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My Grandson is a big hockey fan, His team to follow is the Nashville Predators. So decided to try to make a segmented emblem for him. Turned out okay as long as you stay about 10 feet away. It turned out to be more difficult than others I have done. But what can he say, I am his only grandpa, he has to be polite.

Hi everyone. Just finished these pieces. Still have one more chair to make out of Oak. I ran out so I had to order more. The table and chairs are a Steve Good Pattern and the doll swing is from Berry basket. The swing is about two feet tall and made out of pine. The table is made out of Walnut and chair is Oak. I'm not sure if I want to leave them plain or just give them a coat of Mineral oil. There for my three Granddaughters ages 4, 5 and 8. I really don't want to varnish them Any other ideas are welcome. Thanks Ralph!

A friend had me make some atomic stars for her a couple years ago. I noticed the pattern laying around and figured I could make it into a 3-D ornament. Here's the result.

Hello all, Nathan from Kalamazoo, here. aka homebru. Been making beer at home for way longer than scrolling. A couple of years ago I expressed an interest in wooden gear clocks to my wife. Two kits a Wen Scroll saw and a scratch clock later and here I am. I've done a piece of fretwork and a number of other small things. Most recently made a couple of bookends for a physician that I worked with who retired. Compound cuts in 2.25" thick walnut to make 6-inch chess pieces are not kind to cheap saws. My FIL gave me an old Dremel scroll saw that suffered the ravages of those compound cuts and it is no longer in service. I'm currently trolling the classifieds on various forums. I've got a couple leads that I'm working and I'm confident that I'll have a more robust saw in the workshop in the reasonably near future. Oh yeah, as my second project (first project was cutting the frame parts for a clock kit) I decided to cut Daniel Brown's (Laughing Mantis Studios) Apis coronavirus "intarsia". I think it's Rolf that says "I don't know that I cannot, therefore I can". That clearly defines me when I took on this Apis coronavirus project. Gave it to my in-laws as a gift since my FIL is a beekeeper. The pic is pilfered from Daniel's site. homebru aka nathan in kalamazoo

I had enough window frame molding to make another box. I had stack cut the rose pattern so I needed to put this somewhere also. I did amp it up by scrolling a pattern on the sides. They sort of disapeared once I started spray painting the black lacquer so my wife gold painted around the pattern along with the feet. There are probably 10 coats of lacquer on the top. It goes down fast and dries fast and I started wet sanding after 5 coats each coat. It came out very deep and shiny. The trick is to progressively go to a finer sand paper and to make sure there are no shiny parts between each coat. Amazing how hard lacquer gets.

The most important work is making a gift to your love..Made this wooden comb to my wife as a birthday gift.

Interesting video, Thanks for sharing it. This info has been around way before I first got into woodworking back in 2004-5 and my father used to make his own stuff including stains back in the 1980's and probably prior to that ( I just remember seeing him doing it then )... and I remember reading about when they stop making Danish oil for a short time how folks were talking about how to make your own.. I've made a lot of my own finishes and wax's too.. One has to decide what works best for them and their needs. I made my own Danish oil and yes it's definitely cheaper to make yourself.. However convenience also plays a big roll in why I still buy these expensive finishes too.. I suppose if I was a big furniture maker and going through gallons of finish a year then yes making it makes more sense. Just finishing hundreds of ornaments a year and a few puzzles and clocks I go through about 2 gallon of Danish oil.. Same for spray finishing topcoats.. One can buy the pint, quart, gallon, or 5 gallon containers and spray equipment and save a ton of money if you use enough of it. My laser ornaments I make I use top coat rather than Danish oil.. Also anything I paint gets top coat rather than dipped in Danish oil. I mostly only do small batches at a time... so gathering up the spray gun and setting things up to spray 10 - 20 ornaments using around 1 - 2 oz of spray isn't worth the effort not to mention cleanup for the savings of just grabbing that spray can and being done with it in a short time.. I can see where spraying a large piece of furniture or a huge production line where savings could be very worth it. At the end of the day everyone has to do what works best for them.. I just see making your own finish in the scroll sawing world a bit overkill for no more product most of us make.. Yes there are some certain situations where it works well for some. Anyway good info for some and thanks for sharing it.

It's January and time for Stumpy's annual discourse on mixing your own finish, this is the 4 or 5th time he's had a "new" video on the subject. I don't mind Stumpy too much, but his focus is on general woodworking and not scroll saw stuff ( he hasn't talked about SS's in years). The wipe on finishes may work well for the thinner portraits that are popular now, but thicker material ( 1/2" or more ) make getting the finish in the smaller frets difficult, that's generally why I thin my finish liquids by half; so the finish will flow into the small frets, since I don't want a lot of different finishes floating around the shop, I use the same finish for most of my work.

Welcome Nathan. We are almost neighbor's, our county's borders touch (Kalamazoo/Allegan).

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I made this Sue May design for our church "flea market" and it lasted about 5 minutes. Got an awful lot of "I want one of those" after it was gone. Definitely need to make a few more.

I've seen many posts over the years about finishes and tried all sorts of things. I watched this yesterday and thought it might be of interest.

Customer requested this verse and "something pretty in the corner."

Hubby bought these for me for Christmas, I have already marked which patterns I want to cut. lol

Thank you. It is wulnat. After sanding it I applied olive oil and then water based acrylic varnish.

But..... There is always one ingredient that does not get talked about that is very important in making your own is DRIERS. Just because you mix stuff together it also needs some driers to help the product flow out as well as dry properly or it can linger for days. People do not have those laying around in their bins often.

I take the easy way out and my finishes show it. I use Deft lacquer. Staining is another thing I am not good at, but I do like the General gel stains.

You are being too hard on yourself. Looks fantastic and I’m sure your grandson will agree Paul.

I watched the video and he is not saying anything new that has not been said many years ago. he is right about the advertising but that can be said about any product ever sold. Words are used to try to distinguish your product from others. That is called sales marketing. Come on we all do it with our products we make. Hand made , one of a kind, and so on. Making your own finishes is something that has been done since the start of woodworking. Nothing wrong with that. But also there is a thing and again it applies to all products ever sold especially today. Ask the price that you think you can get and adjust from there. You ask why have finish product prices been rising? The factors are supply and demand, ingredient availability, and environmental laws. All play a factor. years ago those were not real players in the world of finishes. have to say Formbys brand was one of the best wipe on finishes used. I still have a few bottles. He is right in the fact most are watered down but that plays well for convince and also penetration into wood fibers so not a bad thing. I won't go into which brand is better because they are basically all the same with the fact of tweaking a little here or there. So buy what you want. As far as making your own, I have never and have no intentions to ever do that and waste my time mixing things when companies professionally do it for me with exact measurements. Savings, what a couple pennies. You make lose that in mixing time and now extra storage space and containers. So there goes the profits. As far as my all time favorite finish is and always will be Watco Danish oil. I would maybe go through about 2 gals of it per year but my projects were rather large. I used both the dipping method and also the brush on flooding method because the projects were too large to always dip. But would always catch runoff in clean container and just pour back in can after use. used that method till this day. Works well. Danish oil has all the ingredients to put a beautiful finish on any woodworking project. I defy anyone to show me something different. All part of woodworking.

Great job on those miters, and the lacquer and gold paint are outstanding. Thanks for sharing. Rick

Welcome to the Village forum from Tennessee. As a Pegas dealer, if you have questions about Pegas blades, I would be happy to help.

Informative video. Thanks.

Turned out great. I'm sure he will love it.

1" wide 3/4" thick.

#7 reverse tooth. May not have been the best choice but it's what I had.

Ralph, those look good enough to sit in, but I would probably break them.

Ralph, your granddaughters will have lots of fun playing with them, then later on in life these toys will be cherished. When others ask where they got them, they will say with pride "MY GRANDPA MADE THEM.". Really, really nice. Jerry

Very nice project, RJ

They all look great. I like the clowns and the kids in the rain.

What size blade did you use.

That came out great. I might have to give that a try.

That is one awesome piece. I too was going to try intarsia but something told me Noi, no, no, LOL

WoW Dave, you never cease to amaze me. Beautiful work as usual.

And the team of that makes very beautiful boxes strikes again! I like that add ons. Very well done.

Totally AWESOME!! That is a real keeper. Very beautiful work Monti

Beautiful ornament Matt

Excellent job, RJ

Beautiful craftsmanship, RJ

Wow Monti, beautiful work! It is things like this that make me think I would like to get into intarsia. But I remind myself that this is not a project for beginners.

Amazing, when we talked last week, I had no idea it would turn out like this.

That sure is a beauty. Always worth a second look.

Very nice pattern and project. I sure like compound cutting!

Well that is one that is certainly worth more than one look anyway! I've actually gone back several times to look at it.

Really like that one and thanks for the pattern

Wow! That’s an impressive set up. Very nice!

Yes, I have the prototype as I was the first one James sent it to. When I am running with my bottom "throttle" at least 50% I get nearly zero dust. I have a small throw/catch box under the opening, resting between the table legs, below my knees that catches some of the larger 'chunks' that drop (and I pitch castoffs) or are not sucked up by the top vac. I also find with the top vac, I really do not need the 'puffer' either.

Marie C, great pictures! I did not glue any of the PVC joints as periodically some bits get caught in the bends. @Scrappile Clever use of leftover bits. for you small parts catcher.

Nice write up. You included pictures and village people.

Those are really nice. Being a Clown, I am partial to that being my favorite of the group. I have it hanging behind my bar. May I ask where to get the patterns for the dog and the two kids in the puddle?