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Very nice! It turned out great!

I'll have to give these a try as I sometimes get frustrated trying to feed the blade through. Thanks, Josh.

Ocala, FL. Which is about an hour North of Orlando.

Thanks for all the kind words. I had a great time cutting them, the new saw works like a dream. Just to note the Fan is a Sue Mey pattern, the Masks and the Welcome sign are Sheila Landry pattern's. The fan and masks are cut in Baltic Birch plywood and the welcome sign is poplar. There are four more masks still to cut as the pattern comes with six masks. They are a gift for my wife who barely flinched when I told her I was spending a small fortune for a new saw. Josh

New saw arrived Saturday and I've been quite busy breaking it in.

Very nice! I too think I like the torched one better, but they both look great!

Simply Awesome!

Made the mistake of showing this one to my Wife. She loves it and wants to know why I haven't made her something with cute pigs on it yet...lol. Great job Andrew, they look great!

Welcome Brian! That is some very impressive work. I too look forward to seeing more. Josh

Welcome David! I'm new to this hobby as well and I have to say this group has been great at helping me out and answering all my many questions. I will say I know what you mean about not having a blower. I had been using an old Ryobi that the blower tube had dry rotted off and so I would have to sit there blowing the dust away as I cut. I ended up getting a $10 fish tank air pump and rigged up a homeade blower that worked quite well. Josh

I don't know anything about that saw, but I just looked it up on Amazon and it says it will ship in 1 - 4 months. Not sure if that's right or not, but thought I'd point it out in case.

I do, but they don't sell them in the stores and the earliest they can ship it to me is next Friday. It's simply a case of I've already gone two weeks without a saw and just don't think I have the patience for another week without...lol I appreciate everyone's advice and I think you all have helped me make up my mind. Once again this forum comes through for me, Ya'll are the best! Thanks, Josh

Ok so for the past few weeks I've been saving my pennies to buy my new saw. I had decided to go with the Dewalt 788 and was going to purchase from Amazon. Low and behold when I look on Amazon tonight they are out of stock on them and when I called and asked they couldn't tell me when they would have them back in stock. I really wanted to order from them because as a Prime member I can get the saw with free 2 day shipping. So I have to make a decision on whether to wait it out till they get some in stock or to go with my back up plan and get the Delta 40-694 instead. I've read a lot of good things about the Delta, but have also read that parts are hard to come by. Just hoping to get some opinions before I make my decision. Thanks, Josh

Thanks everyone for all the great suggestions. I've got some idea now on what I was doing wrong as well as some great ideas for what I can try in the future. Once again I appreciate how helpful everyone here is, not to mention patient and understanding with us newbies!

I'm ordering mine tomorrow and will be sure to check this as soon as it arrives. Thanks!

Wow what a project! Looks very cool too!

Wow these look wonderful, great job!! My wife was eyeballing these on the Sue Mey site, I'll have to show her your finished work, she will be really wanting them then...lol.

A day late, but Happy Birthday Kevin!!

I tried to take some pictures, but unfortunately the issues just don't show up in the pictures. Maybe I'm just being too picky. My Grandfather was a finnishing carpenter and a perfectionist to say the least. Maybe I inherited some of that from him...lol. I'll have to look into something like that. I'm starting to think I should just skip the lacquer as it's where I'm just not happy with the way it's turning out.

Most of what I cut I guess would fall under fretwork. I use mostly baltic birch plywood. Also some signs with inside cuts using either red oak, or popular. I need to find some finer grit sand paper I think, the finest I've found is 220 grit at Lowes.

As far as the bad results it's kind of hard for me to pin point. Most of my problems seem to be in the lacquer stage. For instance I dipped one sign I made in a mixture of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits. It looked real good. Then I applied some spray on lacquer and even gave a couple days between coats due to the humidity here in Florida. When it was done it has kind of a rough finish. It looks good from a distance, but up close you can see the roughness. Another project at the lacquer stage came out looking like I'd put glitter on it. It looked like little crystals on the surface. Haha. Steve my Wife is dying to get her hands on some of my projects. Problem is I prefer the look of wood in its natural state. She wants to slap paint on everything...lol. I had to compromise and cut her out some stuff she could paint just to keep her away from the stuff I don't want to paint...lol

Since I discovered this wonderful hobby just a short time ago I've discovered that I absolutely love spending long hours at my saw cutting away. While I'm far from an expert at the saw, I've steadily seen improvement in my cutting and have even produced a few items that I'm quite proud of. The problem is once I'm done cutting I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to finishing. So far my attempts could easily be labeled as complete failures. There is nothing worse to me than spending hours at the saw creating something nice and then ruining it in the finishing stage. I've watched many youtube videos and read more tutorials than I can count and for some reason I'm just not getting the results. To be honest it's led me to develop a bit of a fear of the whole finnishing process and my Wife keeps pointing out the stack of projects I've got sitting waiting for finishing. I'm just wondering if anyone has any tips for me to help me get over this fear and maybe improve my finishing. I will tell you that spray lacquer that I see people use in the Youtube videos seems to be my enemy. I've ruined more than one project with that stuff...lol Thanks, Josh

What a coincidence, that's the same brand as my current scroll saw I guess I really shouuld find a picture to put there

Very nice! Love the design.

I like it! What blades did you use for such intricate, precise cuts? I'd love to have a copy of that pattern!