TripleJScroller

Wow this is very impressive! I've got to get a lot more practice with spirals before I would ever consider trying something like this.

Great work!! I've really got to try the word art out for myself. I'm loving seeing what you and others are doing with it!

So I've been having some issues with the tension knob on my 10+ year old Ryobi. Over a period of a few days it got harder and harder to turn and I found it was really starting to hurt my elbow having to reach back constantly and wrench on it. I tried oiling it to no avail and finally decided I needed to try and take it apart and see what was going on. What I found is that other than the tension bolt itself and a spring all the parts are plastic. One of the plastic pieces inside had dry rotted and broke off inside. I tried to come up with a DIY solution but no luck. The good news is I'm getting a new Dewalt, but I've got to wait two weeks for that. Hope I don't go from withdrawls going two weeks without a saw...lol

I'm new to scrolling, and hadn't given much thought to breathing in the dust until I started noticing after spending a few hours at the saw I would have a bit of throat irritation and would often cough a bit after. I bought a good mask and it seems to have helped a lot, even if my Wife now refers to me as Darth Vader

These look great! First thing my Wife asked for when she realized what I could do with the Scroll Saw was our Grand-Children's names cut out. I've been putting it off not real sure how to go about it, but now seeing these I think I'm going to give it a go.

Wow very nice! I live in the heart of Gator country as we call it down here. Big fan myself!

Very nice! My wife would love the lighthouse one, I might have to try it for myself.

Once again thank you all for the warm welcome! I'm already learning so much just by reading through all the forum posts here and the Articles section. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions as I go along. For instance I tried some spiral blades for the first time this weekend and wow I got mad respect for the folks that use those. I was all over the place...lol

This is what I use as well. I bought it when my wife was coupon crazy (it was costing more for her to print online coupons than we were saving on groceries..lol)

Great job! I really like the idea of cutting puzzles out of pictures like this, I might have to try and make some for the Grandkids!!

Very nice!!

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I came home tonight to a very nice surprise as the Flying Dutchman blades I had ordered arrived. I can't wait to get out to my saw and get to trying them out, but I wanted to take a moment to thank ya'll for the welcome.

Hello, My name is Josh, I'm 40yrs old from Central Florida and while I'm very new to the Scroll Saw and woodworking in general I'm absolutely addicted to it. My wife thinks I'm going through midlife crisis and she may be right...lol. Upon turning 40 I started doing a bit of reflecting on the state of my life and realized that for the past 10yrs I'd been spending way too much time riding the couch and doing very little of anything productive outside of work. So I decided it was time to find a hobby that would get me up off the couch and doing something productive and hopefully even creative. When I was young I enjoyed helping My Grandfather do woodworking. Now I don't have a lot of room and not a whole lot of cash to burn so I started researching something that I could do with wood that wouldn't break the bank or require a large workspace. I found scrollsawing. It just so happend that my Mother-in-law had an old Ryobi scroll saw sitting in her garage and she said I could have it. So for the past couple of months I've been tirelessly cutting out every free pattern I could get my hands on. When I'm not cutting I'm scouring the internet for patterns, watching tutorials, and reading forums. Wow I didn't intend on writing a book here, sorry! lol. One last note, I just talked the Wife into letting me get a new saw. I'm looking at either the Dewalt 788 or the similar Delta. I look forward to learning all I can from all the wonderfully talented folks here. Thanks for having me!!