Barry5180

Clayton, I love looking at your work. This is another fantastic piece. I have the same attitude as you when it comes to charging for my work. As long as my hobby can support itself, I'm happy. I usually tack on a little bit for profit to use for upgrades and such, but otherwise I usually only charge for materials. Barry

Congratulations on a successful first craft show Kevin. I'm so glad to hear that your first experience was a positive one. You do some great work and it's just a matter of time before even more people start ordering stuff. Can't wait to hear about the next one. Barry

Fantastic work! You did an amazing job on that. If he doesn't like it, I'm sure you can send it to Len. I bet he would like it.. Barry

Nice job on those Brett, and congrats on the orders. Barry

Beautiful job on that. Looks great! Barry

Terrific job Frieke. I'm sure that whoever receives it will just love it. Barry

Brian, you are correct. You may sell any work created with the patterns from that book. The pattern designers and publisher only make money from the sale of the pattern, distributing or selling copies of the pattern would limit their ability to earn income, selling and distributing the work actually enhances their ability to earn income since other scrollers seeing the work might be inclined to purchase the same patterns. Barry

Now that's a way cool video! I've seen the hot dog video from their web site, but I didn't know that the show Time Warp did a piece on it. That's a product I think we all can trust. If the creator of it is willing to risk severe injury like that and is that confident in his product, I guess we can be too. I've got to admit though, I was getting a little weirded out by the thought of him sticking his finger into that blade. Sent shivers down my spine since I know what a saw blade can do. Barry

I don't really think I would have changed anything, short of which scrollsaw message board to be a member of, then again, SSV wasn't around then. I started on a $69.00 Harbor Freight saw and turned out some great stuff on it. Like many, didn't want to spend a ton of money on it if I was bad at it. Turns out I'm pretty good at it and so I upgraded to a Craftsman 21". By the end of February I'll have my DW788. Mark, the Eclipse is supposed to be an awesome saw. Not too many of us have them because of the cost. You could buy 3 DW788's for the price of the Eclipse. I believe the Eclipse is all hand built as well as opposed to the assembly line built saws. This could be what's adding to the long delivery time. I've heard good reviews about the saw and about their customer service. I would try and find out from them exactly what "top of the list" means from a time standpoint. I would also ask them what happens if they can't deliver by that date. To keep a customer waiting that long isn't cool. You should get something for your extra long wait time. Barry

Terrific job on both of those. The nephews are going to love them. Barry

I get about the same for a custom portrait. I usually use Baltic Birch or Oak plywood, matted and framed behind glass. The only other thing I do is charge a $25.00 non-refundable pattern fee if I have to make the pattern. For turned pens, I usually charge two or two and a half times the actual cost of supplies. This seems to work and most people can't believe the pens are so cheap. Barry

Wow, that turned out great. I'm sure he'll love it. Barry

Nice job on that Clayton. Looks great for a first project. You do have the right idea, like Len said. Start with simple things before working up to the pens, although a slimline pen is nothing more than a straight cut. One thing I did, and still do a bit is to grab a chunk of wood, throw it on the lathe and start turning. Not aiming for anything in particular, it's just to practice certain cuts. I still have a heck of a time with skew chisels so usually that's what I'm practicing with. Barry

Nice job on that Vector. Great pattern to work from too. Do you recall whose it was? Barry

Nice cutting Ron, that turned out great. Barry

Just wanted to say Welcome to the Village Matt. I'm pretty sure you will find all the information and patterns you need here at the Village. Enjoy Barry

Great job on those Bruce. I enjoyed looking at your work. Barry

Try this link John: http://www.steebar.com/Accessories/DeskAccessories.html These guys have lots of good stuff for projects and there prices are pretty good. Barry

I have my small shop setup in a basement room of our apartment building. All the other tenants get just a small cage for extra storage, but thankfully we lucked out and have two pretty decent sized rooms for storage. I took one of them over as my shop. At the moment, it's a disaster area that really needs cleaned up. Pictures coming right after cleaning. Barry

Thanks for the info on that Ron. I didn't realize it was one of Jeff's patterns. I've got a few of his that I have on my cutlist. Just haven't gotten around to them yet. Gonna put this one on the top of the Christmas cut list and give it to her next Christmas. Barry

Awesome job on that Clayton. I still don't think I'm brave enough to try intarsia yet. Barry

Hi Kevin, If it's the file size that is too large, load the image into your image editing software and reduce the resolution some. Usually one of the resolution options for saving the image will be for "computer screen" That will reduce the file size. If it's the actual size of the image, again load it up into your image editing software and find the menu command for resize. Reduce the image dimensions and even resolution and then save as a new image. This will reduce physical size as well as file size. Hope this made sense and helps some. Barry

I think Steve Good over at Scrollsaw Workshop has a video tutorial and plans for a coin holding jig for cutting coins, at least that's where I think I saw it. I would love to try that one day, but I'm gonna have to get a good magnifier worklight before attemting that. My eyes aren't that good with things quite that small. Barry

I haven't heard of a DeWalt having that problem either. The design of the DeWalt is setup to eliminate virtually all of the rocking motion associated with most saws. If you're have that pronounced of an issue, I would be inclined to think that the blade holder assembly is not aligned on the arms correctly. This may not be something that you can adjust yourself. I don't own a DeWalt yet, but that seems where the problem would be to me. Barry

I don't know if I'm going to have the chance to enter the contest, but I loved that video on continuous cut freehand jigsaw puzzles. I've never seen that done before. Barry