TripleJScroller

Wow these look wonderful, great job!! My wife was eyeballing these on the Sue Mey site, I'll have to show her your finished work, she will be really wanting them then...lol.

I tried to take some pictures, but unfortunately the issues just don't show up in the pictures. Maybe I'm just being too picky. My Grandfather was a finnishing carpenter and a perfectionist to say the least. Maybe I inherited some of that from him...lol. I'll have to look into something like that. I'm starting to think I should just skip the lacquer as it's where I'm just not happy with the way it's turning out.

Most of what I cut I guess would fall under fretwork. I use mostly baltic birch plywood. Also some signs with inside cuts using either red oak, or popular. I need to find some finer grit sand paper I think, the finest I've found is 220 grit at Lowes.

As far as the bad results it's kind of hard for me to pin point. Most of my problems seem to be in the lacquer stage. For instance I dipped one sign I made in a mixture of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits. It looked real good. Then I applied some spray on lacquer and even gave a couple days between coats due to the humidity here in Florida. When it was done it has kind of a rough finish. It looks good from a distance, but up close you can see the roughness. Another project at the lacquer stage came out looking like I'd put glitter on it. It looked like little crystals on the surface. Haha. Steve my Wife is dying to get her hands on some of my projects. Problem is I prefer the look of wood in its natural state. She wants to slap paint on everything...lol. I had to compromise and cut her out some stuff she could paint just to keep her away from the stuff I don't want to paint...lol

Since I discovered this wonderful hobby just a short time ago I've discovered that I absolutely love spending long hours at my saw cutting away. While I'm far from an expert at the saw, I've steadily seen improvement in my cutting and have even produced a few items that I'm quite proud of. The problem is once I'm done cutting I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to finishing. So far my attempts could easily be labeled as complete failures. There is nothing worse to me than spending hours at the saw creating something nice and then ruining it in the finishing stage. I've watched many youtube videos and read more tutorials than I can count and for some reason I'm just not getting the results. To be honest it's led me to develop a bit of a fear of the whole finnishing process and my Wife keeps pointing out the stack of projects I've got sitting waiting for finishing. I'm just wondering if anyone has any tips for me to help me get over this fear and maybe improve my finishing. I will tell you that spray lacquer that I see people use in the Youtube videos seems to be my enemy. I've ruined more than one project with that stuff...lol Thanks, Josh

What a coincidence, that's the same brand as my current scroll saw I guess I really shouuld find a picture to put there

Very nice! Love the design.

I like it! What blades did you use for such intricate, precise cuts? I'd love to have a copy of that pattern!

These look great Kevin. I tried a keychain right before my saw broke and it came out terrible. Can't wait to get the new saw to start practicing again.

Thanks Gordie, I'm gonna do just that!

Thats one hell of a good looking bowl!

Great job! Such nice clean cuts. I can't wait to get my new saw next week to give some of these a try for myself.

What a great idea on the Ranger tab. I'd like to try that with an Airborne and Special Forces tab. I have some good friends who retired from the SF recently and I bet they'd love something like this.

Welcome Phil! I'm new here as well and I have to say this is such a great group of friendly, knowledgeable folks! Great work on those Ornaments by the way.

Very Impressive!! Great work!

Very nice! I love the splash of color on the flower.

Great work and great idea! I just love coming here and seeing the unique and interesting ideas folks come up with. Keep up the great work!

I believe I found that one on Steve Good's site. I'm at work so I don't have a link here, I'll look for it when I get home though. I think I want to cut the Welcome sign again, but this time I want to make it a bit longer and cut it in maybe Oak like I did the Paws sign.

Very well done!!

Thanks for all the kind words ya'll. I've almost got the Mom one finnished, I'll post a pic of it before I ship it off to her. I haven't been able to decide how I want to finnish the Welcome sign so its just sitting there waiting...lol

I thought I'd take a moment to post a few of the items I've cut out recently. I took the pictures soon after I finished cutting them so none of them had been sanded or anything yet. All of them were free patterns I found on the internet.

It's good to hear so many people seem to like the Dewalt 788, it's a lot of money for me to spend on a hobby. Lucky for me the Wife loves the stuff I've been making so it wasn't too hard to talk her into letting buy a new saw.

Yeah while it did help a lot I'm also looking into a lot of different solutions that I've seen here and around the internet. Right now I'm waiting on getting my new saw so I'll have a lot of time to fiddle with some ideas I have. Thanks for all the advice!

Sounds like great advice! I also plan to keep an eye out for good deals on a back up saw to have just in case.

Hi Amanda, welcome! I too am new to scrolling and only recently found this forum. You won't find a more helpful, friendly group of folks. Funny side note is that I started on an old Ryobi my Mother-in-law kindly donated to me. Oh and because of Pinterest my Wife has found me more projects than I'll ever dream of having time to cut. Josh