467 days ago
by Betsy |
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Since I seem to blog about every other woodworking thing I do, I figure I might as well do so with my “recovery projects.” Hopefully, it will help me see my progress in some concrete way.
So today I spent my limited shop time setting up for a scroll saw project. I had to set up my Dremel tool in it’s drill press jig so I can drill my starter holes, picked out my blades and found a piece of stock.
I’ve chosen a project from “North American Wildlife Patterns ...
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751 days ago
by cheller |
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I finally got the time today to work on the ornament design. An hour or so of scanning, printing, cutting and pasting got me to a design that looked promising. There are a few layout lines showing in this, the black lines are the pattern lines.
The next step was to cut out a prototype and see how it worked. So it was off to the scroll saw. Just for kicks here’s a picture of my scroll saw.
Once I found a piece of stock 1/8” thick walnut, I needed to attach the pattern to ...
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773 days ago
by cheller |
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Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and relax. This is a long one.
Earlier this year I posted pictures of a couple of the ornaments I’ve been making almost annually as a project. You can see them here. It’s time to start focusing on this year’s ornament.
I started making an ornament/window hanging each year in 1996. I’ve missed two years – both because of work related time pressures. But every other year I’ve produced an edition of about 25 whic...
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943 days ago
by Karson |
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This article is courtesy of Woodcraft Magazine on their e-mail advertisement. The article came from Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts magazine.
Here is the article
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