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  1. Old Joe
    I made this for my wife. Everybody comes with baggage, she came with cats and for 44 years she has pretty much always had two cats. Steve Good pattern. Made with 1/4” African Padauk and Zebrawood and a Baltic Birch backboard painted black. I tried to stack cut them first, but I used too small of a blade and it flexed just enough to not give a mirror image. It wouldn’t be worth the amount of sanding to save it, so I cut them individually with a Pegas MG#3 and it was a piece of cake. I applied several coats of semi-gloss lacquer.BTW, my wife loved it.
  2. Old Joe
    I bought my Pegas saw from Denny and now he gets most of my business for blades and other equipment, but I do have one thing I should make everyone aware of. I think he got the LED magnifier lamp he sent from the toilet seat row in the plumbing department at Home Depot. See pictures below.
  3. Old Joe
    A couple years ago I cut this Fiona pattern out of a piece of 1” Red Oak. I cut a relief cut allowing the cutting to recess forward in the outer ring. Then I cut the round piece of glass to fit inside the outer ring. If you look closely, you can see both Oak rings. And in my opinion, there are many talented scrollers, and then there is Fiona Kingdon. She is on another level that’s all her own. She uses no patterns. She makes things from what the individual piece of wood gives her and draws her works with her blades.
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    Tough Day

    Old Joe replied to Old Joe's topic in Bragging Rights

    I have learned to get along with them to a point that I depend on them too much sometimes. I wish they made even smaller ones. I bought a kit of circuit board diameter bits and open the holes as needed from the back side. Of course I do occasionally bend a blade and then sometimes they break when I clamp them in too tight.
  5. Old Joe
    Cool pattern! I would (carefully) use a a 2/0 spiral blade for the dots.
  6. Old Joe

    Tough Day

    Old Joe replied to Old Joe's topic in Bragging Rights

    Thanks, Brenda. I enjoy the challenge of cutting intricate patterns as small as I can without ending up with a muddled mess. It’s getting harder, mainly due to developing cataracts.
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    Grizzly

    Old Joe replied to New Guy's topic in Bragging Rights

    Very cool! Nice cutting and a great pattern.
  8. Old Joe
    I just finished this Mike Williams pattern. I like to cut portraits pretty small and I cut this one 9x6 inches. It made for some pretty intense scrolling, all done with Pegas 2/0 spiral blades on my Pegas saw. I hope you enjoy it. I haven’t posted on here in a while, though I scroll almost everyday. I was deeply saddened to see the news about the passing of Les. This community lost a very encouraging contributor.
  9. Old Joe
    Innovative!
  10. Old Joe
    Thanks, I really have grown almost dependent on spirals these days. Also, I stop and sand the back with 400 grit paper on a palm sander after every 20-30 cuts. I find it an easier way to deal with spiral fuzzies.
  11. Old Joe
    This was 1/4 BB with a couple of coats of Natural Danish Oil, mounted on 3/4” thick pine board stained black, with a keyhole hanger slot routed on the back. Except for the larger black area towards the top, all of the cuts were done with Pegas 0 and 2/0 spiral blades.
  12. Old Joe
    Oh, my. I am so sorry that happened to you. I have found myself getting cockier with my table saw at times lately, and beating myself up for doing so. I think I’ll put my guard back on, both figuratively and literally on after seeing this. Hope you heal cleanly.
  13. Old Joe
    This is the 2nd Merle Haggard cutting I’ve done. I like this better than the 1st one. I’m feeling haggard, too.
  14. Old Joe
    I also have the Grizzly Baby Drill Press and if scrolling was the primary usage for it, it is perfect. It also takes the smallest bits with no problem. And it’s on sale for $94.50 today. Great price.
  15. Old Joe
    I am around a lot of Bluegrass players and their fans. I seem to get a lot of requests for pickers, both old and today’s progressive players.
  16. Old Joe
    This Grizzly handles bits even smaller than #70s.
  17. Old Joe
    I’m a little late to this party, but I have this drill and not only do I really like it, it makes drilling the holes in patterns with hundreds of cuts go much faster and they are dead on. I also use it with Forstner bits to embed signature coins and again, it makes it a breeze. Bit changes are fast and easy, and I sometimes use micro bits the size you’d use on a circuit board. I’m talking tiny! No issues tightening in the chucks. Sometimes it does go on sale, but I just got an email from Grizzly saying that due to increased costs from their suppliers, and also due to increased shipping they will be having price increases coming imminently.
  18. Old Joe
    Nice job. I also have to knock out fun ones occasionally to keep my sanity.
  19. Old Joe
    …About a Man Named Jed. A Charles Dearing Pattern of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, pretty small at only approximately 5 1/2” x8” Cutting the fretboards that small was pretty challenging. I used Pegas spiral blades for about 90% of the cuts on the project, though I did use Pegas MG flat blades for the longer straight cuts. I got a little sloppy in a couple of places with the spirals.
  20. Old Joe
    The bridge work around the fiddle was nerve wracking.
  21. Old Joe
    I am a huge music fan, especially Bluegrass. I decided to do this Charles Dearing pattern, with a few minor variations, and it took me a bit longer to cut and finish it than I thought it would, but hey, it was Covid time so it doesn’t really matter. I am sometimes having a tough time staying focused on the task at hand, which is definitely not my norm. A lot of Bluegrass songs feature the word “breakdown” (i.e.Foggy Mountain Breakdown), so I decided to call my version of this, “Covid Breakdown.” As is my norm, it is pretty small at 8 1/2”x 6,” and was mainly cut with Pegas 2/0 and #1 spiral blades. I hope you all enjoy it.
  22. Old Joe
    Careful. Kokopelli is known to be a mischief maker, especially known to bring fertility.
  23. Old Joe
    Normally, neither am I, but this child loves color. I made an exception for her tastes.
  24. Old Joe
    My granddaughter turns 7 in a couple of weeks and is crazy about fairies. Steve Good’s wife shamed him for rarely making patterns appealing to little girls, so he came out with a couple variations of this one last week. I changed it up a little and painted it in her favorite colors. Not my normal style of a scrollsaw project, but I think she’ll like it. You may not notice it at first, but the center of the flower is a blue stained glass jewel.
  25. Old Joe
    Fun stuff!
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