometimes Fab4

Scrappile I wanted to make it clear: this is my post more than a year ago. Alexandr quoted it and translated to russian and wrote that it is lie. I dont know who it is, at his profile country is russia. And after that hi asked me pattern for free. That is all you need to know about russians. I have nothing more to add.

You should be good using an LED bulb.

One of the prettiest crosses I've seen. Awesome job!

Awesome! Well done.

More planes joining my fleet.

Well done Barb. Marg

My wife can't boil water. If our microwave ever dies, we'll starve.