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Finished another 4 hearts. Received the pattern last year for Christmas and cut two then. Had a request for another one. 4 layers of 1/8 bb ply, cut with #3 MG blade. Finish is Danish oil, (fruitwood colour) and tung oil.

This BD gift is a.bit of intarsia.

Solid 3/4" oak cut with several blades to try then on thick oak. From #5 -#12's.started last night and finished this morning. This is the best of all the ones I,ve cut! Practise makes perfect!!!

I’ve mentioned before that my workshop is a small 8’ x 12’ Resin Suncast shed purchased from Lowes. I also have a previously installed 7’ x 10’ Resin Suncast shed that is for my garden equipment. The back of my workshop shed is about six inches from the side of the garden equipment shed. Sawdust control has become a problem in the work shop. I only have 4 machines in my shed. Between my scroll saw, router, sander and table saw I have been generating way tooooo much sawdust and it was getting impossible just to sweep to keep the shop clean. My small shop vacuum was filling up the bag quickly and was not very practical to get in and around the equipment stations and work bench. A dust collection system seemed to be a necessary investment. Since my shop is small there was no room to install a dust collector inside the shop, so I decided that I would look for a system I could install in the garden equipment shed and run the collection piping and a remote switch through the walls into the workshop. Locating the Dust Collector remotely in the garden equipment shed reduces the noise of the loud dust collector in the workshop. I also did not want to spend a lot of money for a system, so after some Google searches and a lot of research, I decided to purchase a Woodstock International Shop Fox model W1727 1 HP Dust Collector that was recommended for 3 machines for about $450. Since my shop is so small I figured it would be good for my 4 machines and a drag around hose.. Four inch diameter hose was used to connect the Shop Fox through the walls into the workshop where the interconnection hoses was reduced to 2 1/2” diameter throughout the workshop. This is the hose between the sheds wrapped with foil sided tape for protection. The switch wire also under the tape wrap. This is the tansition from 4" to 2 1/2" inside the workshop. m I removed the On/Off switch that came mounted on the Shop Fox motor and relocated the switch to inside the Workshop. A twist lock male plug was installed in the gem box on the motor where the switch was and a female plug attached to the wire coming from the relocated switch. This prevents the connection from becoming dislarged due to vibration. There is a blast door at each machine so only one inlet at a time will be operated when the machine is operated. I also added a fifth blast door for a 1 1/4” dia. drag around hose for shop cleanup of sawdust generated by portable tools like palm sanders,Dremel carving tools and trim routers. This is to the back of the disk/belt sander. This is the connection to my router table. There is also a lower inlet in the back from the box below that cannot be seen. This is the connection to the back of my contracto table saw. This is the connection to the Pegas and the drag around hose. I made a collection box for under the Pegas table. Although I have not used the system for actual machine operations yet, I have tested the system and it seems to be working just as exspected. Plenty of suction and the Dust Collector can be barely heard. The air flow at an inlet is louder that the sound of the remotely located motor. Not sure if I will run it continuously while scrolling. Might turn it on when dust and pieces collect in the box below the table. The hoses, fittings (i.e.; Tee, Wyes, Blast Gates), hose clamps (lots of hose clamps) and hose mountings added about another $250 to the cost of the system. It took about 16 hours over three days to install the complete system. Hope this was not too boring and possible useful information for any one consdidering a small dust collector system. EDIT 1/14/21: There is a tour of my shop in a reply to Ken toward the bottom of this post.

The world lost a lot of future good music when 30 year old Jim Croce's plane went down in 1973. He wrote and sang Time In A Bottle, Operator, I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Don't Mess Around With Jim and many others. "You can keep the dime."

I got a message this AM that SSV was offline. There must have been a hiccup in the licensing key for the software. I did a refresh and things seemed to have popped back. If it happens again, feel free to email me at travis[at]scrollsawvillage.com. I'm not on the website all day, so an alert like that is very helpful. Hopefully it won't happen again.

I just cut this. I found a piece of wood with grain that looked just right. I want to donate this to a local charity to sell. Those of you who sell your work, please tell me what price you would ask for this.

An Alex Fox pattern. I've seen this cut and displayed numerous times and have always admired the pattern. 11X14, 1/8" laminated BB, #2 Pike blade. 363 Holes and 8 and 3/4 hours saw time plus drilling and misc. time.

Nice work Frank.

There are a whole slew of home air coolers using styrofoam ice chest, and 5 gallon buckets. Basic design is a bucket of ice water with salt. Put a coil of hose or small cooper pipe in the bucket, add a mini pump. Take the rest of the coil and put it in front of a fan. Water is circulated in the closes loop hose coil, pumped between the cold ice and in front of the fan. See this used for broken car air conditioners, personal coolers and room coolers. Size can vary from mini to major tank size and scrape parts can help on cost. RJF

Wonderful design, well thought out. One area to keep an eye on are any 90 degree bends in the hose. It slows the air flow and can be a collection point for any wood chips. Any plumbers on this board can chime in' I'm using theories of drainage design. I believe the sewage plumbing has several low degree elbows worked in rather then a 90 degree bend. RJF

Scrollers are going to be falling out of their chairs restocking materials. RJF

Nice shop!

A nice solution! Lots of great and clever ideas. Where do you live that working in a garden shed is doable without freezing?

Thank you Frank. Very nicely done and documented. I need to do something for my shop and you have given me ideas to think about. My workshop and garden tool storage are combined in one 16' x 16' shed. So I do not have the option to locate the noisy part separately and must pay attention to the sound level.

Not boring at all Frank. It’s great that you were able to fix the dust collector out of your work space. Nice job and nice saw! I have a Pegas on order.

That $0.10 can might be able to turn into a $20 item with about 15 hours of work designing a pattern and sawing up the said design.. Gosh that seems like a better deal than buying wood.. Sounds like a great bargain for those that only care to cover your cost and replenish your cutting medium.. This way you're replenishing your beverage and scroll sawing materials..

I knew I needed to find a different outlet for my enjoyment in woodworking, so bought the Wen. My first was really bad. I knew nothing about how to cut. Hadn't even watched Steve Good's intro series. Pinned blade that came from with the saw. Discovered later that it was a #9. I've since upgraded to a Delta and have a bit more understanding of blades and how to cut. My latest completed project. I have a 4-5 other not puzzles in various stages of completion. I like the puzzles because I can finish in a a of hours. I suffer senior onset attention deficit disorder.

Well the Craft Show was this last weekend. Saturday is Always the biggest crowd. Sunday its only just after Church is over. Not as many.... So total after Paying back the Booth Fee I made a Grant total of $483.00. YeePeeYea.... :+} Was a little lower than the Normal from years gone by, but I am Always Thankful and we Always enjoy our time dealing with the Customers. ............... I forgot to snap pictures BEFORE THINGS GOT UNDER WAY and only remembered in the Afternoon. Its against Policy to take any Pictures during the show times. So I noticed a gal snapping pics of our table and asked Politely if she would snap some pis and Email them to me. She Happily said she would. Here are some of Her pics. Not excited about the Clarity, but will have to do. By the time I asked her I had pretty well sold Lots.... Thanks for being here....Danny :+}

With the encouragement of my wife, it really didn't take much urging to give these little guys a try - both of us really enjoyed looking at everyone else's take on these plans and they really served as the initial motivation to give them a try. A couple of the details on these guys: The pattern was reduced in size - I forget exactly how much but I think about 75% (maybe 80%?) of the original size. The wood used is walnut (backing and suit), bloodwood (hat), padauk (nose), canary (bear, moustache), wenge (belt, boots). Finishing is Minwax Polyurethane Semi-Gloss - 4 coats. We're both pretty pleased with how they turned out but in reality they are still a work in progress - and will be for a while - the plans call for a small oval stand for them to be glued to but between the two of us we came up with a few different ideas - most of which will have to wait until the snow is gone ...... mount them on: skipping stones from the lake, polished agate stones from one of the mines around here, driftwood from the lake and finally some small pieces of burl that are in my own wood supply. In the pictures below I have them sitting on unfinished pieces of burl - they look pretty bland at the moment but this burl finishes up and polishes out to show off quite a spectacular grain. At least at this point it looks like there will be a bunch of other little members to join the family before next Christmas - all with their own unique base. Thanks very much to Steve Good for a terrific pattern. Jay

I only have two 90 degree situations, all other turns are smooth large radius done with the hose itself. One 90 is at the bottom of the 2 1/2 vertical drop where it tansitions to 4" just inside the wll of the workshop. this spot has the maximum suction as it is just a few feet to the dust colector itself. The other is at the top of that same vertical drop where I Teed the 2 1/2 in each direction. Again just a shot vertical to the run to the dust collector. Also not I used clear hose most places so a blockage will be easily seen. That being said, you are correct that I do need to watch to make sure I don't get any blockages.

Now that its decided that beer cans will be used as a material. I give you the first beer can pattern. RJF

The Avett Brothers. If you don't know their music you should check them out. No Hard Feelings, Victory, Down With The Shine, would be good ones to start with. Cut on 1/2" live edge Walnut.

great job!!! looks very realistic

Here is a Steve Good design that I made for X-mas that I modified. I left off the built-in hanging hoops on top and made stands for instead. Richard

great job!!! still listen to his music

Wow Thanks!!!!!! I had forgotten about that one. I needed that.

Wow they look great. You did an excellent job Barb. Marg

Great work, I am listening to his music quite often also. After you did the last one of JT I started looking for more to work on. I would like to do one of him and one of Crosby Stills Nash an Young. I think that one would come out good also. Thanks for sharing.

Those are cool. Great job

I was 9 years one when he died and cried my eyes out. Great job on the cut

Where's the pictures??

I don't know about that Roly. Everything I touch falls on the ground

Take the cans back. Buy some more beer. Have some more beer and consider cutting those cans, or return them for further consideration. RJF

No, I did not. Hobby Lobby came to the rescue!

Excellent cutting, very nicely done, where did you get the pattern, RJ

Wow! Roly

It's a big WOW! from me Barb. Roly

Very well done!

Very intricate work! Excellent job!

This may be his prettiest. Jim Croce -Time In A Bottle (Lyrics) - YouTube

Now you have to find scrollsaw blade that cuts glass. RJF

Long before I had access to a scroll saw, I used a coping saw to do (almost) the same job. The first project that I remember cutting with a coping saw was a simple jigsaw puzzle puppy and I made that as a present for my brother Bruce when I was about 7. That's 70 years ago. I don't have a photo, but this sketch that I found on the internet is close to what I used: It shows that things don't really change much for me in spite of the years and all the new technologies, because the last scroll saw project that I completed is this one that I did for my sister Christine about two weeks ago:

I stared last year August.

Santa brought me a Porter Cable in 2015, the first thing I did was a sign for the wife's store, then I found an excaliber on craigs list, and been cutting ever since. From Fretwork, to puzzles, to portraits and boxes.

Got started, technically, back in Nov 2017 (according to the photo filename). I'd helped my wife's grandfather renovate our first house back in 2007/2008, and have always loved working with my hands to create something, so when we moved back in, he told me to hang on to an old table saw and band saw ("if I need 'em, I know where to find 'em." They lived a mile away from us.). I made a Texas state flag out of a section of old fence, just adding some support to the back and painting it, and got started making smaller sized flags, then got the band saw up and running again and tried making a sign I'd seen on Pinterest, but ran into a problem with the inside loop on the "L". So I found an old Dremel 57-2 listed at a garage sale, picked it up for $25, and never looked back. The band saw hasn't been used since, and was even sold to make room for other stuff. Most recent were a couple of gifts, one for my daughter (I stack-cut the dragon scene, and have one at work as well) and one for my wife for our anniversary.

I started scroll sawing in 1988 sometime. Started off doing real simple fretwork ornaments that was in the scroll saw magazines. Today, I make at least 600 to 700 intarsia ornaments each Christmas. Along with lots of other stuff.

the tree of peace in feather was done(and other things in photo all done same day Oct 4, 2015...picture of my very good friend who passed away last year on x mas day i did Xmas eve this year 2019

All I can say is "WOW"! Great work.

I got my 1st scrollsaw from Aldi's just over a year ago as I thought it might be interesting to try something new in my retirement. I was quite happy with it for a month or so then I discovered this forum and that was it. After seeing some of the amazing things that people cut on here, I bought a new saw and I've gone from silhouettes and simple cut outs to my beloved Gorilla. I would never have imagined in a lifetime that I could do something like this. I'm totally addicted.