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Oh with some more thought and imagination, I can see how a spiral blade needs to be used.... Keep letters oriented bottom toward you. Angle the table to left or right. When cutting the sides of the letters without spinning the wood, the letters will be angled. When cutting the top you don't spin the wood. You just use side of spiral blade to go across top and bottom. Thanks you got me thinking.

Dried fish sounds better than cooked greasy potatoes. Do these boxes store the knives?

This sounds fun. Show examples please. I have done angled cuts for bowls and relief inlay. I like using spiral blades. So why does this technique need spiral blades?

So this goes between my work bench and scrollsaw. I have to lower it for the hawk, about 4 inches. There is a lot of engineering offices goin out of business. A copy machine company closed down during work at home. Another electronic company had lab equipment being sold. After they sold it all I found this chair out back. So put your ears out for offices near your area that are closing down.

Ok, I guess I should have pasted the link the first time.... https://www.officestarstore.com/products/osp-dc940-231 Since we are drafting our design in wood, we need a drafting chair. Or some of us might use drafting chair to enjoy a draft drink.

I found this one behind a office building. They went out of business. But I looked the brand name "Office Star Ptoducts" up and they are really good. I have been using mine daily for 2 yrs. It did show signs of wear when i got it 4 yrs ago. Here is some pics. Bottom label.

At first I was thinking Lacewood was used for the middle. But the epoxy looks good also.

I did try that for my mining cars, gold ore. The afternoon breeze blew them all over the place. I just swapped some of my rocks with the neighbors white quartz rocks and painted them with viens silver and gold.

Hi all, Just sharing my first attempt at lettering fret work. I wanted a 20 mule team concept for my outdoor garden train. I wanted to generally keep the old wagon concept. I made a wood shell that slips over a flat car. So that made it wider than track, but still kinda resembles the old wagon. The wood is 6 inches front to back. This is a proof of concept. That is working out errors of the design and is it worth doing the 2nd one. wagon shell wood: red oak 1/4" wheels: dark walnut printed logo from borax laundry soap was used as cutting pattern. Black paper as backing for lettering. Those donkey no mule ears and legs were a bit trickey. The logo showed tails for each mule. I left those off. 2/0 spiral blade for both lettering and 20 mules with wagons. pegas #3 blade for wheels. stacked cut 1/2" walnut. Total stack is 1inch.

Ooohhhh very good. I like it.

Looks pretty good with the shadows. But I hope you mean this task is over. Not your entire job / career.

I might have shared this before.... but this a picture of my office. I have Wyatt facing Doc on another wall. We got these at a craft show. The artist was out of Wyatt but he promised us he will be back at the Gilroy garlic festival. We made arrangements to meet him on his way out. After he packed up and was driving home. We waited and waited. He finally texted us that there was a live shooter at the festival. It took him a week to be able to go back into the festival area just to pack up his stuff. We met up with him and got the picture. Also got his story of what happened. I just had to share a story of another type of gunslinger.

Skiing !!! College. Jail ? But they are not here or in the woodshop.

where did the leaves go?

If the customer changes their mind contact me. I have a good place for it. It won't be a trash bin

No picture.....?

Ahhhh kitty cats are sleepen....

Has anyone made an Elf door for the bottom of the tree? This for that special small gift? The gnome doors could be re-used for Christmas elfs. Then the christmas keys can be used.

So much detail..... blood viens in eyeballs. My gosh. Lots-o-painting time. Me. Mark Eason

yep, the customer rules.

Wow, it looks thick. AND looks nice. Live edge makes it look like the game character lives in the wood.

This is a really great idea. But please consider the wood, Aspen or Basswood, for the ice caps. No teak oil.

halloween piece is nice. Spiders go anywhere.

I also get a feel for an assembly line. I think I see Pop rivets for the crank starters. I am in a slow process of designing something with wheels similar to yours. Can you share your technique?

Well I would like to say Thanks to all in the village that helped me in the last year. I feel I learned a lot you this site. I joined last December, and have experimented with the scroll saw a bit during the weekends. Thanks to @FrankEV for bringing color to the craft of scrollsaw artwork. Thanks @OCtoolguy for advising to upgrade to a Hawk. I almost gave up the hobby. Once I got the Hawk quite a bit LESS frustration occured. He advises many people not just me. Thanks @trailfndr "Lee" for showing me great Intarsia projects. Also @Dave Monk his stuff inpires everyone. @GrampaJim and @White horse @Scrappile all give great tips and super looking projects. All the bowl guys gave me good tips. @Tbow388 he makes them look easy and pretty. @crupiea his detailed lettered plaques are inspiring. Thanks Travis for keeping this village running with latest software. Also because of his inkscape tutorials I can fiddle around in inkscape. Also @Rockytime Les, inspired and advised many many people, including me. But it takes everyone to form a village. Thanks for all contributers even the newbies. The newbies bring new questions and different perspectives to the projects.