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A custom request. The pattern is by Gayle at the Scroll Saw Cafe. I used 1/8" Baltic Birch plywood stacked two high 12" x 12". Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #0 Spiral blades. The finish is three coats Spray Lacquer Clear Satin with a light sanding between coats. Of course, framed at ArtCrafters. Comments welcome.

I know I posted these many times, but we have new members. Another "Wedding Rings" completed project. The designer is unknown. I used 1/2" Cherry. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #3 MGT blades and Pegas #1 MGT blades on the letters and numbers. Finished with two coats spray Shellac and sanding between coats. Comments welcome.

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Just finished this. It is to go with a previous one I did some time ago. I have two more I am going to try eventually. I tried some new things this time. I cut the white and removed the pattern from those pieces but left the pattern on the rest of the picture. Sprayed the white pieces. Last time, I hand-painted them. This worked well and was much easier and faster.

4 weeks until Pitchers & Catchers HAVE to report, and me and my friend can hardly wait. I saw a picture on Pintrest and took a screen shot, then made my version of my little friend, he will take up residence on a wall in my office because my desk has been declared a hazard zone and I don't know when I will get to cleaning it. We are both looking forward to #28. Thanks for looking.

Paul, that looks great excellent cutting and finish, RJ

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Hegner never made a 15" saw that I know of.

Maybe the person bought a Hegner, and put a central machinery tag on it to fool spouse into thinking it was an inexpensive purchase

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Bamboo is a material that I love for cutting when I can get it. I loved this Leopard pattern, of which I can not remember who designed it but I would love to that the author of it for making it available. The bamboo is about 3/8 thick and cuts very nicely with no fuzzies from drilling of cutting. I cut it with a #1 Pegas spiral blade because it goes so much quicker and a lot easier to do than a straight blade. I sprayed it with 3 layers of Deft semi gloss. I am constantly looking for somewhere to purchase the Bamboo wood at the size and thickness I want to use. It seems to be a little difficult to find around Phoenix but I know it has to be here waiting for me to make a purchase. I used a 1/4 inch BB Ply for the backer board. I cut this a couple of weeks ago but have not gotten around to taking a photo and posting it until now. Dick heppnerguy

I thoujght I might look into a 9 inch benchtopbandsaw and was wondering if there are any suggetsions out there., I read the menards performax is junk, the new Bauer one at Harbor frieght looks nice, but the store I went to had a display model up on a shelf above my head. Also they said they don't have the blades for it. Kinda dumb they put something up that high you can't even look at the guts or anything. So I guess I keep looking. I have heard the WEN is good. Thanks Bill

Since I began selling online, I have sold more in January than in December. I shipped four packages yesterday, and I have another order this morning. I have never seen the Christmas rush that people talk about. Although this year, I did have a large custom ornament order, that was ordered and shipped well before the "rush."

I want to make a trinket box for my granddaughter...scroll fret work her name in a nice font in walnut with a maple background for the top of the box. maybe zebra wood for box....I want to incorporate some woodworking with some fret work.....I really havent done much or any fret work...would love to try. I can print out her name julietta in a great font and on paper to glue to wood to cut, but I wanted the top to have alot of nice coutout fret work with a nice looking framework around her name not sure If IM clear...any help is greatly appreciated

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This says it's a Central Machinery but sure looks a lot like a Hegner to me.. Thoughts? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1278946467113428/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A5852bab3-2a62-4789-bc60-7a082ae2fa2f

Closer look at the photos shows paint around the edges of the I.D. tag.. clearly been painted and not a Hegner but I do believe this to be a Hegner stand and then painted saw and stand to match is my guess...

Hmm. it's not really a bad idea. But being master of my castle, I do not need to try to fool my spouse, I do what I want! Okay, honey, I am going back to my basement workshop.......

WOW! That is a puzzle. I looked several times. Look, Hegner to me, surely a Hegner stand, worth$200 these days. I think I will send it to Advance Machinery and see what they say. I can see some missing parts if it is a Hegner, but that old of a machine doen't mean it is not...

23 below here in Minnesota this morning. It’s 5 above now and we’re having a heatwave.

To start with, get something besides plywood. We all lean toward baltic birch plywood but I'll bey you are trying to use construction grade. Get some poplar and I suggest thinner than 3/4". If there is a cabinet shop near you, check with them for scraps and offcuts. As for drilling, it will be much easier to drill perpendicularly in a softer wood. Practice holding the drill as straight up and down as you can. A drill press is nice, but there will be times when you won't be able to use it, so back to the hand drill. We've all been there. It's a learning curve so just take it slow. Better wood will help a lot.

Why not just have the board cut at 1/2" instead of 1 inch to start with? I would resaw on a bandsaw first then run the boards thru my planer. A lot less waste and faster.

Even though I don't have one, a planner is the way to go.

awesome job

His naming and descriptions are terrible.

Buy a planer. The DeWalt 735 is probably the best small planer ever made.

I have been a Harbor Freight customer since they single store, and you had to order everything by mail. I have never seen this scroll saw. You can buy Central Machinery tools from other places. There are lots of them listed as new on eBay. I always thought these were people buying them cheap on sale and reselling them on eBay, but maybe not.

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yea it it looks easy to do that. Maybe he even painted it red. Maybe he had a Hegner stand and that is the reason he painted it to fool people.

Steve is quite happy to have his patterns altered. Just wants to be credited. I also altered the pattern.....or at least I had @Don in Brooklyn do it. And yes, ut can be challenging to find a pattern in his catalog.

If you should decide to purchase a printer, my advice would be a Brother inktank model. We had an HP inkjet that would go through ink cartridges at an amazing rate. I think that their business model hinges on putting a minimum of ink in the cartridge and selling it for $70. The Brother we have is inkjet but uses tanks of ink. $100 of ink lasts easily a year. That HP couldn't go that long on 1 cartridge when we didn't use it - the ink would dry out.

I just st came across some beautiful red cedar, can wait to use it.

Well it all depends on the type of project. For many scrolled projects the thickness of the material is totally subjective. You can freely make it out of any material that suits you. For others, the thickness is critical. For a 3-dimensional project that requires assembly, for example, you would need to adjust dimensions to account for different component thicknesses. Tab & slot, as mentioned above is another. Stacked ring bowls, where the rings are cut at a specific angle also have a critical relationship between the thickness and the angle of cut. All of these can be modified to use different thickness than the original pattern calls out, but that can get a little tricky and needs to be considered carefully. For plaques, word art and other types of 2-dimensional flat work, the thickness is generally totally arbitrary and a matter of personal preference.

It could be a Central but thought they were always green. But here is one in blue. The thing that is pointing to it is 15" Hegner did not make a 15" https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/353669347442055/

The third picture shows the data plate, Central Machinery i.e. Harbor Freight At first glance, sure looks like a Hegner, at least the stand.

I change the thickness quite often. Unless there is a structural component ( slot together or similar considerations ), then it is just aesthetics and you are the judge of that. Experiment on scraps with a small part of the pattern to see how it hits your ( or your SO ) eye.

Beautiful wood. Works great for red roses.

I just noticed that HF has a 14 inch band saw " Bauer " can cut 8 inch resaw, $499.00, does anyone know anything about it, Thx RJ

On newer Hegner saws, on the flywheel, there is an option to change the stroke length. The short stroke is .47" and the long stroke is .75". Recently I decided to give the short stroke a try, so far so good. After I had the tools collected, it took about 10 minutes to change over.

“This took a little longer than normal because of theshort stroke on the Hegner, but I really like the control I get using using it” question: what do you mean by the short stroke? The owls are awesome

That is some very nice,clean cutting. I see you cut in from the edge. Interesting. When I do a stack I will make an entry hole, in the waste area, then cut in. It will keep the stack together, but then I use tape.

Thanks, Marie. Yes. First I just did the scalloped circle and sea turtle. I thought of the dolphins around 8PM and I’m kind of obsessive compulsive so I went out to the shop and added them before bedtime. The turtle and dolphins were images I found on Google.

Timberwolf blades are very good. Lennox is another good brand.

Last year I started, in earnest, my Intarsia journey. These are a couple that I was particularly proud of. The Pelican was a pattern by JGR and one of the PAM projects. I found out I won that month a few days before Judy passed. The duck was a custom design, by me, for my baby sister's 60th birthday. The bouys and koi just "spoke" to me. The hummingbird was a prize from Steven Shears. He said it was an unpublished pattern and I was the first to cut it.

I have a Rikon and I agree, it’s been a great saw for my uses.

I don't have any personal experience with the smaller bandsaws other than years ago I had a Skill 9" bandsaw and that thing was a workhorse with the timberwolf blades.. None of the blades from the local stores was worth a darn on that saw.. nor on my 14" bandsaw that I have now.. so I say make sure to get good blades and most bandsaws would probably work well for most hobby work. I have read a lot of positives on the Rikon 10" over the years.. that saw was pretty new on the market when I was searching for my first bandsaw but I just didn't have the funds for it and run up on the used Skill at a great price so that is what I bought. Just too small for many of the things I wanted to make.

Rikon 10" Best on the market. get what you pay for.