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Meet Mr. & Mrs. frosty.....something I dreamed up this morning....Mr. is 4ft & Mrs. is 42". made from a 8ft 1x6.....parts were made from scrap wood, Mrs. glasses were made from soft steel wire. Comments are always welcomed. Ty. God Bless Dan

Barn and fence - I just finished cutting this scroll saw wood-art piece today. Lots of hours in this one.

Om a FB group for Intarsia they have a pattern of the month for everyone to do. October was a funky owl by Steve Shears. I did the owl but put a spin on the backer. Mounted it to a 15" round and added a quote by John Muir The letters are ½ high and ⅛ thick, and cut from Bolivian Rosewood.

I obtained a ‘Limitless Lines Design’ Stained-Glass Pattern from Etsy that I thought would be easy to convert to a suitable Intarsia project pattern. The Heron is an almost a direct copy, but I modified the background significantly to work better in wood. In doing so, I messed up the perspective somewhat by lowering the land on the far side of the water. This was not obvious to me until the project was nearly complete. I’ll live with it as is, but I have already corrected the pattern, to be more in keeping with the original pattern, that I will share in Pattern Exchange. Woods used include Premium Pine, Blue Pine, Yellowheart, Cherry, Walnut, Aspen, Black Limba, and some 4/4” thick Sapele for the fixed Frame. The Cherry I used for the Water was too close in color to the Pink toned Pine I used for the Sky, so I enhanced the color with some Blue/Green dye. The Grey and Light-colored areas of the Blue Pine worked well for most of the Heron itself, but I had to darken a few areas using some very diluted Black dye. The Eye was painted with White and Black acrylic paint. Currently, my wood selection is limited, therefore so are my choices since I would have really preferred to use a different wood for the Sky. The approximate 80 pieces of this project was quite a challenge to cut and assemble. After all the pieces were cut, shaped, textured and sanded - knowing I was going to frame the panel - I first assembled the background, within a rectangular jig sized to the finish panel size, onto a 1/8” thick BB Ply Backer. The Blue Pine is only a scant 5/8” thick and I wanted the Heron to sit proud of the background, so I cut a 1/4“thick shim to fit the remaining area and then I fit the Heron into the area. The many small pieces of the Heron’s body proved impossible to assemble, one by one, into the open area. I was forced to use CA to edge-glue the pieces together and fit into the open area as one piece. Being very careful to fit the pieces together accurately, this worked out well. The 1” wide Sapele was rabbeted 1/4" to produce a 3/4" wide border Frame. The rails were mitered and cut accurately for a tight-neat fit around the glued-in panel. The completed Assembly was finished with multiple coats of rattle-can Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish spray with light sanding/buffing in between coats. Comments and critiques allways welcome.

How about with cordless tools, takes energy to charge a battery, which use less energy, charging or using a corded tool, RJ

I don't think my Pegas Scroll saw can cut rock!!!! But I have seen someone hereon make stream rocks out of wood.

These are all based on patterns I bought from Fiona Kingdon, with a few liberties taken and changes made for individual uses. The common denominator is that I did recessed cuts allowing the inner ring to slip forward 1/4” to allow the stained glass panels to fit enclosed behind the scroll work. The “Entwined Lovers” were all wedding/engagement presents.

Hi all I made this for my girlfriends mum 80th birthday she loves W&G

After cutting this I sat on my front porch and got still and quiet. My favorite squirrel got within a few feet from me. I can tell him apart because he's more brown than gray and has a skinnier tail. Lots of good things happen when we take the time to be still.

Every now and then I do a project that makes me smile and I enjoy. This one has been on my list for a few years ( I worked at Disney World back in the 80's). Finally had a week free to make it. It'll go on the wall next to Donkey Kong. Chris

In the early days of cordless tools it was pretty simple, now, not so much. In a shop corded rules. If you're working a job site without power (yet) then the cordless is pretty much the option (generators bring their own set of issues). If you have integrated your cordless tools with your emergency preparedness plan, then it gets even more complicated. The accessories available now that use cordless tool batteries for emergencies are many and varied; radios, USB power ports, 110 inverters, flashlights, etc. The one I want isn't available, yet; a plug and play 6 port charger with integrated inverter to charge the batteries and in the even of a power outage, switch off the line power and switch on the inverter. I have a small Universal Power Source that does just that, I use it to keep my Internet router and modem powered during power outages. I only want enough power to keep my (gas) furnace running during winter blackouts.

Just another example of technology that is intended for convivence and more ease of use. But it too has created problems which is in the battery end as far as disposal and wearing down. Yes recharging has its place in total power consumption numbers

Very nice, RJ

This video shows how it works and some things he didn't like which I have never had any problems with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbgVJng7gy4

So U was think of new stuff to do. Got curious about my purple heart ribbon failure. See above link. I just tried cutting the same piece of board stackup. My previous saw was porter cable entry level. I just tried my hawk 226 with a #5 mgt. It work so well. Sure it took a bit of time but it was not frustrating. My cut was 6 inches and took less than 20 min. I think a super skip should work also. I was fighting the upstroke a bit more than usual. Well I can put 1" purple heart into a can do category. I just will make sure I have lots of pegas blades on hand.

Led has definitely helped save energy on the back end. But did they factor in the making of the components. Changing filament and fluorescent lighting is much simpler than installation of solar panels and making of electric cars. No argument there that LED lighting saves energy. It also gives the user many more choices as to where to use and colors and things like that. Fixtures are so much more compact. This technology is still changing though. Went from the curly bulbs to the almost same configuration bulbs as we all grew to know. You see now alot of the what is basically called Jacob Ladder light bulbs or science fiction looking bulbs with the gold filaments. But there are so many other designs too. Compact electronics will continue to save energy. We see it in many things. Nano technology is the future as well as the present.

So I was curious about did LED technology actually help save energy. So I looked up CAISO California Independent organization. I looked at energy used every year. Notice 2011 thru 2014. The line almost flattened out. So that was just California. My opinion is it helped.

We need an "Ah Shucks " thank you reply button at the bottom for some of these toooooo nice comments!!!!

Beautiful!

I got the coffin pattern form Alex Fox and the jack-o-lanterns I got from here last year and made some changes

A wonderful project and cutting. Is that your pattern?

Boy, I can see lots of hours on this. Takes me back to my younger years and growing up on the farm. Very nice Kris, very nice. Jerry