heppnerguy

Hi Paul, I do not like it when I am not scrolling.. this time of year puts me outdoors a lot, taking care of the fast growing grass in the yard, painting and fix up projects, as well as fishing and still getting as much time in my shop as possible. hint....make a lot of things for your wife and she will like you being in the shop...it saves me a lot of times. I have three projest going right now and 2 requests to start this week...tons of fun....I hope you keep your fingers from getting frost bite in the freezer at work. I worked 40 years in the wholesale sea food industry and I too spent many days in the company freezers..I am familiar with the company where you work too.

Hi Oliver,,,,,my wife and I also visited Paris last year for the first time and we loved it. I made a compound cut Eiffel Tower that I enjoyed a lot..because of the limitations of the stroke of most scroll saws, you can only make one about 2 inches across at the base. copied a drawing of the tower from Google images and pasted one picture on on 2 inch square block and one on the left side of the square, making sure it lined up on the bottom and edge of both coorisponding pieces and it ended up a perfect free standing replica of the tower.. if you are looking for other free pattern opportunities besides here on this great sight, you can find others on Google ... good luck and remember there are many knowledgable people here on the Village that love to help others.

Hi James, I live in Oregon, in a very small, mid state town. I am retired so I have the opportunity to do quite a bit of scrolling. that is where I like to spend my time, I love doing it and I am constantly looking for people who would like some of my work. I am getting to be prtetty well known in my town and last year I won the 'best overall...grand championship' award at the county fair. I was pleased that that reward. I don't make a practice to 'try' to sell my work as I get more pleasure at giving it away to my loved one and good friends. Everyone seems to like it..I have only made a couple of things for myself but the greatest reward I get from scrolling is the nice comments I get from the ones that I give my work to.

Nick, I too started cutting on a scroll saw because of running into a vendor booth of intarsia dogs and I found them very interesting. I did not think it was anything I could do and it was years later that i looked it up on the computer and made myself a pattern to see if I could indeed do it myself..I discovered I could and dove in. That was about 5 years ago and since then I have made one heck of a lot of pieces. I only started scrolling when I saw some baskets done on a scroll saw and decided it was something I liked and not one of those 'color book' looking, flat items that I have never liked and still don't. I have given most of my stuff away as presents and am not really interested in selling them because I get most of my pleasure from doing things especially for people I love. I have many pieces in Germany as well as other european places, where I also have many friends, because of hosting exchange students. I recently donated an intarsia piece to the local Hospice organization to use for their annual fund raising auction. I sell things only when people come to me with a particular request, that I also enjoy because it is something someone particularilly wants. I also just started to add pyrographics to my work...only used it on a couple of pieces so I am really new at it.....hope to pick up on the technics of it soon.

Interested to see more about your clocks. I too am in the process of making a gear clock and would like to see what you have done. stay in touch here and everyone will benefit from it, including yourself. Lots of good people here on this sight.

I also use blue painter's tape, but I use a glue stick to apply my patterns onto the blue tape..this is an easy to find product and so is the glue stick. It also is very inexpensive and easy to relmove and apply to wood. Best of all it leaves no glue residues. give it a try, I think you will like it .

Monti, I like this clock pattern too..you did a nice job..fun tohave something as time consuming as this, to admire and to have others appreciate your work. Heppnerguy

I would have suggested the same thing as Marg. It is possible for the hex head screw on the opposite side of the thumb screw tightener to need to be readjusted. This is the part that Marg is talking about..If the top of the blade stays intact and the bottom part comes out..see how the top hex screw is located in the space opposite the top thumb screw and adfust the lower hex screw accordingly Heppnerguy

I also use blue painters tape but I use a large glue stick on the back of the paper patterns and it is less expensive then spray adhesives and when you are finished cutting, things come off really easy and there is no glue residue to deal with.....all I can say is....it works for me

Travis, I do not have a lot of money but I like what I see Coral Draw's user friendly concepts. I have also looked at Inkscape and Gimp...what would you suggest for a retired man to explore for pattern making and portrait making ?

Hey amazingkevin...me too...portraits pattern making is my ambition. i have done a few of them and I liked what I was able to do with it, but I have not taken the time to sit down and really learn it..I just dream that I might be good at it without all the effort to learn it properly, which sets me up for failure..I am just a little to lazy to take the time to learn...maybe this year too, for me

Steve's web sight is very helpful...take a look at some of the patterns on this sight too...there are many out there in cyber world but also investigate the Scrollsaw village university and try your own creativity to make patterns..Gals to see that you enjoy scrolling like I do. post some of your work here, we would like to see some of it

nice job...I like Sue's creativity. Her patterns are fun to cut and usually have enough detail to make them interesting and a little challenging too.

Hi Bob...welcome to Scroll Village, you have come to a web sight that is filled with woodworkers of several kinds that love to share their work and helpful hints to all the other village members that need help or just wish to share a thing or two. If you stick with us, you will soon get to know people and you will be lead to many wonderful places and see many fun things. So relax here when you decide you need a break from your saw...(that often is a hard thing to do). Need anything to do with scrolling, you will find it here and you will soon discover that you are amoung many people who will become your friends fast..Welcome

this may sound rather funny, but sometimes my Dewalt makes a lot of noise and it is really not the saw, even though it appears to be...if the blade looses it's tention, which happens now and then, it makes a lot of noise.. by re-tentining the blade, it runs fine again ..... the other really od thing that sometimes makes my cutting really loud, is the saw/wood combintion.. changing the blade..and that can be a new blade...and things will quiet down.. the blade can be cutting just fine at the time...but the noise it creates is very loud and I thought it was my saw problem..now I just change the blade..this can happen when it is quiet but I change the type of wood I am cutting... may not be what you are experiening but I thought I would throw it out for consideration

I got a kick out of watching your video. I have an 11 year old grandson who was in my shop watching me scoll and decided he would like to make his sister a birthday present. So I downloaded a pattern for him and he cut it out. He did a fabulous job and made some other things after that, I was very impressed to see how well those little fellows can cut. thanks for sharing your video,,,

I like the looks of this one very much. Will need to consider making a couple of these for some business friends..nice job..

Karen, I have to say that I have to admire you for starting with spiral blades and still be interested in scrolling. I wanted to try some spiral blades because I thought it would save me some time scrolling my projects but as soon as I started to use them, I found out they were unsatisfactory for me because I was unable to achieve the accuracy and finish in my work that I desired. I ended up throwing out my remaining spiral blades. For me, I would rather have to make extra cuts then to be unhappy with the 'tearing' look I got from the blades. So, if you can get them to work for you,,,I have to say again, " I admire you."...Do try some of the blades that Travis has suggested, then decide for yourself...everyone does things a little differently..that is what makes Scroll Saw Village such an interesting place to hang out. We all learn something from each other..Oh, and Happy New Year...no go saw it away..

Wendy I took some time to look at your Facebook link and I have to say that I enjoyed your work a lot because I can tell by what you cut that you do enjoy scrolling. Your things are original, for the most part,or at least I have not seen most of them before...I hope you continue to display your things here in the village for all to see. Do you share any of your patterns? I have seen several that I would like to make too..I have not made many patterns of my own but I am learning in the Village University so that I will understand that part better....

a few years ago I was into intarsia and I sold several pieces but only because people saw them and ask how much I wanted for them.....we have a yearly bazaar in our little town and someone ask me to participate in it so I got busy and made about 20 sum pieces and a nice display board. I had a lot of really nice admirers and comments but my things were $125 to $175 each and they were too much for the quick last minute buyers and I only ended up selling one of my items for $175. The thing that i discovered in preparing for it, was that I HAD to produce things in order to have a good variety to offer. I found that I lost the fun of making something for someone just because they really wanted something or I was making for a gift for someone I loved. I would much rather make things because it pleases someone and it gives me great pleasure to make the item. I started scrolling because I liked the instant gratification of making something in a few minutes or maybe three hours, instead of 7 or 8 days to complete..I love to scroll things just for my own pleasure of giving them away..I make things for our church, birthdays, and holiday decorations. My advice would be " do it because you enjoy it." Have fun with your saw and bring pleasure to those you love....that is my view and many do not agree with it ....but there is no demands or expectation and a lot of enjoyment for yourself.

Randy, I enjoyed looking at your work. You do a very nice job. I have to take a second look at your bear/mountain piece because at first I thought it was wood burned..I can tell be how well you do your cutting that you get a lot of pleasure from what you do...It also give the people on the Village web sight to see your talent shared with all of us. Take time to come back and post on a regular basis

Dave...I too am from a state that starts with the letter O....but I live considerably west of you..I live in Oregon....Welcome to the Village...I hope you post often and get some of your work here for all to see...I have been scrolling for a couple of years now and I enjoy it very much...I love to make gifts for people but I am not interested in selling my things. I found that when i am focused to get a lot of things finished for a show...it takes away the fun and pleasure of it all, for me. Have fun here and get to know the people in the village...I personally enjoy reading what others have to say and how friendly and helpful everyone is......nice to have you on board

Matt....I too wish to welcome you to the Village....don't hesitate to get involved here....make a point to jump into the forums you will quickly start to feel at home here....the people are friendly and helpful....some will even help you to make a pattern of your own..when you are ready to do that...if not....they are contributing new patterns here all the time...have fun here as well as in your shop..

Welcome to Scroll Saw Village........One thing that I enjoy about being on the web sight is the chance to see what other people around the world are making.. I try to find scroll saw web sights in other countries but for me it seems a rather difficult thing. If you could direct me to some web sights in your country I would love to take a look at them..I hope you find this place welcoming for you...the people here love what they do and love to share and help others and be helped by others... there are no dumb questions here so if you need to find out anything about scroll sawing ...you have found a wealth of wisdom right here

Hello to you in MO...we are glad you found us...you do not know me...but who knows. perhaps through this web sight we will get to know each other as well as you having the opportunity to share with many others here..I will be watching for some examples or your work and maybe you will have some advice along the way that just might help myself and others...Welcome to our group