wagner1958

Thanks for explaining why it doesn’t work. My wife does a lot of quilting and piecing and she will often ask my advice on color combinations as I have a fairly good artistic eye , but when I showed her the framed up piece even she threw me under the bus on this one . So I plan on working on it today and doing what you advise, thank you

So majority opinion is without frame so I have several questions. Is it frame color you don’t like or just frame ? Would you just hang it on wall without black background and if so how do you hang it without ruining it. If you hang it with the black background you would need it to follow live type edge which I’m not so sure about.

I was not planning on a frame but I just thought the frame helped pull it all together, I appreciate your input

Thanks, I appreciate it

I have a very old and very tired Performax 16-32 that I keep a course grit paper on . When it was new it would track pretty well but now I do have trouble with tracking. About 2 years ago I purchased the Supermax 25x2 sander and so far it runs pretty straight. Every one in awhile I will tweak it , but it is pretty easy to adjust and I probably only adjust it a 1/8 inch turn when I do adjust it.

Cut from 1/2 inch cherry with the frame made out of ash . i love my scroll saw but the other tool I find really handy is my drum sander. I ran this project thru my Supermax drum sander probably about 10 times and it did not break a whisker or a blade of grass. In a honest moment I will tell you there is a couple blades of grass missing but that would be labeled scroll saw operator error

Very nice, I kind of struggle making frames, I love how you made yours, very good job on both projects

To everyone I want to say thanks for great advice, I ended up making a slurry out of sawdust and glue. You can still slightly see it on the one side and very little on the other side. I am not sure which side I now want as my front side .it is far from finished but wanted to give an update on what I ended up doing.

This may show the crack a bit better

I probably should have taken the picture in better lighting, not sure why the wood grain goes different but the wood was rough sawn and i planned it down before using

Finished this up this afternoon and I have a small crack in the lower corner, it was not there when I started but this is just the nature of wood sometimes. It is 1/2 inch cherry, I have not stained it yet so all options are open. I’m not selling this so I could just leave it, or overlay it with different wood or somehow fix the crack . Any advice would be greatly appreciated , thank you

That is very well done, I still have my first project and it’s not even close to being this good.

I’m not sure if a machine can actually be a friend, but if it can this RBI 226 has been my friend since I purchased it in about 1991. It sounds dumb I guess but as I write this I have a few tears in my eyes from all the great memories associated with sawing with this machine. It has made the apostle clock , 4 Lord’s Prayers and so much more over the years. To say it has brought a lot of joy to my life would be an understatement but the motor was surging badly and the poor saw was hammering pretty badly. In all the years I replaced the switch and the back spring, that was it. I did not think I could ever throw it away but, just sitting there was hard , I did not use it anymore, so I took it apart today and have my 2 favorite parts from it hanging up. If my saw could hear me I would say thank you ,you was the best

That is a fantastic job, love it

just finished this evening. Lettering is cherry , back board is Walnut and I framed the walnut with oak on the back. I had purchased the walnut from a widow years ago and when I planed it down I was disgusted when I hit a nail I did not see , it’s the first nail I had ever hit with this walnut so I was not expecting it. I of course ruined my planer blades but in my mind as I looked at it , the holes and black spots in the wood reminded of the nails on the cross .