OzarkSawdust

Don't force it...just get a bigger hammer!

Great looking pattern Dick! If it's that easy I may even try it!

Very nice! I am a veteran and would like to make something like that for a couple of friends that also served. Very classy and thoughtful.

WOW!! I was out in the shop and cut out the CHIEFS with one of my new FD UR #1 blades. That is SO much easier to cut with and make sharp corners! Glad I got two doz. of the #1...I think I found my favorite blade! Thanks Denny Knappen for suggesting them!!

Good news first...My blades came in!! I now have new toys...Flying Dutchman Ultra Reverse #5, #3, #1, and #2/0 ! Bring on the tight stuff!! Ordered from Wooden Teddy Bear on Fri. delivered Mon. fast! I was looking around the web for scrolling stuff and found Rapid Resizer. In their designs was a KC Chiefs arrowhead! I grabbed it and used the letter stencil maker to put CHIEFS under it and print it out, so far so good. Out to the shop I go with my new pattern, cut some wood and prep for cutting. Started cutting the black squiggly line around the arrowhead...got blues playing on the stereo...loud...just as happy as a clam. Got to the end of a line...and the center...MOVED...! Oh No! I did it again! I was so excited about making a cool pattern and the wall plaque that I forgot to check it for islands. This time is not as bad as the love on the buck & doe...I'll just glue the center to the backer board when I finish it up. I'm thinking (very dangerous) if I cut the RED out of the KC and leave the black lines it will look like the K is over the C like the photo. What do you think?

Newbie to scrolling. When making a puzzle do you just cut a bunch of squiggly lines...or it there a "Puzzle pattern" you can put over the picture/shape/whatever???

Take two…! I redid the same pattern changing two things. 1. I used a piece of Poplar I had laying around. My REAL B/BB will be in later this week. 2. When I got to the real narrow spots I cut them just a hair wider. Now what about ideas for finishing, this and others using B/BB. Natural piece with dark backer...stain darker piece with light backer? If natural (Poplar, Birch, etc. ) what do you use to give it the nicest finish? Do most of you make a frame for a wall piece or sand the edges and hang it? Keep in mind I want to sell a lot of the things I'll be making. More money for wood and tools, lol... and I don't have much more room to keep everything!

WOW...that's a project! Just starting, I've only used #5s but have some FD UR 2/0, 1, and 3 that should be here in the next day or two. Looking forward to trying them.

Yea...we managed a couple of retirement homes in Austin about 12 yrs ago. I think even Dairy Queen has live music in that town! Tucson did have a bunch of restaurants that had live Mariachi bands.

IKE said the exact thought running through my mind! I have a little display of my woodworking at a antique/craft type shop near me. I've sold bird houses, small Christmas trees, wall art, etc. but thought some scroll work would go great. Maybe build some stock this winter and try a show next spring. Great question Ike, I'll be watching closely!

WOW! What a beautiful piece of work! I've seen Charles Hand patterns on his website...they are all amazing! I hope to attempt one ( the easiest I can find! ) by this winter. How long did it take you? Did you work on that only...or take a break and go back to it? I think I read on here somewhere a scroller took a break to work on a simpler pattern and returned fresh to finish a complicated one.

I noticed that and thought you two already knew each other. I use to live in Tucson several years ago (on Grant just a couple blocks off I10) and have been to and through Casa Grande tons of times. We had close friends that lived on a golf course in Mesa, we would take the motorhome and park in front of their house for the weekend at least once a month. And we went to Tombstone a bunch also! I'm like you...I like Blues, the more recent stuff, but my wife doesn't. I didn't see Buddy Guy being in Casa Grande...but he will be in Chandler next March! I thought about going to see him in Tulsa this Thursday at the Hard Rock Casino...but wife doesn't want to and I don't want to go by myself. I wonder if there are any scrollers close to me to meet? Small world when I see scrollers from other countries on here. Guess that makes us all "Village People"...lol I couldn't resist.

I tend to agree with your train of thought. I cut out a cat the night I got the saw...it looked like a cat. OK step one...done. I took a key hanger pattern that looked like a 5th wheel RV, cut out most of it learned what I wanted to know, and moved on. First...cedar fence picket wood is fine for bird houses...not so much for scrolling! Second...need a big hole to get a pinned blade through, a pinless blade is better for any inside cut. On to the next project...buck, doe, love. I think it came out fairly well...except I learned another lesson. Now I know what a floater/island is...lol...and that I can add a bridge to get around it. Next pattern I learned you can cut a thin spot a little wider (sometimes) to keep it from breaking, and no one will ever know you got off the cut line. With every project I make a mistake or something I could do better...and learn something. With the help of all you fantastic people on the forum my learning curve is much shorter and faster! I find things I need to add for this hobby...tools, blades, patterns (and how to make my own!) better wood...etc. I've got a bunch of Flying Dutchman blades (2/0, 1, 3) on the way as well as some "real" Baltic birch plywood from Ocooch. Haven't done a clock yet...so I've got a clock works coming and a cute bear cub pattern. I keep eying things like... Brenda's gorilla, Dave Monk's Harley box, Scrappile's BB King, and a host of others. As long as I keep learning something, large or small, I'll keep getting closer to that caliber of projects.

Yup...I opened that and set it to "US Letter"...the second time lol. I also had it all in the box, it still cut off parts. But I found and loaded it into Image Resizer on line and it printed out full page!

YEA! I got it to enlarge to full page with Image Resizer...and saved the website!

No, What did you use to make it? I also tried to put it on Inkscape and enlarge it...it cut off most of the doe and the "e" even though it showed fine on the screen.

Oh....OK Thanks! I just didn't see it inside of the "quote box" . I'm just so use to seeing the comments below the quote box I didn't even think of looking there. Now I know where to look if I see that again! Learn something every day. Yea I thought that looked kind of funky when I looked at it close. When I picked it up at Lowe's it didn't dawn on me there were two (maybe more) kinds of "1/4" birch plywood" so I just grabbed a piece. I live in a small town (about 4500) an hour S of Kansas City and our lumber yard doesn't have it. Carthage (30 mi S.) is the closest Lowe's, I got that stuff there. There is a HD, another Lowe's, Southerland in Joplin, about 45 min. away. I think I'll order a few 1/4" x 12" x 12" from The Wood & Shop ($1.58 ea.) and Heritage Wood ($2.20 ea.) to see which product I like best. Then I can take a sample piece to local lumber yard to see if they can get me some. I looked in your gallery...you do beautiful work!! Besides seeing that you use underlayment a lot, I noticed you use spiral blades most of the time, at least of those projects. Are they hard to work with? I'm just starting to scroll, should I get a few months experience with flat blades before I try a spiral?

Thanks! I'll look for it on line.

Only a year?? WOW...That's a beautiful piece! I figured you had been at it for several years.

??? Your post just showed my statement...did you mean to reply?

Awesome!! You people are so talented! Brenda, how long have you been scrolling?

Absolutely a beautiful piece of work!! Haven't tried spiral blades yet, maybe someday. I hope to be able to do that also....in about 10 years!

Try as I may I can't get it to print any larger than about 3" x 3 1/2". I've tried setting the photo size to "full page" and 8 x 10" I've tried fit to "fill page" It still prints same size. Will some computer genius out there please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

This is what I'm using now. Picked up a 2'x4' at Lowe's the other day. I haven't ever used this before. Looks a little strange to me...is this what you're using?

Thank you! I'll try that!