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Brag Forum / Re: Corian Scroll Saw Shell
« on: December 15, 2015, 10:43:27 am »
WOW! Very nice....
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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / Re: How to put Font on wood?
« on: December 11, 2015, 06:32:43 pm »
All the advice above is correct. I do it the same way only I put the wood to be inlaid on the bottom and keep the lettering or image to the high side of my blade. Attached is a cedar plaque with maple inlay. I use a font from word and apply it to the wood with carbon paper. I find cursive much more forgiving to cut than block lettering is.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: My last sale of the year was great!
« on: December 08, 2015, 10:15:17 am »
Danny;
Finding out what sells is a trial and error thing for me. I started out making fireplace bellows thirty years ago, and found that there is almost no market for them here. I still have six of them.
I then started making toys and they sold very well but I grew tired of making them. I made some cedar trunks and sold them but I do not like hauling and storing them so now I only make them to order. The trunks were too expensive but I did find myself with a lot of cedar scraps from making them. I used the scraps to start making very small and simple boxes and they were well received. I did decoupage on the lids at first. So I made more and learned to do inlay in the lids. They have been selling well for me for over six years now. I have tried other items and found that either they do not sell or that the time and wood put into them put the price too high. I have made 20" tall oak vases that I thought would sell but they did not. Also tried making wooden flowers, sold only a very few. Tried crosses but displaying them took up a lot of room in my booth and sales were weak with them. Same with intarsia. I do not do fretwork at all but I have seen others try to sell them here without much luck. Same with turning pens. What works for me are boxes, wall hung stars and rubber band guns. I continue to try new things but make only a few to see how they will sell. I keep records of all my sales so that at the end of the season I can kind of predict what I should make for the following year. I have dropped many designs for boxes and other things after trying them.
Finding out what sells is a trial and error thing for me. I started out making fireplace bellows thirty years ago, and found that there is almost no market for them here. I still have six of them.
I then started making toys and they sold very well but I grew tired of making them. I made some cedar trunks and sold them but I do not like hauling and storing them so now I only make them to order. The trunks were too expensive but I did find myself with a lot of cedar scraps from making them. I used the scraps to start making very small and simple boxes and they were well received. I did decoupage on the lids at first. So I made more and learned to do inlay in the lids. They have been selling well for me for over six years now. I have tried other items and found that either they do not sell or that the time and wood put into them put the price too high. I have made 20" tall oak vases that I thought would sell but they did not. Also tried making wooden flowers, sold only a very few. Tried crosses but displaying them took up a lot of room in my booth and sales were weak with them. Same with intarsia. I do not do fretwork at all but I have seen others try to sell them here without much luck. Same with turning pens. What works for me are boxes, wall hung stars and rubber band guns. I continue to try new things but make only a few to see how they will sell. I keep records of all my sales so that at the end of the season I can kind of predict what I should make for the following year. I have dropped many designs for boxes and other things after trying them.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / My last sale of the year was great!
« on: December 05, 2015, 09:09:56 pm »
I make and sell cedar boxes with images of maple inlaid into the hinged lids. I attend about twenty-five sales a year and this was my last one today. I sold thirty-five of these boxes plus a few other items. (star and toys). My best this year was thirty- nine and my average is about twelve so this was a great ending to a busy year. My next scheduled sale is in mid June 2016
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: inlays
« on: November 30, 2015, 10:17:47 pm »
Looks great to me Roger. Nice box.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: inlays
« on: November 29, 2015, 08:16:41 pm »I do some inlays also. Mostly lettering and such. I also tilt my table to the left so I keep the inlay part on the left of the blade and cut clock wise so the top (inlay piece) is larger than the back ground. But, when cutting the inside piece of a letter like A, B, D, O, P etc, you will find the letter (good piece) on the right side of the blade and you are cutting counter clock wise! SUCH IS LIFE!
Maybe this example will give you a better idea of what I'm talking about."
This is exactly why I never think of, or refer to, cutting clockwise or counterclockwise. In fact it gets more confusing when folks ask if the blade or the wood is going clockwise? I just keep the image to the correct side of the blade. I used to put the wood to be inlaid on top but it was suggested to me in a forum similar to this one, to put the inlaid wood on the underside so that one could draw or put the pattern on the background wood and get it placed exactly where it needs to be. I now use hot glue gun to attach the two woods together and cut them apart when finished with a box cutter or other razor devise.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: inlays
« on: November 29, 2015, 02:03:30 pm »
I do a LOT of double bevel inlays. (over 300 a year) To keep my direction right I just remember to keep the image I am inlaying (like an eye) to the correct side of the blade. Cannot go wrong . In my case I put the wood to be inlaid under the background wood and my saw is tilted down on my left side. I then keep the image I want inlaid, like an eye, to the right of my blade as I cut. I do not think about direction of cut at all. I just keep the image to the right of the blade.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Flying Dutchman Blades
« on: November 28, 2015, 03:23:32 pm »
I cut 3/4" stock doing double bevel inlay using 3/8"cedar and 3/8" maple stacked. I use Flying Dutchman polar number five. Seven cuts a bit slower for me.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: craftsman scroll saw
« on: November 28, 2015, 03:15:02 pm »
I once had a DeWalt. It literally fell apart in under two years. A friend of mine had a DeWalt and had to replace the motor five times in five years. He finally tossed it. He and I are cutting thicker material and the DeWalt motors and linkage will not hold up to that. (3/4" - 2" stock) Great for fret work I understand.
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Introduce Yourself. / Re: Hello
« on: November 26, 2015, 01:32:19 pm »
Hi Davis. I am Jim and I live in Lubbock Texas. What have you made with your scroll saw? I do mostly double bevel inlay with mine.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: new saw I ran across
« on: November 26, 2015, 09:28:35 am »
Looking at the ad for this saw it appears that it has an induction motor (No brushes) This is a good thing for durability in cutting thicker wood. (1/2" or thicker) That is why it is a two speed saw. A speed controller will ruin an induction motor. Consistently cutting thicker woods will kill a DeWalt in short order. Mine lasted less than two years.
I agree, reaching back the 24" to adjust the tension would be a pain. Especially if you are doing a lot of blade connections like when doing fretwork.
I agree, reaching back the 24" to adjust the tension would be a pain. Especially if you are doing a lot of blade connections like when doing fretwork.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Hegner Multicut 2S
« on: November 26, 2015, 09:17:40 am »
I have an older Hegner. Multicut-3 made in 1986. It is a 25" single speed saw. Vibrates a bit so I tried putting four sanding sponges under the corners of the saw. Smoothed it out a lot. This is my back up saw. This also works on my 1988 single speed 15" Jet.
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Toy Makers / Doll Cradle and pick-up truck
« on: November 18, 2015, 10:06:21 pm »
24" long cedar doll cradle and Pine truck with one inch wheels. I just made another 125 of the trucks for our club's Christmas give away. I made just the trucks not the trailers this time.
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Brag Forum / Re: Steve's Christmas cross
« on: September 28, 2014, 09:33:03 am »
I printed out that pattern myself. Yours looks perfect.
I think I will just use the pattern to inlay the letters into the cross.
I think I will just use the pattern to inlay the letters into the cross.
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The Coffee Shop / Re: Scrollsaw in Germany
« on: September 26, 2014, 08:17:42 am »
Ye$ Hegner is an excellent $aw. I have two. Maybe you can find a used one. I have one that was made in 1986 and still running fine.
