amazingkevin

Mr Sergio,Welcome to ssv, looks like your going to liven things up here !I've been scrolling 2 years steady,married 4.3 years to a phillipina,she plays all instruments and teachs.i play piano and clairanet and harmonica,I love to listen to delta blues harmonica music.Tennis and ping pong are my games and you will enjoy every visit to scroll saw village i promise.There's plenty of ideas and people who love to modify things here.I check into the forum daily to see what i'm missing out on and add my 2 cents worth.Everybody here will be looking forward to seeing your work so post offen in the gallery.

ok ,ok this is the third time i lost this post,wow,full pagers too.where was i .Mr. Clayton, sir,this fish that you have done right off the bat deserves 3 blue ribbons to start.I have never seen quality such as you have demonstrated on this infamous fish. To start with it is in bowling alley floor condition,smooth as glass,seams so tight, glue has no business between them.Colors beyond the norm arranged perfectly shaded to real life. this ones good enough to eat(pressure cooked ) lol.This trout should set the standards for all intarsis to come.I can see that it's going to be real hard to let go of this one .This is museum art.fine art.You got the cat by the tail on this one !Fabulous great job!

thats good news Jim! a variable resistor is something that you adjust ,like the motor speed control,a volumn control, a light dimmer control,maybe yours cracked inside, as the resistor part is only made of carbon like a pencil leadThe good news is at least it's not the circuit board,$$$.Thank God for sears phone operators!

did a broken saw blade make it's way into the circuit board or speed control?

I know what you mean Jim .We are allready involved deeply in what we do scrolling and doing finishing touchs are a whole nother ball game to deal with.The clothes i've ruined from paints and stains.Storeage is my biggest problem.Too much wood,and then add cans of paint and stain in a sardine shop ,can't move.I figured out a little trick to stain a completed fretwork I'll lay it on top of an aluminum foil made tray,sealed with low sides ,put the work in ,pour in the stain,slide off the edge of the table a little and punture the foil and drain the stain back in the can .Fast clean and simple.

Very very interesting!.That treadle would make anybody proud as a peacock to do fretwork back in the day.That adds a kick to scrolling, pumping the treadle! lol.Draws alot of curiousity out of me to wanna try one.

Hello jim How are you ,You are the horn of plenty when it come to being on the ball, ahead of schedule and plenty of stock to chose from.Your ornaments open up that festive feeling of the holiday. Those are smart looking samples to warm the hearts of shoppers .I'll bet they search out your custom made holiday items each year at your booth.Does Connie get involved with your work too?How far do you take your work as far as painting ,staining,torching,sandblasting etc.Your doing a great job jim.

Hello derek,How are you,Your track record is fantastic,30 years!I'd love to see all that you've scrolled.At that rate i'd have wore out 22 scrollsaw.I'll bet you've tryed them all.Do you have a favorite scrollsaw.Mine is a c-arm crartsman with 1/4 roller bearings so this ones built to last.Feel free to post picture in the users gallery.thanks for joining.

Scrollers cafe is not accepting new members for months and months now.I got in once along time ago but can't anymore,sad.

That looks great for a first,nothings easy.Remember how much you wanted to be able to ride a biycycle,and nothing would stop you,shinned knees ripped elbows .But once you know how it's a piece of cake.Everything is like that. I never wanted to do intarsia ,but after the second one ,i'm addicted bad.Can't stop,Won't stop,I got bit bad.

They are the best to me for cutting foiliage or anything else where your changeing directions as offen, as your taking your next breath.They really came in handy when i did a 59 cadillac grill that our travis designed.I needed precise control as a little to the left or right and i'd blow through to the next hole.

hello Boice, welcome we have free cake and ice cream today only ,lol your going to love comeing here . i'm here everyday rain or shine.It's the most interesting place i want to be.I'm fond of deltas myself and finally found one that takes a lickin..It weighs 95.5 pounds and is a c-arm scroll saw.Thats my baby so quite too.Hope to see what your up to and interested in.I started out scrolling and now 2 years later i'm into intarsia ,which is scrolling too but your basicaly makeing wood puzzles for lack of a better word right now.Welcome again!

Well i'm on my third or forth intarsia and still can't get close to the kind of work your turning out.Must be nice to be at the top! lol.Your seams are so close that a feeler gauge probably would'nt fit in to measure the gap, lol.They fit like a glove!I'm keeping a close eye on everything you do intarsia wise.Keep letting the cat out of the bag with your tips and tricks i thrive on everyone of them .By the way i'd rather have your bull on my wall than a real deers head!I hope you start designing your own patterns of wild life so you too can laugh all the way to the bank!Another fine job by clayton717

Should i smell wood dust or burnt wood from turning the corners to fast ,i know i left my dust extractor off.I sit right in front of the central a.c.filter intake.The central a.c. has a very strong squirrel cage motor fan and really moves dust air from the scroll saw ,belt sander on drum sander on the drill press.I use pleated paper filters.The size of the a.c.intake hole is a weird size nobody has. So i modified a filter box to fit in the standard hole intake which can be taken out just by pulling it out , and now it takes common filter sizes 20" x 20" instead of 16.5 x 19.There is no sign of any dust in the house other than heavy cutting chips in the shop.I highly recommend useing this method.A dust collector is very noisey and this is very quite.A box with a paper filter and a squirrel cage fan will do the same the same for you.When i see the filter bowing in from starting to clog up i just vacumn clean with a brush attachment on a hose.Good for many more projects.When i spray glue or paint i direct the spray towards the intake of a well used filter and throw that one away when it can no longer be vacumned from paint stuck to the dust.I never worn a mask scrolling with this set up.Creater comforts!

This is amazing that a scroll saw did this kind of quality. I'd love to see a work in progress of this one!I seen a little video i think on steve goods site but cant watch much as the internet time is little ,5gig's a month.Thats the most beautyfull bowl i've ever seen .Great job susieq4131!

Whoa!Jim!That first picture you did is absolutly fabulous.you captured all her beauty with a few lines.Great job,I 'm going to have to practice up! lol.The second one is a plus too.the eyes are telling the story.You have a natural knack for getting things in perspective with your talant.That picture really makes you want to look deep like it's saying something.not everybody can do that.When i was studying oil portraits painting technics ,they said to have the hands ,tell the person personality in the picture.Right off the bat that was the first thing i noticed in the girl on the left.the eyes on all three are focused on you another great feature.blue ribbons for the first two pictures!The third one is going to make the child howl in delight when they see it,it even made me smile!Thats my first time seeing walrus dude!Another fine job jim ,no rust on your scroll saw.By the way what scroll saw you using Jim?

Are you on dial up or wire less? I am, and when i'ts cloudy, things screech to a slow crawl and even lock up everywhere ,the net ,ssv !

Hey Jim ,looks like you went the extra mile on this one!It is so soft looking ,did you use a sanding mop or a flutter wheel for the final sanding? Really looks good.You really are the king midus of scroll sawing. Everything you touch turns to gold! lol.The color choices are right on the money.All those colors accent each other ,comliment each other all being earth colors too.Hope you have somemore up your sleeve for us to look at .Your the highlight of ssv lately!.great job!

This is pertinent information that is very welcome as there are time when an absolute straight line is needed for cosmetic reasons.I needed this information a few times and was unable to figure it out myself immediately so i just went with the flow.Grampa you saved me untold times and i need you in my back pocket for conveinience sake all the time .How does the world turn? With Grampa!Thank you again for such great scroll saw tips .Your a life saver.I have some stickler customers and they will go right to what should have been on my work. What an eye for detail they have.There are times when i wear two pair of glasses at the same time to really get a close look at what i'm sawing to catch when i'm starting to vear off the cut line. Oh well , i'm not a perfectionist.

Now that was service!I enjoyed looking at round the world scroll saws.May there 's more to look at.I'm allways looking for better.

the fab four, 1 thats too cool Jim. I'm going to have to find some sand ply to try.Never a dull moment around your house You specialize in everything,thats God given talant!How's that truck doing.

Hey william How ya doin,Did you ever sort out the pattern of the chandelier .That going to be a nice project to look at.I guess the hope chest is going to be alot bigger than the cd chest you made .I'd like to see your newest w.i.p. on that one comeing up too.They sell a paint down here called ceramic something and it's basically the same stuff that goes on the space shuttle tiles . heat can't go through it.Paint the roof and sides where the sun hits and you feel the differance. They have a test house here and the electric bill is proof of the benifits of useing it. I was at their store and you can put the powder that they put in the paint in your hand and aim a acetalyne torch on the pile in your hand and you feel nothing.You can't beat that and it's a little over a hundred buck for 5 gallons.ALL WHITE PAINT MFG FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA makes it.1507 sw.21 ave. 954-583-9178 perfect thing for mobile homes down here. they have a brochure on the test house and the paint.Maybe you could download it.

Try really thinned down yellow oil base paint?

My experience is it's like trying to play a video game with the control upside down,and left handed.It can be done but i think all you learn doing it that way is ,not to do it again.it's rough for me.

You have know idea how much i wanted to see this tractor.Since the first time my uncle gave me a ride on his WD-40 tractor,allis charmers,with a cracked head that pa put ,paputed ,when it ran i fell in love with tractors to this day.It would take a cold day in somewhere to get one stuck . These are power houses on wheels. The things i seen thse machines do are something.On time they pulled a car out of a ditch that was deep ,almost straight up .WITH the engine idleing.what an impression that made in a 6 year old kid ,me then!Then they were pulling a hay bail wagon up a hill and they moved the trottle up a couple of notchs and dumped the clutch while we were moving and the tractor did a wheel stand up the hill pulling the wagon with me hanging on scared stiff hanging on the wheel fender for dear life and they were laughing at my miss fortune. If i slipped i would have gone right into the power take off spinning so fast drive shaft.my knuckels were white i'm sure from squeezeing hold of that fender.beautyful orange color tractor with wheels tall as a house to me then.I think it was a four cylinder too.And had a small gas tank. when they would fill the tank they had to crank the gas pump by hand ,and the pump it's self had little balls in a glass incloser to let you know gas was being pumped.Oh the memories your tractor brought back William that i forgot about long ago . Sorry for rambleing on but it stired up my mind of fond memories,THANKS again