tomsteve
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beautiful!
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i live me some lil babies and your grandson is precious! gongrats!!!
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im likin that!
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spend the extra. i burned through 2 craftsmans, first one started falling apart after about 30 hours. other one was given to me and started faling apart after about 20 hours.
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my son retired from the army in september and asked me to make him a display case. i wanted to get a little different on this one. had the piece of walnut for the drawer fronts around for some time waiting for a project.
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thanks!! howd ya flip it??
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awesome! i like how BLO seems to add depth.
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now why is that upside down? ok, how do i fix that!!! oh..... everyone!!! turn your screens 180 degrees!!!!
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just gotta trim and make a frame. 1/8" bb. ive been stack cutting 4-1/8" for portraits for a bit now but think im gonna go back to 1/4"". seems more difficult and blade life is shortened, which im thinkin might be due to more plys with glue. ill never do this one again !!! until the next time!
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Spiral blades - butchers tool or experts only?
tomsteve replied to RedOrZed's topic in General Scroll Sawing
they both have a place. ive thought about using A flat blade kn some of the portraits ive done, recently the tiger swallowtail butterfly, but with 500+ cuts thats 500+ times id have to turn the work 360 degrees and many of the cuts are juuuuust about 360, the back the other way, turn here, go up, turnturnturn...i find it much easier to use spirals in that situation. blade control for me seems to be combined with saw speed and the pressure i apply. but then theres other portraitwork requiring veining where a spiral is too wide. -
i have an ex 16 and it has that action. the blade pulling away just a little is enough for the dust to fall from the cut.quite often im cutting 3/4". not all teeth leave thecut on the stroke. so with the blade pulling back justa wee bit allows fresh cut dust to leave the gullets. if the gullets cant get the fresh cut dust out of the way the blades heat up, blades dull quicker,cuts can get wavy...there are a few other problems that can happen.
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ive been able to get a lot done on the tiger swallowtail now. unfurtunately my back doesnt want to cooperate with my desire to get r done.
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as for sharpening services, i personally found it wasnt that much more for a replacement set of blades. i have read great reviews of this place http://nationaltoolservice.com/Sharpening%20Price%20List.html probably be wise to call them and ask. the 735 is an awesome planer,one i am seriously thinking of upgrading to. two upgrades ive read that make a bigmdifference are a shelix head, which is a wee bit pricey or a set of replacement blades from infinity http://www.infinitytools.com/DeWalt-DW734-DW735-Planer-Knives/products/1649/ as for a sharpening system, i built a jig from plans i found in shopnotes magazine. i cant recall what issue it was. i found it good at freshening upthe blades,but the disposable planer blades dont really have a lot of meat on them to give a full sharpen to. have ya happened to flip the blades? if im not mistaken the 735 has double edge blades.
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ive been pickin awaynat the tiger swallowtail butterfly over the last few weeks but have been having a problem with tbe blades comin loose in the clamps and blades breaking. cleanedand scuffed the clamps and looked at a few possibilities, but still had the problem. i was beginning to think tbe fd spirals might have had some flaws in a batch. welp, i had another project to kick out yesterday. using the fd spirals.different material,same problem. then....i stopped to get a pencil out of a drawer,there was my 8 by 12 carpenters square telling me," check to see if upper arm is parallel with the table." upper arm was 1/4" higher at the blade. realigned it and what a difference!!! no more blade problems. last nights project i was halfway through when i did that and the second half took half the time. think i might make some serious progress on the tiger swallowtail today. funny thing is i read about the parallel thing a while ago and completely forgot about it. oh....heres the project i was workin on
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hey,sam! are you addicted to scrolling yet?LOLOL iffen ya look up top of the page here theres a tab titled "wood finder." ive gotten my ply on ebay from KC hardwoods woodworking supplies. free shipping,too, for the ply. and also ocooch hardwoods.good prices in scrollsaw ready hardwoods,too. both have been very good quality ply at a good price. seems that a good price for 1/8" bb ply is about a buck a square foot and $2 a square foot for 1/2"
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FD here,too. ultra reverse and flat end spirals mainly. have tried quite a few of the varieties of FD but the penguins and settled on these. i did run into a problem with the spirals breaking real quick on me. i hadnt used them in a long time,remembered i had the problem before, and it took a little time for me to remember i had to slow the saw speed down a bit.
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glad ya found the site,sam! i noticed ya have a question in another thread on blades for cutting acrylic which i (still) dont have An answer for. it would probably be wise to start a new thread asking the question as sometimes a question asked in a thread on another topic can get passed up by the members here.
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those are awesome! you deviver,too! i wonder sometimes if you ever sleep!
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the bevel cut is an awesome idea but i like to make multiples so just cut everything at a 90 and overlayed. im thinkin of doing one for myself with the bevel cut and thinking about what lumber to use. but have quite a few other projects to do beforehand.
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that is pretty cool. im wondering how the candle gets in there and lit.
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did this quite some time ago. was one of my first scrollsaw projects. mostly solid red oak but a few different types of wood used. even put maple flooring in it! not t&g, though.😊
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thanks all. actually theres mistakes in every piece i have ever made. theres already a repair i have to do on the butterfly. the two big open area arent supposed to be open.i forgot to modify the pattern there to add some strength. the blades used... on the deer and butterfly, 1,3, and 5 fd spirals. on the rest a #5 fd ultra reverse which is what i mainly use. i use a #3 when theres tight corners or fragile parts like the dogs' whiskers. thanks all for the comments! i actually have quite a collection of ss work as i do everything in multiples. love seeing people when they open their presents or when someone requests a certain "unique" item and they get it and say, "perfect!!" plus a few things i did for myself.
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it was in cwwc magazine years ago but is available herehttp://www.scrolleronline.com/product/8478/375
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and one im pulling back out.started it about....heck, its been almost a year! its the one that my old scrollsaw said,"ENOUGH!! IM DONE!" ive done the butterfly twice before mainly for gifts for someone i knew. did those ones 3- 1/4" birch ply. this time im going 4-1/8" birch with a 1/4" oak on bottom.got someone in mind and an excaliber!! the wine one was the 1st one i took the time to think about if i could use the remnants. all tbe others were stacked,too. i stack all portraitwork. i gotta say its awesome coming here and just lurking seeing all tbe awesome work everyone kiks out! a d i have learned some,too, from ya's!
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the pattern was from scrolleronline. the rest lf the wood from this one was scrapped.i stacked 4 of them except for the eagle. did 6 of those.i have some finish drying on some other pieces and will get a pic of what i was able to do with some leftovers.
