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Here is some of stuff I did in March. The stacking puzzles were previously cut and I just painted them. I had tried to sell at a show last year as "paint your own" - didn't go over very well. I did two of the sunflower puzzles. I also cut & finished two guitar puzzles and a bass guitar. I have a sale coming up at the end of the month so was putting a push on to get product out. Nice to be retired and able to spend most of the day in the shop!

I found a way to use up all my scraps. https://www.facebook.com/reel/700794108932098?s=yWDuG2&fs=e&mibextid=Nif5oz

Have been making lot’s of “Penny Drop” boxes but since Canada got rid of Pennies in 2013 the availability is scare. So my clients started asking for a nickel Dropbox, with the help of Don in Brooklin here are the results

Maybe it can be a group project, each one does a section, then send to Ray to assemble, RJ

My wife is using oxygen and I do not think she would do well scrolling, Unless you have superb dust collection or a good mask you can hook oxygen to. If not you are taking in find dust, and you do not want to add any more stuff to your lungs, no matter how fine it is. Sorry you are going though this, it is at best very inconvenient. But it is what it is. I smoked but was able to quit about 30 years ago. She could not. And I think if her lungs healed, which they cannot, she would smoke again... I know she still misses it. She has other problems also and in constant pain. I don't think her pain is related to the smoking. I am 4 years older than her and I am her care giver... My cooking may kill her quicker than anything else. I am not good at it. Thank God for prepared things that I can that I can throw into the micro-wave or oven.. My cooking is so good, I have lost 18 pounds in the past 6 months. Her also. So if you need a diet plan,,, hire me as your cook. You had better like lattice salads.

The first project is from a sock Image titled “Life’s a Gamble”. The conversion to a 12”x12” scrollable Pattern was mainly adding many bridges in the Lettering. There was no special reason for doing this project, other than wanting to take a break from doing complicated patterns for a change. Although, it did seem a little appropriate for me, as I will reach my 82 Birthday in May. I guess I should be happy the "gamble" is still paying off. The Cut Panel is 5/32” thick Solid Core Birch Ply cut using mainly Pegas #2/0 Spiral Baldes and Pegas #1 MGT R Blades. The cut panel is affixed to a 1/2" thick Sanded Ply Backer. Color was added using Artist Acrylic Air Brush Paints. The close-up photo shows some cutting and painting defects that are not TOO noticeable when viewed from a standard 4 feet away. This will hang in my shop. The second project is more of my normal work, yet this too was a very quick cut. There are many illustrations in what I call the “Red Lips” category, by many different Artist both known and unknown. Many of which are available from the stock illustrations sites and are royalty free. I’ve been eyeing these illustrations for some time now. I found this “Lady (with Red Lips) in a Cowboy Hat” illustration on-line and it seemed like it would make a scrollable pattern. I proceeded with the conversions even though it was obvious from the start that it required the addition of many bridges. Once again, the cut panel is 5/32” thick Maple Solid Core Ply and the backer is 1/4" thick BB Ply. The relatively easy cutting was done using a Pegas #1 MGT R Blade in just one, two-hour, sitting. Yes, this is another colored piece using Artist Acrylic Air Brush Paints. However, only two colors were applied to the backer… Red, for the lips of course, and everything else black. The assembled panel was protected with multiple coats of a Clear Gloss Acrylic finish. I also hid many of the bridges with Black paint applied by brush. The Frame is my simple 1 3/4" wide Poplar Rails finished with Black Lacquer that had a final top-coat application of a Clear Matt Lacquer. As allways, comments and critiques always appreciated. I will post the Patterns in Pattern Exchange for anyone who might wish to have.

A big thanks to Bobscroll for these patterns, which I got from the Scroll Saw Village library. All done on 1/4 in BB ply. When the morning sun hits them they really sparkle. I can't seem to catch it on my cell phone camera. I hope I submitted this right...I'm still learning the system.

I have said it over and over. If our microwave ever quits, we'll starve to death.

Looks good. Like the darker top. I thought being close to Ottawa where all the big buck politicians live, you should have a loonie drop. LOL

I have the latest version of Inkscape and have the same problem. To get around this problem I export to PDF. Open in Acrobat and I have to make sure the "Choose paper source by PDF paper size" is clicked. I occasionally have objects that don't print and I do the same thing and they are there. Bug in Inkscape communicating with printer driver. (so I was told)

I recently started on oxygen support (all the years I smoked its lucky I'm around to ask this question). Is anyone with oxygen spending time in the shop daily? How do you keep from tripping over the hose? It not too bad if I'm scrolling but today I had to get out a belt sander and then a router table and then the bits etc So I was running all over the shop. Thanks in advance for any help.

Just finished this one I made for a craft fair I have coming up this Easter Weekend. It's made from 4mm Birch ply and finished with 2 coats of sanding sealer and 2 coats of acrylic lacquer. Hope you like it. Keith

Here is a link to the artists website : https://larrymarley.com/index.php

Wow, that would take a realllly long time to build but it sure is cool! I showed it too my husband and told him it would be really cool to make something like that and his response was, "If you make that I wouldn't see you again....you would be in your shop forever!"

Paul your cooking isn't so awful. You made a great hamburger for Dick @heppnerguy and I when we were over last summer....I think you BBQ'd it and it was pretty darn good!

This would not be on my list. Amazing.

I only used spirals to increase the kerf of some lines after first cutting with a straight blade.

You should have that knocked out in a couple days.

I seriously think I am going to give this one a try also. After seeing the fabulous work you two do.....not sure if I am going to post mine when I finish it, but I am going to finish it. Dick heppnerguy

I love it. I am turning 84 at the end of the month and I get up a 5:30 every morning to enjoy coffee and conversation with a few old guys. I said to my wife when person I used to work with was retired and meeting up with some old fellows for coffee, " I will NEVER do that." And now I am on my 5th year having coffee with 'the guys' Your sign says it all. Dick heppnerguy

This was a special order from a man whose father and step-mother claimed the zebra as their spirit animal of sorts. Both of these people died and the man that ordered it wants to memorialize his dad and step-mom.

if you don't have enough scraps let me know. I will send you some AND then I will buy this from you.

I stack-cut these and then filled with epoxy. The green one is cut in walnut and the red one in mystery wood. My daughter claimed them when she saw them, will take them to her next week.

HI Don, here's my screen shot I'm using ver 1.0 0f Inkspace apparently that's the only version that works reasonably well on Mac Catalina 10.15.7. I'm no tech wizard and to some extent technology challenged, but in my mind there's something broke between Apple and Inkspace. This is a huge problem for me going forward in scrolling because I have to change the fill and stroke and fill to help while cutting.

Thanks Don, I will send you screen shots of what I’m doing and we can take it from there.

Loved this pattern by Grandpa so I had to cut it. Frame is double layered with Walnut and Teak.

don in brooklin, Insane dust maker's real name is also Don, and the message was for him. While playing around with the settings on Inkscape I found that if the "brightness detection" is set at zero, no live preview will show, so I was wondering about his settings.

When I realized I'd be on 02 forever I guess I figured wood dust would be an issue and purchased a Trend dust helmet. Here's a pic, or at least I think there is? This unit has a replaceable filter inside the helmet and a battery powered motor which creates positive air pressure inside. No dust gets in. It's not particularly comfortable to wear and its pretty warm so I'm sure it will be less comfortable come summer.

Can you see the screen shot above? I have live pretty view clicked. I am using the defaults. Brightness detection 4.5.

Insane Don A couple of questions: 1. do you have "live preview" selected? If so then: 2. do you get an image in the preview window? 3. what "detection mode" are you using? 4. can you give us a screen shot of your settings?

There are a lot of things that happened to the panel itself that makes it a throw-a-way. Some of the things that happend are: While trimimg the panel to its final dimensions, the saw cought the panel and put a big gouge on the back side, when lifting the pattern, the face of the panel gave up some fibers so I could not get a nice flat finish of the black, after the panel was assembled and during handling the paint surface got mared that I had to touch-up, but in real life, the touch-up is noticeable. So, I'm only being hard on myself for the lack of concentration and just stupid foul-ups that occured. The pic does not tell the whole story. I liked how it looked in the original Black/Green/White Image and was really wondered if others would like it as well, or in other words is it worth my time and effort to remake it. From comments so far I'm thinking it might be a good Idea to recut and paint it while being a lot more careful. Thanks for your nice comment.

You are too hard on yourself. Like @MarieC, I like the whole project.

Yes, I cut everything with the Scroll Saw. The wiskers were cut using a Pegas # 1 MGT R blade. Narrow long streight or curvedd parallel line cut outs are probably the hardest scroll saw cutting there is. I"ll admit the wiskers are actually a little wider than the printed pattern.

Although it is still to early for our trees and bushes to show flowers, I just got this done.

Of course the project I finished last. My Paisley Rabbitt. However, I also loved my books on the mind projects.

I like these toy cars a lot. I originally made two of each color, but some of them were gone before I thought of making a group photo.

These are two of my favorites. The floppy wood guy mostly for the reaction it got from people. Made people happy. The robin because the pattern came out in the spring and I was very happy with how it turned out. 20230629_151731.mp4

Thank you all for the welcome! Sorry it took me a while to get back here, this is a busy time (which I'm sure you all know). Update: I now have two Hawk 226VS scroll saws. I thought I got a good deal on my first one (obviously very lightly used for $275), but I found an absolute steal! A 226VS still sealed in the original box, never been opened, for $250. I don't "need" a second scroll saw, but I couldn't pass up that deal! I called Bushton this morning to find out how old the machines are and to see if parts are still available - the first one was manufactured in 1996 and the "new" one was manufactured in 2000. The lady I talked to said that I stole both of those machines at the price I paid. Both machines are fully supported, parts easily available. Here is the stand I made for the first machine. It's at a height comfortable to use while sitting, tilted forward to make scrolling less stressful on my neck & shoulders. The saw is not on a shelf, it sits in grooves (dadoes) that I routered into the top of the 2x4's. I'm planning on adding shelves or drawers in the bottom once I figure out what sizes I need. I'm going to make a stand for the second machine and bring that one in the house so I can use it when the shop is too hot (always in Texas summers) or too cold (occasionally in winter, today being one of those cold days). Again, thanks for the welcomes, info, and tips!

Should my scroll saw be a scroll saw be lubricated? I checked the manual and noting is said about lubrication. I have read here that some people say they should be lubricated with Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) some say 3in one oil. I have a WEN LL2156 21-Inch 1.6-Amp Variable Speed Parallel Arm Scroll Saw that is about 6 months old but now is making a noise that seems to be in the arm.

Hi Don, from what I can understand there are a number of issues that needs to be resolved somehow. Firstly the pattern I imported from Russ’s site into One Drive is very soft, not sharp and crisp. Microsoft in their infinete has decided that the One Drive on my Mac irunning Catalina is not compatible and removed One Drive (nice guys got a back up). The later versions of Inkspace don’t run on Catalina, so I have asked the Inkspace Forum as to which version will run on Catalina and where do I find it. I used the pattern you sent me and Trace Bitmap did not work neither did Fill and Stroke, so I’m basically back to square one. The numbers on top of the pattern I did the screen shot of was from mail, because Inkspace and Apple IOS just don’t talk to each other. But I will keep trying to figure it out, Idont know if it has to do with the import, or the pattern is not accessible, I just don’t know.

Don, that’s exactly what I want to do, as previously stated I need to help my eyes a bit and felt that if I darken the fill a bit and use a Red stroke, just slightly widened it would do the job. I have done exactly what you did only I used the posited pdf from Russ, imported in to Inkspace, highlighted the pattern, did trace bitmap, nothing happened, and I can’t adjust the fill and stoke, it’s so frustrating.

You must not have the newest version of Inkskape. When I had the last version I could pint on legal but my new version won't. It will print but only the amount that would be on a regular page.