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Glad you enjoyed your day on the Excalibur Kevin. Nice work.

Brad, I am glad to hear that your lovely bride is doing better and they are allowing her to get. Ack to work some. That alone will be a blessing to her I am sure. I am sure she will still worry about you while she is gone however. Glad to hear you are following Dr’s orders and doing your best as a clot in your leg is nothing to fool with for sure. My continued prayers for both of you and I pray that you will be doing better soon and can get to your saw.

Another Tennessee welcome, this one is from East TN, the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains. We were out to Seattle a couple of years ago to take a cruise in and out from there. Beautiful area. Welcome to the Village. Hopefully your paster will be like you and do well enough with that Ace saw to enjoy and want a better saw. Perhaps you can give him some time on your Dewalt from time to time.

Good luck with the start of your new selling season Iggy. Look forward to hearing your war stories.

Beautiful piece Paul and I am sure you got major brownie points with the wife as I am sure she loves it. thanks for sharing.

Welcome to the Village. Great job and I am sure to be treasured by the recipients. Thanks for showing.

Welcome to the Village from East. Tennessee. You will love it here and the scroll saw is a great tool to help make things for your kiddos. It's great that you have already gotten your oldest son interested and started with it. We look forward to your participation here and to seeing more of your work and your son's. Your chess board looks very nice. When you get ready to try some compound cuts - look around as there are some free patterns to be found to work with to get the hang of it. I just tried some compound cuts before Christmas. They could be addicting.

Welcome to the Village from East Tennessee - the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in the USA.

I was just looking through the downloads section of my computer to see what I had in there (I am bad about not cleaning out the downloads area after downloading something.) While doing so, I ran across a PDF file of an Assembly and Instruction manual for the GI Excalibur 21" Scroll Saw Model CTEX-21CE. I had downloaded it from somewhere when I first bought my used Excalibur so I had something as a reference. It says it is Revision 1 from February 23/07. I had a lot of trouble as I recall trying to find any manual. I originally bought the Excalibur used from Seyco and even contacted them and they told me they didn't have any of the older manuals for the older saws. When I saw it just now, I thought - Hey - that would be a good idea to keep as a good source for the Village. So I thought I would reach out to you folks here and ask what do you think? Good Idea? If so, do you have a PDF of your saw's manual that could be shared as well OR if you have a paper copy, could you copy and create a PDF for uploading here. My thought is that it would be great to have a repository for saws manuals for those who might be seeking one in the future like I was. We would of course what to make sure that we didn't have a lot of duplicates of the same manual so we would need to check and see if what we had was already here and figure out when models "changed" etc. I figured I would call @Travis into the thread and see if this is something he thinks would be good to keep in a group here and, if so, if he would like to create an area for doing so - other than this thread, and if he did - let him do so and then let us know how he wants us to share them here for such purposes. I'm willing to help Travis if he needs help in "tracking" or whatever. I'm going to go ahead and upload the one file that I have. I will look to see what I have on the Seyco and/or the Original Dewalt (if I can find anything on that one.) Then once Travis weighs in, I will add any of those that I have found. ctex21ce.pdf EDITED TO ADD: I just went to Seyco's site and did find a link to a newer version of the Excalibur's manual that is found on GI's site" here: http://www.general.ca/pdf/machines/excalibur/EX-16_21_30_ENG.pdf it is Version 8_Revision 2, May 2013. I am not sure what changes they made to the Excalibur over the years but clearly several versions of their manuals exist between the one I posted above and this one. I guess we could simply post "links" to PDFs of manuals but my concern is that they get "lost" as saws disappear off the market, are significantly changed, etc. so my thought was that it would be a good thing to keep copies somewhere we felt they would stay available like here (hopefully if we all continue to support the village! ) I did not see where they have the Seyco Saw manual available to download from their site.

A Tennessee welcome. Welcome back. I've joined during your hiatus. Glad to have you joining in again. Look forward to seeing your work and having your participation.

A Tennessee welcome to the Village. Look forward to your participation and seeing some of your work.

Here's whatTravis said in the original first post in this thread: "Just a friendly public service announcement; don't forget your sweetheart on Valentine's Day! It's coming up quick! So, in order to light a fire under you, I challenge you to get in the shop and make a scroll saw project for your sweetheart. Post a picture of a Valentine's Day project for that special someone in your life. Sappy sentimentalism is encouraged" (I tried to "quote" it here but for some reason, it wouldn't bring the quote back to "page 2".) So, no where do I see any "rules" other then to go to your shop and make a scroll saw project for your sweetheart, post a picture of it, and "sappy" was encouraged. No where did I see it had to be "your idea and not someone else's patterns. If that were the case, I think many of us would be out of luck as we rely on great patterns crafted by others. So no, I don't see any "cheating" on your part. Nice job you did. Several on here used patterns created by others. All looked great.

I have purchased several products from JGR's studio. Patterns, sanders, blades, magnifier light and more. Excellent services and ships quickly. Have always been happy with the service I have gotten when buying online or in person.

Thanks Travis for this. I need to take some to check it out and see who is there.

Excellent work as always and I hope you are right - I hope Spring is coming and coming soon. (spring - NOT Summer. I much prefer SPRING weather.)

Add another one in for sitting. I have a bar stool type that can adjust the height up and down.

I agree, excellent work all around. Since you say "stationed" inn Japan, I am assuming you are in the service? If so, thank you for your service. Welcome to the village. Hope you will join in and let us see more of your work.

Congratulations on your new to you saw. Glad you were able to figure out what you needed to do to get it repaired and up and running. Beautiful work on that piece. Thanks for sharing.

Cute idea. Great hanger for dog leash. Thanks for showing.

Very nice work and I am sure they will be well received. Thanks for showing.

Still love to hear his songs. Nice job and I agree, great pattern. Thanks for sharing.

more great work Kevin. thanks for sharing.

Very nice Joe. It's nice to see that one made after seeing it on Steve's site. thanks for sharing.