Travis

Welcome Telecomdude! Sorry, I must have missed this thread. Welcome to the village. Christina's right, there are so many great people here. You'll really enjoy it. We look forward to seeing some of your work! Happy Scrolling!

Hi Tina, Welcome to the village! You'll have a lot of fun with your new-found passion. There are so many things that you can do with such a simple tool. I'm constantly amazed with the cool stuff people come up with. I think you'll enjoy it here. There are so many great people here (and talented too). If you have any questions, just ask. Plus, if you're ever looking for a pattern and don't see something in our Pattern Library, you can request one in the Pattern Request forum. We have several designers here that will be able to help you out! Anyway, Enjoy the site!

Boy, that turned out nice! I bet she loved it! I really like the 1/2" oak. Adds a nice dimension to it. I usually only work in 1/4". Its nice to see something a bit thicker. Nicely done. You should create a User's Gallery and put a copy there (you can find a tutorial here). I'd love to see some more of your cuttings. Keep up the good work!

I don't round the back of my blades. I know about it, but haven't tried it myself. I'm usually pretty happy with my turns. But I think it certainly will improve the quality of your corners. Anybody have any experience with this technique?

I'm not sure if I have a favorite project either. I really enjoy making little cars. Mostly because I enjoy watching the little ones playing with them. I like my Hitchcock portrait, mostly because of the subject matter. I guess the my favorite project is the one I'll be doing next.

Ooo. I can't wait to see it! Sounds really cool. I only make stuff for my own amusement (with a toy here and there to amuse the boy). I'm trying to wrap up a few projects. I tend to start more projects than I finish... I have an Einstein portrait that needs another coat of finish. I made a portrait of my son that needs finished. I stack cut a wordart design "Lord Teach Us To Pray" from Jeff Paxton's book (Words of Faith in Wood) that I've been meaning to finish since last Christmas. I also have a few car designs ready to be assembled. I also have a few more projects that I really should focus on too. Uggg. Its so much fun to start projects, but when unfinished projects stack up....

I only make jigs if I need to do a repetitive action. I have one that cuts wheel axles for toy cars. I also have a jig that sets the wheels a little easier. I have a mock table for my drill press that allows me to sink a drum sander below the table surface. I also made a table saw sled that I'd like to remake (I didn't do a very good job the first time). Most of my other jigs are pretty crude and only around for a short time. Since its hard for me to find a large chunk of time to do woodworking, I'd don't spend too much time making jigs.

I bet that took a lot of work. So many little things that need to be done. I hope it goes well for you. What kind of stuff are you selling? I would love to see your booth. Be sure to take some pix for us and let us know how it went for you. Craft shows are something I've always wanted to do. Even as a kid, I would go with my folks and see stuff and think to myself, "shoot, I could do that." Eh, maybe someday when time is a little more generous.

Yah, I need it to be illustrated to me too. Manuals without pictures are nothing more than firestarters. Thanks blame. I found it really interesting too.

I'm glad you're enjoying it. Wikis are really easy to do. It looks intimidating at first, but once you realize its only text on a page, you'll be hooked. Making pages are pretty easy. If the link is red, click it and it will create the page for you. If you do a search for a page and nothing shows up, you'll see red link that says "create this page". Then its just a matter of creating the page. Go nuts! The more info we can throw out to our fellow scrollers, the better.

Do you use those clips that hold brooms and garden tools? That's a really good idea. Do you cap your PVC?

I think Steve Good was checking in on that. But I haven't heard yet. I think belts might be easy to find. The other parts might be a bit tricky. I guess eBay would be the answer for that.

Great idea on the pen tubes! I found these that would be perfect! They're triagular so they won't roll off the table! Another great site. Thank you Deb! Looks like they have a lot of options too. For those interested, here's a link.

I like the PVC idea. Looks easy to build and it looks like its really handy. Now I gotta figure out where to mount it. Great ideas! Keep 'em comin!

Do they carry those tubes at a craft store like Hobby Lobby? I should check there and see if I can find some. I checked Uline and they had some tubes, but they had the soft rubber caps. I think it might be more trouble than its worth. Penn State Industries have square tubes that would work pretty good. They wouldn't roll off the counter anyway. Looks like the cap could be a little fiddly, though.

I just installed a new button to the compose window of the forums. Now you have basic wiki-linking ability. To link to a wiki article, all you need is the wiki page name. Then you just put it between the wiki markup. You can see an example below. [wiki]Scroll Saw Village[/wiki] will get you: [wiki]Scroll Saw Village[/wiki] Hopefully this will be a fun way to link to articles on the wiki and help direct people to the correct article. Have fun!

I have a stack of scroll saw blades in little baggies. They're each labeled with whats inside. But it is kinda a pain to sift though all those ziplock bags. How do y'all store your blades? I'm thinking of ordering those tubes from Sloans. Maybe buy one of those Brother label makers so I can label the tubes. The only problem with the tubes I see is them rolling off the table. Hrmmmm.

That turned out neat. I like the initials incorporated into it. The frame looks great too! Nicely done!

I'll be messing around with the header navigation again today. I'm having trouble getting it to be consistant across the entire site. So you might notice a little quirkiness all day.

I'm excited to announce the newest feature added to Scroll Saw Village. Introducing Scroll Saw Wiki. Scroll Saw Wiki is a online reference that anybody can edit! Scroll Saw Wiki runs on the same powerful software as Wikipedia. Anybody can edit articles to correct misinformation, add new information, or just to correct spelling errors. If you're looking for something specific and there isn't an article about it. Create it! This will be a great place to hold information on equipment, scroll saw manufacturers, cutting techniques, different types of scroll sawing, types of wood, books, magazines, websites, blogs... You name it. If it has anything to do with scroll sawing, let's have it included in the wiki! Editing and creating articles is easy to do. If the link is blue, there is an article already written. Any written article can be edited by anybody just by clicking Edit. If the link is red, there hasn't been an article written, so feel free to write the article. You can do a search for a term and if it comes up empty, you're allowed to create that article! Its that easy! And don't be concerned with writing a brilliant article. Just write it and if it needs to be edited, someone will come along eventually and fill in the holes, fix grammar or whatever! If you need help, there's some help pages on the wiki. I've also created a Wiki Talk forum in the Help & Feedback section that you can ask questions. Anyway, have fun with our new feature. Hopefully together, we can create an awesome scroll saw reference that will benefit all scrollers!

LOL...I got too hasty when starting the new topic, I guess. Its moved now.

So I just bought the Sand-O-Flex from Woodcraft because Judy Peterson's book recommended it for sanding contours of free standing puzzles. Has anybody else had any experience with it? I've tried sanding a couple puzzles today and it broke off several of the keys. I figured the way it was set up that it would get into the tight areas a bit better. But I don't see much difference between this and a sanding mop. Hrmmm. Works nice on larger projects though.

Here's a couple cars I made for my son. Needless to say, he was thrilled. The boy loves his cars.

Boy, those spoons turned out nice! You did a really nice job on those. Are you keeping them for yourself, or are you giving them as gifts? I bet the work really nice too. What kind of finish did you decide on? I also really like your dino cars. Those turned out really cute. The kids will love them. Nice job on the painting too! Are those your patterns?

I just finished reading Lathe from a Loft by Roy Underhill. He basically makes a lathe/scroll saw combo out of recycled materials (ie, dumpster diving). It was a very entertaining article. Looks like fun to build and not overly complicated either. You can find his article here for those interested.