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Charlie, I’m sorry to hear of the loss of your beautiful sister at a young age. My condolences and prayers for all who are impacted by the loss. It sounds like you all had a great relationship and lots of wonderful memories together. That is something to find great joy in. You made a beautiful tribute and the portrait of her is excellent as well.

Nice work Kevin, good to see you post again so we know your doing ok.

Welcome. Nice piece. My husband's great grandfather was a blacksmith. We still have a few things from his shop including a ledger where he kept track of the work he did along with a bench.

Kevin, Len is still around. He just apparently doesn't visit the village. He does communicate on "The Scrollers Cafe" Forum. I saw a post/reply over there from him just yesterday. He has been through several issues with his health but is still plugging along based on what he has said recently on that Forum.

Beautiful pieces Frank. I admire your patience and skill in cutting such intricate detail. Your air brush painting continues to enhance your projects.

Congratulations on your move. Sorry it entails putting your saw up for now. I feel your pain, we started packing up last year about this time to move, building a large workshop at new place. Weather has not cooperated. Finally under roof. Not sure I will remember how to use any of the equipment by the time it’s all done.

Beautiful piece that I’m sure your daughter loves and will always treasue.

Another Tennessee welcome. Glad you joined us.

Carole also participates on the Scroll Saw magazine’s forum and will answer questions there too. https://forum.scrollsawer.com

A beautiful box Dave. While I know my skill set is far from yours, I may want to try sometime in the somewhat distant future (my hubby would be able to help me with it). Problem is right now, we are down a shop with all the tools packed away while we await building our new shop building. The winter rains here in East TN have been horrible ever since we got our building permit the first of the year. so for now, I hope to enjoy seeing others take on this challenge and admire everyone else’s work.

Changed Free or Paid to Mostly Paid link is to Etsy Shop and patterns on that site are not free.

And actual patterns and images used are in this thread FrankEV used an image frankorona had previously shared to create his pattern.

Here’s an older one I did for hubby one year. It’s a Steve Good compound cut pattern. You can find it on his blog here: https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2012/10/this-is-pattern-i-used-in-yesterdays.html Looks like he has a newer one with more words (Love you to Pieces) that he shared last year just before Valentine’s Day. It can be found here on his blog: https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/search?q=Love+you+compound

Another nice project Brenda even though I’m not a cat person.

Looks great Todd. Very nice of you to do for her. I’m sure she will love it.

Thanks @Jim McDonald. I too subscribe but I had missed that when I scanned the magazine when it first came in and hadn’t really had a chance to look at in more depth yet. However, I might still have missed that. I do hope the subscription base is strong enough. I will note that it was the newsstand copies though that I originally purchased that eventually led to my subscription.

Jim, where did you see this ad? Was it in the magazine its self? @Rolf and @Denny Knappen I think you both do cutting for the magazine, do you know anything? I do know that it has been harder and harder to find the magazine on newsstands anywhere in my area. Lowes and Home Depot carry very few magazines any more. The only place locally that still carries many magazines is the one remaining big box book store we have in the area.

For me personally, I have never found the slowest speed on my grinder to be too fast as I did on the Guinevere. However, I have found the ability to adjust my speed up or down as I can with a variable speed versus a one speed only grinder to be beneficial. Just as with my scroll saw, I find it good to be able to adjust my speed depending on the project. Sometimes I need to cut slower, sometimes I can bump up the speed, it depends on the type of project, it’s detail, the wood being used, how thick,etc.

Nice job Brenda. The only time I cut acrylic, it was for oval blanks for a “doggie bank” I made a great niece a couple years ago. No where near as detailed as your handsome dog here.

Marie, the “grinder with the flex drum sanders” I use is an 8” Delta or Rikon. I don’t recall specifically which and it is presently packed away as we moved and await building a new shop. The main thing I was referring too is that i would want a larger grinder and that it be variable speed. The larger sanding sleeves and variable speed gives you more sanding ability than the smaller Foredom. When I researched this when I did mine, the brand of the grinder didn’t seem to be an issue. Variable speed is key and one that is sized to take the flex drum sanders.

This was the issue when my Seyco (one of the first ones sold) started not to hold the tension on my blade and was releasing. I replaced the chuck head with a Pegas and try to remember to not over tighten the blade (and have told my DH over and over not to tighten it so tight )

If you are interested in trying to use for Intarsia, I would recommend getting the flex drum sanders from Judy Gale Roberts site. This size is probably most versatile for larger intarsia pieces and I know hubby used for sanding other things. You buy a variable speed grinder from your local store, then purchase the flex drum sanders from her site. I started out with that setup on a variable speed 8” grinder purchased at my local HD or Lowes. I then got her wonder wheel to also use on it and we have I am pretty sure used a “flap” and “mop” sanders on one end. (It is presently in storage unfortunately as is most all are tools ). Judy explain setting them up on her site here in her faq area: https://intarsia.com/pages/faq i also have the Foredom setup she sells. I purchased it later for use on much smaller pieces. Both have their purposes in my opinion but if I was starting out with one, I would go with the larger grinder with the flex drum sanders for more versatility in my opinion. i bought the Guinevere system before I actually took Intarsia lessons with JGR and learned how important variable speed was. The Guinevere is not variable speed and it is extremely high speed. I found it very difficult to control for my Intarsia needs. Hubby has used it on other work because it was there. But I regretted the purchase of the Guinevere for trying to sand Intarsia work. I much prefer the Flex drum sander on the variable speed grinder and the Foredom.

Took me a bit to track it down on Steve’s blog as he shared it back in 2011, but here is a link to the pattern for anyone interested in making some for Valentine’s Day. (Hopefully nobody needs 6 for girlfriends or boyfriends though. (I have enough trouble taking care of 1 hubby .) https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-love-you-this-much.html

Great job Marge and easy to see why your granddaughter would love it.

Beautiful piece.