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  1. don in brooklin on
    I usually use walnut, maple or cherry for my cutting boards whether they are edge grain like these or end grain. I have been told that oak and ash are not good to use as they have open pores that will attract moisture and mildew. For finish I use a food grade mineral oil soak well and then use a mixture of 50/50 mineral oil and beeswax. Give it a couple of coats and eventually finish with an old car polisher. You can buy board wax too. I have used Chapman's and it works the same. I give a small can of board balm with each board.
  2. don in brooklin on
    Hey Denny. I will probably make a couple in the fall. I do a course on compound scrolling at our club need samples.
  3. don in brooklin on
    I could of done these with a band saw that I don't own any more so I scrolled the handles. These are the first of 12 that my granddaughter and I are doin as a gifts at a research conference at the local hospital. She will be doing hers next week when she get back from holidays. Made from 4/4 Brown Maple. Bought rough wood and milled to 7 1/2 by 18 by about 3/4. Cost less than $5 CDN.
  4. don in brooklin on
    Love the saying.
  5. don in brooklin on
    My favorite is the plaque as I did it for a few Mom's and it brought a couple of tears.
  6. don in brooklin on
    I have done a lot of ribbon racks for all sorts of sports. Here are just a few.
  7. don in brooklin on
    I am a loyal Flying Dutchman user. I buy from Mikesworkshop and I mix and match within a blade type. I do group buys for club members. I usually buy Ultra Reverse but recently did a buy for polar. If you can only get a gross of one size maybe you can find someone near who likes Olsen and will split it. Don PS: When I buy blades it is about 3 - 3.25 per dozen if you buy a gross.
  8. don in brooklin on
    One thing that I have done a few hundred of is Steve Good name tags. Cheap easy gift and anyone with a unique name loves them. I have done them for teams. Put in # plus * plus name. Here is the link to online version https://stevedgood.com/stencil/ I prefer one you download and run on a Windows computer. It is in the blog but you have to scroll way down to bottom. The name plate maker is great for teachers.
  9. don in brooklin on
    I made these three flowers from a 6 foot fence board and a couple of scraps for the middle. Pattern from Scrollific on Scrollers Cafe forum.
  10. don in brooklin on
    Thanks for the pattern. My family lives and breathes baseball and these will be cute projects for my grandsons. May have done before they come back from next weeks road trip. One is going to Cooperstown and the other to Baltimore. I have taken your pattern and put into Inkscape so if any one else want to modify the name and number the pattern is below. Note. I put the name in the bat and am not sure it will be scrollable but you can move and put initials only. Both my grandsons are "CL" hence the change. COOP.svg
  11. don in brooklin on
    I have lots of ideas and PHDs (projects half done). Also, 2 projects for our clubs 2x4 challenge BUT I have trigger finger and my hand cramps up often in the day. I have had this before and a shot of cortisone fixes it. Unfortunately, I could not get appointment till the first week of August and then in a couple of weeks after that I should have a couple of items that I am scrolling out of a 2x4s.
  12. don in brooklin on
    I like the all red. I think the red hat ladies might buy this. I went back and looked at Frank's original and they are cool too.
  13. don in brooklin on
    Need a quick hostess gift and I made this real quick from wood unknown. (maybe brown maple) Pattern is from a CNC file. 7 inches in diameter and 1 inch high. Loaded with trail mix and nuts and wrapped in clear plastic and it was well received.
  14. don in brooklin on
    I use a polar blade for 1 1/2 compound cutting but usually only a 5 or 7. A 12 would make it difficult to make any turns. You want to clear the saw dust. I have used #6 Pegas Skip tooth and they work well too. One thing that helps if hardwood it to wrap the wood with packing tape.
  15. don in brooklin on
    I just took the PDF and imported to Inkscape. Deleted all the text. Including the sizes. grouped each box and moved to an 8 1/2 x 11 page and printed on my Lenmark laser printer and the boxes are exactly 5 x 5 and 5 x 5 1/2. I would assume it is your print driver. I have had issues in the past, so I saved the svg as a PDF and print from Acrobat Reader and it will show you what is printing exactly. I have been doing a lot of designs larger than 8 1/2 x 11 so I just select all the items and group and then export to PDF making sure I specify the selection (not the page). Open in Acrobat and use the poster feature.
  16. don in brooklin on

    Good Morning

    All of sudden today I got this screen.  I am using Microsoft Edge with Malwarebytes.

    I have added scrollsaw village as a safe site but still will not let me in like normal.

    I can access in Chrome just fine. Does not have browser guard.

    Has anything changed in the last day?

    If nothing has changed I will reach out to Malwarebytes.

    Thanks

    Don

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  17. don in brooklin on
    I agree with Witchman on the Polar blades. If you are attached to Pegas blades I have used Pegas skip tooth blades (#6) with success when cutting 1 1/2 ornaments. I think the issue is the reverse as it does not clear the saw dust as well. With cutting pine it is soft and sometimes the grain will make you go off the line. When cutting cutting thicker pine I will use a smaller blade like a #5 or even #3. You just have to slow down the feed rate. A #9 will tend to grab the wood more.
  18. don in brooklin on
    Great work. You have been busy. Love the crucifix. I really like the darker background. Is this the original size?
  19. don in brooklin on
    Bobby is on Facebook too. https://www.facebook.com/bobby.riggs.54/about
  20. don in brooklin on
    Have you checked out https://woodenteddybear.com/collections/flying-dutchman-scroll-saw-blades Same company as Mikes Workshop. They say they ship internationally via UPSP. I have order gross at a time to Canada and I have any problems. Never been stuck at customs. Usually take a week to 10 days. Are you looking for 2/0. They have those listed in ultra reverse and scroll reverse.
  21. don in brooklin on
    Barb. The banks still take them but some require them to be wrapped. The problem maybe is to where to get penny wrappers.
  22. don in brooklin on
    Looks good. Like the darker top. I thought being close to Ottawa where all the big buck politicians live, you should have a loonie drop. LOL
  23. don in brooklin on
    Can you see the screen shot above? I have live pretty view clicked. I am using the defaults. Brightness detection 4.5.
  24. don in brooklin on
    Here is a screen shot after I imported the B&W PDF to Inkscape and hit "Trace Bitmap" so you can see my default parameters. Don't forget to hit apply. Let me know if you have any other problems.
  25. don in brooklin on
    I have the latest version of Inkscape and have the same problem. To get around this problem I export to PDF. Open in Acrobat and I have to make sure the "Choose paper source by PDF paper size" is clicked. I occasionally have objects that don't print and I do the same thing and they are there. Bug in Inkscape communicating with printer driver. (so I was told)
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