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    You know me I can knit pick that list of expenses to pieces.. but I'll keep it out of the equation. though the knit pick list is very long it does add up to be a substantial total. You have some bigger expenses not mentioned though.. Just to name a couple of them without writing the whole list I can think of off the top of my head is.. (Even if I knit pick this down you still do fairly well for just having fun..) Business Insurance? Mine's about $400 a year.. but I don't have a business vehicle or maintenance and insurance fees for one either.. How about credit card processing fees? Any shows you do that you travel more than a couple miles? All day shows do you pack lunch, stay in a hotel etc. It was nice of the IRS to give us a whopping $0.04 more for mileage deduction when fuel prices doubled as well as everything else vehicle maintenance etc. related to travel just about doubled too.. I guess they thought that $0.04 should help cover those mileage expenses, LOL
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    Thanks Don, I don't know if it was the darkness of the lines or my printer.. Unfortunately my new printer I bought was only black and white because I was a cheap skate and didn't want to pay for the color printer, LOL.. My next printer will be a color printer.. I didn't realize how much I really liked the red lines in a pattern until I could no longer make them red, LOL
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    Hey @don in brooklin on thank you for making these designs. I just came in from cutting a stack of each design. I didn’t notice that my printer didn’t really print the kerf lines in the one design very dark and they was really hard to make out but I think I got them. Both great designs, easy and quick to cut.
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    I like both of these that you did and will be cutting both of them soon. I like the bowling pin one best but I'll cut both styles.. People seem to really like the themed ornaments. I have all of Sue Meys designs for the what I call worker themed ones (construction worker, nurse, and sports themed ones that she has too) and customers really seem to go after those. There are a lot of things she doesn't have that she could expand on.. I've requested a lot of the designs that she does have but she seems to be too busy the last few times I've requested. I guess I have the imagination but not the best skills on design, LOL.. Sorry to hear you struggle to get much sawing done. For a beginner in pattern making you're sure good at it, LOL.. I can wing it sometimes and get a pattern but nothing close to this good, LOL.. Thank you for taking the time to make these. I can't wait to get started cutting them
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    I guess that's why I didn't find it.. The main view page had no ornaments with text on them, LOL. He has a couple different styles of military themed ornaments that I did see so I assumed this wasn't his design. However I did think it was his style spelled all over it.. Thanks Don for showing exactly where is was. That is one issue with some of Steves patterns.. you know it's his work but have to go on a hunt to track it down.. many designs are hidden within a group of other designs so you have to download every one to find it.
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    Ooh, that's a nice one Don. That will work perfectly.. I don't really care I was just looking for some "different " new themes of ornaments to make and was thinking I hadn't seen bowling, or disc golf designs before for scroll sawing.. lots of different themed stuff out there that is laser engraved, from a lawn mower to a pole dancer and everything in between LOL.. One that is circulating pretty good in the laser world right now is a fuel gauge with the fuel light shining.. saying "this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine". LOL That's probably too much text to try to scroll out of a small ornament.. Be a good one for 2022 though. Thank you for having nothing to do and making this, I'll certainly cut it and show it shortly.. trying to build some new ornament inventory
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    I don't see that particular design but there is a whole bunch of these very similar to this design in the pattern section here on the village.. Steve Good also has a couple nice sets of military ornaments similar but has some decoration to it too.
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    Switch plates huh, I never thought to look there, LOL. I did search through the actual ornaments and didn't find anything.. I'll check it out.. thanks
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    I guess I should have, LOL.. I normally am pretty good with tech stuff but in the last 2-3 years they've change the algorithms of how the searches work and they sort of base it off your browsing history etc.. weird how it all works.. and it's getting to be where you have to put in very specific search terms.. They say it's because there is so much stuff online these days..
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    I have the same saw.. that saw was the start of my journey. My father bought the saw brand new around 1988. That started his retirement hobby and he sold at crafts fairs around the area. He wore the saw out and rebuilt it two times.. then the third time he had a hard time finding parts so he upgraded to a Delta 40-540? I think was the model.. basically the same saw but variable speed. The old 2 speed sat under his work bench for several years. One day while visiting him I seen the saw sitting there and asked if I could borrow it and try to make something from it. He said you can have it, but it's pretty worn out.. works but needs new bearing sleeves and pins etc. I ended up using it as is for a few projects and then completely rebuilt it sourcing my parts online finding OEM parts from various sources. That was back in about 2006.. I still have the saw but don't really use it.. Good saws and the quickset blade clamps are the best.. too bad other manufactures can't come up with something like that..
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    Thanks John, apparently I just didn't use the right search terms when doing my search...
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    Thank you Brenda.. I might be able to work with that one.. seems if I search for bowling Christmas ornament pattern I get bowls and baskets instead of bowling, LOL
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    I may have to customize a laser design into a scroll saw design.. seems to be a few of them for laser works but scroll sawing them would have some of the items in the scene as floaters and they'd fall out of the scene, LOL.. Just thought I'd ask as maybe someone already customized one.. or had something. I'll have to take a look both here and Steve's patterns.. Thanks for the searching efforts.
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    Anyone know of any Bowling themed or Disc / Frisbee Golf themed ornament patterns? I know Sue Mey has a lot of different themed ornaments but I don't see anything there..
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    One in the top of the photo was the bottom layer of the stack.. next one down was top and bottom one was middle layer.. what prize do I win, LOL
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    They put all this stuff in there so they can confuse us.. then wait for the forums to be flooded with questions of confusion and eat their popcorn LOL
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    I wonder if it has something to do with cleaning the lens.. as with any of this cheap china made stuff they might as well not offer any instructions, lol.. Nothing mentioned about cleaning it but I can't imagine it'd stay clean.. heat and smoke rise and usually finds it way up to the focal lens.. have to be really careful what you clean them with.. very fine scratches will greatly distort the power output and will affect the quality of burn you get. I use rubbing alcohol and Q-tips ( don't press hard on the Q-tip just let it lightly rub the lens.) to clean mine but not all lenses are created equal.. I had some that the RA melted it, LOL even though that was what was recommended to clean the one set I had.. I just assumed it was safe for all of them, LOL.. Some folks use lens cleaning wipes intended for cameras I think.. and I've seen mention of cleaning with glasses wipes.. Maybe the same as camera wipes? I don't know.
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    Nice work! I've also been working on ornaments for a few weeks now.. been looking for some new designs to cut too.
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    After watching Steve goods review on these I don't think cutting with one would be practical at all.. especially if you have a scroll saw, He did 7 passes on that little square he cut out.. A Co2 laser of at least 40W is what I'd say is the minimum I'd want to use for doing cutting.. When cutting as your cut get's a bit deeper your focus distance is changed so say at the top level of the piece is exact focus.. after going half way through say 1/8" BB ply your focus is off or has less cutting power.. Also something to think about is as that focus goes deeper into the wood the focal dot is getting bigger so you may not be cutting a true 90.. I don't notice this too much with 1/8" ply but when cutting 1/4" or more I can start to see the bevel on the edges..
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    Anything in the manual about maintenance? I'm wondering if you need to clean the lens from time to time? I'm not familiar with these diode laser types. But on the K40 Co2 laser I have the smoke will rise up and get on the focus lens after some hours of use.. Unless I run the air assist then it can be quite a few hours before they get dirty. These don't appear to have air assist and not really sure it's needed on one of these? I only use it on mine for cutting.. just engraving isn't needed
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    Nicely done, I like the different stripes of wood species you have there.. go well together. I've been wanting to try this sometime, I have a scrap piece of glue up from making a lazy susan and a pattern from Steve Good all on it. Got side tracked with a order for something else and lately my spare time going to a project car..
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    Instead of buying the grid mat thingy I'd probably just mount the laser to your board and burn your own grid using the laser.. this way it'll be square to what the laser will do.. Maybe they're built really well and squared up good but if not then burning the grid into your board / mount then the grid would always be square to the laser. As for doing taller projects.. could you build a mount on each side of the machine with slots so you can just slide it up and re-tighten the mounting bolts.. or have various holes throughout the mount uprights.. Hope you understand what I'm trying to say, LOL.. Maybe you could use a metal ruler cut slot in the middle for mounting.. that way the ruler would indicate you have both sides at the same height? Just throwing some ideas..
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    Once you get a good "focus" burn.. measure the distance from the piece to the laser and write it down.. then every piece you want to burn set the distance to you piece to the laser head.. Ever played with a magnifying glass out in the sun to set papers etc. on fire as a kid.. you get just the right distance and you can hone in that dot to be a small dot.. the smaller the dot the more concentrated the power / heat of it is.. the better and more crisp your burn will be..
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    Yeah, I mounted the magnet recess or flush.. Mine were 1/4" thick and just the waist area of making those ornaments..
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    Congrats on the new toy, I'll be interested in seeing what you think of it once you get your feet wet. I love my laser as it's just another tool to play around with in the shop and it does things my scroll saw or no other tool can do. Post your progress and updates in the Laser groups.. many die hard scroll sawers will slap your hand for getting a new tool like that and posting it here, LOL
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