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Was hinting around for a scroll saw for father's day and nobody came through. Sort of. My future SIL, showed up today with a like new Skil model 3335-7 that his widowed neighbor was giving away. No blades, box or wrenches, but came with instructions. Free is nice. Anybody have any tips about this brand and model. Have to get blades for it tomorrow.

Having some work done around home and the excavator said two trees had to go. One an Oak and the other a dead sassafrass. Had a fair length piece of trunk that was 8 inches in diameter. I was able to cut several oblique slices out of it. Since it is already dead, and has been for at least a year, I don;t think I will have any checking.

It was a Boice-crane, probably made in the 1950's or 1960's

Saw a very old industrial scroll saw for sale. The owner said it takes 8 inch blades, and he has been making them from band saw blades since he can't find them for sale. I did some checking and can't find any. I tried to see if the machine could be converted some how to five inch blades and it may be possible, but before taking on such a project, I figured I would check for ready made blades.,

I recently saw a wooden bowl which had piercings around the sides which appeared like they were scrolled. I am having a little trouble tying to figure out how such a thing is done. I can't figure out what kind of saw would permit the operator to see the lines to be cut. Unless it had a very narrow work table and base, (a bit like a free arm sewing machine) . .

I have been wanting to do something similar. I cut some branches but on a diagonal do the slices are like ovals when laid flat. I have them drying in a 5 gallon bucket packed in saw dust. Minimal chaeking last I checked. I was tempted to try boiling some slices to see if they are as prone to cracking. There is a YOU tube video of a guy scroll sawing such pieces of branch. He epoxied the checks before sawing. However not nearly as big a scale as the op suggests. Slicing branches on a band saw is how I get most of my cherry and cedar wood stock anyway.

I think it was Country magazine that ran a design every month with instruction about colors etc. Expressly intended for readers to copy.

If the owner of the copyright goes bankrupt and defunct. The magazine did not design the "art" a person did. If the person did it for hire, then the company truly owns it. If the person designed the art and then sold or licensed the art design to the magazine, it probably still belongs to the person, unless all rights were sold to the magazine. Even if the company went under and no one acquired the company's rights to the artwork, Somebody probably owns it. The odds of them coming forward and complaining are slim. I have a collection of old hunting and fishing magazines. Most of those companies folded and ceased operations years ago. There is a provision of the recent copyright law changes, that says if a work was published 95 years ago, there is a presumption that the work is in the public domain. Hence the 1923 fail safe date that Barry5180 mentioned. A magazine owner that I sometimes exchange ideas with, indicates that his legal specialist advised him that under the old copyright laws, the fail safe year is 1938 for published items. because back then, at most it was 28 years plus a renewal of another 28 years and those lengths were not changed by later amendments. My father owns an original watercolor by a famous artist who died in 1985. The watercolor was used in a magazine and then years later, the magazine discarded it's old files containing the original artwork, drawings etc. Dad noticed the files being thrown out and took a couple of boxes of them. he has some nice signed sketches by several wildlife artists. The artists and/or the magazine probably own the copyrights, but Dad actually owns the original pieces. No one can copy the originals without Dad's permission as owner. That person would also need permission of the copyright owner. They could copy the copies from the old magazines however, but again, would need the copyright owner's permission. Lets say a hobby magazine published a design. Isn't there a presumed permission that the subscribers are able to use that design? After all that was the purpose of publishing the design in the magazine.

Logos are not protected from some reproduction and use. Just as an example, I could never take a picture of a famous automobile, because the reproduction photo would contain the likeness of the logo. Obviously that is not a violation of copyright laws. It comes under a partial exemption from the copyright law called "fair use" § 107 . Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use40Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include— (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors. As an example: In the 1970's Volkswagon ran a few ads showing a Volkswagon floating in water. Way back when Ted Kenndy's companion drown when Ted drove off the side of a bridge, Mad magazine ran a a full page ad showing a Volkswagen floating in a pond. The caption said "Had Ted Kennedy been driving a Volkswagon, he'd be president today" There was nothing Volkswagon could do about the use of it's logo or picture of it's car, because it was fair use. That particular issue is still a big collector item because of that ad.

Barry5180, hey neighbor. What you state is 98% correct for anything in 1978 or later. The law before that time is indeed a morass, with many unrenewed copyrights being lost after 28 years. Some however renewed for another 28 or 67 years depending on when created and renewed. And the copyright law specifically gives an example of a modification of a copyrighted item continuing to have the modification copyrighted even though the original is not. There is a point at which under prior law, all copyrights expired before the recent changes. I do not remember the exact date, but as I recall, items published before a certain year , perhaps 1934, are in the public domain. The problem is locating original art published before that date. Any reprint may have copy protection alterations.

Off and on for years, I have cut my own small thin planks on my band saw and then run them through a buddy's thickness planer The pieces may not be very wide, but I have made some up to 7 inches wide and 30 inches long. Normally about 5 x 20. Cut slow with a good blade. I normally cut to 3/4 or 5/8 and plan on losing an 1/8 to a 1/4 inch in planing and sanding. I get walnut, cherry, maple, cedar, etc from what would otherwise be firewood. I do the same for stock for the wood lathe. Perhaps a bit more labor intensive, but I can make a gift and say, this is from a tree that was on my back forty. .Recently made a bowl for neighbors from stock cut from a tree that was in their back yard and was knocked over by a storm. When we lost our house to a fire, I saved a few of the old charred beams from the 1860's farm house and made a bowl for each of the kids. Adds a sentimental attachment to the piece. .

When I was in college, I turned several bowls out of teak cut offs from a furniture factory. Each was basically the same and was finished with particular felt pads on the bottom that I made myself. I sold them to help pay for tuition. imagine how I felt when I discovered two of my bowls, a few years later, being sold in a craft store with another person's name tagged as maker. After that when I made something, I took two letter stamps from a metal stamp set, clamped them together and heated them with a torch and burned my initials into the work. I sold some leather work for a while and did the same then. Branded with my initials. Even when making anything as a gift, I add my "mark" It identifies the item. If I were to do anything commercially again, it will be marked with a brand that is comprised of my initials.

40 years ago, I blew a fuse on my Moto Guzzi, way up in the nether regions of the state. There was no hope of finding a replacement within 100 miles. I did what any person would do, I wrapped the old fuse in a foil gum wrapper and had lights again. I drove the 75 miles home and made it to within a few miles when the wires to the fuse caught fire. Ended up pushing the motorcycle the last three miles home. Had a terrible mess to fix before I could ride again. Kept at least two of each fuse in the bike as replacements until I sold it. They came in handy too. Lost my house and shop to a fire a year ago. Fire Marshall, suspected wiring in the old farm house went bad, chewed on by mice etc. I put 15 years into remodeling that old farm house. replaced all the plumbing and pulled out live knob and tube wiring. When the fire happened, an electrician had replaced all the wiring except the wiring on the back wall of the house. that was the side i would be doing last. That was where the fire started. Aint taking any chances on electricity ever again.

I despise outfits that charge shipping and handling based on the dollar amount of purchase. One company I deal with does this, If I ordered 100 coping saw blades the shipping would be the same as a 20 pound single item of the same total price. A couple years ago, I purchased an item that was right around 500 dollars, and the shipping was $17.00. However the bronze item weighed about 120 pounds. Most places would have charged far more for shipping. Whenever I consider ordering on line, I always check shipping and handling as part of the total purchase price when comparing prices.

Kids misbehaving in public is a problem of long standing. Back in the 1960's, I was a clerk after school at the local Woolworth's. One darn mother decided to have her kid try out a bicycle and he crashed into a display causing it to fall on an old lady. The kid's mother then screamed at the store manager for not having a place to try out the bicycles. In the late 1970's at another Woolworth, I caught a teenager taking a leak on a clothing display in a corner of a store. The excuse given by his foster care worker was that he was extremely troubled. Outside Philadelphia a couple weeks earlier, a teen age girl, upset over being caught shop lifting torched clothing displays in several stores at Plymouth Meeting Mall. My ex wife would let my oldest two kids get away with everything in stores. So bad that we had an argument in a store about my correcting the children for climbing on the counters. I stormed out of the store and walked home (2 blocks.) 10 minutes later, the store manager and a security guard told my wife to leave the store because the kids were destroying things. She was the type that would give a 6 year old a bottle of nail polish and think the resulting mess was cute. That was in the mid 1980;s At a flea market years ago, I was looking at an item on a table and noticed a rifle being pointed at my head. from the side. I ducked and knocked down the culprit and jumped on top of him. and then realized it was a rather large 14 to 15 yr old. His mother called police. Thankfully witnesses stayed around to talk to the police. The kid had picked up th gun from a vendor table and immediately was swinging it around pretending to shoot people. There isn't much that can be done about some folks. You can just try to minimize problems. delicate items up high on a solid shelf, items wrapped so they are not able to be dumped, kid sturdy items down low. sample out to play with. etc It is hard to be friendly and not be a door mat,

I put saw dust in the compost pile and when it has cooked a few years mix it with garden soil

years ago, I represented a man that had connections with a leather clothing manufacturing concern. He wanted to sell leather NFL team jackets to the public. I contacted the NFL main Licensing office. We had to submit a sample of each proposed team logo jacket for approval and then the was a licensing fee of $1,500 and then an additional percentage fee for total sales. Each company has different prices and procedures. Then there is also something called "fair use" It is the use of a service mark or copyrighted material that requires no permission. Such as satire, ridicule, or otherwise criticizing or making comedy of a thing. As best I can recall from my intellectual property law class, 40 years ago, the rules for fair use can be even more confusing. For instance changing the words of a song to make fun of the original song is protected as fair use. (And a copyright attaches to the new words) There comes a point where copyright and trademark law merges. For instance the Stiffel lamp company sought both trademark and copyright protection for it's lamp designs. If a company made knock offs, Stiffel would sue under both laws for infringement. Their position was cutting edge 40 years ago. Don't know if that still holds. If I want to use a a rusted Chevy emblem on a Bumper sticker that says" This is Ford Country. On a quiet night you can hear a Chevy rust" that would be fair use. If you design/make a satirical characature of a Disney figure, that would be fair use. If you copied a Mad Magazine satirical Disney figure, you probably violate the Mad Magazine copyright, but they did not violate the Disney copyright. Trying to figure out who or what agency at a company to talk to about using a design/figure/picture can be very confusing. Big companies like Disney and the NFL, have their own licensing offices. Some farm licensing out to other companies. Some just don't deal with it. Some will refer you to their advertising agency, because the agency personnel actually designed the item under contract.

The fact that a copyright owner does not pursue every violation is irrelevant. Some owners actually encourage free use and do not care. That does not change the fact that for violating another's right, the copyright owner might sue and end up owning your house. Frankly, the damages to be collected for infringement are usually pretty low. After all, how much did you make selling 5 copies of a Chevy emblem? How much did chevy lose with those sales. In this day and age, it is so easy to find pictures and drawings on internet sights that are free to use, even to use commercially. Altering a design, either digitally or by hand, is easy. There is little reason to infringe a copyright.

Just as an example of how complicated the copyright aw can be read this: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/1999/12/why_wonderful_life_comes_but_once_a_year.html Also, I studied the history of the song "A Lion Sleeps Tonight." It was originally a Zulu folk song. A version of it appeared in the first Boy Scout Manual as a scout marching song with words similar to the Zulu words, written by Robert Baden-Powell, who heard the Zulu version while serving the British Army during the Boer Wars. . In 1939, in South Africa, a gent named Solomon Linda and his group recorded their arrangement. It was Solomon;s arrangement that had the high pitched falsetto yodel type performance. (You can listen to the original here: ) The record had few sales, but a copy found it's way to Decca records, where it sat for ten years and then was to be thrown out. A music historian was given the pile of trash records. He approached a musician named Pete Seeger whose folk group, the Weavers, recorded it as Wimoweh in the early 1950's. Several Groups recorded versions of the song and then in 1961, a Brooklyn doo-wop group recorded the song as In The Jungle the Lion Sleeps Tonight. That recording and arrangements made a few reprisals in popularity over the years and then was used by Walt Disney Company in the movie the Lion King. Each time the song was recorded a different copyright attached, sometimes just to the changes. Solomon Linda sold his rights to the song in 1939 for the equivalent of about $2.50. However, under a fluke of law, the rights reverted back to his heirs 25 years after his 1961 death, so in 1986, the family became owners of his arrangement again. Around 1999, the South African Gov't, in trust for the destitute heirs, sued for copy right infringement, Sued Everybody, Capitol, Decca, Disney, etc. The case was settled for 11 million dollars payable to the family of Solomon Linda. As you can see, it gets very convoluted.

I have been wondering about mixing skills. Such as a frame turned on my wood lathe to hold a multi layer scroll saw cut out pattern that functions as an illuminated piece. Another idea is how to incorporate pewter inlays in a turned bowl. Perhaps star patterns cut with a fret saw, fillin with pewter. Anyone do anything remotely akin?

the only craft show I do is our Christmas Lion's club "greens sale". Everything club members make is donated and sold to raise money for the club projects. Wreaths, door banners, lathe turned holiday decorations and hopefully this season, some scroll work. Evergreen boughs come from members' woodlots; The wreaths I personally make are terrible. But the other decorations made by myself and the others sell well. Last November in 4 hours we raised over $800. BTW, our lions club "Greens Sale" is just the club at a little outdoor picnic area along a country highway. For this year, I designed a simple nativity scene to cut on diagonal log slices with a scroll saw. I aleady have some wood drying for the purpose. (Cedar, sassafras and poplar) While the members' items are donated for sale, those who make items for sale otherwise have their cards and tags attached. The public can contact them directly for future purchases

There is a host of complications in just the US copywriter law, not to mention the 6 to 8 significant Amendments over the past 50 or 60 yrs. Many copyrighted items from the 1940's are no longer protected because copyright renewals had to be filed in the 1970's, howver, there is little way to tell because there is no index of renewals. A modification of a public domain design can be copyrighted, but just as to the modifications. In this day and age, in which computers can be used to stretch and broaden a design, it is difficult for anyone to prove a copyright infringement where the design has been even moderately altered. Also beware of marks or letters left in a design to prove copying. The ADC map of my neighborhood shows a small non existent pond on my property. Never been a pond on the top of my hill. It is there to catch copy thieves.

Yes indeed, it was the "painless" blades, I was Making light of. My adult son was hurriedly cutting some wood on a saw a decade ago and a painless blade would have been a benefit.

from Home Depot's site: The General BT8007 Scroll Saw also has a 9/16 in. stroke with the allowance of both pinned and painless blades.

I saw a video in which a gent cut angled slabs from a tree branch and scrolled them to make plaques. I have 20 acres of woods and lots of maple, cedar, poplar, etc. I have a bandsaw to cut the wood into thin half inch slabs. But how should they be treated/handled until dry to reduce cracking and checking. turners spray their bowl blanks with paint, or BLO, Spraying the pieces with paint would create a mess to sand off. I have a barrel where I could bury them in saw dust to dry more slowly. But that might promote mold. Any suggestions.