Thread: What is everyone working on?

I`m not sure how many but know there are many, many many. Maybe I will sit down and count them one day. Jeff has a new pattern of a peacock out with 2700 inside cuts:eek: and he used 76 blades to cut it out. I have built many clocks with the largest being the Dome clock and now am looking for the challenge that Jeffs patterns bring.I never used the spirals much before as found them hard to control but with the new less agressive type find that I like them for these type of patterns.

last 3 days I drove myself crazy getting ready for some kindie thing ( fundraiser sort of where different folks displayed and sold stuff) cut little simple animals and sanded them all, got a few things mum and dad might like.... table was 10 bucks.... donated toy another 10 and I sold 38 bucks worth..... grrrrrrrrr
Reading all the fantastic things everyone else is scrolling I really feel bad wasting so much time just cutting simple stuff. Now my arm and hand is too sore to cut anything at all for a few days..... anyone else ever get a sore arm?
Smitty... I used spirals on big, long name signs that just can't be done any other way, but I'm not real happy with the way they cut... too big a kerf, too much sawdust flying and needs more sanding too. Worst of all seems to me after using sprials it always takes a while before I get the tension to work right on normal blades again.
Don't find them hard to control tho.... just a different way of pushing the wood towards the blade, much less manipulation of the wood. Every time I use a spiral it takes me a few minutes to get comfortable with them again tho, brain has to adjust

Juvy

I used to avoid spirals at all costs until Jeff started making patterns. They can be cut with straight blades but for me there would be to much twisting and turning. I now use a magnifier lamp because of eye problems and can follow the lines much easier.Here is the site for Jeffs patterns if you are not familiar with it.www.advancedscrollsawpatterns.com
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Originally Posted by keju

Every time I use a spiral it takes me a few minutes to get comfortable with them again tho, brain has to adjust

im the same, although i rarely use them.

talking about brain adjustment..... I also had a problem when I first used one of the two way blades....
couldn't cut a straight line for anything until it hit me... there was no way to know which way was up.... so no way to know where that little burr is... took it out, put it back in the other way around and I was cutting straight again....
Tried again after I was done with that cut... if I feed the piece in from the left it works too.... but that's just too much of adjusting for my old brain! lol
Juvy

Originally Posted by keju

I also had a problem when I first used one of the two way blades....

Are you referring to the crown tooth blades?

probably Brett, but it said 2-way on them?
Juvy

This is a crown tooth blade

I gotta say it...I had the same issue when trying those blades....I put them back in the package and havn't ever used them again...Just can't seem to teach this "old Dog" new tricks....lol
BTW...I have seen blades that say "Crown Tooth" and those that say "Two Way".....Is there a difference or are they one in the same?
Lin

looks the same to me Lin..... do give them another try .... you could always just try to remove the burr , but really... once you know what the problem is just turn them when they don't behave and they're fine.

Juvy

My reasoning for buying the two-way/crown tooth blades was because I had this bright idea that I would get twice the use out of the blade...ya know...run it till it was dull then flip it over and use it the other way...problem being....I'm use to either feeding the wood straight in or the majority of the time feeding at about 11:30....12:30 is not normal and my hands and brain just don't seem to want to do it....lol
Creature of habit here....
Lin

I know that was the idea behind the two way blades, but read somewhere that it doesn't work simply because once you wear out it has a weak spot, even if it's on top when you put it back in it'll still break easy.
I bought them with my first batch of blades... bought a mix of them then wanting to find out what works for me... thought these might leave a cleaner cut then the reverse blades, but they don't.
Don't see myself buying them ( or spirals) again

Juvy

no idea, i just assumed they were the same. Atleast two way makes more sense then crown tooth

I've been spending the last week trying to fix my computers . First, the motherboard went in my main system, then the AV software in my backup failed to detect a virus which laid waste all my graphics files and locked me out of their folders. Thank goodness, I'd backed up all but my most recent scrollsaw patterns! Nevertheless, I lost the patterns I was working on, some of which had more than 20 hours of work.

In the end, I had to reformat the whole system, but would the installation disks that the retailer supplied with the machine work? Would they heck! Three days of physically manipulating hard drives and DVD drives to get it back up and running :mad: and all the time the temperature has been rising. (They're forecasting 80F this weekend.) So I've been in a cramped hot room made even less hospitable by the heat generated from computers.

There has been some good news, though - I ordered some supplies from Wildwood in the US a few weeks ago and they've arrived. Unfortunately, the postie's refused to deliver them because there's import duty to be paid plus an admin charge and I've got to drive to the depot several miles away at an unconscionable hour of the day to collect them.

Ain't life fun sometimes? At least I should be able to get back into the shop soon.

Gill