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Will work for whiskey!!

I have been using Pegas blades lately. I get them from bens scroll saw. about the same price as fd with fast shipping. I get them there as I need smaller drill bits- #73 and #74 and fd doesnt have them that small. Also they have all the way down to 8/0 blades for super tiny work.

If the wood starts to stick they i use some wax on it, other wise no. no big issue.

I as well have about zero legal training but I do have a take on this subject. I look at tattoos as an example. Lots of people with star wars or disney tattoos, clearly copyrighted material but you dont see disney hunting them down making them remove it, nor do hear about them pursuing tattoo artists for putting them on people. Obviously if he says its officially licensed disney merchandise then that would be trouble. Look at etsy or ebay and search for homemade stuff, lots of mickeys, donald ducks, you name it. I used to sell ebay logos on ebay, looked just like their logo. They never said a word about it. i didnt say it was an officlal ebay logo but people could obviously see what it was.

I first copy the pattern to my desktop. After this you right click on it and select print. i box will open up giving you a bunch of size choices. i select the biggest one that fits the page just right. that way no editing or mucking about with margins and stuff, its all done for you

I use nothing but tiny bits and a hand drill. I use a spiral jewelers drill. you can get them on ebay for about $5-10. make sure its the spiral one as they also sell ones where it just hold the bits and you twist it around yourself so they suck. The bits will almost break just under the weight of the drill so make sure only enough sticks out to make it past the wood you are drilling. I drill one hole at a time because i have noticed that because the holes are so small that if I do more then one, the rubbing from the sawing will sort of fill the holes back in and i need to drill it again.

Do i see 3 dewalt scroll saws there?

bottom feeder here. Its just something you figure out either way. Once you do it thousands of times its just second nature. matter of fact,m i have no idea what the bottom clamp even looks like as i have never looked at it. i sure know what it feels like though.

I got to the point where i would just throw the old one out when it ran out of ink and buy the cheapest replacement i could find, was actually cheaper then buying ink. that did seem right so i did some research and finally pulled the trigger on a color laser from brother. pCame with the color cartridges. have been pritning for months with it and no indication the toner is running low and these are the promo ones that come with it. to replace them will be over $100 but they really last a long time, like years so this thing is well worth the money for me.

I scroll in my dining room. I normally only work with 1/8" bb so its not too bad with the sawdust. i just let it fly and sweep up afterwards. never too messy, not like you think it would be. I am a bachelor too so dust and that sort of stuff is my friend.

I have always had a hate hate relationship with printers. of course i need one for this stuff though and use mine all the time. I had a cheapo wireless one that worked great, except for the wireless part. it was just a regular printer that i still had to plug in. i finally made the jump to a brother color laser printer and its the only printer I have ever actually liked. i had heard good things about the lasers too. The starter cartridges print alot of pages. i have been printing for months and still no indication they are running low. and these are the starters so the normal ones will a really long time. it is wireless and that part works equally good. cant also print from my phone and tablet with an app that makes it super easy. It does not scan or fax but i never fax anything and basically you can scan from your computer nowadays so they are almost extinct anyway. Also for the scanning part, i just take a picture of the document on my phone and either print it or email it to myself and then print it from the computer so dont need those feature either. That covers the copying as well, same thing. i paid about $150 or so for this baby and will never buy a cheapo one again. brother hl 3170

What i do for those dangly bit is print it out in its full font. then i will just pencil in where i want the divisions and the like to be to hold the pieces in place. Thats what i used to do. now i put things on a backer board so i dont need to worry about the danglys or the stray bits as i put them back into the piece and glues them down. really simplified things.

For printing l always first copy the image to the desktop. Then i right click on it and select print. I print in 8 x 10 size as that is the size of paper I have. It will automatically maximize the space on the paper so I dont need to fiddle with margins and the like. If it is smaller I open a word document and insert pic from there, then I can size it the way I need as word has lose ruler things on the sides and top so i can get an idea what size it will be on a sheet of paper.

Great choice of saw, same as i have.

I live for these small holes so i use a 2/0 or 3/0 blade jewelers blades. They leave some burrs on the back but cleans right up with a spot of sandpaper. Also I use #74 bits and a small jewelers drill, the spiral kind. I get me bits from bens scroll saw online. he has alot of super small ones. You can put the hole right on the line like you did but wont see it.

If you have one of the ornaments, put it on the scanner. Then you will basically have the pattern, just need a bit of fine tuning.

I am digging the art deco thing. great work!!

Lol, the thumbnail is so small i thought that was a hatchet over the name.

I had dreams that spiral blades would be the greatest thing in the world. i would cut fore, aft, side to side with ease and the cuts would look perfect and the work would be lauded far and wide as the best scroll saw work anyone had ever seen. then i bought some spiral blades and reality set in. they werent the same size as my other blades and needed a bigger hole. they were hard to clamp in and generally were a hassle to use. i still have 11 of my original dozen around here somewhere in my blade overflow section wherever that is. i think its a drawer in the garage. my go to's used the be some good old fd sr 2/0 but now i am into pegas jewelers blades 2/0 and 3/0 almost exclusively. they have lots of teeth per inch but leave a mess on the backsides but for my work the back is glued down and never seen so i dont care. i need the accuracy and small detail only a jewelers bit can provide. just my 2 cents. i have seen some peolles work that use spiral and its fantastic so to each his own.

I always detension the blade right after each use. then i cover the saw with an old towel to keep it from getting rusty.

It can be a bit of a learning curve when you forst start scrolling. the main thing is having to learn that there is an actual difference between a bunch of plywoods. The easiest, most affordable one to use is baltic birch. its sort of the industry standard scroll saw wood. not birch, Baltic Birch. there is a difference. it has to do with the pieces in between. Look at a cross section of regualr plywood you have and you will see alot of filler type stuff in the middle layers. Baltic birch doesnt have as much filler material so it will support fines cuts without crumbling apart.

Great stuff, I really like the framing.

Tough to buy unless you have the right stores nearby. pretty much forget home depot or lowes or jumbo lumber yards. i discovered a specialty cabinet makers type store here that carries about 40 different types of plywood. every size baltic birch you can imagine. Look for some specialty places like that and they will have it. its common for them. fair prices too.

Way , way too much glue. i use spray glue for my patterns. i spray a maximum and I mean maximum of 1 second for the whole sheet. I then wil turn the sheet glus side up and feel it. if its tacky, its too much and will cause trouble. i wait until its barely tachy and then put in on the wood. you have to think that you are only needing it to sticj for one pass so once the blade has cut past it, oh well, it can fall off all day long. less is always more. way less.

Tried myself but same thing