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Welcome to the Village from East Tennessee. Look forward to your participation here. Great hobby to take up and lots of help here when you need it.

Looks good Edward. Thanks for showing.

Hi Brennan and welcome to the village from East Tennessee. Glad you found us. Enjoy your new saw. Take your time and be patient and you will master it in short order. Look forward to your participation. Be sure to ask any questions when you have them or get frustrated. Everyone here is great in helping newbies with their saws. They have done much to help me.

Looks like you have a good setup with the sanders then. While the variable speed is not an absolute, I think it is helpful to be able to adjust the speed depending on the size of the piece, and how much sanding you are trying to do at once. Don't give up on intarsia, you are doing fine. Just keep at it. I have several pieces i need to finish up. Suppose to rain here almost all week so maybe I can get to it this week.

Like Lawson, I think those crosses are beautiful and you did a great job on this one. Thanks for showing it.

Kevin, if you are limited to 1 photo - photoshop and put the 3 images that Jim suggested into one photo perhaps.

Always good to ask, as someone may have a brilliant idea You posted your reply to Edward while I was typing my initial reply so I missed that before I submitted my first reply. I guess, the main thing I would do is at the very front of the description I would put in all caps, bold, italics and underlined the statement, “CLOCK MUST BE REMOVED FROM PIECE TO SET TIME. YOU CANNOT SET TIME FROM BACK SIDE OF PIECE AS IT IS FULLY ENCLOSED.” SEE PICTURES!” if that doesn’t work, refer back to my first line of original reply,

If you really want to try to do Intarsia more, I would suggest looking at different sanders then a belt sander. You will be able to do much more fine sanding with some others than you will with a belt sander. Most people who regularly do Intarsia work have a variety of different Sanders but find that a flexible drum sander, or inflatable sanders are some of the best tools for the sanding work needed with Intarsia. JGR uses both the flex drum sanders and the foredom inflatable sanders in her class. (you can find both on her site.) Seyco also sells the flexible drum sanders on their site here: http://seyco.com/sanding-accessories/ Judy also has a large pneumatic drum sander from Sand-Rite she uses. I would like to get one one day. For now, I do most of mine with the flex drum sanders and the Foredom. One key note with both, you want to make sure they are variable speed so you can alter the speed as needed. I originally got a King Arthur Guinevere (similar to a Foredom) when I was first getting started BUT hadn’t done enough homework, and hadn’t taken my first class to learn better. The problem with it is it is extremely fast (too fast in my opinion) and does not have a variable speed to adjust it. It was an expensive lesson to discover. I much prefer to adjustable speeds with the Foredom. If getting the flex drum sanders, you want a variable speed setup for those as well.

Kevin, you have heard the statement, you can’t fix stupid haven’t you? Hate to say it, but you are always going to have those people who don’t read the info. provided, don’t look at the photos provided, etc. whether it is provided in the online description and/or the printed information sent to them. Some don’t take the time, others misread or miss it (we are all guilty of that at some time or another no matter how closely we read and look at things.) As you note, if you have only had two of those in all these years, that is pretty good odds compared to all your sales. I am not sure what else you can do if you already show photos of the back, provide detailed descriptions and all. Video may be a good idea, many people are more “visual.” Even though you cannot link to it from Amazon, you could provide the link to the video site with the directions printed and mailed with it. Sometimes, we try so hard to cover all the “ bases” that we put too much info. out there and people then only half read something or ignore it all together so perhaps, less info. can be more. The other thing would be to put the most Important information first so they don’t miss it if they skip half of it. Unfortunately even with that, like you noted no matter what you do, you are still going to have those few!

The stress was not caused by the attempt at doing some Intarsia work, but by your subject a snake stresses most people out. The one thing that gives my hubby nightmares . Remember, its only wood and you can always go back and recut a piece. and most of us are our own worst critic. I think it looks fine. What is it that you don't like about it? Pine is probably not the best wood to work with as it is so soft. I would try to work with harder wood when trying to cut for Intarsia. Part of the fun and the challenge of doing intarsia work is finding that perfect piece of wood with just the right color and grain. Look into some of Judy Gale Roberts Intarsia books - she provides great info. on learning to do Intarsia work. You can find them on her site here: https://intarsia.com/collections/books Kathy Wise also has some great books: https://store7626357.ecwid.com/#!/Books/c/15463196/offset=0&sort=nameAsc Judy has several free patterns on her site as well: https://intarsia.com/pages/download-free-intarsia-patterns They are good to work with for a beginner as they often have much fewer parts. Kathy also has some on her site here: https://store7626357.ecwid.com/#!/FREE-PATTERNS/c/31408046 The pig is a good pattern to start with - you can first do it as a "segmentation" piece cutting it all from one piece and practicing the shaping. Then do it again using different types and colors of wood for some of the pieces. Judy also provides some great free articles on Intarsia work on her website here: https://intarsia.com/pages/beginner-intarsia here: https://intarsia.com/blogs/news and here: https://intarsia.com/pages/faq Bruce Worthington has a free Intarsia E-Book with instructions on his website where you make a Teddy Bear: http://www.intarsia.net Don't be so hard on yourself, like anything its going to take some time to learn to do Intarsia work, it still will never be "perfect" to you probably, as you know where the issues or "flaws" are but to most people who look at it - it will look great. I have to remind myself of that all the time. We learn with each project that we do. If you have only done two now, you haven't learned much right - after all we go to school for years - we had to learn to roll over and then crawl before we could walk right - that didn't happen over night. You are doing fine. Just keep at it.

Beautiful looking project David and I can see why you would be well pleased with it. Looks great on your wall. Thanks for sharing it.

This paragraph from the U.S. Mint website should help to clear this up: Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who ‘fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States. This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent. (Source U.S. Mint) Nice work as always Randy. I never cease to be amazed at what you can do with a coin and a Scroll Saw.

Welcome to the Village. Glad you joined us, look forward to your participation.

Another East Tennessee welcome. Your work looks fabulous. I am sure your wife was happy to have such a great Scroller poertrait of your late son. My condolences on your loss. Randy, @hotshot does a lot of coin cutting and tried to get others interested, I think we are mostly intimidated by it. Perhaps with you and a Randy sharing, others will give it a try. Glad to have you join in.

Welcome to the Village from East Tennessee. Glad you joined us, look forward to your participation. Thank you for your military service.

Welcome to the Village Greg. Glad to have you here. Excellent work. I can see why you’re wife would love it.

Hi Bob and welcome back. First, I do have a Seyco saw and it is the primary one I use. I have had it and used it since they were first released. However, I have never used a spiral blade in it so cannot respond to using it with that blade. I do not use the knob to change the tension on the Saw, it was set once and I use just the flip lever to release tension to move the blade to the next hole to cut as needed. I do it the same way with the excalibur Saw I own as well. Paul, @Scrappile also has the Seyco Saw I know and is a much more accomplished scroller then I with lots more experience, so perhaps he can give you better info, if someone else doesn’t before he has a chance.

The 10" band saw is the Rikon 305.

Ummm, Tootsie Rolls would work and look very nice in there.

Nice work on this one Denny. Glad to see you coming back to the Village to show off some of your work. Paul had a great idea, candy dish. Easter is coming, so get some nice easter chocolates.

Actually, no, I don't remember that specific post (I am presently over 2,200 in almost 3 years here) and am on pretty regularly couple times a day "just checking in". However, I know I have posted several times on here with folks bandsaw boxes that I wanted to give them a try one day. Glad my "one day" finally rolled around. I still want to make more. Just need to get some boards and get them glued up. Hope to do that sooner then later. Maybe one day I will have a great bunch like yours. Thanks for the reminder!

Looks like I missed most of these posts the first time around. My loss, I like all the work you did. Love your newest bandsaw boxes. Like you, I have started thinking about how you could incorporate some scroll work into a bandsaw box other than the handles. I think it could be done easily enough when the "front" of a drawer or the box has an area that is "flat". Will have to give it some thought. Look forward to seeing what you come up with. Glad you came back and gave us an updated look at your latest boxes.

My understanding is that the purple ones were first introduced in 2006. I went out to the shop and double checked again to make sure I was remembering correctly and none of the ones I have will fit in the holes. All of my labels are inside of the tubes.

Carole Rothman gives detail information on making a bowl press in her books. You can find a little info. with a picture of one on her blog here: http://scrollsawbowls.blogspot.com/2013/06/easy-fix-to-make-taller-bowl-press.html She also references getting the idea, information from Dave Van Ess on his site scroll mania.com. He actually provides the information on how to create one there:: http://scrollmania.com/Documents/MakingAUniversalPress.pdf I have created a press from Carole's book. (Even if the bowl I attempted ended up in the firewood box. ) I will try again. It was early in my process of learning and the alignment and sanding had more to do with more poor cutting and sanding skills then the information from Carole! Forgot to say - beautiful box. I love seeing your work on these. One day I will attempt something like those.

Hmmm, I wonder - I bought some that look to be pretty much the same as the ones that Ray bought above, says same size - only difference is different color lids on the tubes. These are tthe ones I had bought: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CSXXTF0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and those DO NOT fit the holes on my purple excalibur. I had also bought some from Sloan's before found here: http://www.sloanwoodshop.com/scroll_saw_blades.htm but those didn't fit my purple excalibur either. The holes on my purple excalibur are not round, they are more oblong and narrower then any of the tubes I have.