Thursday morning and lots of smoothing to do

    This is the hardest part of carving and this is what separates the boys from the men for not leaving any scratch marks on the carved pieces.

 

   Gene  I used the same number blade for cutting the picture out then also for cutting all the pieces apart.

# FD- SR 5 flying dutchman blade from  The Wooden Teddy Bear. com  It has nothing to do with all those teddy bears  for it a wood working site. Order them 1 gross at a time and they will be much cheaper than the blades from the big box stores. 

   I built this blade holder the week I bought the 788 in 98 or 99? I used 1/2" pvc with wood plugs in the bottoms. Can't remember for sure but there must be more than 20 tubes for blades and I bought some of all I could find to buy, anywhere........ fast forward, all those blades are still in that nice little storage container.  Only two other blades I ever use is an Olson blade for metal sawing with the scroll saw...which has no teeth at the bottom of the blade sticking up from The Teddy bear.com and an Olson precision cut blade for cutting away the out side of the carving pieces I don"t need. Its also a reverse tooth # 5 but it saws and last longer but when new it wants to go faster????Only word I have for it as it is more agressive but not as easy to precision cut when needed on inside sawing!!!! And its from The Teddy bear.com also. This carving I\m working on now I used the same blade. 

  This bull I'm shooting at you are my own opinions. Lot of people out there has more opinions than they got brains and again this is just my thinking...

  Lots of wood to smooth so I'll check in when more has been done.

No clock, just a mirror

By the way, this picture was taken wednesday morning for I had a goof up and had to work on every piece with glue before I could continue this morning, Thursday.  I'll explain someday.

Thanks for the blade info, Jesse. My blades that I ordered from The Teddy Bear are mostly #5s of different configurations. I'll have to use them more to see which ones work for which woods and thicknesses for me. I also ordered a bunch of smaller ones that will likely stay in their tubes for now. Don't plan on cutting a pattern so intricate as to need them...yet. 

 

I do like sawing thinner wood with the thinner blades but most of the time I saw 3/4 or 1" maple... If I was to cut 1/8 to 3/8" I would use the # 2 or # 3 blades but there like on the snow flakes where I use Baltic Birch  1/8" I stack saw them 5 pieces at a time. This saves much labor over sawing one piece at a time. I have a few patterns if you are interested.  These are patterns I bought long ago and I alway make more copies off the original so if you have a printer always make more copies to glue on the wood..

13 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

No clock, just a mirror

I like it upside down . Can you stain it medium brown? 

You're moving right along on this one Patch. "Momma" must be the customer for it?

this is first picture here since I got the rebuilt computer repaired again...

  I think this is so old 2014 that even though they did say the new Microsoft 11 would be installed I believe some of the safety features are not there for they were not invented back then..

I think I goofed for buying a rebuilt computer through Walmart but it cost us nothing for we use their card and get points. They fixed it but it cost us freight one way.

   This is the picture I finished the carving part and just wanted to see if this part of the computer is working.

Sherri, you are just a little too late. Might be able to show it tomorrow.

 

Sherri, what can I do to the phone to stop the blurry picture when I have a mirror in the middle of the picture. It acts like it is set on infinity and the closes images gets the blurrs. The light bulb looks okay!!!

That's really cool Patch. Especially that little light right in the middle.

Another beautiful example of your scroll saw and carving skills, Jesse.

finished and ready to start another

Well done Patch. I think you've got the hang of this now