heppnerguy

as you probably know, I have a small wood stove. it only takes a small fire to heat my shop with it. It is a great outlet for my scrap wood as well. I got the stove for free and It works way better than my previous space heater. One other advantage is if the electricity ever goes out in the winter, we just move out to the shop, build a fire and we are not only comfortable but we also can cook on the stove, if need be. Works for me.

Wow, Sully. I sure had no idea about your health. I only knew you for a short time before free4all shut down because I only stumbled upon it about a month before that. You were so active and had such talent, unlike myself, and I am amazed that you have only been into scrolling for such a short time. I love your work but now, I love your attitude and fortitude even more. What a great guy you are. I'm so glad God gave you this time and talent so we all can benefit from you. God blessed you and then He blessed us all here on The Village with you as a family member here.

Come on, Kevin, You have made a lot of posts and we love seeing them, so how can you possibly be having problems ? (just joking with you ). I hope whatever you are having troubles with, gets figured out quickly, I would hate to miss out some of your art work.

Thanks Phantom scroller. I will copy yours and make a sign for our house. It is so nice of you to let me do that. I love your sign but I have not one creative bone in my body. can't wait to get started on it.

Thanks Bob, I went and downloaded it to. Think I will copy Phantom's idea and make a name sign of our house too. (If that is OK with you, Phantom)

Everyone is always welcome here to join our great family who live all over the world. Great to have you on board. Be sure and visit the Village often so we can all get to know you better and you us

You did an amazing job, as you usually do. You are a very talented person

I just finished an address sign for a cousin and I am staying away from them from now on...good job. Not my expertise. But then, maybe I really do not have any expertise

No kidding. I surely could not represent scrollers as well as you did as a turner.. very impressive

when you go to the 'user gallery' tab you will see a tab that says, 'upload' It is on the upper right of the screen. click on it and follow te directions that come up. any more problems and I will look for your enquiry

remember what the great Yogi Berra said, "Nobody every goes there any more, because it is too crowded."

Keefie, did you finally get to come into our secret chamber of chat ? we were expecting you, come in. Pull up a chair and don't tell anyone that we let you in or else everyone will want to be there and then I might have to stand for lack of chairs.

Nice find with the cabinets. It sure took care of all the little things that were hanging around in the open earlier, trying to catch your dust. looks really great

a really amazing display. You not only have a lot of great things, but your variety of styles and different type of things, blows me away, for sure. Very nice work

Don R. you sure do know how to relax in comfort. Look at your chair and then look at my barstool. you look way more organized than I ever thought of being. Lots of light and as I gaze around, I would think that you too like to scroll a little. You look like you are set up well and able to scroll year around.. nice shop..

What blade is best for that ?

First time that I have seen this. It is amazing and very interesting just to look at.

Our court house was built in 1902 and it looks like it could have the same architect. I am going to try some buildings too. I will need to study some of the ones that others have done so I can get the hang of it. Nice job. I donated an intarsia item for a fund raiser for hospice. Thank you for giving your community a helping hand. We all need to step up to the plate once in awhile

I use blue masking tape on my wood before I glue on my pattern and then when I am finished cutting and take off the pattern, I do not have glue residue on my cut piece. I also use a glue stick to glue on my pattern and then I do not have to breath the glue mist that is flying in the air. and it is very inexpensive

for those scrollers that have the DeWalt scrollsaw, keep a 10 inch piece of 2X4 next to your saw and place it under the saw arm when you are changing the blade from hole to hole and that will keep both hands free to work with.

if you put masking tape on the back side of the wood your are cutting, you won't have all those fuzzies to sand.

hey, A good shop is a used shop. A used shop is dusty, cluttered and has a lot of saw dust everywhere. That is the norm for me, too. But since I was going to show my scroll family my shop, I had to do it before I got it all messed up again. You know, 'show your best side'. This is 'not' the real me, even though it is not like Steve Good's shop, which is very organized and always clean as a showroom, mine is quite the contrary, believe me. Thanks to all for looking and now I am waiting to see your shops too, if you have not already posted the pictures. It is fun to see how other shops are like. Besides, the tidiest or best organized shops don't necessarily produce the best work results. skill is way above showroom. You people are artists, I am a craftmans, sort of.

thanks for the nice comments. I understand that I am a little lucky when I realize that because I have my wood burning stove I can scroll in comfort. The shop I had at my other house was a really cool and tidy shop and I felt a little less fortunate when I had to step down from it to this one. After I had read so many reports about how so many of you are limited by not having the luxury of a heated shop, I began to understand that I did have it better than a lot of other woodworkers out there. I loved seeing other people's shops and so I thought I would share mine with all of you. Tdub4ever, that is a Ryobi saw under my work bench. I used it for awhile but I got tired of continually having to buy replacement parts every few months and repairing it. I went on the internet and found my DeWalt saw on sale for $319, freight free and I really enjoy it a lot. Good eye. Hey, my shop is usually quite a bit more messy than it is in the pictures, but since it was looking as good as it is now, I thought it was a good time to take the pictures. Anyone needing a place to scroll in the winter time, come on over and cut, I can use the company and you can stay because we have lots of rooms for you to stay in .

I thought that I would post some pictures of my wood working shop. It is a dedicated shop for my intarsia and scrolling, but sometimes I have to clean it up and relinquish it to visitors overflow sleeping. As you can see from the pictures I am not a very organized person but I do have plenty of space for my woodworking. I have a wood burning stove in it so I am able to comfortably work in it year around. And I can blast my music while I do my cutting because I am out of the house and my nearest neighbor is about 1/3 mile away and he is almost deaf anyway.

Paydon, I want to welcome you here at the Village too. You will find many of your old friends here as well as a good group of soon to be, new friends as well. Glad you found us here. Hope to see you often