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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.

Yes this is a great useful project. Love the ideas of 8 sided bowl. The outer frame to hold rings to make the gaps look really different. A framed gapped bowl. Mark

That is a good use of zebra wood. Of course for the orange cat Padauk. I like it. Ooops do I see little hearts on the ear holes? Oh that get extra points. Mark

Maybe some blue leds lights will halp set the snow mood.

That is beautiful. I can smell the cedar already. I hope it fits all the cards. Great inlay. Mark.

Good job on the bowls. The lip of the first one is a good idea.

It looks like the owl is above the background. Shadows tell me this. But it came from the same piece of wood. So it might use a "relief" cut first. That is the outer edge of the owl cut at an small angle like 6 deg or smaller. Then the owl falls out of the back. But wont fall through the top. Then they puzzle up the owl. Stain a few pieces. Put the pieces back. Stuff it in the back and it pops out the front. Glue it from the back.

I'm not sure those are scrap pieces. Those look very pretty. and they fit together too. That can be used as a ice bucket. Like the hotels have. Very cool. Mark

A man with no wood? Tom Sawer? no spelling error Dr. Dimento song from radio. I'm a lumber jack song?

Since started scrollsawing last december, i bought a small band disk sander , a belt / spindle sander and over $200 of sandpaper to fit new machines. A mop sander. Accessories for drill /rotary tools for sanding. I already had palm vibrating sander. If you walk through wood specialty stores , rockler or woodcrafter , they have a good portion of the store for sanding. Another big portion is finishing stains and protection. So yes this concept of getting away from hand sanding is always a big topic in industry. When I use the big belt sander or the small band sander I always accidently touch areas of the piece that already sanded. So I have to redo that area, it becomes a cycle. So i end up hand sanding those areas. But those machine can save alot of time. Mark

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That is a good way to use your head. Oh I mean good thinking. I am not a dead head so I have never seen that design before. Fried brains? Battery holder? His name is sparky. I do know that feeling of 25Kv. I can still remember the smell my skin burning. No skin on him. Great job. Any shape can be a bowl.

If your well, come on in y'all. It was perfect for lockdown. you just shortened it a bit. Wellcome.

So how thick of wood are you puzzling?

I finally finished my other condor piece. This one shows a flying profile. It is mounted to olive wood with live edge. The olive would is shaped kind like mountains. Aspen wood inlayed into stained poplar.

I like this dragon the best. Nice bright stain. kinda new to me for segmentation. I did lightly stain some of my pieces. Maybe I can venture into more colors like you.

nicely done. I like the grey outline. The experienced and knowledgable look. Did you use different wood for nose and eyes? How thick is this piece? What technique did you use for the hair / fur?

I was mistaken about the bottom knob being motor control. It is the knob to tilt the table. yes the hole i was thinking had something missing was where the tube comes out the top. .. Some scroll saw people dont use a blower, they use a vacuum. The blower should blow dust away from you. Having dusty shirts and pants is kinda a nuisance. So some owners have the vacuum so it reduces the whole dust issue. Yes the scrollsaw can be a addictive tool. Patience and becoming one with the wood is having fun. Yes this village has a lot of knowledge. Just ask questions and share pics.

interesting machine. what is in the big hole in the top arm? Does the motor work? I think I see a variable speed control. This unit can only have "pin" blades. The tension of the blades is set by the back bolt. access is back of top arm. But to change the blade. it looks like just pushing down on the tab above the blade wull release pressure. It will take lots of presure to do this. Im thinking some lever is missing from the big hole on top of the arm.

nice. I like functional pieces. what other items need to separate compartments? cuff links, (out of style) hearing aids , Contacts, earings, nose rings, 2 part epoxy, Anyway the oak does look good.