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I made this for my granddaughter's 7th brithday. Her favourite animal is the Panda bear.

I can see many ingenious ways to release that pin without reaching. A cable with pulleys comes to mind.

I posted pics recently of Willie Nelson. Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. I got around to Kris Kristofferson thanks to a Dearing pattern. This one took a minute to cut.

I just realized that I hadn’t put up the Willie Nelson I had done before.

In re; sinus/allergy issues. I feel your pain. I've had to start wearing a mask with OV cartridges to avoid issues. I have a 20" box fan to the side of the scroll saw with a 5" furnace filter and a 1" activated charcoal filter, I never shut the fan off, so it's constantly cleaning the air. I had to adjust my ear muffs so they didn't put as much pressure on my temples.

I had the same type of vertigo. The test for it is very simple; sit on the edge of a bed, turn your head to one side, lay back quickly. Instant vertigo if this is the problem. Repeat for the other side. No vertigo? Then it's not this particular issue. Vertigo? Then some simple exercises to start, cured mine in under 2 weeks, your results may very.

Kevin I had vertigo and a good therapist and believe it or not You Tube helped me a lot. Prior to seeing the therapist I did some exercises for this at home based on the you tube. When I went to see him I had been cured. So don't despair with vertigo, it is treatable.

Looks like a really decent saw for the money... I couldn't deal with that pin to hold the arm up.. maybe a easy solution is a block of wood that holds it up just high enough to not put the arm in that lock position.. Look forward to hearing your thoughts after you put a few miles on it..

Are you using a foot switch? If so could that account for the jerk?

Had a chance to explore this saw a bit more. The tilt gage has a pin set for 90 degrees, as you can see in the pic it was off a bit, so I did a minor adjustment to the gage and now it's dead on. A couple of more videos. One is the start up, a bit of a "clunk" when the peddle is pressed, not sure how this will play our over time. The other is the pin at the back of the saw, kind of a neat feature as it pops in place when the arm is raised to hold the arm up, only problem is its a bit of a reach (33 inches from the front of the saw) to release. After a month or so I'll do a proper review in the review section. 20241015_142807.mp4 20241015_142917.mp4

First let me say that, we...here on the East Coast of Central Florida..., weathered huricane Milton with all being OK. Never lost power, no damage other than a lot of rake-up branches and leaves from neighboring trees. Others here in Florida did not fare as well and I know a number of our SSV members may be amoung them. Our thoughts, prayers, and best wishes for a quick recovery, go out to all who may have been affected. Now to the post! This project was completed over the past week while waiting for Milton to arrive. I purchased a digital download (JPG) of a printable cartoon clipart wall décor of a Cute Turtle off ETSY. I imported the image into Inkscape and converted it into a scrollable segmentation 12” x 10” pattern. The conversion was mainly a manual trace. The Inkscape 'trace bitmap' command realy does not work well to produce this kind of pattern. This piece is also for my Lady’s soon-to-be Grandson. I used nominal 3/4" x 12” wide premium pine and cut the pattern with Pegas #1 MGT R blades. I used Intarsia techniques to shape the pieces and after painting, the pieces were mounted on a 1/8” thick BB ply backer with the edges painted black. Painting was done using my Air Brush with Artist Acrylic Air brush paints with some detail brush work. I’m still not able to do very fine detailing with the Air Brush. The painted and assembled piece was protected with multiple coats of a Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish spray. Comments and critiques are always welcome.

Didn't he do a lot of Intarsia and also made that beautiful baby high chair a couple of years ago?

50 minutes ago, Mike Crosa said: Kevin I had vertigo and a good therapist and believe it or not You Tube helped me a lot. Prior to seeing the therapist I did some exercises for this at home based on the youtube. When I went to see him I had been cured. So don't despair with vertigo, it is treatable. My wife did the same. An easy procedure that stopped the vertigo.

I retired as Vice President of a manufacturing company. I outsourced a number of our products to offshore manufacturing. There were 3 choices: 1. Chinese Manufacturing, 2. Taiwan Manufacturing, 3. Taiwan managed Chinese manufacturing. The 3rd option was the best blend of quality and low cost manufacturing. Without the Taiwanese oversight, inferior parts were inserted into the assembly and shortcuts occurred. Without constant vigilance, the product you got yesterday was not necessarily the product you'll get tomorrow.

Is the table rack and pinion?

Thanks for that correction. When I posted, I just went to the magazines article index and saw Janette's name there.

She did but I think she liked the candy even more lol, the other grandkids let me know their favourite animals though

He was and is truly an inspiration! Thanks for letting us know.

I preparation for a class I am doing on Compound cutting I modified Steve Good bird house by adding a stand. I also modified so I that you have don't have to trap after cutting the first side. (see picture below for another sample) Cut with poplar. Bird unknown.

I fully understand.

One additional correction; the design was cut by Janet, but designed by Lucille Crabtree. Janette stated that Lucille entrusted her pattern collection to her (Janette) so that it would continue to be available for years to come.

This time, it's bats in a bottle.

That is end grain on plywood. It is swelling the grain because of the water based paint. Sealing it as suggested is probably a way out. Or use hard woods. Sande plywood is not the best plywood on the market. The top surface is fine but end grain will expand when wet.

Most interior paints are latex (water-based). The water is probably swelling the wood fibers in the end grain layers of the plywood. You could try sealing the edges with a shellac or sanding sealer before painting. I'm not sure if it will help, but it's worth a try.

Curious George! Check for coloring books and children’s books about Curious George.

And this is why I make toys. I make them... box up a bunch... and give them away to police, fire, and hospitals to give to children in need. I just delivered 125 toys to an organization that helps kids with cancer. You can make artwork for organizations, give it away so they do fund raisers it is an item people could "bid" on.

You better stack them with spacers and apply a heavy load on top of the stack to keep them flat while drying or you will have a pile of useless curled up and cracked pieces. No need to plane untill they are dry. 7% on a moisture meter is your goal. Will likely take a year or two.

I had about 60bdft of spalted maple given to me about 13 years ago.. I love it as it's beautiful wood but at the same time it isn't all that great for the type of scroll projects I make because the dark spots in it distract from the actual cutting itself and in some cases it is hard to tell the difference from the actual cutting and the colors of the wood until you get up close to it.. from a distance it all blends together I guess is what I'm saying. I still have about 30bdft of it I think, LOL.. beautiful for certain projects that IMO are not scroll sawn..

Good a lot of us have those lights. Good to make sure they are not where the sunlight will hit them. Thanks for the reminder.

I done the aquarium pump it worked well but the vac system is best. Scroll saw dust can be as fine as like flour. That is the stuff that really effects my COPD

I used an aquarium air pump on an AMT scroll saw for years. They are cheap and last for years.

I got done a few more items for my friend that has been keeping me busy. The father's day plaque is by Terence Thomas. And the other ones I designed Thanks for looking and be safe Mimi

I've noticed that GrandpaJim hasn't logged in here in a few months.. He sold his crafts on Etsy and Go Imagine websites and had shut his stores down too. So I got to looking him up and sadly found his obituary. He passed on July 3rd. RIP Jim https://www.schmidtfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Frank-Jim-Mikul?obId=32256215

box elder can be absolutely beautiful freshly cut. blink and the color can be gone