Dragonkort

very nice piece!!! now iv mentioned this before but I taught myself to scroll saw so I don't really know what im doing. lol I notice on some posts it says what sized blade and what kind of blade the person used. I never was able to figure out all the different reasons why you would use one type or size blade you should use for different things. I use the spiral blades for puzzles and then I just sort of look at the blades in my box and use skinny ones for aireas that have lines to cut that are very close to each other. and thicker ones for thicker woods and that don't have a lot of close lines.... I know some have different teeth thingys to but I usuly just get which ever one is cheapest at the time, and has more blades in the bags. lol this seems to be working out ok for me …. are there blades that are suppose to be used for some things and other blades to use for other things? not saying i'll change the way I scroll lol but I believe there is no information that isn't worth knowing. lol

I love this project!! we have a very small bathroom with no room to put a standing project...but I can change your pattern with your permission to make it a wall hanging instead. would that be alright ? I saw a picture in a magazine that said wash your hands and say your prayers cause God and germs are every where! lol I cut the saying out and put it in my machine emboridy files so I can make an emboriderd sign out of it. now I have two different ways to make a bathroom decoration with a purpurse. thank you! Oh before I print this pattern out and so I can write it down on the pattern.....is it ok to sell the finished project? either way is fine I just try very hard to keep my for personal use only patterns from my patters that the finished project can be sold. so far I haven't made any mastakes in that airea !! if however any one ever sees a for personal use only project that I have made for sale when I start selling again please just let me know and I will take it down. I would never perpursely sell a for personal use project.

absoluty stunning!!! I should proubly be able to tell this just by looking at the picture but I have problems with depth perception.... are the horses cut out first and then overlayed on t he wood or are the horses cut out of the wood with a black backer board?

I totally love those pictures!!! espically the frames!!! iv never been very good at framaing things. How do you do the frame within a frame if its ok to ask?

ok rabidalien, I looked on the dragon letter opener to see where I got it and I think before we do anything the experts here will have to decide if I can give you the pattern or now. the printed pattern didn't say what sight I got it from but at the bottom of the pattern it says scroll saw woodworking and crafts...I tons of this magazine and iv never seen it before so it much have come from a magazine I don't have. somebody put the pattern on line somewhere because that's how I got it but I don't know if I can give it to you. I do wish when people put patterns up on line for free they would put the sight name on the bottom of the page so I know what web sight I got it from. a lot do but then theres the ones who don't and after I print up a pattern after im finished making the project I put the paper pattern in a folder marked for what type of craft it is for if that makes any sense. so as soon as the experts let me know if I can put it up or not i'll let you know.

ok I have read the suggestions about not take pictures on the newspaper and will no longer do that. lol I will also take better pitures of them as soon as there done. I just have to paint the outside sides of the elephants. looking at them I keep thinking they need something more....so iv hunted up some gray materal so I can make nice little floppy ears for the elephants and I hunted up some gray yarn to put on them for tails. Im also going to look through my eyes and see if I can find some eyes that will look nice on them. then we will see how they look. im kind of glad steve good doesn't come here because im not sure how he would feel about my changing and embelshing his design. lol i'll get them done and up as soon as I can. and no kevin production work does not scare me lol it drives spike crazy because I always have severl projects at different stages all over the house!! lol but iv also spent many years working in restrants and bakerys. lol which means cooking multiplys of several different meals at one time....not counting all the prep work for everything. lol is all the years I work in kitchens of some kind or another iv only gotten hurt twice. the first when I work at cornwells turkey farm restrant… I was the only one in the kitchens when the timers went off for the turkeys so I went to the oven and tried to take the turkey out of the oven....now you must remember these turkeys were a lot bigger and heaver then you can get at the store. and man was it HEAVY!! well anyway I pulled it out of the overn and turned to try and get it to the table when a bunch of the broth splashed out of t he roaster ( there was a top on it) and splashed all over my thighs!! I did manage to get the turkey on the table though and just as I was doing that the other kitchen people came I;n saw me and started running over to me ...I would have gotten burned worse then I did if they hadn't ripped my paints off of me right there in the kitchen!!! lol me I was going to go into the break room and take them off there but they said NO!! lol they wrapped a aprion around my waist and called mr cronwell into the break room. he look at my thighs and sent for one of his chidren to take me to the er…..and then asked me why on earth I hada tried to take the turkey out of the oven, I told him I was the only one in the kitchen at the time and I didn't want the turkeys to burn. he told me to NEVER try to do that again and if the turkeys got burned his sons ( whos job it was to take the out the oven would be in trouble for it. then as one of the grils was taking me to the car I could here him very angerly yelling at his boys because I got hurt and the price of the er and my days off to recuparte would be deducted from THERE checks!! the second time I was working in a bakery and the manager was talking to me on the phone so I cn't take the food out of the oven befor it burned and when I did take them out I opened the oven door and started swinging closed so I unthinkingly raised my hand up and sort of pushed the door back, unfrountly I pushed on the inside of the oven door. lol they put me on restricted duty because I only had one hand to work with !! lol oh in case you've never seen one the bakery oven was as big as a walking in closet. and here Iv done it again stuck stuff in here that's not suppose to be!!! i'll try to do better promise!!

loll ok lets see i'll have to look at the pattern and try to figure out where I got so i'll know if I can put it up for,,,,,I'll try to take closer pictures of it once its finished now as to how to put the edge on them. I use my belt sander, sanding each edge at a little bit at a time on both sides, this helps thin the blade to so your blade is thiner then the handle. then sort of round over the sides of the handle...in this case the dragon, you can carve the dragon a bit if you want to an you could ingrave the blade part after your finished the sanding lowers the blade and sort of sharpens it as well....I use pine for most everything I make inclucing the envelope openers. the bades don't get sharp enough to cut you but they will cut the paper; iv used some of these in the past and the peole I sold or gave away to others have never complained about it not being strong enogh. I have several patterns for letter openers this is just the first and only dragon letter opener that iv found

good idea rolf !! I had just got them out of the woodshop and threw them on the table then later in the day grabbed the carmra and took the piiics!!lol next time I will remember not to use the newspaper covered table!!lol

well the pictures didn't come out as good as I had hoped they would but this is the stuff I cut out today, none of which is finished. the little people are the delwalt scroll saw people to hold the arm of the saw up when your changing blades or doing fret work. I have a few ideas on how to finish these. one is and I don't know I f t his will work....but trying to take a small picture of my face for the girl and a small face of spike for the boy and then using modpodge to glue seal the pictures to the face.. then since this is not a nudest colloney these litte people will need some cloths!! lol im not sure if im going to just paint them on or try to use cloth to make the cloths....either way it should be safe since your saw should be off if your lifting the scroll saw arm up. those two will be for me and spike lol i'll just paint some kind of face on the other ones and then put cloths on them when I figure out which works better. now the little animals, chickens and pigs I cut out to put into the plastic canvas barns I m ade a few weeks week ago, which are still sitting on the kitchen counter .lol spike would like me to get them off the counter some day! lol so after I get them sanded and painted they will go in there little barns and then put into there perspective boxes. now last but not least are 2 envelope openers im making out of pine. the dragon one will be for me...the music one will go in the box. I have 2 more dragon envelope openers in the wood shop to cut out and then i'll see what I decide to do next in the wood department. I will us my belt sander to thin out and sharpen the knife part of the opener then do what rounding and other things to the handles before I paint them... not sure how im going to paint the music one proubly black the dragon will most likely be green with a little red...not sure yet but no rush as it still has a bit more work to be done it ….well that's it guys . like I said im trying to keep busy right now so tomarrow I will see if I can start finisheig what I cut out today.

ok now for those pesty little elephant cell phone charger thingys. I took several pictures of them at different stages of work and the one little elephant that's painted gray is the only one that is competently finished. the white stuff is what I used to plug up all the holes and to make it at least look like I had cut everything out right so it would all fit together properly. lol tomarrow I think I will take my sander out and sand the put together elephants so I can paint them. I put the last 3-4 elephants in the winter box.....not good enough to sell but I know many people who would like to have one for free. there are 2 size's of these elephant cell phone things the somall one ( that's the one that's finished and painted) and then the ones I inlarged to fit the bigger cell phones. at first I thougt the little ones wouldn't be of any use as a cell phone thingy but when I showed them to ritia she asked for a small one because she has a smaller phone. So now we have a small one for people with small phones and the enlarged one for the bigger phones when I finish the rest of the elephants I can put them up for you to see to if you want. if not that's ok too as you can see a sample of the little finished one painted gray. I couldn't think of any way to emblish the little guys to make them look cuter but i'll keep thinking on that and see what if anything I can come up with. lol

ok here are the pictures of the much talked about ark of the covenet. now I didn't have the sized wood the pattern called for so I had to do some impermizing. frist the ark itself and the angles on top are made from the 1/4 in wood I think the pattern called for. how ever the people are made from 3/4 in pine I think it is....much thicker then the pattern called for but it did allow me to do a little carving on them. now I didn't figure in the difference in the wood when I was making this so of course when it came time to put the ark on to the pole the men were carrying it didn't fit!! lol so I had to think of a way for the ark supports to fit on the pole..so what I came up with is to put some little 1/4 inch pieces of wood on the poles so that the ark supports would rest it on nicely. now I wouldn't have had to do that IF I had relized soon that the ark wouldn't rest on the pole thingys. and as you can see the supports have little notches cut into them so I couldn't just rest it on the pole if that makes any sense because people would wounder why those notches were cut out in the first place.LOL then we have the picture of the inside of the ark.....you can't see it very well but theres 2 wood stone tablets inside for the 10 commandemets. the stick is for arrons staff and then the little bowl for the manna...thse two were not in the pattern but I stuck them in there anyway. lol now if you've never made clothspin dolls you wont regonize what the bowl really is so i'll tell you. when you make clothspin dolls there are little stands you put the clothspin doll into so they will stand. the bowl for the mannan is made from one of those, with a small piece of cardboard closing the bottom. since I have no idea what manna looks like I left the bowl empty. I of course could not sell these since they weren't made right but I made the ark of the covenant for my oldest daughter for her birthday and then of course I had to make one for myself. lol and one had to go to Ritia for her wedding gift for her grandson. ….. so after all that wait I hope your not to disappointed in finished project.

lol well im sure if you do your miss's will let you know about it !!! lol

I like it too. lol im glad when people like my projects but sometimes it can be a pain. lol it happens all year round but just before Christmas is the worst for me. don't get me wrong I love making things for people and giving them away free...espicaly if I know money is tight for some one.....but for some reason people don't seem to understand that hand crafted things take some time to make. lol yes I can make a star wars clock for you but I need at least a day or too to do it IF I don't have to many other projects I have to do. lol so far iv always managed to get everyoes things done on time.... but sometimes it gets alful close lol

fantastic!!! such a nice piece

simply beautiful!!!! and im sure th!e wedding couple will love them all !!!! when my daughter got married last march she asked me to make a cat cake top to go on time. she drew the picture then I cut it out for. Hers was a very simple basic project though nothing as extravagant as yours!!!m

what a wounderful idea!!!! and it looks nice to boot!!!

im sure you didn't upset any one , smoking is really not a good thing to do lol I wound up in the hospital 2 years ago because of broken ribs and a punctured lung...wasn't suppose to be smoking there either, but the one thing about e cigs....theres no smoke or smell lol so spike kept my e cigs hidden and I nabbed a puff every now and then. we've had to call 911 to rush me to the hospital twice at the end of last year because I couldn't breath. sigh you would think even a semi intelligent person would just quite …. I told my lung dr it was easer to quit drinking the it is to stop smoking... she told me nicotee is more addictig then heroin or crack. now sure about that one... any way im doing much better at cutting down with the nicotine tooth picks then I did the patch. I do real good during the day...its in the evening and night that still gets me. but im doing a little better at that slowly but surely. picking up my toothpicks more often then the e cig. like I told my drs iv been a chain smoker since I was 16 and I was field striping other peoples cig butts by the time I was like 13-14 that's a long time lol so I do the best I can and pray a lot. it would be helpflul if I didn't have to go to my various drs at least once or twice a week. being agoraphobic it kind of stress me out, and what do I do when im stressed out??? yu guessed it smoke. but I figure every little bit I cut out is better then nothing.

why thank you scrappile. lol Until I came on here I just thought everybody did scroll sawing the way I do. lol just sort of look through wood working patterns then pick one and do it. lol maybe im just a little strange,,,, wouldn't be the first time I was that. lol

just some more pictures.this one is a pattern ritia and I made. my mom had lung cancer and had to have oxgyn. well open flames even condensed in a cig can be a bad combation to say the least!! lol mom ask me to make her a sign to put up on her door so that the people who dropped off her o2 would stop telling her it was dangerous to smoke while using o2. lol so ritia and I started brainstorming and this is what we came up with lol the words say harrassing me about my smoking is hazardous to ( then the gun)to your health!! below the gun. lol mom eventualy went to the e cigs after trying on one of mine. back then they were considered to be a safe alternative to regular cig. but the news and my lung dr ( I have copd) have since discovered its not! sigh so iv been trying to at least cut down on my smoking of the e cigs. they have a new thing out now that helps me cut down a lot! nicotire tooth picks. I wounder how long it will be before the powers that be decide thos are bad for your health to. lol Oh and the words were spelled right on the plaque. lol we had spike write it out for us. lol next is the sleeping turkey ledge sitter. like I said before its hard to find thanksgiving decorations so I make my own. im glad theres no shortage of thanksgiving patterns out !! now the skull and swards is a pattern I made from a picture of a skull and swards when my son was in his teens. lol it says toxic waist do not enter and it to is spelled correctly on the plaque. lol that should give you some idea as to how my oldest child keep his bedroom as a child. lol last but not least is the puzzle pattern. it was fun to cut out and paint lol now tomarrow is sunday so I hope to do more of my wood working....hopefuly at my saw. lol

those are great projects!!! I can't wait to see more of your stuff!!

the puzzles are great!!! since I collect dragons the dragon puzzle is my favorit. lol where did you get the pattern? I have several critter/word art patterns but I don't have the dragon onw. id love to add that little guy to my collection

great project and cut!!

you did great work here and changing the patterns we do from time to time is a great way to show you taliets!!

very beautiful!! you did a real good job on that piece. I like the way you combined fretwork and the over lay of the huming birds

I like them both but my favorit is the hooded one