Frank Pellow

You are right about that Tammi. Thanks to you, I made one of these baskets too, and it looks to be a LOT harder to make than it actually is.

Tammi201 drew my attention to the Steve Good pattern for this basket in the thread: that she posted yesterday. I immediately made my version of the basket using Figured Maple for the sides and Walnut for the top and bottom. As Tammi said in her thread this is surprisingly easy to make. The only difficult part, for me. was gluing everything together.

You did a very good job on this! I must look up Steve's pattern because, if I am able to do nearly as well as you did, I know that my wife will love this. Thanks for the inspiration!

I'm trying to convince my wife Margaret to cut my hair and she is reluctant to do so. Maybe, if I make her a nice sign like this, she will do it. p.s. I'm not kidding, I really am thinking of making a sign.

I like the pinkish-redish backround.

I posted a reference to one project earlier in this thread but there is another one I am now engaged in that is closer to the spirit of 'we are all in this together' that the pandemic is encouraging in most of us. That project is to create then mail simulated sunsets on Lake Pivabiska to may friends: I talk abut the project in the thread:

As you probably know, making straight cuts with a scroll saw requires a lot of concentration. As I outlined in the thread: I am going to be making a lot of frames to send to friends. Today, I cut 10 frames and each of those frames has 76 individual straight cuts. That's one heck of a lot of concentration. Here is photo of the stack of cut frames: I used a Flying Dutchman #5 Ultra Reverse blade and the wood I 6mm thick Baltic Birch plywood. I guess that I could have staked these at least two deep, but I am not fond of stack cutting.

Your lumber rack looks to be very useful. I built myself a built-in one many years ago but one like yours would have been more useful.

It doesn't look to me that you have lost skills. I like it!

This is definitely one of the better butterfly patterns that I have seen. My vote would be 'None of the above'. I would like it with a coloured glass background. This is what I did whith a dragonfly pattern that I purchased from you (photo attached).

I've had a great response from the few people that have seen this in person. Those people have seen a real sunset on Pivabiska Lake and they agree with me that it is really captured here. So, I have decided to make at least a dozen of these and to send them to friends and family as a pleasant surprise in these difficult times. Yesterday I sent the original to my friend Terry West who grew up with me on the lake: I've now started to make more:

You did a great job converting the photo to a pattern. Is the pattern available?

I was going to say pretty much what Bill said. But, since he worded his response so welll, I will simply say: "Do what Bill has said."

Welcome Darus. I see that you are just getting your site started and that, as yet, there are very few reviews, and no reviews at all of scroll saws. Are you planning to mention all types of saws? For instance: Will the site mention historic saws n longer in production? Will the site review non-powered-saws? Will the site review specialized saws such as small bandsaws used to cut glass?

Amazing!

I have started to attempt things that I have not tried before and am unsure of. The first on my list is to master the use of epoxy with scroll sawn objects. I started this a couple of weeks ago and am documenting my successes and failures in the thread: In the meantime, here is a photo of my latest experiment which is currently underway: When (not if) I finally succeed, I will insert a photo of that project here: xxxxxxx

I don't ever scan the whole book. And, anyway, I still prefer paper.

I 'bite the bullet' and cut the pages that I want to copy out of the book. If the book that I mistreat this way is a really good one, I purchase a second book. I've only done that three times.

This piece is different than most intarsia and I like things that are different. Well done!

I hope that the dragonfly escaped. Other than the fact that one of my favourite creatures in nature appears to be in trouble, I like what you have depicted.

Thanks. I often wonder myself what I will do next and, often, I don't know until I find myself doing it. Sometimes, even then, I don't know until what ever it is is until it is finished. And, sadly, on occasion, even when I have completed it, I'm still not certain what it is.

While working on Sue Mey's 'Farm Viewed Through a Window': I realized that just the frame portion of the pattern would make a good picture frame. Therefore, I expanded that portion of Sue's pattern sufficiently to hold a 8 inch by 10 inch photo. Next, I cut the frame out of 6mm thick Baltic Birch plywood. I decided to try one more thing and to arrange things so that the picture in the frame was translucent and that there was a light source behind it. The photo chosen for the prototype is one of the sunset over Lake Pivabiska looking out from the porch at our cabin. I simply printed it on plain 'letter' size paper, then sprayed it with three coats of Rust-oleum clear satin rattle-can stuff: I glued some narrow strips of 3mm thick Baltic Birch plywood to the back in order to keep the photo in place: Then, two screw eyes were screwed into the top edge of the frame, some wire was attached to the eyes, and the frame was hung in our kitchen window: Now, I can enjoy the sunset at our camp without even being there. That's good, because we might not get there this summer. My next experiment will be with building a lighted box to place behind the frame behind the frame

Nor do I.

It took you as many as five holes? I knew after one hole after replacing the clamps on my EX-30 that I had made the right choice.

OK, I did make a prototype picture frame and I'm very happy with the results. I'm certainly happy enough that I will now make at least four frames for our own use. Here are images of the prototype frame shown holding two different 8 inch by 10 inch photos: