Insane Dust Maker

Thank you Peter.

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Thank you Denny.

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Thank you, Yip, don’t have a frame this size in stock, will have to make a special for this one.

Just off the saw this beautiful Russ Beard pattern, this was a fun, cut on 3mm Baltic Birch Plywood using a Niqua #1 straight pin less blade. Soaked in a BLO/ White Spirits mixture, contemplating adding some colour. Don’t have a frame for this one in my frames stock so I’ll have to one specially for the cutting.

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Yip I am very grateful and Blessed that I have mastered the straight blade, I still believe it’s the backbone for good s roll work.

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Please look at my other postings of Leopards, the Vikings, Cheetah etc, then you will understand why I call myself the Insane Dust Maker.

Thank You so much for your comments, my modified Wen scroll saw and my dedication to produce the best I can, I understand my machine, my finger tips tell me what’s happening at the cutting edge, we are one with each other.

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If the opportunity presented its self I would like to try a spiral, but personally love the straight blade, my standard board size is 11” x 14” so the cuts can be very delicate but to me that’s the challenge.

I was contacted privately by a few scroll saw workers asking why I favour one pattern designer over the others. The answer is simple and straight forward, when I started out with scroll saw cutting I firstly watched Steve Goods videos on YouTube numerous times, cut his test pattern over and over again until I got a reasonable result, then I cut some of his baskets and other easy cuts. Then I found Scroll Saw Patterns and more and joined this group and was totally stunned at the work some people were doing, I immediately decided that’s what I want to do, so I downloaded Russ Beard pattern and the journey for me started. As a beginner I struggled doing Complex Fretwork, I had breakouts, I broke blades and was very disheartened, so I took a step back, looked at my Scroll Saw the equivalent to the Wren realized something must be done so I modified beyond the manufactures wildest dreams, modified the blade holders, modified the blade clamps, and the stared cutting all over again, still using Russ Beard’s Free patterns, these patterns are presented to us beautifully, grey fill with either Red or Black, and as I gained confidence in myself and my abilities, the results now speak for themselves, a lot of free patterns today are done with spiral blades in mind, we don’t get small spiral blades in our country our sole importer is just not interested, so I use Niqua Straight Pinless Blades. If we ever get spirals I would gibe it a bash but one thing is for sure I have a good solid back round on using straight blades I understand their geometry and I use that to my advantage. I have MD so Russ Beards patterns suit me I’ve numerous Complex Fretwork patterns that Russ has posted some were very challenging, but I love the challenge.

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