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Yeah Ray. We spent a fortune developing a pen that would write in space. The Russians used a pencil. I only knew that from playing Trivial Pursuit.

If I hadn't been in the third grade three years I wouldn't have gotten this Baggetta puzzle together!

Those look great! You've done a great job.

Thanks Melanie. You are correct, It takes mega bucks to start a publication.

Very unique patterns. They look wonderfful.

Does anyone know anything about this magazine? It is delivered as a PDF file. I ran across it on Steve Good's site. There does not appear to have a price of subscription just says order it with credit card or PayPal.

Great puzzle for kids!

This is a pattern by Sayit. It's found in the pattern section. 2 up 3/16" Luan plywood. #2/0 Pegas MG. Pattern and frame finished with 50/50 BLO, Frame cut fron cedar fence stake. If there appears to be a staple showing at the lower right side of the frame, I'm denying it!

Great cutting on a very nice pattern.

Never thought of a heat gun!

I've not seen that before but sure glad you posted it. Looks wonderful!

Terrific work on terrific patterns!

Great scrolling Steve!

That's not a man cave. That's man MANSION. WOW!

I did not sand the Luan. The wood was super smooth. When I applied the shelf liner I rolled it down very firmly with a hard rubber roller. The I burnished it with a burnisher made of a Delrin like material. Very smooth and very hard. I use Shelf liner quite often but on patterns without the very fine detail. The Avery paper works very well also but not on fine detail as it wants to pull up the fine veneer but works well on solid woods.

Picture 1: I'm cutting this two up on 3/16" Luan ply. The pattern is mounted on the wood with Duck clear shelf liner. After cutting about 25% of the pattern I gave up. The pattern kept releasing from the wood. I spent more time with Scotch tape than I did cutting. Picture 2: I started over again. This time I had the brilliant idea to copy the pattern on to Avery adhesive back label stock. It held beautifull. No liftin, just good cutting. A real pleasure. Picture 3: Dang, the pattern won't release. I'm afraid to soak it with mineral spirits as I have no idea how the Avery adhesive will react. Will it turn out to be a mess? Don't know. Sooo, Picture 3: Start removing wearing magnifiers using Xacto knife and tweezers. The pattern would split. The top layer coming off and the adhesive base left to be scraped off carefull trying not to break the very small parts of the cutting. Picture 4: TWO and ONE HALF hours later. Success at last. I'm not knocking the shelf liner or the Avery label. Just saying how it worked for me. I use both items. However, I think the next thing I cut like this is to cement the pattern directly to the wood and release with mineral spirits. I have not done that before but I remember several scrollers doing it that way.

I'm presuming your Hegner is constructed of welded tubular steel which is how all descent stands should be made. I would love a Hegner with the three point stance!

Those wheels look terrific. Had I known about those long ago I would have gone that route. I had a Delta Uni-saw. A heavy cast iron one. It had a homemade pair of wheels on the back. I had a tow bar to move it. The tow bar had one wheel and when I pressed down on it the saw would rise and I could tow that saw easily. Thanks for showing those.

Ahh thanks. I had no idea what the stuff was called.

My saw has the holes. Also have old bed rails. Also have metal cutting band saw. Thanks.

What is trex?

This has been discussed a lot but this is specifically about my Hawk. My Hawk is mounted on four wheels out of necessity. I roll it out to use it and then roll it back into it's corner. I scroll at slow speeds. On a scale of 0 to 10 I scroll about 4 all the time. Works for me. Without leveler legs the four point stance is never totally stable. Vibration starts just above 5 and at 6 it is bad. I thought a three point stance would be more stable. I removed the front casters and mounted one of them at the center of the front. Terrible. I did not even start the saw as It felt unstable. I replaced the front casters. I replaced the two rear casters moving one to the center. What a difference. Vibration now begins at about 7.5. Quite an improvement. Biggest problem with my Hawk is the TALL legs. The legs are made of bent sheet metal albeit heavy sheet metal. Cross bracing would make them stable. Shorter legs would make it more stable. Stability is everything. If I were ten years younger I would cut off the legs and weld in bracing. At my age I no longer have the energy to do so. I scroll at slow speeds so all is OK. The first two photos are how the wheels were originally. The last is the way it is now. Is working well.

Sounds like an excellent choice.

I have wheels under my Hawk and it works just fine.

That's really cool. Great gift for children.