RabidAlien

Prayers for a speedy recovery!!! Hmmm....wonder if Travis would be up for making one of the monthly scroll challenges a "Second-Hand Lions" challenge and see if folks would make a project to donate in your name? What sort of stuff do you cut for your fundraiser?

I'd LOVE to shake his hand. And buy him lunch or a frosty beverage or something, just for all of the free patterns and hours of sanity-rebuilding he's given me.

One for the Basket Challenge, one because my inner geek (not very far below the surface, actually) thinks dragons are friggin cool. And my daughter, 10 years old, shares that sentiment. A friend of hers showed her some origami a while back, she promptly came home from school and Googled how to fold an origami dragon. Never even made a frog or a ninja star or any of the other usual stuff I did as a kid. Straight up to dragons. My girl. She was excited when I showed her the finished Dragon Pendant....can't wait to see her eyes when she realizes I also printed the same pattern at 300% enlargement, which conveniently fills up a letter-sized sheet of paper....

Finally made my first basket. Found the process to be kinda tedious....dunno why, I can sit there and move blades from hole to hole, holes so tiny that it takes longer to move the blade than it does to shave off the millimeter of excess wood, and not blink an eye. But cutting repetitive patterns? Nearly drove me bonkers. ....okay, nearly drove me MORE bonkers. But I made a basket!!! So....if I make a box, and put the basket INSIDE the box...will I have made a basket-case? ::ducks and runs:: Steve Good pattern:

Its just one hole, one cut at a time. Nicely cut, Fish!!! I saw a version once that ended with "...and the whiskey to know the difference."

Made back in the era when automobiles were works of art! I love it!

Found it, downloaded it, printed it (twice....100% and 300%), can't help but wonder what would happen if one were to squish it down to a circle and enlarge it a bit....would make a fairly nice coaster, methinks! Or a trivet if thick enough. Hmmm...

I cut my top and bottom pieces out of the same BB ply that the weave was cut from. I'll probably just keep them natural and rattlecan varnish them, and stain the top and bottom pieces a dark walnut. I'll post the finish pics in the Monthly Challenge thread, probably.

Nice!!! I just finished cutting this same pattern last night, just need to decide what stains to use.

Looks oval-ish to me! Nicely cut! Where'd you find the pattern? My daughter is into dragons now and would love this.

My Dad was career Air Force, and for the longest time I couldn't read the huge building numbers painted on each building, because they used these fonts. It wasn't until I was about 7 or 8 that it clicked for me. Before that, I thought they were alien symbols!

Its probably pine, but the stock label at Lowes said "white board". Unpainted, not a bad grain, not too many knots, easy to find one that isn't split, and cheap.

I saw this in someone else's post, and was directed to Steve Good's site. It almost needs Sid the Sloth's mugshot, but it hit all the right funnybones with me. 3/4" whiteboard from Lowes, finish is Minwax "Gunstock"....I ran out of my darker stains on my Mark Twain project, and since we were at Lowes this afternoon....following a family morning at the gun range....I thought I'd give this one a try as well. One of the best parts? My smallest drillbit is 1/16", and the #3 blades STILL rattled around inside that hole!!! But the bit is small enough that, for the first time EVAR, I was able to drill a pilot hole small enough to cut details like below the lower-right leg of the "A" or the end of the leg in the "R". I now know how Dr. Frankenstein felt. For slightly different reasons, of course, but the feelz are there.

Cheeeeeeeese, Grommit!

Gotta love lever-actions! Nicely cut!

Yep, takes both. The arm is slotted for pinned blades, and has two adapters you can clamp on the end, then hook over the arms. There's an Allen wrench you use to loosen/tighten the adapters (I cannibalized a fridge magnet for the magnet itself, and use that to help keep track of the wrench). One little quirk, the tensioning issue returned today, cutting into 1/2" whiteboard from Lowes, probably only a step-n-a-half above cutting into balsa wood. So I knew it wasn't that the board I was using previously was too thick. I did a lot of Googling, found nothing (Wen's site is horrible....you can find all sorts of "hey, our products rock! Here's a rah-rah page we wrote about it!", but NO Support links or FAQ's or forums. Their 800 number is Mon-Fri 8-5 only, which sucks cuz I have a full-time job that DOESN"T involve a scroll saw or any other Wen products. I did a bit more tinkering, and discovered that the post the locking lever sits on....appears to be threaded somewhere in the bowels of the saw. Some quick righty-tighty-lefty-loosey, a bit of fine-tuning to keep from popping the blades off from over-tension, and I'm back to cutting again. Its not a bad saw, it has a lot of nice features that my old Dremel didn't have (like....everything), it cuts well....just keep an eye on that post. Here's the stained/varnished product:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand just like that, my "future projects" pile gets a little bit deeper.

16" Wen, can't remember the model number off the top of my head.

Saw did pretty well....ran into an issue today, just before I got to the finish, where it was losing blade tension whenever I tried to cut. Disassembled and reassembled the saw, and whatever the issue was cleared up. Still have no idea what was wrong. But it finished the cut, so I'm happy.

Very nice!!

Every intricate cut is just one-hole-one-blade at a time. I cut some of Steve Good's 3D ornaments this past Christmas, and the hardest part was getting the patterns to stick to the wood straight. Make a jig to hold the compound piece, it'll make life a lot easier, and don't look at it as an intricate, detailed, Master-level piece. Just look at it as one more section to cut out.

....do you take requests? LOL

Dang. Looks like I need to try my hand at a box. I made one, waaaaaay back (a year and a half ago?) when I picked up woodworking again, but didn't have a scroll saw so it doesn't apply here. I may have to cut another one, cuz its a pretty dang cool box, especially given how rough-shod it is.

Nicely cut!!! I love working with cedar....every cedar board is one less cedar tree pumping pollen out into my sinuses.

Oh, if I had a dollar for every " was I thinking?!?" moment....I'd have a lot of dollars. Love the "Jenius at Work" one, as well!