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Just got an ad for the new jet scroll saw and I was wondering if anyone owns one or tested one and what your view of it is??? It is the Jet JW22-22. Looks like a knock off of the Excaliber with a little Dewalt thrown in. Thanks.

I got some shop time the past few days and turned a few pens. The first 2 are a Hybrid Cambridge kit with titanium gold and sterling silver trim. I interchanged the caps and bottoms to give a different look but some wanted to see them with their respective caps and bottoms. Your comments would be appreciated on these. The material used is a green banded malachite truestone and a faux casein material. Thanks for looking. Here is a blue Cambridge with a blue acrylic. Here is a full sized Majestic kit with a green acrylic. As mentioned thanks for looking.

Strarted taking some photos for my web site and was looking for opinions as to which background would look better for a web site??? Thanks for the replys.

Dan Good to hear you are going to give it a try. I cut the ends of the hose with a hacksaw and then cut the lengths of braiding with a pair of tin snips. I even trim the ends with the tin snips after I get the chrome glued to the tube and it has dried. As far as after the resin has cured and you need to trim the ends I have a carbide barrel trimmer but you can also use the side of a grinding wheel if you have a way to keep the tube 90 degrees to it. Good luck and look forward to seeing the results. They do make nice pens.

Way to go Mike. Congrads to you and I am sure many more patterns will be turning up now. The magazine can spot talent. Thanks for sharing.

Marshal and Travis Thanks for the kind words. I do realize this is a scrollsawing site and I was showing pens that were turned on a lathe and using metal as opposed to wood so I did not give much thought in the responses. I posted them mainly because I thought someone would enjoy seeing them even if they did not respond and I thought they did come out quite well. I grouped all 4 metals that I did cast to show some comparison. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2712 I do promise I will get back to making some wooden things again. I have some clocks I am working on but with my new job I am finding no shop time at all. 3 years to go before retirement and I can't wait to be able to enjoy alot more shop time. Thanks again for noticing and the kind words.

These are the 4 Metals all together for the first time. starring from left to right is braided brass, braided stainless steel, braided copper, and finally a weaved chrome. These are the 4 metal sleeves I have been casting and showing photos and I want to thank all who have followed them and plese excuse the poor photos because this metal stuff is hard to photogragh. Thanks again for looking and any comments or questions are always welcomed.

The last metal in my series of metal sleeved blanks which I cast in clear poly resin is a braided copper sleeving and I put it on a satin copper/ copper cigar kit, a copper cigar kit, and a satin copper/ copper sierra kit. Thanks for looking as always.

Dan I have been doing my own casting. This braided material is actually some flexible water pipe I found at lowes home center. Cut the ends off and pull the hose material out and you have an out brass sleeving which I cast in clear resin after I wrap it around the pen tubes. I get some failures but most have been fairly good. I have a couple more castings and then I need to get away from pen making for awhile. I have some clocks I want to get done before summer. Thanks for looking.

This is the latest metal sleeving in my series of metal sleeved pens. This is a weaved chrome sleeving which I cast in clear poly resin. I put it on a chrome cigar kit and also a chrome/satin chrome elegant sierra kit. The hard part was taking the photo because of the glare from the shiny chrome. I tried both indoor and outdoor shots and this is the best I could do. Thanks for looking.

Here is the next metal in my series of metal sleeving pen kits. It is a braided brass sleeving cast in clear poly resin and put on a Sierra Vista gold kit. Thanks for looking.

Here is a Sierra Vista kit with a blank I casted using a silver tinned copper braiding material. It was cast in clear poly resin. Thanks for looking.

As always beautiful work. Nice use of materials. Thanks for showing.

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I do love these blanks and am looking for a black pearled blank to go with this. Have not been successful yet but there may be something out there. Thanks again.

Thanks everyone for looking and for the kind words. Makes one feel good. Hope to have a few more in the future. I am now working on some clocks I need to get done. Hope to have photos of those as well. Trying to keep busy through these snow storms we are having on the east coast this winter.

This white acrylic material is the whitest acrylic I have used to date and it has a pearled look to it. I put it on an Ultra Cigar kit and also a Jr Statesman kit. Thanks for looking and as always any comments or questions are always welcomed.

A few more carbon fiber blanks I casted and put on some pen kits. The first is a blue/black CF on a cigar kit. The second is a green/black CF on a cigar kit. And finally for the ladies a pink/black CF on an elegant beauty kit. Thanks for looking and as always any comments or questions are always welcomed.

Got back in the shop this week and to warm up the tools for usage I decided to turn a few pens. Here is one that is an ultra cigar kit and I casted a black/grey carbon fiber material for the blank. I have a few more to follow. Need to charge the batteries in the camera. Thanks for looking and as always any comments and or questions are always welcomed.

John, I like the aquarium pump idea. I even have a couple laying around here somewhere. But not sure how to put it on the saw. Could you give me an idea how to set it up? Thanks for your help!! Steve and Terry Steve way back when I first started scrolling aover 25 years ago, I had a Dremel 2 speed scrollsaw. They were all the rage because all these big companies were not around yet and these things everyone who scrolled owned one. But the blower was not good with it so I used an aquariam pump. All I did was place the pump off to the side. I eventuall made a little shelf for it and attached the shelf to the dremel stand it came with. I then took the clear flexible tubing which you can buy in home centers today and at that time got mine in the fish store. Attached it to the arm of the saw using tie wraps which again you can get at home centers. Cut the end on an angle and put a loop it in so that the dust would blow away from me and not torward me as most saws have. I used a two way adapter on my chord and turned it on. It stayed on till I was done. I have one of those power strips where all my scrollsaws are plugged into and at night all I do is turn the power strip off and shuts down everything that is plugged into it. Worked great and was quiet. They are cheap and you can probably find them in yard sales or even ebay.

Kev Just out of curiosity, do you have that movement that clock was designed for???? It was designed for a mini insert and was listed by Klokit. They do not carry it any more. It was a mini skeleton clock. Sorry I can not be of any more help to you. Good luck.

That is John Nelson's clock. It should be in one of his books. I remember seeing it somewhere. He used to have a web site where he sold his patterns but I do not have it and it probably doesn't exist any more. I think he spends all his time traveling these days. I had the pleasure of working on some prototype projects of his and one in particular was his flexible watch plan. Way back then, there was a marriage between his patterns, CWW&C and Steebar and I was invited in. I wound up doing alot of projects for Steebar and did alot of John' patterns as well. Times have changed though. Here you go. Here is the book I was thinking of. Find this in the library or other book stores. http://www.foxchapelpublishing.com/p-11 ... ition.aspx

When comparison shoping you have to know abit more about the older saws. There are various models of the RBI220. Is it the older version with the barrel clamps, if so skip it. Is it a VS model or an older 2 speed, skip it What is the condition of the saw?? As far as the Hegner goes, again what model is it?? How big is it, and does it have the upfront blade tension lever. If it does not skip it. You know what you are getting with the Dewalt and brand new with full warrenty. None of the others have a warrenty. Now if the RBI is a Hawk 220vs and in good condition, that is the way I would go. Tough call when you are buying a used piece of equipment though. Just my 2¢

Are you looking for the plans or just the photo or both or the whole issue???

Man I don't even see that year listed in their back issues link. Is that the year they started??? They may not have any back issues because of that reason.

Now if we are talking about woods that we use everyday in our projects I would have to say Red Oak because I use it alot. But my favorite wood or woods are the woods in the rosewood family, these woods are some of the nicest grained and I always call them the classiest woods out there. I like to use these as accent woods. Now you can add to this list with any burl around. You will get the most stunning looking woods from burls. I think we need to expand our use of woods when we make projects. Experiment is always a good thing. There are many sources for woods. Good luck and happy scrolling.