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I'm about to build Steve Good's wedding guest book pattern for some friends and I'm worried about the signatures holding up. I know sports jersey displays use UV-protective glass to keep the signatures intact over time. Has anyone used something like this? Where did you buy it?

I've been behind on posting things I've done. All from patterns here. I caught the island in the monocle dog before it was too late, but I wasn't so lucky with the elephant.

Great job. I love these puzzles and I think they'd sell, but I have trouble paying $3 per pattern since there are so many. I wish they'd do a package deal.

Looks great. I might have to give this a shot this weekend. I have some guitar player friends. Would look great in maple and walnut, but I'm really liking the red you made yours in.

These look amazing. Do you design them yourself or do you have a pattern? The baseball, is the foreground straight maple or maple plywood?

Thanks. Made a bit of a mistake too late to notice. Looked good in the shop and after finish, but once in the sun I noticed some sawdust under the plastic. Another example of something 99% of people (unlike people here) that would never see it but drives me nuts.

Made this for a boss that got a new job. My wife has a vinyl cutter, so she made the letters. Not complicated, but got a pretty good reception.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but if you're looking for a cheap, small easel I got one for about $3 after a 50% off coupon at Joann Fabrics. Wal-Mart has a lot for cheap, too.

Thanks for looking, but I found what I'm looking for. It was a Charles Dearing pattern, I just didn't look in the right spot.

Anyone know of a good mother of dragons pattern from game of thrones? I know we have one in the fantasy pattern section of the site, but I'd like one more detailed. Charles Dearing has one, but I'd like one with the dragon in the picture, kind of like the one in the pattern section but more detailed. I was torn where to post, but I'm not asking anyone to make it for me. I'd like to buy it since I might be making them to sell, so I figured this was appropriate.

I got a set of plastic test tubes from Amazon. I cut a part of the package and stuff it in the tube to identify the blade inside. Drill holes in a 2x4 to put the test tubes in to keep them sorted.

Sounds like you're doing very well. If you don't mind, where did you get the patterns for the puzzles?

It's hard to get in the picture. It has a 12" piano hinge on the bottom and two latches on the top to keep it closed. It basically opens down. I wanted it to open from the bottom up but I didn't want the hinge to show.

A client wanted a custom coin display case for her husband. She showed me a picture of something close (original looked like a flag and he's a cardinals fan). After doing the math (the worst part) and drawing it out, I basically designed the rest on the fly. Not terribly done. The cover doesn't line up as perfectly as I want, but it's pretty close.

Thanks everyone. The one I was looking for was on sale at Klockit so I bought four. Kevin, it's not that complicated. I'm making the fake cuckoo clock from scrollsawartist. http://www.scrollsawartist.com/cuckoo-wall-clock.html

I'm making the cuckoo clock (not real cuckoo clock) from Scrollsawartist. It requires a quartz movement, but I want one that will last longer than a year. Anyone have recommendations about quality ones?

Tough call, but 1, 3 or 5. Either one would be fine.

However this happens, yes please. My wife asked me if I could build one of these by Christmas.

I basically started this to be a time saver. My wife works 0700-1700 and I work 0730-1630, but I go to the gym before work. We go to bed around 2030, so if we cook dinner when we get home it's basically the rest of the night (the kids help but can't do anything remotely complicated in the kitchen). This way, we have a LOT of meat cooked. The boys can pull something out of the freezer during the day, warm it up and make some vegetables, and a delicious dinner is done when we get home. After dinner, I can go to the wood shop and she can make soap in the basement (her side-business). This makes everything much easier for everyone and I cooked everything for the month in a few hours. I love my grill, too, but if you see the difference in a medium rare steak in the sous vide cooker and the grill, you might be converted.

Chicken cooks much faster than you think. We vacuum sealed four LARGE chicken breasts in each bag and used a heater and cooler, so we were able to do about 8 bags of chicken at a time. Breasts took an hour and a half and the thighs took about 2 hours. We cooked 80 lbs of chicken yesterday. Bagging is the time consuming part. Vacuum sealing is key. A lot of people just use water displacement and Ziploc bags, but we did so much at once so we could freeze it all and just pull out bags, thaw, and sear the outside for dinner. A lot of people do ribs for 72 hours and long cooks like that. It's supposed to take cheap cuts of beef and make them taste like expensive cuts. Trying a rump roast for 12 hours pretty soon. If you're on the fence, It's definitely worth it. We have a restaurant supply store near us so we buy things in bulk when it's on sale to put in our big freezer. This is basically the setup I have. Paid about $160 on Amazon for the setup (already had the crock pot and cooler). Look for dorkfood DSV review on Youtube. Dave Cheung does a great video on it. Well well worth the money, especially when you taste it. I'd paste the link but internet explorer at work won't let you copy and paste from youtube or Facebook.

I've been looking into sous vide cooking and tried my first meal (seasoned chicken with the dorkfood controller and crock pot) and it turned out simply amazing. Naturally, my 2nd cook had to be 10 lbs of pork chops and 80 lbs of chicken with the controller, fish tank heater, and big cooler. The pork chops were seasoned with salt and pepper and seared on the grill. My wife agreed that it was the best pork chop she's ever had. It was literally falling apart on the grill. So glad I've been nerding out about this for so long and took the plunge. After the chicken finishes tonight, we won't have to cook for about two months, other than vegetables and searing the meat. If you're on the fence, do it. Best meat I've ever had and nearly effortless. If you want to know more, post below and I'd be happy to answer questions.

Dangabbit, that's perfect. Why didn't I think of that. Thank you very much.

Does anyone have a pattern for a carousel horse? I think I've designed the rest of the carousel, but I don't have one for the horses.

Thanks everyone. Decided on a Rhinelander clock from The Art Factory. I'll order the pattern once I hear back from them about what wood size I'll need so I can have everything around the same time. I was thinking about what you guys said and I came to the same conclusion. It's really no different than any other piece I've done, just a whole lot more of them. I'm really hoping business picks up a bit and I get busy, so I can just do a panel when I have a free evening and keep doing more of them until I'm done. I figure it'll take a year or so to get done. I read something a while back that said everything you've ever read (in English) has been made up of 26 letters. I was helping my step-dad get adjusted to scroll sawing and I told him something similar. Everything you'll ever do on the saw is either an angle, straight line, or curved line. Figure out how to do those well, and you can do any pattern made. Of course, it's a lot easier said than done, but still true.

Steve Good also had a free program to download to make name plates, keychains, and other stuff. It uses all the fonts you have installed on your computer. Its really pretty great.