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You usual great scrolling. Beautiful box.

Nice! I dare not show this to my wife.

Get real use to cutting and tension with the FD blades and the saw. Then try the Pegas blades again. I experienced the same, but for some reason all of a sudden I was able to use the Pegas blades. I use both now. FD' are stiffer than Pagas, And for me Pegas will break easier, but not often enough to bother me. That was my experience anyway.

Very nice cutting and fitting, the second one should be in my shop!

I agree with all of the above accolades! Great piece.

I'd say bring out the solid walnut.. That looks great to me. How do you feel about it? That is the most important critic.

Got to love the big cats.. you did a fine job!

Humm. I Thought I responded to this. Sure I had something smart to say about it. I'm thinking I type a response than accidentally click on the "other Media" button instead of "Submit Reply". Any way what I think I said although these are not patterns I would cut I do admire and appreciate the talent both in pattern making and scrolling... Really awesome work on both.

Well that was quick! Great job Mr Ralph. You gave the knives a shot and a good shot it was.

Yep I had a Craftsman for years. Didn't do much sawing with it only maybe a couple times a year.. What it really did for me what gave me a base so I could judge each new saw by and made me appreciate each new saw a whole lot more. But I I still have some fond memories of the old craftsman.

Oh, now you are just showing off!! Those are great. very nice for sure. Will the heat of a hot pan affect the clay?

I don't remember turning it on, but I have the Fein dust extractor (vacuum), call it a dust extractor and they can charge more. It has right round the same noise level as the Festool, and yes I get tired of even hearing it. But I hate to wear ear protection so I put up with it. And you are welcome anytime, I learned more from you than you learned for me. I think the Festool may be a better, longer lasting unit. My first Fien had a 3 year warrenty, it worked great for 3 years arced and sparked on 3 year, 3 months to the day... Like it had a timer set. I only purchased a second one because there was a sale and I only needed the vacuum, I already had all the attachments. My dust collection works at, I would say a B level. There is still dust, have not perfected the collection under the saw.. But it is greatly diminished from when I had none. Easy to make dust collection for a scroll saw, only costs a little PVC pipe and connecting pieces. Mine is modeled after what many have done on here. I would and will send you a picture, but if you search it you will/should see quite a few and each has some variation, which will give you different ideas which may be better than mine. It is fun to make and switch around to see what you like best. Some of my parts have not been glued yet because I know it is an ongoing project. Again Marie.. welcome any time.. as are any scrollers that happens to want to come. I always have such a good time and develop such great friendships. If the scroller happens to be an impersonator and not really a good scroller person I know how to deal with them.

When companies do not respond to my inquiries they do not get my business. If they have phone numbers and contact info they should be polite enough to respond, if they don't shows me they do not care.

I don't worry about my wife it is my daughter, last month when she was here she took all I and and the metal tree I had them hanging on. Means I get to make more. Most I had that she took were done on my lathe. She likes them both ways.

I always have similar reaction to cocobolo. But it is one of my favorite woods so I use it anyway, just not often.

You could go to their website and contact them to get an answer. Contact button is at the bottom of the page.

I nerver get tired of seeing detailed cut pictures of the big cats. Very nice job!

And a mighty fine job of it you did. I also really enjoy 3D cuttung.

Very nice!

Great cutting!

That is wonderful! Awesome job!

Never have done it that way but I knew the split in the table was for the blade. I have, on other excalibur type saws but the blade through the wood and then put the project with blade on the saw as you mention.

Some of my greatest memories from when young, were the time spent Jack Rabbit hunting. Walking through miles of sagebrush, cheatgrass and around cactus. Driving my Dad's old jeep through the same with buddies on the front fenders, and on the roof, hunting Jack Rabbits. My Favorite of all my hunting experiences. This place was over run with them.. Then the farms moved in and the farmer did not appreciate feeding their crops to the Jack Rabbits. So they started poisoning them. Now days I get more excited seeing a Jack Rabbit than I do a deer, fox, coyote, or wild turkey. They are almost all gone. So when I received my Woodworker's Pattern Book by Jacob and Wayne Fowler, and saw this pattern of a Jack Rabbit, I stopped all other projects and cut it. My memorial to Mr and Misses Jack Rabbit. "Thanks For The Memories" Cut in Monkey Pod. Added a little of a dramatic background for affect.

COOL!

The minute it feels like you have to push the wood into the blade as opposed to it "melting" into the blade, or you start have difficulty controlling the blade, time to change. And like all things there are a lot of factors. You cannot put a time limit on it. What your are cutting, What wood you are using, what type blade you are using. I Probably, and I have never timed it, just a guess, but I would say on average I may get 20 minutes out of a blade. But again I do not set a timer, when I feel in the slightest that I am having to work to get the blade to go where I want, it is time for me to change. Right now I am cutting in 1/2" Monkey Pod, a little harder than Popular, maybe, but what I am cutting I want to be precise, I am using a #1 size blade and I have probably changed the blade every 10 minutes at the most. That is just me, your mileage may vary as they say. You may not want to go by what I say,, I have broken lots and lots of blades! But I am often trying different blades, different technics, different woods..expect to break blades.