don in brooklin on

Scroll Saw Work Shop issue 29 has realistic ones made from scrap.

Great stuff. I like the bright colours. One thing I do is fill the hole with some moss that I bought a Walmart. Don

Thanks everyone. I am one the way to my wood supplier to see if they have any oak. I usually don't cut oak but will try a couple of different woods. Thanks again Don

I have designed a couple of my own Intersecting Word Arts and now want to cut. Question - What kind of wood and thickness is everyone using? Thanks Don

Our club got approached by a local church to cut a "few" people for the Sunday school program, Nearly 100 - cut in pine. It turned out to be a bigger project than I thought but is now all done. If the club was meeting, I would have done it as a "scrolling party" and a few guys would have cut in a morning. It takes longer to print the pattern, find a piece of wood (lots of scraps used), affix the pattern than it was to cut as most are just silhouettes. When it comes to the New Testament we will tackle differently.

I use a 6 inch all the time. I even bought a cheap drill press for $59 on sale so it would be available easily. I get from Stockroom supply. http://stockroomsupply.ca/shop/ ​ I have the cupped sanding drum and the minis and don't ever use. They come a demo at our club once and year and are great company to deal with. Don

I ordered from the same old Mikes website and the blades came with the week. The service is really great when you think it came from Portland OR to Brooklin Ontario Canada.

Very Nice. You could add a big tear to the end after being up 8 to 2 to my beloved Blue Jays and then loosing in the end. don

There is an articulating alligator in SSWC issue 5 page 20. Don

I resize using Adobe Reader X. My scanner lets me scan to PDF but if not I use Inkscape like above or I have Nitro PDF printer (free). Lets me select the PDF creator. In Adobe there is an option for posterize that will print the PDF on multiple pages if required with crop marks etc. Don

I am a little ADHD - Just looked around my shop and I have a cheese board being finished, an intarsia piece being shaped, an intarsia piece half cut out, a wig stand 1/2 turned, and a end grain cutting board being clamped up. Some of those have been there for a little while. Since I am retired I am in not hurry and my only deadline is when ever I feel like finishing it. YOLO.

Had my room reservations since last November. I am going to be there on Friday maybe Saturday too. Lots of great speakers including Judy Gale Roberts and Carole Rothman. Don

One of the members of our club takes a pen blank and cuts in half length wise. On the top he cuts a maple leaf as inlay with a contrasting colour.. It is real small. About 1/3 of inch. Glues it back together and turns a pen. Usually a slim line but I have seen a single piece pen too. They are really cool. I will try and find a picture as he has given a number to the Pens for Canadian Peacekeepers. Don

I sign all my bowls and wig stands after I have finished with a Sharpie ultra fine point. The bowls are usually 2 - 3 coats Tung oil. My wig stands are wipe on poly. I recently did a crokinole board and put on the scoring line with a fine point sharpie. It was over 3 coats of spray on high gloss poly and then coated with 5 -6 more coats.

You have to create a text box with the A on the tool bar on the left near bottom. change font, size and colour etc. don

Nice job. I guess the guy must be single. LOL Don

Cooper Black for anyone not Steve Good's forum

At the last minute, (Saturday) my wife announces that I had made trinket boxes for my 2 granddaughters but I did not do anything for the 3 boys. She keeps track of those things. I did a pair of box from one 2x4 in the Spring for the girls/ Quickly did 3 different puzzles for the boys. Papa's workshop is closed for the season.

Hi Stu If you send me the instructions I will be happy to do some for you. If too many I will ask at our club. Last year the local cancer support group asked if we could do a Diana Thompson awareness in gold for every family in our region with a child with cancer. I nearly fell over when she asked for 100. I asked for help at the club and the next thing I know I have over 150. We painted as a group and then did some in pink. Sold off a few to get a gold box for them. Many hands make light work. Don www.durhamwoodworkingclub.com

Nicely cut. I have my patterns (Candy canes for boys and angels for the girls) from Steve Good just sitting there and need to get done right after the other things on Daddy do list. My plan was to stack cut 3 at a time and then do the names one at a time. I did that with last years patterns. Don

When I have a chance I do raised letters by cutting on the angle and pushing out. Works well for signs and see the sports plaque below. I only use free floating letters when I don't have a real choice like the coat racks above. Made with 1/2 inch plywood for weight. I was worried about fitting back into the pattern but I gave the letters 3 coats of craft paint and it fit just fine. That is why I used a fairly large blade. If it didn't fit I was going to use the pattern to trace the letters on in order to get the correct spacing. As you say there are different ways to skin a cat. Don

I have always had trouble affixing stand alone letters to projects. If I can I cut the letters into the piece on a angle and have them stick out. Recently, I had 2 projects were I had to cut out letters separately and then glue on. My issue has been to get perfectly centred in a straight line with the correct spacing. I came up with this easy solution which may be old hat to many of you but it worked for me. Firstly I created a pattern with the spacing I wanted and added a line to the centre. I drilled started holes for each letter I cut the letters out using a #7 blade. Painted the letters. Lined up the pattern on the piece. Centered using the line I had put in the centre and had a board cut to line up the bottom. Taped in place and sprayed with accelerator. Put a few dabs of medium CA on the back of each letter and pressed in place. Removed pattern and I got the letters where I wanted them. A few dabs of CA seem to be holding just fine as the first project was to personalize a head board and they are fine so far. Project below.

http://online.rapidresizer.com/ This is the online version. I think there is a desktop version too. As an alternative I create my patterns in PDF and then use the posterize function of the Adobe Reader XI. Works create. Don

Just made the track & field for a friend who has a very athletic daughter. My pattern. You can't really see it but the letters are raised. Wood is Poplar and they sprayed. I did a Gymnastics for same girl awhile ago. Don

They look great. A friend of mine used to say that even if the show was a dud he would always pay for his table with the little cars. He used them as a draw to get the parents to come and look at his booth. Make sure you have a big SALE sign. What else can you buy for a kid a loonie or two. Good luck.