Charise2012

Very Adorable! thanks for sharing

I'd err on the side of caution and say no. I used to work for a shipping company and pallets are usually recycled, and don't always carry the same type of load each time, or at least the ones we saw didn't. There are so many other kinds of wood out there to be reclaimed that aren't as risky if you use a little imagination. For instance I'm going to be ripping apart an older Oak Entertainment Unit as soon as I get a new replacement for it. (I promised I'd never move the dang thing out of the house in 1 piece haha)

HI Welcome!

I started out with spiral blades as that was (gasp) recommended to me by the store my mom bought her saw from that I started on. I found it difficult to get precise cuts, and after some research moved to flat blade and would never go back! You can get all sorts of blades to change how fine/rough of a cut you need to make. As for the feathering, I start off with a very small hand finishing sander (one that goes side to side) then if I need to I use a nail file - the cheap very thin/flat kind, and have cut them to different widths for cuts. As well, I also do a final "sand" with a piece of brown paper just before I stain/paint my pieces to get the last little bits off. Hope that helps

very nice work

That is amazing!

That looks fantastic, I love the choice of blue on it, makes the cutting pop!

Great looking work! thanks for sharing

I did a google image search in numerous ways. However, all I could find was one image that someone had made, I looked up the pattern makers and they don't seem to exist on the web anymore.

The patern is not mine, it's from Steve Good. Unfortunatly I don't remember what post it was in, though I know it would be before the year 2010.

I have a friend that has two boys who are very into football, and he wasn't sure what all to get them as they are 9 & 11, so I suprised him with these personalized clocks for him to give them for Christmas today. The pattern is a Steve Good one, but I made the names by using Microsoft word, and let me tell you, creating the names gave me more trouble then all the cutting LOL Edit.... oh my I am a horrible picture taker, please excuse the fuzziness haha

LOL I think I'm probably younger than you (my son is 12 as a gauge) and I still have no idea who he is even after looking him up. Though looking him up lets me say that you have done a fantastic job at creating his portrait! I think who ever asked for that is going to be very happy.

Almost forgot, Colouring Books... I've made a few things by just tweaking a picture so that I can use it on my saw. Strange but true!

I have been collecting patterns for the 12 yrs that I have been doing scrolling, and have several hundred saved on my computer LOL. They are all either free patterns from the web, or collected from scroll saw books I've purchased or borrowed from the library, though I have purchased patterns that I couldn't resist. I've also gotten a number of patterns from stencil books, and Pumpkin carving sites at Halloween. And lastly I have a number of patterns that were from paper cutting as well as clip art that isn't copyrighted. Money has and still is a hurdle for me (as I'm sure it is for most) so I've done my best to search the web over the years for as many free patterns as I possibly could find. I usually get the bug and will spend a day or two just searching the web. I do love cutting, and a big reason I didn't enjoy selling was I don't want to keep making the same thing everytime. LOL when I feel the bug to be in my shop, I go to the computer, search out the patterns that interest me, print them out and head downstairs to my shop.

Wow those are amazing! did you make those on a scroll saw or where they on a lathe?