Old Joe

Like I said, I would recommend you change the mouth area.

Fantastic workmanship!

This is from a recent Steve Good pattern. It is made from one board, with the figure's outer perimeter cut with the table set at about a 3 1/2 degree.That allows the wood spirit to protrude a little over half way through from the back. I like the idea, but if I were to make another one I would redesign the mouth/mustache area, as I think it looks too big. On this project I used stains,rather than my normal oils, to try to make the backboard look like barn wood and the have the wood spirit contrast by being lighter. I have very recently built out a new shop and I'm just getting started making sawdust again. I hope to be a bit more active on this site.

Good morning! I haven't been around for a little over a year. I had been fairly new to to scrolling, but a long time stained glass guy that was going to try to start merging the two art forms when disaster struck. I had just pretty much completed building a small shop/studio and was scrolling daily when our septic system began failing rapidly. Long story, but our paid for home of 39 years was on a small lot and even with new technology the county would not give us a permit to put in a new system, leaving us up the proverbial creek without a paddle.So, as having little choice, we moved last year right before Christmas and bought a small house in the city limits of Frederick, MD. Good news: city water and sewage. Nice sized lot. Bad news: there was no garage. Real good news: I have just finished a new 12 x 24 detached shed/studio and got all of my final inspections for the building and electric last week. I have almost finished the interior, having completed walls, ceiling, lighting, French cleats throughout, and have built a couple of new benches. I picked up a used Grizzly dust collector recently and will be working on getting it connected up to my miter saw, sanders, etc. The last things I will setup are the glass area and scrollsaw station, as everything else will come to a halt as soon as I thread the first blade into the Dewalt. I still want to build a small loft and overhead wood storage, but that should be completed by the end of this week.When I am finished I will post a couple of pics of my rustic, treehouse carpentry.

And again my pictures come up off axis. I don't understand what I am doing wrong.

Love it. Might inspire me to get into intarsia!

It's too nice to cut cheese on. Wall!

I have now made 4 of these Suns with some variations to the theme. One I gave away without taking a picture of it. In these 3 shown, oneI made the saw " blade" out of 1" red oak and stained it with Minwax Expresso stain.The other two are mounted on real circular saw blades that I painted. All of the Suns were cut from scrap red oak, stained with Minwax Golden Oak and are from Steve Good's pattern, though with some minor changes.

Too cool! I still heat primarily with wood, and still on occasion use bellows.

I have been looking for an understated rose. I hope that you won't mind, but I'm going to use that pattern on my next vase.

Right now I am only about 5 months into my Dewalt, but if I were looking to start all over again the Jet would be high on my list. Bottom feeding would take an adjustment, but, hey, they told me the same thing about the rotary shifter on my Ram truck 3 years ago. That took about 10 minutes, which of course I can never get back. Now, I never look back on that, and I think bottom feeding would be the same if it was well designed.

That is beautiful, and beautifully crafted! I'd like to make something like this for my missus. Where did you get the design?

I have one of my benches set up with a plywood pullout shelf.I mounted the blade directly on the plywood, over to one side, where it is not in the way. It works great! My little shop, like many of you, is like living on a ship. Everything has its place and every nook and cranny gets utilized. This takes up less space than a pair of scissors hanging on a nail! Thanks, Hawkeye!

I really like this idea. If it works as well as it looks like it will I may mount a board on one of my benches and have this as a permanent fixture in my shop.

S-I-L received her gift today and was very emotional. She remembers that the horse from when it was on her mom's fridge. It was a big hit.

Fantastic!

I believe that it can only be downloaded to a PC at this point in time. Not available for MAC.

Looks great!

I've been scrolling a lot of 3/4" and 1" red oak lately and believe me, I really appreciate what you have done!

Kevin? Making the phone call for an appointment is the hardest part.

This might be a little lame, but this Swedish horse was around our house for a long time and we think at at my mother-in-law's before that. All of my wife's grandparents migrated here from Sweden. Anyway, my wife's sister's birthday is next week so I thought maybe this was worth a shot for a present and for my first inlay attempt. BTW-now I feel very confident to take on inlay projects.

I have several French cleats on my shop walls. Also, I have Bose 301 speakers on my living room wall that came with metal French cleats. It is, I believe, a hanging technique that has been around for about a 1000 years. You can make them as big, or small, as you need to. April Wilkerson has a clear explanation on her blog on how to make them. Check this out:https://www.wilkerdos.com/2014/02/diy-power-tool-storage-system/

Fantastic cutting!

I represent that!

From Mike's Workshop: By using 2" clear package tape you will eliminate most burning. Especially in wood with oil (like Purple Heart) and very hard wood. We like to first put the pattern on the wood and then put tape over the pattern. Some like to put it on the wood first. It is all up to the individual. Some might even use a different tape but most like to use the package tape. It is almost like the tape lubricates the blade. Not quite. The tape has a chemical that is like a Silicone and releases friction. If this chemical would not be on top of the tape, you never would be able to un-roll the tape from itself.