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Finished this beautiful Russ Beard pattern, double stacked on 1/8” Baltic Birch Plywood, cut with Niqua #0 Pin Less Straight blades, needs to be Oiled and a framed. This will be my last cutting for a while I have run out of blades. It is what it is, circumstances.

Suffered an eye injury ~3 weeks ago. Debris blew up under my glasses when mulching on my 42" deck tractor mower deck. I have been pretty much blind in my left eye, due to corneal injury over the pupil area. It was like looking through a glass with thick petroleum jelly on it and darkened. The whole eye was bloody red. Quite a bit of pain came alongside that for well over a week. I was prescribed an ointment for my eye 3x/day and steroid drops 2x/day. I had my 3rd follow-up with my eye Doc today (went to urgent care when I was injured). My eye has finally superficially healed on the surface (that's good), and also improved 4 steps on the eye test this last week. Pressure also moved in the right direction. She was pleased that I turned the corner as she was concerned last week at the slow healing. Now comes the continued under-the-surface healing so we wait. Scheduled an appointment to be back in a month. No more steroids in the eye, however, the ointment is only 1x/day now... When I got home this morning after the appointment, I tried some scroll sawing I actually could see my lines! FINALLY!!! cut the remaining pieces and rattle can finished my 4-layer Memorial Day pieces, which I could not work on while I was blind. Gun, dog tags, boots, & helmet. When I tried working on it when I was first injured it was a major struggle and had to quit for a few weeks, did an hour on Sunday during my YT live stream, but that was a struggle... now it feels like I am almost back to normal. Not fun being blind in my eye, thankful, it was temporary. Ran out of black paint on one piece so I did not speckle it the way I wanted. Getting more tomorrow.

Found my noise. When I hold the machine down tightly, the noise goes away. I built a new bench and I think the normal vibrations of the machine are amplified by the empty and hollow bench. I think I should think of putting rubber pads under the machine and bolting it down will do the job. I made the top of the bench attached with a hinge so that i could adjust the saws slant. I used a large door hinge because that is what I had. I'm going to change that to a piano hinge before I bolt bolt the saw down. Also as stated " the manual says all bearing are sealed and do not need lubrication". Thanks for all the great help!

I have been using my local UPS store to enlarge and clean up my patterns and the manager, Chase, has been very helpful. Told him I would cut a car for him. He has a Jeep Wrangler Sport and loves to drive it on Folly beach in SC near Charleston. All the hardware on the front and the treads on the tires were the hardest part to cut. The rest is mostly straight lines. I did the "Paint-in" method on the tires and around the windows. I'll give it to him tomorrow when I drop off some packages for my wife. BTW, I tried to buy a Jeep pattern from H. Botas and even emailed him and looks like he has stopped selling them. He mentioned about going through some changes? on Facebook.

I am so excited, It has arrived, Ryobi now goes into the cupboard lol. I just had my brand new Carbatec 2 arm Scroll Saw arrive. Now for a lot of learning ahead of me. Not really sure were to start as now I can use so many different blade types. But that is so confusing to me what ones to use for on what type of woods and diff thickness of woods. I want to learn how to do fret work eventually as I havnt been scrolling for that long. Lots of different number blades its like going through the alphabet lol Can anyone help me with this or give me a bit of a idea on were to start and what sort of thing to start on with trying to learn to do fret work or any type of detailed work eg portraits, 3D Shadow light boxes. What would be the best thing for me to start doing?

Steve Good Pattern, still need to clean up and fix the S and stain. Made for Hubby. He loves his coffee.

My dad was a Baptist minister. 50ish years ago he brought a discarded upright piano home from the country church he was pastoring and refurbished it. It stayed in my mom and dad's home till they passed away. Then my sister had it for awhile, but it's been stored in a garage for years now. My sister saw something similar to these somewhere and asked me if i could make her one of the key holders. I made her and her daughter the key holders and my son and daughter-in-law the one that says, "Love is the key." All the materials except for the text and the hangers came from the old piano. The little brass buttons are part of the key/hammer mechanism of the piano, called capstans. Felt like my dad was smiling while I worked on them. The chips on the keys were done by my mischievous son and nephew with a toy hammer. Maw Maw wasn't happy.

I made wood-art pieces for a California friend of his beach house and the coast at Dillon's Beach.

Very well done. Now to go have coffee and a cinnamon roll.

Thank you.

That is one heck of a awesome job. A lot of time in that one!!!

Excellent work!

Thank you, a challenging cut but most enjoyable.

Thank you, your comment is truly appreciated.

Thank you, for your comment, it’s truly appreciated.

Thank you, your comments are appreciated.

Nice work on your pieces... especially with a bum eye. Glad you're on the mend.

Nice job, Denny. I'm also looking forward to seeing your cuttings of the tiny bird houses I saw you post that you were going to start.

Wow that sounds so painful, so glad it wasn't worse then it was. Sounds like you are healing well, hope it continues. Your pieces look wonderful.

Sorry about the eye injury but glad it is healing well.

Nice, RJ

Scenery piece that I just finished.

AWESOME-NESS! I was raised on a WWII war surplus jeep my Dad purchased for like $600. What I learned to drive in at 10 years old. It was our hunting rig, tractor and Dad's to and from work driver. And became a pretty good pick'em up, short race drag car in my freshman year of high school. I rolled my car. Dad said I could use the jeep. He had put a V-8 in it a few years before.. I cleaned it up. My brother painted it for me when he was in Auto shop a nice metallic gray. His girlfriend's mom re-did he seats for me in a nice red Naugahyde. I could beat any other friend's car through a stoplight. And got flagged down many time by girls wanting a ride. It was great time. Not real good for parking.. no back seat... front seats were pretty far apart. We had it until after I went into the service. Then Dad sold it.. all those years of fun with it and sold for $1600 with many miles on it. Later in life I bought a '68 CJ-7 Had it many years.. wish I had not sold it. Many times hunting Jack rabbits, friend sitting on the front fender and on top with .22s driving out across the sagebrush shooting the many many jack rabbits there was back then... No SIR! I would not change my life for any the modern day youth has.. they can have all their fancy things computer games, etc. I would not trade them for a minute. I loved my life as a kid living out in the country.. Hunting, fishing, free to do most anything outside of the city limits. Floating down the river on homemade rafts, going hunting with .22s any time. I do not think kids today really know what freedom is. I feel so sorry for them. The jeep got me excited and carried away. I shut-up now.

Nicely done Charlie and what a great remembrance of your dad to be enjoyed by members of the family. To use parts of the piano for making is wonderful. Everyone gets a piece. Again Charlie, nicely done. Jerry

I totally love it.

Great idea! Awesome.

very nice keyboards.

That is a beautiful and tranquil scene. I feel relaxed just looking at it. Great craftsmanship and I like how the grain of the wood plays into the scene.

Billy Joe is playing in my head…

Beautiful craftsmanship, RJ

Beautiful work, RJ

Move to NJ we have many lumber mills that you can buy 12" boards. I am just saying this would make a easy project for pattern makers to design. It would look cool. Glue boards together or buy some tools is all I can say. Having to buy woods milled already has to be a pain. and expensive. Glad I have an entire woodworking shop. What do they say, where there is a will there is a way. Life throws many obstacles at us each and everyday.

I don't remember where I downloaded this from, but I think it's pretty unique with the dancers incorporated in the tree.

Sasho contributed the pattern for this to our library about a year ago. To me, it's both sad and happy at the same it. I immediately cut it, but only this week got around to framing 'Life' and it now hangs over my desk. The foreground, the background, and the frame are all quarter-sawn white oak.

Thank you yes I think it is either a Hegner or Excalibur, but over here in Western Australia they had to change the name and do couple of alterations like change the power plug to Australian and change the colour and they chose blue and 2 arm machine. I think they had to do these alterations so it can be sold in Australia and made over here so it is ready and available to us.

There’s two problems we have only one importer and his run out of stock and can’t say when his new stock will arrive. The scroll saw community is not very big here so he only orders blades once a year. The other is financial circumstances.