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I like it and I make many Irish items including what we call in the pen turning world the Celtic Knot turned on a pen. Here are a couple I have done.

I think that is who I just bought the napkin holder designs from last night. I asked them if they could make into a PDF file so I can use on my home printer and they agreed. They were there this morning and later today I will download them all. I opened a few and they will work just fine. I always can enlarge them or shrink to fit my needs.

These are going to be added at my shows this year for sure. Love this idea.

Like the rocket idea and the bird is the one I was thinking of.

OK what do you say we make a list of some ideas for napkin holders such as what has been shown so far and maybe our pattern makers can do something with them. Here is what started it all. http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/32348-napkin-holder/ My ideas are not many. My ideas are birds like Turkey or the bird with the large fan like spread, Peafowl. The idea of doing a dress with a gal somehow is good. Upside down umbrella a flower a butterfly basically anything that can fan out

Yes I was looking at a site on ebay that sold many different colored ones but they are 10" square and was wondering if they would work.

Absolutely well done and beautiful. Well worth the effort. Thanks for showing. That bar just got a little higher for many.

Have you figured out what size napkins work best for these?? Thanks

What size napkins are best for things like this?? Thanks

What size napkins work best with these patterns?? Thanks

As Wayne said a pre conditioner will help. Also gel stains are much more controllable. Also the grit you sand the piece will determine the amount of stain gets in the grain. The higher the grit the less stain.

Thanks. I have done these in so many various woods and color combinations over the years. Have not done many in a few years now but it maybe time to find that thing again and break out some new designs.

I agree Home Depot and even Lowes carry oak dowels and also some larger oak used for stairs and railings. You can also glue a couple pieces together and do some segmenting. Stain a piece dark black and sandwich in between to lighter piece and so on. For a project as nice as that I would not skimp on using lesser quality woods to make up for cost. You will never be able to keep consistency colors throughout using light woods like poplar. Are you using a Beall wood threading tool? I have one burried somewhere in my shop that I used for cutting threads for bolt clocks that I make. They work well. Mine is used with a router. They do sell just taps and dies also.

I like that you added your own touch to the pattern Do not have to lock into exact patterns when drawn for you. Think outside the box. That came out well.

It was 50 degrees today here in NJ and I actually was outside spraying some lacquer pieces. It saved me from having to stink up the basement with the smell. Sort of a surprise and I took advantage of it. Glad I had that project ready. I have one more such project but need to stain it first so I hope another gift comes along in two weeks. This is the downside to a basement shop. But I usually can deal with outdoors if i get a nice day. Our winter has not been cruel this year and in fact we are getting a ton of rain and no snow. We get a couple brutal cold days but they go away quickly. This week we will have a few of these days.

Not sure what you are hoping to accomplish with this combination but I would get real oak dowels and go from there. To get the oak color on polar you are better off painting than staining. Just my opinion.

They came out great. You are a quick learner. You know though you just went down a different tunnel with no way out. There are so many different patterns out there and also easy to make your own patterns for. The sky is the limit on these too. I need to get back to some of these too. My plate is full and not enough time in the day but when people show things like this I just want to do some too. I have saw dust running in my veins. Thanks for showing.

I am hoping others will jump on board too and pick up on this idea and run with it. Maybe we can get some really cool patterns here of our own. Nice job with this one.

I have a few tools choked down to 2" and no problem with my dust collector. As I said cost would increase but that cost could be across the board all saws and you will not see a difference. All add-ons can be done by individuals for sure but there is no one add-on that can be universal to all scrollsaws on the market than a good dust collector system. Not one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will it happen, never say never but highly doubt it. Won't be on my saw.

Ray you bring up a logical answer but it is the old question why have not the manufacturers used their engineers to design something built into their saws. They could make the arms a passage way. They could incorporate it in the table top and just make a thicker table and use it as a passage way. To me this is the most logical way to do it because it will capture dust at the best possible place (the source both top and bottom. ). You hollow out the table and make the opening around the blade a port all around it. Aluminum today is so light weight. They can attach some sort of piping under the table with funnels that not only can you use a shop vac but like all tools that have a system pipe into a central dust collector system. All this is not hard to do. It is the one true change that all saws on the market can stand to market from. It is a health issue that if we do not do something on our own it becomes a problem down the road as we get up in years. I do not vac the dust but always wear a dust mask. But I wear a dust mask just about all the time in the shop. I do have an air cleaner that I use along with a shop dust collector system that captures the large particles but never the small dust.

I know about working outside. I worked in construction for 43 years and worked in all kinds of weather. No work, no pay. Usually when a building is warm or cool it is time to move onto the next job. My last job was working on a FedX ware house under construction. I did not plan to stay on that long but wound up staying till the end and that was the job I retired off. It snowed as hard inside as it did outside because of all of the dock bay doors which were about the last thing that went on. That was one of the toughest winters we had in NJ in a long time 5 years ago. Standing in 4 foot of snow wiring parking lot lights up. Won't go into tax thing for that is for your accountant to tell you these things. But you can dedicate any part of a building including your house as place of business. Just need to designate this when setting up business and portions of all utilities can be deducted.

Kevin I understand there are circumstances that come up and a shop is far from the list of necessities but if it is your business then you have to make it a priority. This is what pays the bills. The expense can be written off on your taxes. Health issues is different. But I read not only here but other forums about it is too hot or too cold. There maybe just a handful of perfect days to be out in a shop. Many years ago when I got started in this and woodworking in general, I left a scrollsaw out in my shed and on those beautiful days I would scroll under a nice large oak tree in my back yard. It was nice and the lighting was great and all but then I moved operations to my basement and have not looked back. Even in an uninsulated shop you will be surprised you can change the temp with little trouble. I have at times did some finishing and also powdercoating in my garage with a couple electric heaters running. Yes the garage is sheet rocked but no insulation in the walls and the door leaks and it very cold but it does not take much. If you make it work for you than all is well. But as I said I read these types posts all the time and scratch my head, why build a shop if you can not work in it.

Use to just take them out and if there is an article with it attach all to patterns made.

My basement shop does me well and has over the years. Yes I would love to have a large dedicated woodworking shop and if I did it would have both heat and cooling What is the sense of building a dedicated shop when you are restricted to work in it. Makes no sense to me. Counter productive. There are many ways to heat and cool today. Solar is a big thing that has taken the world by storm and be incorporated into plans today. Yes cash is needed but if you do not have it don't build a shop.