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My latest piece. Many hours went into this one. 11 x 14 x 1/8 inches BB. Spiral blades.

Well, after doing some more research and thanks to @kmmcrafts and @OCtoolguy along with the Bushton web site I've learned quite a bit about the saws. Rather impressive. So I going to go check it out within the next couple of days and if everything looks as good as it does in the pics, and it runs good it will be coming home with me! Chris

And was a pretty good tennis player in his day

Ribbiting Frogs pattern by Jaeheon Yun and found in his book "20 Minute Scroll Saw Puzzles". I used 3/4" Poplar approximately 5 1/2" x 9". Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using a Pegas #5R MGT blade. After lightly sanding, dipped in diluted Shellac, and a second sanding and dipping. Comments welcome.

Well, needless to say the saw came home with me. But here's the rest of the story...... When I got there the guy selling it (late 30's I guess) met me at his parents house, where the saw was. They had it out in the driveway. It looked like it was brand new, no marks on the saw top at all The guy selling it told me he bought it to do craft shows, but couldn't get the saw to "cut right" so he put it in the garage and bought a new Dewalt 788. He got the saw from an older lady who told him her husband bought it new, used it for about a month then passed, it had been setting in the shop since then. First thing I checked was the triangle piece (pic) to ensure the corners were still sharp, not rounded, thanks @OCtoolguy for that. As you can see it's looks new to me. All plugged in, took me a bit to get the blade in the lower mount, got it in there, applied the tension lever, turned it on. The thing took off about a gazillion miles an hour, things were slapping and making noise like it was flying apart. I'm glad I spent last night watching videos on this saw as I knew immediately it was way out of adjustment. So I released the front tension, adjusted the rear tension, it was way off!. Speed was full on fast, turned that down to just up from the slowest setting. Rear tension set, front tension set, turned it on.... Like a different saw, turned the speed up to about 1000 ram's and what a real pleasure. Extremely quiet, the "mom" commented it was quiter than her sewing machine. The guy selling it said "wow" it never ran like that. So, I turned it off, paid the guy and loaded it up! Smiling all the way home.

Congrats, I think you got an awesome saw. The poor guy is probably regretting selling it now.

That is a beautiful piece, RJ

Is this the cross?

@OCtoolguyI did find the pattern. The designer is Donny Hollingsworth, Foot of The Cross Scroll Saw Art. Ray, if anyone out there thinks they can explain how to show a picture of the cross to a doorstop (ME), I would be glad to show it. When Ann Marie comes home from shopping, I'll ask her to post the picture...she's a software personans knows her way around a keyboard pretty well.

fantastic job

Nicely done, beautiful. Jerry

Very good. Is it your pattern?

Very impressive.

Great cutting on a intense pattern