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WOW ! Beautiful Jim ! One of the best ! Look so real! What size it is? planeur

Thanks prepius, good idea, and It is one of my concern , and the actuals 2 bulbs are in a bad place, too near the lamp-shade. Do you know the good distance for a bulb near wood ?

Hello scrollsaw pro ! After my garden flowers season , I will have that interesting project ! I have a ceramic lamp that my mother at the age of 17 in 1927, had painted at her school with the nuns , and I would like to make a wood lamp-shade , on my scrollsaw. Birds and flowers will be most of the patterns as the lamp, and as you see I will make it octogonal . The actual lamp-shade in stained glass was made by my sister, which is beautiful but I want to try a wood version! The actual lamp-shade (glass part ) is 10 " hight, and 15 ” in dia. at the largest point at base. The rod supporting the lamp-shade, and the top plate over the ceramic lamp are in brass, that I has just cleaned. The top round plate is 4”, and has to be there for supporting the lamp-shade. I want that we see more the brass plate than presently , with a shorter lamp-shade ) I made a test in paper to see the shape , which is smaller at 10” at the base and 8 “ hight and 4” at the top . And I would also bend the shade at 3/4 near the top , to have smaller top than 4" , but my drawing is not yet finished, still thinking about it. With the lamp colors and patterns, what would be your suggestions for the wood, or others patterns. I was thinking of a bit of ebony , mixed with others woods. Do you have, some ideas, sites, for a lamp-shade of that kind . I saw some on the web. and I try to reach one of them with no result. So I would appreciate very your advises and thank you in advance! planeur

Très beau Dennis, when you write "marente", do you mean "amarante" the wood? Did you added some color to the wood? Bonne journée ! planeur

Superbe Grampa , what is the size and where the model come from ? Finition with? Have a good day planeur

Magnifique Dave , beautiful, like it very much! Kind of pieces I like a lot! And the top one is better because of the flower! planeur

As you see , I am working on Marc Tovar wooden clock, and I would need some advises , by a clock Pro! as how do you advanced the wheels when you want to changed the hour's time of the day? My clock is running for 30 min. to sometime 60 min. then it's stopped ! I try to figures why but not find yet. Probably to much friction between to gears....! So if you think you can help me..... do not be imbarassed to advise me.... Merci! planeur

Hello scrollsaw and clock fans ! Yes, I am still working on my clock, very part time , with other projets . I am working on the Marc Tovar wooden clock from the scrollsaw magazine. I am looking for a "pro" of wooden gear clock , for some advise , as how do you advanced the wheels when you want to changed the hour's time of the day? Thanks and have a good day! planeur

Bonjour scrollsaw fan I just finished at the scrollsaw those 2 door plates for the 2 kids , 8 and 5 years old, cross the street. They are 12 in. long, and the Éliane plate is in cherry with amarante and Ebène flower's center, and Antoine's plate ( a dinosaur fan ) is in ash, with cherry dinosaur, and amarante dinosaur bird, finihed with bee wax. The back color are there favorite. They were very happy ! planeur

I did that door label for my nephew’s son, ELLIOT, and while doing it, her mother told me that he like wolves, and red or orange colors. So I added this wolf (found on the web as a drawing ) which is asking the moon for a better dinner .... or girl! The wolf and rock are in a black plastic paper, that I cut from the photo, and the name is cut at the scrollsaw, with a red paper at the back. Had lot of pleasure doing those pieces, changing the concept couple of times before arriving to the final. Give him tomorrow.... planeur

Hello everyone, do not come on the site not to often , but read you regulary. For the 50e anniversary of my nephew Fred, I created this clock from the back of another one , slice in 2 parts , and made in 2019. I added a new part to the clock with the word “ sensei “ in Japanese, which mean “ teacher or master “ which he is at his Karate/Justu school. Had to be very careful with the cutting of those small letters....! As you probably saw the hours numbers are the letter of “ 50 “ in French! Had lot of fun to create this one. Wood are cherry and walnut, plus a thin piece of marquetry in the center, with a oil and wax finition. planeur

So if I understand well the spiral blade does not deviate as the regular blade , and give a better straight cut ? Just buy recently those blades , but did not yet cut so much pieces. Thanks Wichman I will try it. And Jerry I did your tip cutting oversize and sanding after, and I will try it on my future cutting. To small pieces for the bandsaw as for tablesaw. Well, thanks everyone Will come back with my tries! planeur

Yes I know that , but I want to cut very small pieces, to small for the tablesaw, and I want the most precision as possible! Cutting by following a line is ok for me , but I need precision at the .002/3 " and very straight as on the tablesaw. I did that to make some tests, not yet finish planeur

Is that guide exist like on a tablesaw, to cut a piece straight or with an angle ? I am figuring to make one in wood. Any ideas ? Thanks planeur

Nice work , beautiful and realistic! What size ? planeur

Beautiful piece ! Like it very much , lot of details, a great gift to a young girl planeur

Here is my Angel completed and ready to give to Marc, my brother in law and " guardian angel " who have a good sense of humor ! I added some smalls details to give him an funny look, as the hair, which is an piece you put normaly on a furniture, the eyes in Amarante, the covid and eyesbrows in Bubinga . I had a lot of fun to do this angel and tried to made it funny! Planeur

Beautiful Grampa, so much impressive ! planeur

Hello scrollsaw and sculptor pros , your advises are welcome ! This project is to thanks the brother-in-law for his weekly follow-up for over a year, regarding the evolution of the “Covid”. And he signs “Your Guardian Angel”, so to thank him and encourage him, I do this piece intarsia/sculpture from this drawing found on the web. that I modified and added the main topic of covid-19. After transfer to the wood ( cherry tree ) 1/2 in. x 8" X 8" , cutting with a scroll saw, transferring a few lines into the wood with a scalpel, rounding corners to make more clouds… and I tried to sculptered by putting my model in 3D , to make it more real with ! Not obvious ! Here it is this morning waiting for your comments and advises Was wandering for the finish with oil like Osmo satin, if I will put one color for the entire piece or many for all the differents parts as , clouds, wing, body, shirt, to let the 3D effect appear at his best. Il will do some test naturally. And some additions still to come as the eyes and others surprises .........! Thanks for your comments planeur

Here some more details of the clock : This kind of projet is full of very small details which can do a difference for a clock running or not ! Even if I did cut all the gear with a great caution, I have to sand some parts again to have the less friction as possible.... ! Looking for the weight, I found those lead shut , which are enough heavy. I put some in the pendulum, and a fiberglass in front to see them. By the way do you know a easy way to reduce the size of a video ( the one I want to show you .........! ) Planeur

Oyé oyé oyé.....my clock is still on my table, but as I say frequently, you do not become a watchmaker in a few weeks! With all our activites as skiing biking, walking, I had to finish others projets, and when I had some time , I was looking at it and try to learn how a clock that kind work in details. Recently I understands some importants functions , so some adjusments were made ( not finihed yet ), but ....but.... at last the clock was running for almost an hour without stopping ! So here it is temporally mounted .... Will show you soon the pendulum and weigh and clock running ( hoping ....! ) See you soon... planeur

Bonjour Russel , here it is ! planeur

Hello Innar, and thanks a lot, I finaly made it to transfer you plan in PDF. Is it your plan ? And is it ok if I use some parts of it ? Do you have a photo of it once finish on a lamp? That projet will be for later in summer time! planeur

Good morning scrollsaw artists !! I am looking for a pattern to do a lampshade like this one that I found on the web : I do not know yet the wood I will be using but certainly color wood like amarante , mahogany, cherry. The base is yellow rounded with black birds, lamp coming from my mom , that she did ( the painting ) on her school when 20 year old..... . It has a stained glass lampshade ( my sister work). I have some ideas of the shape which could be like this one up there, but more probably 6 or less sides. Thanks for your suggestions and ideas! planeur