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Charlie, you have quite a shop there! My CEO (wife) raises cane because I have a few pictures hanging on my shop wall, nothing as many as you have though! Good looking set up! Erv

Great job on the neat cutting and the finish! At least using that thickness of red oak, very little chance of it breaking while cutting the letters! Very well done! Erv

Beautiful job on the truck and the case to keep it in away from the dust makes for a great display! Well done! Erv

Great job on both the pattern making and the cutting of it on the perfect piece of weathered wood! Erv

Bruce at one time after the movie came out, he was reported to have said that he had received threats to his life for shooting and killing John Wayne in that movie! "How dare he do that" ! Awe, some people! It was a very good movie though! Great job on the cutting, looks just like he was shown! Erv

I ran into that problem with the wood of padauk when I had glued up that wood with maple and proceeded to sand the the piece to a smooth finish! When I cleared off the dust, lo and behold the maple had been stained red! Lesson learned, don't combine a light wood with padauk! After that happened I looked up the history of the wood and found out that where this is grown that the natives use this wood to dye other woods and , this I am not sure of, fabrics also! Anyway just be careful and presand both woods before gluing them up! Erv

I did fail to say that the few items that I have dipped in the danish oil, I now spray over with gloss or satin lacquer so no longer have the odor . It doesn't bother me anymore as I have very little since of smell anymore unlike my wife that must have the since of smell like a hound dog! Erv

I very seldom ever use this oil anymore for that reason of the continuing smell! Customers would pick up an item and would get a wiff of the oil and put it back! The oil does dry quickly especially here in the southwest during the summer time! Erv

Your supplier is right, Baltic Birch does come from a region of Russia known as Baltic. 2 or 3 years ago the workers and the machinery was having a tough time getting into the forest to harvest the trees due to very wet and snowy weather and I believe that was true last year! I don't use ply very often but I did order enough last year to last for a good while! Erv

Thank you Jim and this past Saturday the two rescue people had set up at our maul and I was able to give each their own plaque! They were pleasantly surprised and keep asking how much they owed for payment! Of course no payment, just display them for the public to view! Erv

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. This was fun to cut and I wasn't really a dog person until we were ask to dog set a couple of dogs for the granddaughter. One was a big male pit bull that would tolerate a new person for about 15 minutes than you were friends for life! The other one was a mixture of starfershire, pit bull, that part I don,t thank so, does not act like one. The big male had to be put down last year because of a huge tumor in his stomach that could not be removed. The smaller dog, female, has been staying here going on a year so I guess she is a permanent resident which is fine with us! Anyway thank everyone and i really thank Mr. Blume for this pattern. Erv

Its been awhile since I have posted any of my works but just wanted to put this one on! This is a Jim Blume pattern and it has been a few years since I have cut any portrait style with just using spiral blades, fd 2/0, 3/0! The cutting is 11"x 14" using 1/8" bb mounted on 1/2" mdf. I cut 2 and they will be given to 2 different animal rescues. Erv

I have been watching the price of construction lumber on the stock market and it is approaching $1200 again and I think that is for 1000 board feet, not sure about that, but it is on the way back up! Erv

Happy New Year and may this be the best one of all! Erv

When you remove the strip that is on the wall, you have to be sure that you pull that tab strip down flat against the wall. If you pull on it like you would tape it will take the the paint off with it. That strip will become longer as you pull down on it and the tendency is to pull it off than, don't do it! Keep pulling it down, it will release without taking the paint with it. I have not had any problems with removing the strips that have been on the walls for a year or more! Erv

The Command strips is one of the best ways to "hang" your cuttings on a wall! I have been recommending to customers that have asked why I do not have wall hangers on crosses, framed projects, etc, and I tell them about the Command strips that will hold the item to a wall and if later on they want to remove it or move it to another place it is very easily done. I have different pictures of different sizes and weights attached to the walls and have not had any problems with them staying put! Just do as the instructions say to do and you will not have any problems! Erv

Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving and save some of the left overs for snacks later in the day! Erv

The 3M 77 adhesive has been very scarce around here but was able to order it through Walmart a couple months ago and ordered 6 cans! The 2 home stores haven't had any in stock since back in May! Erv

As Frank and others have said, it is a hard wood and I would use at least a #5 skip tooth, even a #7 and do take your time and don't push the wood into the blade! Denny made the comment about the dust, it is a fine dust and one of the things I have discovered about the dust, when you finish cutting all of the pieces make sure that your saw and table are absolutely clean and do not use the blades to cut any other woods! The dust will find its way into a cut or will pick it up off of the table and will stain lighter colored wood especially maple! The chess board you have made is top notch and once you have all of the pieces cut, it will be a joy to play on! Erv

As others have said, I too do not post here as much as I should but to have lost a long standing member of the group via this terrible virus is just so sad! Rocky, you will be remembered as one who would help others with scrolling problems and with good advise to go along with the help! Rest in peace. Erv

How about taking your phone and give them a call! I would thank that in your situation, taking with a live person will get a much better response than waiting for a reply, that most likely will not happen, over the internet! Just my 2 cents worth! Erv

Ben and Ike, on the 13th of this month I will have made 83 trips around the sun, but back to the subject at hand. I started this hobby back in 2005 with a Dremel scroll saw and a book about scroll sawing and self taught myself how to do this great hobby! All the book said about blades was the different sizes and did mention the spiral blades for use if the project was larger than the space between the blade and the rear of the saw. Not knowing any better and with no one around here that did this kind of work I ordered some spiral blades and choose a portrait pattern of Merle Haggard and the blades were cutting like a hot knife through cold butter! Not knowing that a spiral blade was impossible to control, I cut numerous portraits and sold nearly everyone! This tells me it is a mind set of hearing that about spirals, a person will set down at the saw insert the spiral and thread the blade through the entry hole, turn on the saw and start on the pattern all the while that nagging part about uncontrollable is in the brain and off you go! Actually you are not controlling the blade just as you are not controlling a flat blade, what you are controlling is the material you have the pattern on! As with a flat blade if you need to make a turn you turn the material, with the spiral you don't turn the material, you guide the material into the blade. Granted, if you are more accustomed to the flat blade and go to the spiral, you will have a new learning curve of not turning the pattern but moving the pattern lines into the blade and not turning the material. Erv

I had to make a quick purchase of 2 sheets of 1/8 inch bb ply and a sheet of 1/4 inch bb ply this morning. I called a wood shop over in Lubbock, TX and the prices was still about the same as a year ago or maybe a little longer. the total price for the ply came to $56.50 but the shipping from there to here at Alamogordo, NM was $63.00! Now thats bad when the shipping is more than the product! That's the problem I have about living here in the desert southwest, either take a road trip or order the wood! One is about as expensive as the other! Erv

I agree with all of the comments and I will add my 2 cents worth! I too have trouble with the 2/0 blades and it is more my trying to do what I do with other blades and it just does not work with the 2/0 blade or finer! 1/4 inch wood, hardwood or softer wood is just about the limit for this blade! They do require much more tension than the larger blade which you wouldn't thank so but it is true! Also you do have to turn down the speed, you cannot be in a hurry with this blade! As you have already found out you cannot turn the wood at sharper angles like you do with other blades, the blade will not track around like the larger blades do and you will have to do as Frank and I do, and that is make minute cuts to get the sharp angle cut. If you happen to be cutting 1/32nd or 1/16th material the blade may track around the shape bends, that i couldn't tell you, never had any material that that thin! As far as splitting lines, I have found that for myself the thinner the lines the easier it is for me to to stay on the line. It seems to force my brain to stay there and not wander off as I would with thick lines. Since we do not make our own patterns I have to do it different with patterns with the thick lines and track to either one side or the other of the edge! This does require more time for myself to make the cuts but than I am not employed by China! The worst ones to cut are the solid black patterns and that is the only choose to cut them! Just go by the advise and try any or all of the ideas but do put the tension to them and slow down the speed and let the blade do what it is supposed to do, cut the material! Erv

I use the same method as most, that is shelf liner on a clean, dustless board and spray the back of the pattern using 3m-77 which works fine for myself and for small projects, blue painters tape and than the above for attaching the pattern. The one problem that I have with larger projects is lining up the pattern with the wood and just as I go to put the pattern down its just like it is magnetized and is suddenly drawn down and not where I want it! Trackman, you have just given me the idea that will work, spray the liner or the tape than place the pattern and that should do away with any problem of placing the pattern where it should go and not where it isn't supposed to be! Erv