Jo Labre

Are the bandsaw blades for the Pegas scroll band saw included in this offer?

I bought the Foredom from Judy Gale Roberts site, along with the flexible padded Seyco type sander that I put on one side of a Craftsman variable speed bench grinder. I use the Foredom bench lathe with an inflatable sander on one side and flexible sanders from Klingspor on the other. The pads are available in 2" & 3" widths and soft, medium & firm. The scalloped sanding discs available in grits from 80 to 400. I start with a medium density 2" pad with 80 grit and can lightly round over or bear down harder to make concave surfaces. I seldom use higher than 150 grit, since I finish buff on a sanding mop that's on the other side of the bench grinder.http://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/fp50200/http://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/kd50052/

Exceptional work on these cute teddies. Glad to see it is generating orders for more.

So, your next project is The Wizard?

Nicely done! Elegant and classy. I wondered the same thing about the magazine. I have seen other projects from them, and they are very different and interesting patterns.

Just started the Angel from the last magazine, pattern by Bruce Worthington. I have a dark skinned angel in my family, so I am using cherry for the face and arms with walnut hair. Sycamore wings, avodire bodice and overskirt, canarywood & paela (chakte viga) underskirt. Rosewood scarf, redheart heart. On to the fun part - shaping!

I am in Wisconsin and it made me laugh, too. That saw looks brand new, the table doesn't have a scratch on it. Will have to follow this post to see what you do when you need room for a bigger snowblower.

I have gotten holly from Kettle Moraine Hardwoods on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are nice people to work with. I have not ordered from them, but someone told me about http://www.domexhardwoods.com. Their website shows they claim to be the biggest supplier of american holly.

Very nice dragon. His name should be "Sir Snarly". He has such an attitude!

The wings are ash burl with sapele ribs. Used streaky poplar, an unknown (unidentified?) streaky wood and ribbon mahogany for the body. Regular poplar for the horns and spikes. The streaky poplar came from my brother in law in Upper Michigan. The tree was growing in the rocks along the fence line and had amazingly strange streaks throughout.

Looking good, nice color choices.

I guess I am kind of a 'lurker' in this group, I don't usually post photos here. But, I just finished The Guardian pattern by Bruce Worthington and am happy how it turned out. Thought I would share a couple of photos.

Nice idea! Have you considered doing some 3-D shaping, rounding the spokes so they look like a real ships wheel?

I was on vacation last week in the southwestern part of Wisconsin near Prairie du Chien. Planned to visit Ocooch Hardwoods, since they were fairly close by in Viola. It turned into a trip that took most of the day, the road to Viola was closed because of flooding so we had to drive to Viroqua to get there. Drove all over town and finally stopped at the Post Office to be told that their mailing address is Viola, but they are on County E south of there about 10 miles. Good thing we had the street address, because when we found it there was no sign, nothing to show it was Ocooch Hardwoods. Two farmhouses out near the road, one large barn and one large shed behind. Knocked on the door and, sure enough, we were in the right place! Two of the nicest young men took us over to the one farmhouse with a large room with shelves of thin stock. After I told them I was more interested in intarsia wood - 3/4" to 1" thick, we walked out to the shed and entered exotic wood heaven. Floor to ceiling shelves with an amazing inventory of wood. Going through the shelves where the 'shorts' were kept, I picked up zebrawood, padauk, wenge, blue pine, butternut, bubinga, lacewood, purpleheart. It turned out that our timing was bad because we had interrupted their lunch and a little girl's birthday party. We felt bad about that and concluded our business and drove back to our rented cabin. If you ever want to visit, be forewarned!

You could try shaping your fretwork. This tree of life was just a fretwork pattern, but some shaping gave it more depth.

In addition to making several paper copies of the pattern, I also print the pattern (or parts of it) on transparencies like you use on an overhead projector. It helps to visualize the grain on each piece. Holding the transparency where I want it, I lift it just far enough up off of the wood to place my glue sprayed paper underneath.

Very well done!

Just finished the Black Bear Cub pattern from Judy Gale Roberts. Used walnut & butternut for the bear, cedar for the log. The eyes and nose are ebonized walnut. I bought the wonder wheel for this project, but I found I preferred using v-tool bits in my rotary tool for the fine hair & log texture.