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Hi Jamie. A sub-table is just about the easiest thing to make. You can use a piece of MDF for the table top. Place an oversized piece on your existing table and then you want some batten, say 1 x 1, butt a piece to one side of the table and mark the outside edge and then do the same with the...

Hi Brian. I am not that good with a router on free hand work with such fine detail and it would not work anyway. The clay needs an anchor point on each cut out going at right angles to the cut out. At the moment i am in dialogue with the experts on this clay caper.

Thought I would show you the finished snowmen, I nearly didn't post this as I am not happy with the way it went. It took well over an hour to fill the cut outs on each snowman and when they came out of the oven some bits of clay had fallen out here and there so dug those bits out and re-filled...

I love the colours on the money box Martin. I also like the models, takes me back a few years when I would spend months building various models. Talking of models my son sent me an e-mail with a picture of a 6ft radio controlled submarine and underneath he had written, "Guess what I want for...

Hi Brian. It is Acasia wood that the snowman is resting on. I was very excited when it arrived. I got one of the planks and sanded it down and then polished it, and polished it and this is the result, one of the most beautiful woods I have even had. After Christmas I shall be making a couple of...

I am very much like you Chris. I had tried many times to upload photos. I have an i mac and feel these are twice as difficult to master than a PC. I knew photos had to be re-sized to get them on the forum and Steve is very good at this so he always used to edit my photos and put them on the...

Could not seem to load two photos into the first post so here is the second snowman.

Last night I made my first snowman and to be honest it was a bit of a disaster but having said that I learnt a lot by my mistakes, although it does not look to bad in the photo I feel my 5 year old grandson could have done a better job. I cut the hat free hand and that was the worst of the whole...

In the larger B and Q stores they sock a wide range of tubing in various diameters and in different materials, like aluminium, steel, copper etc. This may be the answer to a quick fix but then again may last a long time, it could be a week before you get replacements from Axy.

I can see now why you use a No1 blade for some of your work, you must have the patience of a saint. Very fine detail and a great credit to the art of scroll sawing.

Hi Brian. I did not have that problem that you encountered with the 7 blades and I think this is because we both do different things. In the main the pieces of wood I use are round about 11 x 6 inches and they are usually rectangular or oval. I love the mach speed blades for the very fact they...

John. I am getting on very well with the Olsen blades, very happy with them, this may sound strange but they cut very similar to the FD blades. With other makes of blade I have had to increase the angle I push the wood at, sometimes quite considerabley, a typical example was the Pegas double...

Hi John. About a week ago I was having a big tidy up in the workshop and I found some number 5 FD-UR blades, about 25 of them. I decided I would use them up. Today I was cutting out a name sign, Amelia. I snapped 3 blades and that was just on the first A. They never seem to snap at the top, they...

Thanks Guys for all your comments. Bugbear. Got one on it's way to me along with engraving bits with 1.6mm tips for the smaller cut outs. Pete. Already thought of that, got some clay coming that looks like granite in a few colours. Chris. A hair dryer would not work, the clay needs to bake for...

I don't know what you have cut in the photo Jamie, never seen anything like that before but nicely cut. Glad to hear you are well catered for in the way of wood suppliers in your area and I hope you do well at the craft fair. A good tip. Take absolutely everything you have made on the scroll...

Hi Jamie. I have only used marine ply when I used to build boats and can't remember much about it now but it is very expensive and I would stick to birch ply. Other plywoods are not so good because of the voids. Yes. I have done many fishy things and the enclosed photo is my best seller. I did...

Steve. Thanks for the comments. There are quite a few different types of clay to be had and a lot of them shrink when hardening but the clay s I have do not shrink. The problem is that the cut outs are absolutely dead straight so there is no anchor point as such. Mind you, I had to push the...

Hi Jamie. Baltic birch ply can be found in a lot of place's. A good builders merchant should sell it. Hobbies sell small pieces. In your shoes I would get the telephone directory out and look under timber and then make some calls. For value for money it would pay you to buy a full 8 x 4 sheet...

I could not get my post on clay to accept 2 photos so will work on that. Here is the other heart.

For some time I have been thinking of using polymer clay to enhance some of the things I make and I wanted to do this in two ways, the first was to fill in certain cut outs and the second was to adorn the base of other items with embellishments, like flowers, hearts and even little animals in...