Scroll Saw Blog

I did get the new Oriental Dragon “DRAGON” finished today, and took the picture for the Tuliptree website entry.  The outline is the same as the “SIFU” version, I just redrew the letters to spell “DRAGON”.  The letters also fill out the dragon more than the “SIFU” version, with no spacers at the top and [...]

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Last spring at the Canton Flea Market I had a customer who wanted an oriental dragon puzzle that spelled out the letters “SIFU”. “SIFU” means “master” or “teacher” in Korean. I’ve since sold a couple more, so it was worth the design time.  I’ve been meaning to replace “SIFU” with “DRAGON” to appeal to a [...]

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With the high cost of dials or movements with dials, I’ve been drawing up some of my own clock dials. Not only is this much cheaper, it also gives you flexibility as to design and size.  The one I’ve been working on today is a flowery Arabic dial.  After going through this, it’s really not [...]

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Here’s my first foray into 3-D earrings.  The angel is a 3-D cut, while the rest is straight flat work.  This is just a prototype with whatever scrap is on hand. I like most of it, but thing the halo is a little clunky.  It’s out-of-round, but that’s because I was to lazy to draw [...]

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We took Jenny to Southern Seminary today–and got a taste of Louisville rush-hour traffic.  This may mean I’ll have to take her down, and that will cut out saw time.  But priorities are still priorities.
Anyway, it was too late to do anything on the saw tonight, but I did get downloadable pattern files on the [...]

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In between some order-filling I managed to draw and cut some Italy beads. The finished product, featuring the Italian flag colors, are modeled by Jenny:
I snuck in the pattern in between some butterfly wings I was cutting.  Normally I’ll put the bead pattern next to the edge so I can drill the pin entry hole [...]

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Looks like we may have another magazine article in Scrollsaw Workshop next year.  Again, I’m going to be a little fuzzy here to make sure I don’t break any rules, but it’s another one of the beaded projects.  Jenny’s excited–after all, it was she who pushed me into this (even though she claims she didn’t [...]

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I got an email from a reader down in New Zealand’s “Sheep Country”.  He had some hints about the Border Collie re-shown below.  The biggest one was to put some space between the tail and the legs.  That makes since, as that’s the normal way of separating the letters.  I’d have to be careful, as [...]

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Somebody commented that these don’t look like Japanese lanterns, so I’m calling them “Rice Paper lamps” now . I’ve now got three of these lamps made now, and will be selling them at the Xenai Railroad and Arts show this Saturday. They measure 6″x6″x”10″, and feature replacable rice paper panels. The problem with earlier [...]

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We finally completed an order for 20 Portuguese Waterdogs today.  These are in the “retriever clip”, and join 20 others in the “lion clip”.  We’re making them for a Portie club in Indiana, who will be selling them at the Portie specialty show coming up in  September 2009.  We worked with the club to get [...]

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