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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: A question for forum members

« on: February 03, 2013, 06:31:36 pm »

I have had other vendors tell me that I have my items priced way to low so I tell them:" you buy it and re-sell it at a higher price...won't hurt my feelings"  Never have a taker.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: A question for forum members

« on: February 02, 2013, 11:03:12 am »

That is a nice pattern.  Here in the Bible Belt it would sell in a heart beat.  Your area may not be as receptive to the theme of your very nice work.  I am in west Texas and western themed items sell well and would not sell well in other parts of the world.  I am not all that "into" western and religious items but I make some of them because they sell well here.

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Intarsia / Re: Glue

« on: January 28, 2013, 10:14:48 pm »

I use Elmers white glue for Intarsia. It dries clear and is cheap but does grab quickly.

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Intarsia / Re: What do you call it?

« on: January 24, 2013, 07:40:08 pm »

I call it:"Making sawdust"

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Band Saw Blades

« on: January 22, 2013, 08:22:10 pm »

I re-saw a lot of  8"cedar and some oak. I use 1/2" woodslicer blades.

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Intarsia / Re: Blade selection

« on: January 21, 2013, 10:58:46 pm »

I use FD Polar #5 and #7 blades to do intarsia. Not reverse blades.  I do mine with 3/8" thick wood and often stack cut them to get a perfect fit, so I am cutting a 3/4" total thickness.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Paste floor Wax

« on: January 08, 2013, 09:56:46 pm »

I got my Johnson's paste wax at the grocery store, here.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Frustrated by AMPs....

« on: January 06, 2013, 09:29:27 am »

I suggest every place you plan on putting a duplex outlet you put in a four-plex instead.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Trying to make grain of wood pop.

« on: January 06, 2013, 09:21:47 am »

I use brush on shellac under spray on gloss lacquer on red cedar.  I find that sanding to 220 grit before and after the shellac coat is essential to getting the nice grain in cedar, to show up well.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: scroll sawing is tough!!

« on: January 06, 2013, 09:03:42 am »

I have been scroll sawing for a number of years now and am comfortable with it now.  I recently read , in a post, that following a line with a scroll saw is similar to driving a car. You do not just hold the steering wheel with a death like grip, but you keep a light touch and swing the wheel left and right as you drive.  Same with a scroll saw.  I realized that this is a good description of what I have learned.  To make sharp turns cutting into the waste and then back to the line does not work when doing inlay work. Double bevel inlay is easy to do but unforgiving because there is no waste to cut in to.  What I do for corners is round them off a bit and start them just ahead of the actual corner. No backing up when doing inlay.  So if you ever want to try inlay I suggest working on making corners without cutting into the waste side of your line.  I do not do any fret work.  It does not intrest me...yet.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Cutting at higher speeds

« on: January 06, 2013, 08:51:02 am »

I have two Hegners. One is a Multimax-3 (1986) that has only one speed and the other is a 2008 Polymax-3 which has different belt positions on the pulley to attain different speeds.  I leave it set at near the fastest speed and vary my feed rate as mentioned above.

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Intarsia / Re: The Color Red in an intarsia

« on: January 06, 2013, 08:45:47 am »

That Bloodwood hat is about the same color as some Mesquite.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Compound pattern

« on: December 25, 2012, 07:59:25 pm »

I always have trouble trying to resize for here so have not posted

DITTO

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Intarsia / Re: Pit Bull framed (Completed)

« on: December 06, 2012, 06:24:35 pm »

great job!  Dog and frame.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Learned something new tonight..

« on: December 05, 2012, 07:43:36 am »

I also make my own  using tongue depressers.