I took a picture of some back plates for drawer pulls for I wanted to turn this picture into other things I have going and needed something that would take me a few hours to draw a pattern. But this computer with Rapid Resizer and a cheap printer can make me a pattern in just a few minutes.

  I found this backing plate in a catalog, took a picture of what I wanted then posted it on my computer then had Rapid Resizer, a program I downloaded, to change the size of it then had had it sent to my cheap little printer and printed out a couple of patterns for my scroll saw to take over and sawed out four plates at a time.  I also changed the size for some swinging bobs to exchange from the brass bob that came with the clock movement.

 The pendulum can't weigh very much so I made the backing plate out of balsa wood.  The scroll saw will saw this wood but a person should use a blade without the reverse teeth on the bottom for this is what grabs the wood and pushes it up if a person pushes sideways on the wood. So keep the blade straight up; and down like a person is supposed to do all the time no matter what he is sawing.  the best for me is to use a metal cutting blade with fine teeth. I did experiment with using 1/16" plywood instead of the balsa wood and it was just a smidgen heavier but will have to try both bobs on two different clocks and see what I will end up using!

 

That rapid resizer program sure is a time saver, Jess!

Thanks Patch for the ideas, recommendations and pictures. Always helpful for our current and future folks.

That is just plain awesome Jess!  The project you did, sure, but I am amazed by your seeing the art and use for an otherwise fancy drawer pull backing plate.

Thanks everyone.  Cal I never think of art for me its getting the right thing to fit my projects.

My problem now is trying to find these things I saved for maybe something later...I have saved pictures of

things not knowing why or when or what I will do with them but they just post the pictures randomly somewhere a

few hundred pictures. 

  I finish a project and take pictures and download them. I go to the patriot woodworker and type out something then start looking for the picture of that project I had just finished and and they are never added to be the first or last that I loaded but always in the middle of some 200 other pictures but never in the same area each time I post them.

   Could it be maybe be some one is trying to tell me Microsoft wants me to upgrade from a 10 to something newer???

 

I hear you on that Jess.  It used to be that every time Apple updated the software it was as if they took all my pics and shuffled them like a deck of cards

Since my computer has now gotten past the update stage, it doesn't happen any longer   One big reason I'm not too keen on buying a new computer...

Cal since I wrote this I decided to ask Google what is the thing about my pictures getting loaded in different orders.

Seems like lots of people are asking the same thing. Seems like every time they give us an update, sxxx hits the fan or some other reasons.