courdorygirl

Beautiful work, I love the colors!

Very good idea, and very pretty!

Those are very nice Kevin!

HI Bob and I'll also say welcome to the Village. Everyone here is great.

Very nice work as usual Kevin!

I have a blog, but I haven't updated it in a very long time.

I use paint pens, the kind you can get at wal-mart.

My husband and I are the same way in auto parts shop. He'll point at me and say ask the family mechanic. (My last job before starting my bus was in an auto shop.) My husband too some woodworking in high school and has helped me a lot with the different types of woods and what will work best. Well, it's French and Art education, so I don't know if I'll ever be rich (I doubt it), but we are comfortable with me and school and hubs working full time. (he's a manager for a large box-retailer) I always encourage high school seniors to do what they love, but be realistic about it. Most liberal arts majors have to start out working in retail or fast food. Just a fact of life. I tell them that In my case, the business minor is for my own benefit. I'd love to own my own little shop one day, and guess what? retail. The Education majors are for a fairly regular paycheck between now and then (I also substitute teach while I finish my Bachelor's degree.) The best advice I ever got is that no matter what you want to do, you're going to have to work at it, so do something you like.

Yep, totally green. Didn't even take shop in school. All of my electives were Art or French. I'll give you three guesses what my majors are. (minor is business)

Hey everyone. Sorry I don't have any pictures today, they are still in my phone and it's dead at the moment, plugged in in an effort to revive it. The past couple of weeks I've mentioned a few times that I've been using my dad's hand-held drill to make my pilot holes, but the drill bit wasn't long enough. (it wasn't, I was using a tiny little bit and an adaptor.) Let me set up my little "shop" for you. my parents live in a roughly 1200 sq foot house, with a porch build on the back that is easily 600 sq feet itself. They bought a porch with a house attached. It's nice. When I got my saw last Christmas, I didn't (and still don't) have anywhere to put or use it at home, as I live in a neighborhood full of duplexes with a communal back yard, and things sometimes tend to sprout legs and walk off. We've been lucky so far, mostly because my neighbor works for ADT and has security cameras everywhere. I'm rambling, on with it. Against the house, I have a 8 foot plastic cafeteria table with my saw, the drill, it's case and respective bit set, my mouse sander, and all of my wood stacked up on the end. This is my shop. I do sometimes venture out onto the patio table, and of course everything (and I do mean everything) is currently coated in a fine layer of sawdust, with an even finer layer of pollen on top. I vacuumed up what I could today. Usually, I'm gone by the time my dad gets home from work, so I hadn't had a chance to ask him about drill bits. On the other end of the porch is a big plastic tub with all of the other tools (or so I thought) in it, and I never found any more bits. I thought this a bit odd, and I'll explain why in a minute, but shook it off and decided to ask later. Which I did today. The reason I thought this odd is because every year, for every birthday and every Christmas, since I've been old enough to want to give gifts (let's say third grade when my elementary school let us go to the little Santa shop to pick out gifts with our pin money,) my dad and I have had an understanding. He gets tools, and I get art supplies. Sometimes, this has created some funny moments, like the year he gave me what he thought was an art kit, and it turned out to be a makeup kit (I don't wear makeup. at all.) and I turned around and donated it to the school's drama club. Inevitably, he ends up getting more drill bits if we just can't think of anything else. So, the missing bits were a bit of an anomaly. Well, I stayed late today, because I started late after having to finish my payday errands, so I got to ask my dad about the missing bits. Boy did I feel dumb. The actual toolboxes (he has three, imagine that.) are not on the porch, but out in the shed in the back yard. We did find the bit I wanted, and it worked great, along with a blower and a shop vac! However, he had to teach me how to put the bit in the drill. You learn something new every day. I think my dad is tickled that I've started asking for tools instead of art supplies (I have the same amount of art supplies that he has tools, a whole room full. Thankfully the art supplies can be used up.) when I informed him that I would like a dremel for my birthday. Tomorrow I will post the progress pictures of my newest puzzle, a firetruck. Made in honor of the amount of times I say FiretrUCK a day. (I really try not to, as the little girls next door are always outside playing the same time I'm scrolling, and stop to watch fascinatedly every time I turn the saw on. They are still too young to come over by themselves without mom, but they can see pretty well from the top of their slide ladder. It's cute.) That really tickled my dad when I showed him the puzzle and told him that. He says FiretrUCK while working a lot too.

I find I like BB 1/4" plywood the best for most things, and I ordered mine from woodworker's resource, which I found just a tad less expensive than Ocooch. Ten 1' by 2' sheets cost me $35 with shipping, and they were very friendly and very fast. I bought some 2' by 6" poplar planks from Walmart.com, for about $15. I like making small puzzles with them, because it's so soft and cuts really fast. I personally prefer spiral blades, because I don't have to do a lot of sanding with them, and I can make really detailed puzzle pieces. I usually buy the Bosch brand at Lowe's, but I want to try the Flying Dutchman blades, as soon as I have some money on my card. I priced craft wood at Michael's yesterday, and it's three times more expensive than anywhere else ($12.99 for a 1/4" thick, six inch by two foot plank. Six inch is as wide as my local Michael's carries. Your mileage may vary.) Decided it wasn't worth it. I have two Lowe's close to me, one has a lot more different types of craft wood available than the other, but they are both reasonably priced. Again, your mileage may vary. Just my .02.

Those rocking horse animals are adorable, and I love your sign. Good luck at your show!

I love the idea of a backlight! Great work!

That train is gorgeous! I like the sign too.

Zim! I love them all!

Hi Mike! I'm fairly new to scrolling too, and can't wait to have an actual shop (currently it's my parents' back porch). Would love to see some of your work!

Hi Kris! Love you work, and welcome to the Village. Everyone here is awesome.

Travis posted about this guy a couple days ago, and also reported him to Ebay. Yes, any pattern you create is copyright under creative commons law (in the US, anyway). Ideally, people are suppose to pay you royalties if they sell your work. The pattern owners will have to prove to Ebay in their complaint that they created the pattern before the guy listed them on his Ebay store.

No, they are regular bits, I asked my dad (who owns the drill). They aren't quite .25" long, though, and I'm drilling the magnetic part into my wood. I did drill from the back today and it helped a lot.

That's really cool! My brother and I were just discussion three dimensional puzzle today.

I have a question. When I'm drilling pilot holes, the top part is always larger than the bottom hole, I'm sure due to the bit being larger on that end than the point end (I hope that made sense.) Using the smallest bit I have access to. I put a piece under so there is no tearout, and this usually works, that's not the problem. When I put the puzzle pieces back in (like my construction equipment puzzle) I can see the drill holes, and they are very hard to sand smooth. (It can be done if I work at it but then the pieces jiggle more than I like.) Should I try drilling from the bottom up? Since there is no tearaway using the block under trick, I think it would make the hole on the top smaller and the bottom part I'm feeding through a little larger. What do y'all think?

Love your work Kevin, these are awesome!

Nice to meet you Brian! That is a wonderful piece!

Welcome David! I'm also a newbie and I agree that this has been the best place to get both help and feedback. These guys an gals are awesome! My blower doesn't work at all, so I feel your pain. I usually just turn on a big shop fan and that does the trick, along with keeping me cool and collected. I love love love spiral blades, because I never could quite the hang of sticking my hand behind the blade! I use Bosch brand from Lowes, and they break pretty regularly, but I scroll a lot, so I don't know which it is, lol! I want to order some flying dutchman blades just to see the difference.

This is so cute! Love it!