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Hey Barb, thanks for asking, all said, we are doing ok now. We lost the last of our parents when my FIL passed away in mid-March just a few months before his 96th birthday. We ended up deciding unexpectedly to downsize and buy DH family home he grew up in. Plan to build separate workshop and remodel the 56 year old house. We spent several months getting our house we had built 18 years ago cleaned up and out, painted inside and out and decluttered to put on mkt. Got it sold, then moved and closed on purchase of family home all over period of about 4-5 months. He still works full time so I did what I could during the days and then he helped evenings and weekends. Was a long summer. Two weeks after we moved and two days after we closed on purchase, on Sun., Oct. 1st, he was on an A frame ladder trimming tree branches on a large walnut tree. A larger sized branch hit the ground and bounced up and back and took him off the ladder. He ended up with severe heel fractures on both of his feet. Doctor told him he smashed one, and really smashed the other. Then he got pneumonia so they couldn’t do surgery for about 2 1/2 weeks after accident. Fortunately it was an electric chainsaw (gas one was acting up and not working correctly so he switched to electric one). Electric fortunately quit running when he released it and he also was able to throw it away from himself. He’s now a little over 2 weeks out from two significant surgeries on his heels to repair and rebuild them. He is doing well all things considered but he is non-weight bearing on his feet until after the first of the year which means he is in a wheelchair with full lower leg casts for several weeks more. No PT for about two months. Out of work for at least 3+ months. He’s doing well and on road to recovery and we are adapting. Had his two week checkup since surgery last Fri. and so far looks like healing well which is good as feet can be an issue with healing. Stitches out of one, still in one for at least another week. We are thankful it was not worse, no other damage to anywhere else, didnt hurt ankles, just his heels, didn’t hit his head, hurt his back, knees or hips or worse. He’s not one to sit around so that is hard on him, he’s been finding things to do while sitting including playing guitar, piano and carving. All the workshop tools are all packed and stored away unfortunately for the most part so he can’t do much there. I had previously decided to try and make my saw useable in the basement when we moved which is what I got the Festool for portable dust collection. I think we bought it the week or maybe the day or two before the accident and hadn’t gotten it setup. We’ll get there. But that is why I haven’t done anything with my saw in at least 8 months! I have however tried to come here regularly and keep up with what the rest of you are doing. it has helped me mentally but it’s also why I’ve mainly simply been. “liking” posts rather than making many comments.

Keep sharing these ideas and mods folks. I’m going to show hubby so he can get me figured out with my saw and portable Festool I did end up getting once we moved. Unfortunately, we’ve had a significant life event get in the way of getting it all setup yet. We’ll get there though.

You can find link posted by Larry earlier in thread. It takes you to the pattern which is in the library here in the Village.

Another Tennessee welcome to the Village.

My husband has always said one can never have enough clamps

Welcome to the Village from Tennessee.

Another Tennessee welcome to the Village.

I know nothing about the book or any others by this company. However, in answer to your question on if Rolf is correct, I would tell you Rolf is of German lineage and has stated before he understands the language so I would trust he knows what the cover says. I selected the one term that says “2 mit Vorlagenbogen“ and did translate and it indicated it states “two template sheets.”

Here is link to pattern on Steve’s blog - goes back away in time https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2015/06/butterfly-girl-scroll-saw-pattern.html Nice work on your’s Jimmy.

@Zoot Fenster thanks for showing some more photos. Like Larry, I think it looks like a good idea, especially for me as I look for a temporary dust collection system to use as I make some equipment more portable when we move soon and I await new shop space to be built.

Could you show a picture of it attached to your saw?

Looks like you will have one happy wife. Beautiful work on the necklace.

Welcome John. I'm glad to see you and hope you will poke your head back in from time to time. Beautiful work you have shown from your shows.

Prayers are said for his family and friends as they deal with the loss. While I believe I have heard or seen his name, I don’t believe I ever had the pleasure to interact with him or have seen his website. Sounds like it is my loss. @JTTHECLOCKMAN I wanted to say it’s good to see you here in the Village and to say you have been missed. I have wondered about you (and some others we haven’t seen in a bit.) Hope you are doing well.

Welcome to the Village from East Tennessee. Look forward to your participation.

Thanks to everyone who has replied. @Sycamore67, @Rolf and @Roberta Moretonthank you for your specific info. And in particular, Rolf’s photos. I hope to follow up once we get closed and moved which should be in the next few weeks. I’m going to wait until that happens before I order anything- have enough stuff to get moved from here to there. Fortunately, we have all the shop stuff packed and moved. Now, I just have to see if I can get at least one of the scroll saws accessible.

Thanks for the detail reply @kmmcrafts Kevin. I was thinking some here had gotten the Festool so was hoping for some good insight before I pull the trigger. I was thinking @Rolf had one. I know he doesn’t visit the Village everyday, so hopefully he’ll stop by soon. If not, I’ll reach out directly to him as I get closer to the move which will be n the not too distant future, depends on when I can get movers lined up.

Thanks Bill and Ray. I will give updates as we progress. It will be a couple months probably before the shop gets started. Does anyone have experience with a Festool Dust Collection? Would still like some input before I go forward with something I’m a few weeks.

Good to see you Kevin and see you doing some work. Perhaps @Travis can get you back with your @amazingkevin account.

Another Tennessee welcome.

Ok, I have a question for everyone regarding “portable” dust extraction for use with in particular my scroll saw. However, to better understand my need, I need to give some background on what’s been going on lately in my life. I’ll try to take a long story and make it as short as possible. but I tend to be “wordy” so I apologize now. So, hubby has had an oversized woodworking workshop in our home we built 18 years ago. He tends to do larger furniture type projects and also has a lathe he uses so he has the typical larger woodworking tools, and most of them. He allowed me to “move in” to share his space 6+ years ago bringing in 2 scrollsaws, a smaller bandsaw and more sanding equipment. We were wall to wall. We have had had a large dust extraction system with conduit to each tool station. Back in the middle of March, my FIL, who was 95 (3 months short of 96) and in pretty good health and still living in the family home independently for the most part and doing well, was out walking with a friend and fell backward hitting his head and passed away. My MIL was already gone so family is going to sell the family property and starts process. Long story bit shorter, we decided to downsize from our house, get out of a subdivision, and buy his siblings out and buy the family home and its acreage with a mountain view and maybe get him closer to retirement and definitely a bigger shop. House was built by his parents and is almost as old as my husband (he is the baby.) it is well built but will need to be remodeled. Plan is to move into house while we build a new larger shop building which will have a living space. Then once shop is built, we will move in that living space while we remodel house. So, since end of March, we went on previously planned trip out of country with our kids, came back and went through that decision process and then I have been decluttering and cleaning out our house from 18 years and getting it on the market. We broke down the shop the past couple weeks as he had time after work and moved it all to “store” in the basement of family house. We have now sold our house and will be out in next few weeks. Needless to say, I haven’t been able to do any scrolling or carving or anything else since March, so about 5 months already. We figure if we are lucky, shop will be built and moved into in 6 months. (Crossing my fingers, but not holding my breath). So, I don’t really want to continue to not be able to scroll while we continue this process and I’ll need something to do once we are moved so I’ve been trying to figure out best option to scroll with portable dust extraction for my saw. My thought was it would be useable with other tools too perhaps during that time (small bandsaw for example). I would have to scroll in the basement or garage probably. Once we were in new shop space, I could continue to use with scroll saw rather than run scroll saw with big dust extraction that runs all the time and is quite loud. I was thinking a Festtool portable system might work as I envision or maybe there is another choice. I had hubby look online but I wanted to get some insight or input from my scrolling friends to see if anyone was using a portable Festool sawdust extraction system or something similar and, if so, which one might be Pros and Cons and thoughts from you all. Thanks if you read through it all, now you know why I’ve had nothing to show for awhile and may not for a while longer. I really don’t want to have to wait on the new shop space before I can scroll again so any insight anyone can provide would be appreciated.

Probably depends how and where he is in Memphis. Memphis is a pretty large metropolitan area so if he’s more in town, might not be. I live outside of Knoxville more in the country. We regularly see a lot of wildlife. We are on a lake so lots of time they are going to or from the water. Besides rabbits, we regularly see deer (and have had a few encounters with some unfortunately .) Canadian geese (which I wish they would migrate back home, they seem to have decided they prefer the south year round and make quite a mess n the yard and on the dock) Fox, gophers, lots of different birds including typical birds (robins, wrens, bluebirds, etc.) plus osprey, blue herons, and we even had a river otter once hanging out on the boat dock. one time, we even had a bill wandering around when he escaped his field down the road.

Thank you. Unfortunately, life has presently gotten in the way of my crafting hobbies. Hopefully I can get back to the saw and carving soon.

Another Tennessee welcome to the Village. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Steve Good’s blog posts. He posts a free scrolling pattern almost every day. He has lots of good information for scrollers of all levels but especially beginners so be sure to look back through his older posts. https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com

I love cherry wood. You did this piece proud.