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  1. JimErn
    Very nice and creative. I love darts, the real metal kind with a bristle board, not the new plastic electronic kind.
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    Beautiful work, both the pattern making and the cutting.
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    I have an ex-21 so close your same size saw. When I did a piece that was 30" on one side it was a pain. I had to drill several holes and move the blade from one to the other, cutting the fret work in sections. If you practice using a spiral blade means you do not have to spin the piece. Unfortunately I never seem to find to time to just practice using spirals, I rarely need them with what I do, so it is just not a priority to me. Good luck EDIT: I have heard of folks twisting the blade 45 to 90 degrees, top and bottom and sawing using that orientation, I have never tried it though.
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    I do mostly the same thing as Roberta, tupperware container as the place where I puff the flocking, but I do buy one flocking puffer tube per color. I found that it is easier, to me anyway, and I use the mini-puffer tube (cheaper too). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001I9PDRW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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    Beautiful work, Kudo's
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    Looking really great
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    amazon, 8" variable speed, $116 prime https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M9FVT0W/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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    I use an ex-21 and to be honest I can not imagine a saw that outshines it (the new Pagas being the same saw basically). Maybe if I were a production cutter that would be different. RBI must be some kind of awesome saw, y'all amaze and dumbfound me with your tolerance and patience. So kudo's for that. Like someone said, I am old school, at the first sign of issues with a company, I go somewhere else and if that means a different brand so be it.
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    That is nice with the background cardboard, I usually just shrink wrap mine but I think I will borrow that idea, puzzles are nicely cut
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    Color me jealous
  11. JimErn
    Really beautiful work, I love the spalted maple back ground really sets it off I like the idea of high dollar wood back ground as a veneer, I've been thinking along those lines myself. What glue did you use to adhere the veneer? Did you use paper backed veneer, or ...?
  12. JimErn
    https://www.stevedgood.com/catalog/index.php the jig is on page two lower right corner
  13. JimErn
    Les I used Walnut, western Red Cedar, and Aspen (blaze on the nose, kind of hard to see in the pic)
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    at Intarsia I got the pattern from JGR and failed when I ordered it to note the size! So I reduced it to a regular page size. I found out that if you can cut puzzles you can cut intarsia (or segmentation for that matter) Cutting is the easy part (unless you are a masochist like Dave who started with hardest of them all), but I just don't have the artists eye for sanding to a 3-D kind of presentation, going to have to work on that. Comments, criticisms, and suggestions are welcome
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    I have an older excalber, and if I had to replace it today with a new saw, I would buy the pegas saw
  16. JimErn
    Maybe it is time to grow up?
  17. JimErn
    Looks really good, kudo's Be careful with the finger tips when turning the piece while doing the center cuts, some of those look pretty fragile
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    FWIW, that abrasive cleaning stick can be replaced for free. You can use the slow of a flip flop or the rubber sole of an old sneaker to clean the sanding sleeves, works great on all my sanders.
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    My problem with spirals is practice, I just do not do it. I think about it, and I think about using them, but it is really easier for me to just use a regular blade. So far I have only had one thing that was larger than my ex-21 could handle, and I managed with the regular blade. Have to admit though there were times on that project that I looked like I was playing twister. And the concept of cutting a vein with a regular blade, then going back and using a spiral to make the veining more pronounced, just seems to me to extra work. I just cut on each side of the red line, and voila, distinct veining.
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    I can't even begin to imagine the devastation. 105 million Hectares, that is twice the size of Texas - puts it in perspective for me
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    great work, I need to ask though, why did you start at the outside? not finding fault, just wondering if there was a reason since I would started in the middle
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    I thought about it, but just could not figure out what to put in it, to show it off Very nice cutting
  23. JimErn
    ROFL On a biker community I haunt, we tell folks take the pic with a broom, no broom it must be photoshopped {grin}
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    I took his comment to mean that releasing convicts en mass adds to the problem, not it being the cause
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    thanks for that Ray, I'll add that to my list of alerts on craigs list
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