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Let me be early on this one, because I was just taking to a guy about it yesterday. I may have showed this here before,,, but can't remember. This a pen I made for a Halloween pen making contest several years ago. I did use a scroll saw to make it. The black is strips of cut PVC Drain, Waste, Vent pipe. I cut and glued three strips together, to make a thicker piece and scrolled the little bats in to the piece. Glued three more pieces and scrolled some more bats. Doing it that way made it so there are bats on both sides of the pen. I filled the bats with epoxy mixed with red paint. When that dried I glued to two halves together to make the pen blank. I then mounted the blank on the lathe and turned the pen. I had no idea how it would turn out, but I think it came out pretty neat. One of the funnest to make pens I did. Oh, and it won the contest. Coarse there were only 6 or 7 entries.

Remember this was back in the day of two lane hi-ways with speed limits of 55 miles per hour. You had plenty of time to look for the signs and to read them as you pasted....

According to their issues index... issue 72. Article by Carole Rothman page 42

I just saw this on Craigslist and I not buying but I think it is a pretty nice, well thought out workstation.. Lot of ideas here: https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/tls/d/scroll-saw-hobby-work-table/6709288515.html

Very clever and very cute! Nice job, Dick.

Nice cuttings. How you recover soon.

Good info, thank you and JT.

I have never had a miter saw, would like to but haven't enough need to justify one. I'm curious what is the difference between a miter saw blade and a table saw blade? Different size, different arbor hole size? Different teeth?

Hopefully they will looking to it and improve. They want to sell their product they need to be informed and take action. I did it with a can of Valspar paint once. I would not dry, was tacky even after sitting week to dry. I notified the company, they called and wanted me to give them the batch number off the can so they could investigate. I thought I probably would hear not more, but a week or so later I got another call, they had investigated and in fact found something wrong with that batch and did a recall. They also refunded my money for the paint. Coarse it didn't make up for the work it took me to remove the paint and repaint. But they acted like they appreciated my input and at least did something.

So glad you are back, Paul, from another Paul.

Come on,,, only $179, worth buying one just to try it!!

Okay, thanks Bob, it must have been Inkscape instead of Gimp.

Here is the one you need! https://www.infinitytools.com/10-laser-kerf-saw-blade-40t-1-16-kerf watch the little video.. On thing I do highly recommend for a table saw is GRR-Ripper pushblock used in the video. I have two and use them a lot.

That's a lot of "bling". I bet you get treated well by them.

You might check the library here. Somewhere there is an article on how to do it in Gimp. It can't be too hard to do because I use to do it. I haven't taken the time to try to figure it out since I got a Mac computer. I liked red lines with gray instead of black for the cut out sections. I bet Bob can tell how. He does a lot of his patterns that color.

I think I am with most. I like the Freud, I have a Forrest Woodworker blade the cost over twice as much but it does not cut twice as good..... The Freud cuts just as good for me and lasts just as long. So I pick the red one.

I gave my mat away, but I have an auxiliary table made of masonite on top of the original table so I can use zero clearance inserts. The original table has a rectangle hole in it towards the center, hence the magnetic mat to cover it. The hole give some clearance for some hardware that sticks up when the table is tilted. It sticks up even with the table top. I put washers under the table where the bolts for through to fasten the top to the frame. This raises the table just a hair so there is no problem of the hardware sticking above the table top. The hole concept was to lower the table enough that there 2" cutting thickness or something like that. I don't care If I only have 1 7/8" or so. I wish they would have not had the hole.

I like you carvings. I am a scroller that hopes to learn some carving.

That is a great decoration! Nice deck also....

Very nice!!

That is a beauty. I really like it. Ya, I saved Frank's patterns also. Hope to cut then in the future. I'm looking or the right wood. I like what you used.

Very nice. I bet she is happy with it.

Awesome work.

Karl, the Seyco is made for Seyco in the same Asian country/factory the Ex use to be made in. Taiwan, I think. The Ex is now made in China. The Seyco is a good saw with a few differences from the Ex. Head doesn't tilt as far as the EX and does not tilt by turning a knob, you move it by hand. The table on the Seyco is larger than the Ex, I believe it is the largest table you can get on any scroll saw, least that I know of. The Seyco is a little more difficult to assemble, I.e. there is more for you to assemble. Steve good has a good video on putting it together and very worth watching. Steve also has a video review of the saw that is very good. The Seyco has the great Ray service that he use to give the Ex. Hard to beat that. Use to be when you bought an Ex from Seyco it was pre-tuned and ready to use right out of the box. Not so now, there are two posts here about the new Ex's recently purchased. There appeared to be some tuning involved before the saw was usable. They were purchased from Home Depot. I had an Ex, now I have a Seyco. I really can say, for the kind of sawing I do that I like one more that the other. Both great saws.

@scrollingforsanity I have this one, only white. Stop by sometime and have a look see if you like it. I really like LED light as opposed to Fluorescent and glass lens as opposed to some kind of plastic. https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/office-school-supply/accessories-furnishings/desk-lamps/5-diopter-led-magnifying-lamp-with-covered-metal-arm-black-277493