mikesscrollsaw

Letter openers to be sold in a tourist store in kentucky. one is oak and one is maple (5 each this weekend), each coated with teak oil.

they both look great!

Oges, where are you located?! That's really hot for January

I have tried it several times over the past year or more with no luck

I'll have to keep that in mind if i ever work with cedar

also used the Steve Good door topper idea, changed it a little and making 15 of those this weekend as well.

a friend of mine hooked me up with a local touirst store, now I bring them "kentucky" stuff each month to sell. here is the current item I'm working on, I'm doing 15 of these this weekend.

I've never worked with cedar, what's the issue with sanding??

Free is always good! Great find

thanks for the kind words, I am expecting some orders out of it...working on a business card holder

that's great, .........sounds like you should be able to pick up lots of pointers from him

I saw someone else did one a little while back, showed it to my wife and she has asked me to make one for her, so here is my version of a letter opener.... it's about 8 inches long with hummingbirds. made from Red Oak This is the second attempt, first one was ok but not good enough for her to take to work (can't let the people see the less than perfect ones!)

it's always great to get free stuff! good luck at the craft show

my wife changed the address on paypal to germany so she could ship something there for a friend....but she made it the primary address I had to fix that and send him a new request for an invoice. I think he might have been thinking I was trying to scam him or something. should be worked out now. oh what fun technology can be

it's a big screw up.....for some reason he says I have an international address listed (germany) and is trying to charge me 50 shipping, I tried to tell him I don't live in Germany, I live in kentucky but he's not getting it, just keeps saying, international shipping is expensive.....and he says he sent an invoice twice but I never recieved either.....we're going back and forth with emails now, he wont' call me, seems like he's getting upset in the emails...... so this should be interesting

I ordered several types but havn't paid him yet, sent him a message asking for combined shipping but he hasn't replied (been 3 days)

Welcome to the village!

Hi welcome to the site..... here's what I do: I print off the pattern from the computer, I use blue painters tape on the surface of the wood. I've used regular masking tape but it's much harder to get off the wood, sometimes it even pulls small pieces of the wood out. I'll use it when it's a large piece without much detail. for the projects with alot of fragile pieces I strickly use the blue painters tape. (like portraits or anything where a piece will be thinner than a quarter of an inch) then I use 3m spray glue to adhere the pattern to the tape. I spray the glue on the back of the paper wait 5 seconds and then stick them together, then wait about a minute and your good to go. I made a little cardboard easil from a box to spray the patterns otherwise the spray glue gets on everything. i've used clear tape over the whole project to hold the pattern on teh wood but I find that if you have intricate detail the paper will come up more and more as you cut the project. i went right back to using spray glue. I've also glued the pattern straight to the wood, you just have to sand all the glue off, again not bad on large items but anything small you run the risk of breaking it with all the sanding. when I started i went to the library and found some books about scroll sawing, I picked up alot of great ideas, they also had some scrollsaw magazines I could read there. That's a great way to learn more. Hope that's helpful! Mike

I looked at the ebay link and compared it to woodcraft for pricing.... woodcraft is about 80 to 90 dollars per board foot for the 5 different ones I looked at...this guy is selling the same thing for about 17 to 25 dollars a board foot. guess where I'm going shopping? thanks for the link

I've heard this before, many likes, a lot of you should charge more but few of those people buy anything. Apparently that woman judges her own self worth based upon how much money she spends. Your item was nice enough to have but no way could she say to her friends that she only paid $8, that would be too low for her. You should have asked her how much she would pay then taken her money

Great job on the portrait! I'm sure he'll cherish it forever

I thought so, since it was an inlay it was oak and purple heart stacked and cut at the same time each piece 1/4 inch thick I've got alot of small pieces of these exotics laying around. To use them I glued multiple pieces together then planed it down. Most is so small it's almost firewood but I hate to burn em if I can use it so I've been holding on to them for a while now.

Thanks for the compliments, I'll have to give the saw dust and glue a try on the next one.... I'm already in the process of another new one, already cut the lid, this time I used purple heart, wenge and black walnut for the inlays, and oak for the box itself...pics to come soon.

Great job! , ive yet to do any intraisia.

Scrollsaw magazine gets the credit, i just followed the instructions.... Lay the dark wood on top of the light wood (wood to be inserted on top) Tape them together. The table is offset about 2 degrees right side down, cut it counter clockwise The top pieces will fit snuggly into the bottom To figure out the angle you need to use some scrap of the same thickness, make a practice cut to see if the table angle is correct, very small changes in angle make large changes in fit I start out at 2 degrees, then adjust from there, more angle is a tighter fit less angle looser fit. This is for 1/4 inch thick wood. I dont think blade size matters much, i try to use the smallest possible so i have a smaller start hole. FD UR #3 is what i used.