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My wife's niece from Germany comes to visit every spring in conjunction with a Pharma convention in Chicago. She is a private pilot and also a Lufthansa Nut! I made a JU-52 plaque for her a few years ago and decided to try something bigger. DO-X Was the largest and heaviest aircraft of the time in 1929 and could hold over 100 passengers and did fly from Europe to NY. The cabin was very luxurious to include smoking rooms, dinning room and sleep cabins. It had 12 counter facing engines. Even with 12 engines, it was considered under powered. It had a short operational life, being retired in 1937. I have included a short YouTube Link. Lots more on Wikkipedia. Plaque is 1/8" BBPW and 1/4 PW backer painted black.

Wow, well everyone is intitled to there opoinion, but Kevin I don't feel you are a fraud, you are just enhancing your project, RJ

Almost a year ago I made 50 patterns: state symbols with borders for each state. Now I cut one of them - Ohio: 4 layers (3+background) 1/8 inch, project size is about 7,5 x 8 inches Video of making Ohio US state patterns

This project started in a reverse order to the usual format. This beautiful piece of mahogany was given to me by a friend. It was 13' x 10" x 1 3/8" thick. I was thinking of various subjects when I decided to check out the patterns in the Scrollsaw Village Patterns Section. When I saw the fantastic "Maltese Puppy" by superb pattern designer, Jim Blume, I knew this would work very well for this project. The wood was sanded, the edges were routed, and the pattern was attached with 3M spray adhesive. Pilot holes were drilled and the scroll work was completed with spiral blades. The carving was completed using a Foredom Rotary Power Carver and the fur was produced with multiple passes with the top edges of three different sizes of columnar bits. The puppy was colored with Minwax Polycrylic Finish and artist acrylic paints. The background was finished with multiple coats of polyurethane finish. Thank you Jim, for the beautiful design of this pattern. Dick

This is why I advertise the stuff as laser engrave / cut and hand painted.. nowhere do I say it's handmade so get off the high horse JT. When someone ask for personalization I tell them I can "laser engrave" the names or "CNC router" that so they "know" it's not going to be hand cut.. IF they want 100% handmade I offer that too.. however it's gotta be completely made from scratch from pattern to finished product and 30 days out before I can mail it.. most either go for the quicker cheaper option.. some do not.. doesn't matter to me either way I'm going to make my money doing it or not.. if not then that next person / job is paying my way.. I don't try to scam anyone out of money.. they know what they are getting if they even care.. majority don't seem to really care about how it's made.. they just want that personalized gift that you're not going to find at Walmart.. Furthermore are you selling fraud products then? as I recall you "paid someone" to 3D print you a angel to enhance a pen you turned.. at least I'm doing "all the work myself"!!! Or is it okay for some to use these tools and not others? Just curious.. Handmade is an opinionated term anyway.. some of the oldtimers before you was probably mad because you had a electric powered scroll saw and they was trying to compete with a coping saw.. Things evolve and that is a good thing..otherwise we'd still be using outhouses and having to carry water from the local stream.. some people just can't accept change and that is okay.. no reason to be so bitter about it though.. I'd much rather scroll all my items but without the Laser and CNC I'd likely be out of business just like you.. these machines help with personalizations and doing things the scroll saws can't.. I find it truly funny how there is such a double standard.. Truly handmade should include you hand draw the design rather than purchasing a computer generated pattern too.. where does one draw that line? It's all "opinions anyway" you have yours and everyone else has theirs.. You always seem like you have some sort of beef with me. You and many others stated your opinions.. I stated mine and then get called out.. I never mentioned your name in my post.. just my opinion.. No need to run way again as I'm not on here much anymore anyway as I'm over on the Laser / CNC sights more now because I'm doing more of that stuff now.. you stay here as I'll leave this time.. as I don't belong here with my fraud selling laser and CNC products anyway.... sometimes you just gotta laugh at this stupid double standards that people have.

Say what you want Kevin and you are entitled to your opinion as well as I but If you call anything handmade and use a laser for any part of that project you are a fraud and that includes doing lettering or whatever. To me hate is not too strong of a word. I grew up fighting these blasted things when I first started and now they just get worse. I see things like this all the time and now 3D machines are invading the pen blank making world and it is the same thing happening. People call that handmade too and it is a fraud. It just gives us true craftspeople a hard time to compete. I am glad I am too old to be selling any more and let you and others go at it. Yes I hold a grudge. You will never understand because you do not do craft shows. You can not say they are just like a router or a lathe by no means. When you hit a button and a finished product comes out how is that like using a router or a lathe?? You using them to add lettering and things is just one step away from doing entire project. maybe you have to learn more programming skills but you are right there. AI is on your doorstep and you will not even have to be in the shop any more. But still call it hand made but just not your hands made it. Good luck. I am not telling you do not use them or any other tool but now I took offense to your reply and just stating my opinion too. When all us "oldtimers" die off and some other fandangle machine comes along and then you and your laser will be in the same boat and you will be doing the bickering. There are many example of how lazy people have gotten over the years because of innovations. Take the IPhone as an example. Today kids can not do simple math or write a sentence without the help of that phone.

From someone that has a laser and uses it a lot.. I agree it was done on a laser.. I don't hate lasers nor the people that use them as hate is a pretty strong word.. I like lasers as they have a place in the woodwork and many other mediums and crafts. I do dislike the folks that use them and paun the products off as handmade.. Lasers can and do enhance scrolled work as well as many other types of work.. pretty hard to engrave with a scroll saw, LOL.. It's nice to take an existing scrolled product that is already made and be able to personalize it for an "upcharge" for those in the crafts selling scene. Many lasered products do look cheap, but that is just opinion and many people out there like the product at the price point they are offered at so people continue to make cheap looking items and try to compete with the cheap imported products you see at the box stores.. Just because it's a laser product doesn't mean it has to be cheap product.. there are people doing high end stuff with lasers, however the majority seem to make cheap crap with them. At the end of the day they are just another tool to add to and enhance my scrolled products much like any other tool such as routers and lathes.. Most the people that hate or dislike lasers only hate or dislike them because the people that started out using them years ago did paun off the stuff as handmade and they used the patterns and designs that was originally designed for handmade scrolled products.. Most nowadays don't know a darn thing about them and it's really easy to hand down that hate / dislike and give lasers a bad name and review when you've never set your hands on one and used it.. Like word of mouth goes on for years from oldtimers because of something that happened 40 years ago..

I did not know that book was a link you can click on. Yes that is all laser cut . there are companies on FB that sell all kinds of items that are laser cut. They look so cheap. Just my opinion Ray so do not yell at me. I hate lasers.

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A family member (25F) is getting married in August and wanted something to honor deceased grandparents and others. Steve Good had a pattern for doll furniture that I reworked to make a flat seat. Forstner bit to make shallow candle holder and a friend lasered five names for me. Not sure how they will be displayed--individually or as a group.

Very nice adaption and mighty fine cutting.

Normally I would have put this into the "Other Woodwork" but I did do some scrolling on this project. I I did the cutout for the 2 draws in the front and the funiture feet also. My wife said she had enough black Jewelry boxes and wanted to try and paint a pattern on white. The frame is 1/2" poplar. I've made enough of these that it went pretty quick. I used my I-Box jig to cut the sides. I did cut out the draw dividing piece in case one of the draws got stuck. Steam bended the top with 1/8" BBPW and used Titebond III to glue it down to the top. I always build a second joint box section for the top. Mark out the radius on the ends and cut the correct angle on the front and back on the scroll saw, then assemble and glue the pieces. I used this to clamp (many clamps) to connect it all together. Lots of spray white paint and my wife used her one stroke painting technique on the top and inside of top. Back to regular scrolling for my next project.

My advice, if you want one then get one. Fir me, the time is here where waiting a few years is not a good idea. I just want to make me happy.