Category Archive: Scroll Saw

Jan 29 2015

Adding a Mouse Door to Some Baseboard

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Acrylic Paint, Daughter, Red Oak, Scroll Saw

January 29, 2015

You’d think my main reason for installing a mouse door in the baseboard was to add a bit of whimsy to our family room addition. You might be partially right, but my real motivation starts with trying to lay baseboard in my kitchen. A few years ago, when I …

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Jul 10 2012

Heart Shaped Necklace Holder

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Drill Press, Jewelry, Orbital Sander, Oscillating Sander, Padauk, Paste Wax, Router Table, Scroll Saw, Urethane

by benjamen

July 10, 2012

Sick of my daughter asking me to unsnarl her tangle of necklaces, I decided to build her a necklace tree. After some thought, I figured the tree would be a bad idea because it would be just one more thing to clutter up the horizontal space in her room. So I changed …

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Apr 25 2012

Toy Car 3: Sports Theme

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Drill Press, Purple Heartwood, Router Table, Scroll Saw, Table Saw, Toy Cars, Urethane, Yellow Heartwood

by benjamen

April 25, 2012

I planned on making another toy car for my nephew and I wanted it to be different. My brother-in-law loves the Vikings, so by default his children do too, and the Vikings colors are purple and gold. I figured I’d make a car out of yellow and purple heartwood. Purple heartwood is a favorite contrast …

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Apr 16 2012

What To Do With Circle Scraps

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Baltic Birch Plywood, Miter Saw, Scroll Saw

by benjamen

April 16, 2012

I’ve been cutting some circles on the scroll saw for a few other projects and have a bunch of scraps left over. Now I have a hard time throwing away any wood thats larger than a toothpick, but I really couldn’t see that I could do much with these scraps — that …

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Apr 04 2012

Finishing Turntable

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Drill Press, MDF, Oscillating Sander, Scroll Saw

by benjamen

April 4, 2012

In a recent issue of the Highland Woodturner, Curtis Turner (what are the odds?) showed how to make a simple spray painting turntable out of MDF and some dowels. I thought, “hmm, that would beat the heck out of some nails pounded into a board that I usually end …

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Apr 02 2012

Toothbrush Holder

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Lathe, Maple, Purple Heartwood, Scroll Saw, Thin Rip Jig, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

April 2, 2012

We needed a new toothbrush holder. Our old one, a clear plastic tube with duckies floating in a mysterious blue liquid, was leaking. Also with it’s tiny holes, it just couldn’t hold the thicker handle toothbrushes that my children use sometimes use. I thought, “I could actually make a something useful on …

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Sep 22 2011

Making Another Toy Car

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Cordless Drill, Maple, Oscillating Sander, Router Table, Scroll Saw, Toy Cars, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

September 22, 2011

I’m taking a step back and showing how I made the wooden car I recently posted here. I first got the idea for this particualr design by looking at some of the wooden cars on the Arizona Wooden Toys website. I liked the design of their “Zoom Racer;” I thought the …

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Jul 13 2011

Ladder Toy

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Drill Press, Maple, Misc. Toys, Purple Heartwood, Router Table, Scroll Saw, Table Saw, Thin Rip Jig, Walnut, Woodworking for Mere Mortals

by benjamen

July 13, 2011

I bought a wooden ladder toy in Mexico when I was young, in fact I have always — incorrectly — called them Mexican ladders. The toy had about 8-10 flat rungs over which a wooden peg would “climb” down. I have no clue where my old toy went, but I …

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