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Love your puzzles. Great work.

WOW! So glad it is healing. That does not look like fun, for sure. Gives me new caution about CA glue. I have always been careless with it.

Either way works fine, it is personal preference. I do it both ways, depending on which person I am on a certain day...... You can also use the Mineral Spirits to wipe off the residue glue left on the wood from the adhesive.

How did you put it on? Spray adhesive and stuck to the wood or did you put blue painters tape on first. If it is glued directly to the wood with a spray on adhesive, wipe it down with mineral Spirits and is should lift right off. If I use the painters tape, I use a flat end X-acto blade to work it up.

Welcome to the village. Glad you have moved into the neighborhood.

He does look happy! Good for you.

Thank-you Francisco. That is an awesome pendant.

I use a 1/16" or a #63 wherever I can in fret work and then I go to smaller bits as needed. I don't try to drill based on blade size, I base it more on what drill bit will work in the area I need a hole. I figure the larger the hole the easier to get the blade through... I use bits 1/16" down to #70. I have also found I like the bits D and D sells the best so far. I love the Flying Dutchman blades but not the bits Mike's Workshop sells or use to. 1/2 of the ones I got wobbled so much they were unuseable. Another thing I found is I bought a little chuck to put in my drill press for the mini bits (that drill press chuck did not close all the way). That mini chuck wobbled so bad it was useless. The drill press I have now closes all the way and if it didn't, I would be looking to replace the chuck with one that did. To me if you do a lot of fretwork scrolling which means lot of drilling, might as well fork out the $ for a good chuck.

Looks like a good buy! Congrats!

Great job!

looks like cedar to me and maybe a fence board.

Very nice plaque!

I have them on my Seyco which is an Ex almost. I like them, I did not experience any miracles when I put them on. No reduction of vibrations, but they are nice, not sorry I put them on and the original clamps that came with my Seyco seem big and cumbersome when I look at them once and awhile. Are they worth the extra bucks... that is up to the person that has them. They didn't improve my scrolling and I still put a blade in upside down or backwards ever so often. I don't have any desire to go back to the old ones. Would if I had to though.

NICE!

Those are great and I got myself educated, had to look up Echidna. Very interesting for sure. Are they endangered? Looks like a cross between a armadillo and a porcupine. Egg laying mammal, I thought the platypus was the only one. Thanks.

I just receive this link in a Wood Magazine e-Newsletter. Maybe it will be of some planning help; https://www.woodmagazine.com/woodworking-plans/shop-organization/shop-layout-grid-and-tool-templates By the way, my shop is the size of a one car garage, around 20' x 15.5', heated and cooled, attached toilet, refrig and computer nearby, and I am very happy with it. Nice if it was bigger so I didn't have to move tool around to do what I want to do, but I'll take it,,, well I have for 38 years. I have built a 17' kayak and a 12' sailboat hull in it. May have had to open the bathroom door at one end and the back exterior door at the other end, to plane and rip the stringers and gunwales.

You deserve to be proud. And Navy Corpsmen are all heros in my mind.

Well I wouldn't worry it too much. I think I know my way around a Scroll saw, but, last night I put a blade in upside down once and another in backwards twice......

Great movie for sure... add a small line at the bottom that says "(AKA Josey Wales)"

I find it weird they had to do that, because as Kevin wrote the Pegas is a Pegas because of their clamps. I never had to look under my Ex table to clamp the bottom of the blade in, and I am a bottom feeder so I didn't do as routinely as the top feeders do. I now have a Seyco ( an Ex with a larger table) that I have put the Pegas clamps on and I do not have to look to clamp the bottom of the blade. Easy to do by feel alone. And the Pegas clamps are nice. When Heppnerguy (Dick) visited last he checked out my Pegas clamps and ask me to tell him honestly, why they were better than the original Seyco/Excalibur clamps.... I had to think a few seconds and all I could really come up with is they are such a pretty red!

Okay, I am going to show this picture, I want no nasty comments about my mess... it is what it is, I am what I am...... I have two workbenches in my my little shop. I made the one against the wall because I had the cabinet for it and seemed like a good idea. The roll around cart was in my garage sitting with little use. I hated working at the stationary or stationery (?) one, seemed like the wall was alway in the way and I was in a restricted area. I worked mostly on my table saw... So I brought the cart in and loved it enough to put a new top one it. Adjusted it so it is the right height that I can use it as an extended outfeed table for my table saw if needed, coarse that means I have to clean it off. But I love the mobility of it and I love being able to work on it from any side. I still have the stationary or stationery (?) one, because I need the drawers and cupboard space. The real solution would been to make the mobil one into a roll around cabinet one and eliminate the stationary or stationery (?) (okay that is "stationary" I finally looked it up). That way when not in use I could roll the mobile workbench into the area the stationary one was... that would really open up my shop... One of those projects I am going to do "some day". The purpose of this whole dissertation is to say, in a small shop where space is at a premium, I would vote for a mobile workbench. "And that's the truth"

Depend on how delicate of an item I am cutting. For delicate fretwork 2 - 1/4" thick (total 1/2") would be my max, normally it is 3 - 1/8'. Less delicate things, up to a total of 3/4". Even with solid wood those are my thickness preferences except when cutting 3D items.

This is true..... I find Pegas to be the thinnest....

I certainly see nothing in that picture that looks like it was done by a shaky hand. The painting really brings it to life.

Danny, that does look mighty good.