Gary Beasley

Welcome from a former neighbor, grew up next door in Jacksonville.

Lets coin a new term, Puttermeister. A master of getting into all sorts of stuff and making a mess doing all of them.

Looks like you got wax or silicone spray on the wood making it peel back from the spots. If you resand you might be able to clean it with acetone before you finish it.

Well done! Pine is a nice surprise for scrollsawing, it comes out way nicer than it's reputation warrents.

Try mounting the light to the table and pointing it to the work.

Get a stand when you do order a Dewalt, it is so nice having it and get casters for it too. Makes it easy to push out of the way for cleaning. And your bench space can be used for better things like assembly and finishing.

If you can get graphite brushes even oversized you can easily shave them to size with a knife or a file and get the motor running again. Home Depot may have something, I've even found replacement brushes for Dremels at Wal Mart.

If you don't dry the wood completely the moisture will disrupt the stabilizing by pushing the resin back out as it turns to vapor when you cook it to cure the resin.

Anybody try using an airbrush for this yet?

I've learned that polar blades are superior for cutting corian and plastics and anything else that heat buildup makes problems with. What happens with UR is the material welds itself back together as you cut, most annoying.

Bet that little wood burning stove is a handy way to hide mistakes!

Glad I could help.

Looks like you need to get your filtration in so the sawdust doesn't get sucked in and toasted. I see you have the type that takes in outside air, good to have less chance of igniting dust and such. Georgias climate is mild enough I went with a heat pump style window ac to keep the shop comfortable.

Where were you able to find 150 watt cfl bulbs? The 60 was the highest output I could find.

I have photoshop so i can manipulate the scale and ratios to any pattern to fit the wood I have available. When I print the patterns and spray glue them I let the glue dry down to a good tacky surface before application and this helps release the pattern easier when cleaning it up.

All the experts in my woodworking club say to go by the note you get when you pluck the blade, which will be different for each size of blade so find what works best and use the tone rather than the numbers to duplicate a setting. Thicker blades will have a lower tone than thin ones akin to the way guitar strings act.

Nice thing about this mod is the bulb is recessed pretty good and you would have a hard time hitting it with anything.

I managed to break the little 25 watt spotlight in the lamp on my Dewalt 20 inch scrollsaw, mainly because I had it really close to the work to get more light on it while cutting. The blade snatched the piece of wood and flailed it into the front of the bulb. I decided I needed more light than a 25 watt bulb would make so I went looking at the alternatives. The label on the lamp housing warned against using anything hotter than a 25 watt bulb so the 60 watt version that is available was out. Then I tried to find an LED with an intermediate base to fit. Seems the manufacturers overlooked that size entirely. There was the regular base and candelabra, the only intermediates were low output Christmas lights. I even checked for adaptors, no go. There is however a 13 watt, 60 watt equivalent output CFL with an intermediate base. Only problem is they stick out about an inch in front when screwed in. I finally found a plastic pipe fitting, called a 2" DWV male adaptor for less than $1.50 at HD that would slip right in at the thread end with just a little shaving on the lathe with a skew. I ran a bead of thick CA around it and slipped it in and it looks almost like I knew what I was doing. Yeah we got pictures! PS I found the bulb at Lowes.

I got wind of this group from another scroller in the Gwinnett Woodworkers scrollsaw sig who was giving a talk at the meeting. Ive been woodworking five or six years and got a scrollsaw a few years ago. The sig has really helped me learn the possibilties with scrolling and i'm having a lot of fun with it.

I would agree with using wood glue sparingly, be careful about glue spreading into visible areas as it will affect the finish. Superglue is brittle and will crack with any flexing of the wood.