JimErn

Rolf, beautiful car, I had never seen one and seeing it made me drool. I used to race in gymkhanas, had at one time or another, an MGB, TR3, and a Sunbean tiger.

I do that too, surprises me how much stretch I encounter, though it is not consistent, some stretch more then others from the same bunch. I just use normal tension though.

Beautiful work, but more importantly, tell me about the car used as a back drop.

Outstanding, and the modification to the pattern is great

To put a name on it, I think the bird is what they call segmentation, with the mountain as fretwork this is the best explanation of segmentation vs intarsia I have found, if I am correct of course https://forum.scrollsawer.com/forum/scroll-saw/intarsia-inlay-and-segmentation/19253-what-s-the-difference-between-intarsia-segmentation

Very nice cutting, they will be well received To late to do it now, but if there is a next time I would consider putting a single LED centered top back of it.

I cut some flooring laminate once, never again, you burn through blades, the epoxy or what ever they use to make it will wear the teeth right off the blade

I've used a drill press, a hand drill and now the dremel plunge router, the plunge router wins hands down IMO. one aspect I really like is when the base is sitting on the pattern, I can slide just one side to make the drill bit move in an arc to get it closer to where I want to drill, reading this it seems like a little mox-nix thing, but it really makes it easier I think. I do agree that an led built in would be really nice, but I think it works well without it.

Beautiful work, that is awesome

Welcome to the family, post away

That is exactly the opposite of my experience personally, and when I handled medical billing for my father too (end of the 90's). I see the Dr, or hospital charges, then I see the "approved charges". Approved is always lower and the medical practice eats the difference. My son is uninsured, a recent test was billed to him at $150, he mentioned it to me, I dug around in my records and found the exact same test I took. The approved amount was $64.72. So we took that to the billing dept - no joy, a lot of run around, but the charge remained. This test was not in isolation, there were other charges too and the total bill was in the thousands. After a lot of hassle we got it reduced to about 75% of the original, but since he does work there was no help from the low income government agencies or the indigent relief agency either. As far as billing, it is electronic now. The medical practice bills the insurance electronically, and if you have a secondary insurer it goes to them automatically too after the primary pays their portion. Most of my Dr.'s do the billing right in the exam room on a lap top while I am there and we talk. But even those who don't do it that way, I see the EOB from the insurance company shows date received and date of service, at the most it is one day apart. I do not live in a major city either, population is around 20K

I use the WEN in a dremel plunge router attachment, works great. But as mentioned get the chuck for the WEN if you go with WEN, a dremel chuck will not fit the WEN

ditto, too rough a cut too IMO, means more sanding, not something I want to do

Outstanding cutting

Tried something new

There is an added bonus to this configuration. I set the kerf for the pegboard to slide into 3/8 down, so now when I sand the action of the RO sander that used to push my piece to the right traveling across the table, stops at the edge and I no longer have to hold it with a death grip. Yeah!

Please keep in mind that when I do something for the shop, jigs, whatever, All I want is something that works and do not care what it looks like. the blue mat is a yoga mat I got at a yard sale for $1 and it works really well as a shop table cover.

Maybe yours was made on a monday, cause mine is just the opposite, very reliable even when I get it so hot I can not hold it with gloves on. EDIT: that said they are expensive so I have been buying the ones by WEN, they seem to work fine as a dremel replacement, longevity? Too soon to tell

That three turn table is neat, I've thought about building one, but then there is the floor space, nice set up, nice large shop

Off and on for the past couple of years someone posts a box they made to sand on, and hook a vacuum to. I knew I wanted that but there was just too little space left in the shop. Couple days ago I was cleaning up a small work table, and Eureka! I cut a flap in the table top, hinged the top, put the box under it, and hooked up the vacuum - what a difference some pegboard makes. So thanks to all that showed those sanding boxes in the past, I'm slow but I got there

Does not matter, as long as the bottom and top set screw are protruding the same amount, then the blade will be plumb, which is what you want I used s set of those old finger type feeler gauges we use to set points back in the day

I found it here https://wondertrail.com/new-products/drm9000-04-rotary-saw-variable-speed-with-comfort-handle-dremel.html

Congrats, hope the rest of the year beats this event

Double sided tape? Funny thing when I put a refrigerator magnet on the excaliber table it didn't appear to stick well, so I figured double sided tape if nothing else. But when I cut the sheet and laid it on the table, it stuck immediately. Before this I had 1/8th inch hard board on there, that worked too. My main reason was I wanted a single hole for the blade and not all those vacuum holes that are on the excaliber. And I am too lazy to fill them with bondo and sand as some others I talked to did

Thanks y'all for the info, appreciate it