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    As the others said about the plywood - the stuff at Lowes isn't the good stuff. Try some real baltic birch from online or from your local rockler/woodcraft and you'll see it's much better. They also sell hardwood ply in walnut/cherry/maple that has an MDF core. It's nice for some things. I use the plywood only for my jigsaw puzzles though because I don't like the look. For regular wood I use whatever has the color I want. I can take it down to any thickness with my saws/sanders and only occasionally have trouble if I try too thin on brittle woods like purpleheart or open-grained like Wenge. I don't bother with the domestics from Home Depot - I can drive an hour to a real lumberyard if I want maple or poplar and pay 1/3 the price.
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    Lowes sells a 4-pack of Bosch blades that they claim are for a scroll saw. They are bigger and fatter than some of my bandsaw blades and make a #9 blade look skinny. You can cut perfectly straight lines with them and nothing else - they're so fat you'd have an easier time cutting curves on a tablesaw than with these blades.
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    That "scrollers cafe" must be for the elite because it wouldn't even let me in to browse without registering. I wouldn't mind seeing the ornaments if you find a way to post them here.
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    Hobby Lobby sells clock kits and hands but only go looking if you've got one nearby. If you try to find them on their website you'll have to wade through 500+ actual clocks because apparently the biggest hobby they cater to is "kitsch collecting"
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    Edit: deleted, I read the first #, not the second #.
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    Yes, we still read magazines. But that style magazine holder went out in the early eighties when we were tearing up our shag carpet, taking the decoupage off the walls, and replacing those coffee tables made to look like cobblers benches with something a bit more up-to-date. A few still exist in faraway places like summer cottages, or next to the plastic-covered couch in my 90-year old aunt's house, but those people generally aren't looking to upgrade their magazine rack so the market is rather limited. The scrollwork is very nice, they look solidly made and the finish really shines, but it just isn't one of the "hot" styles this decade. But who knows, style comes and goes and next year it might be the next big thing again.
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    Good luck with the therapy and the show.
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    Them Olsen blades might be counterfeit or cheap knockoffs. Olson makes the good stuff... I'll be using up my supply of Flying Dutchman for the next few years. I bought so many when I first started, I don't think I'll run out of anything except the puzzle blades, and nobody else seems to be making those. Is the tooth configuration the exact same on both the blades you tried? What's the thickness/width for each?
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    Here's my trace of your pic, the tooth might need adjusting.
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    cocobolo

    JOE_M replied to Doug's topic in General Scroll Sawing

    I've got a nice cocobolo board sitting on my shelf too, but it is much darker than that. That's a great find, it does look like a landscape scene as is.
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    Cats puzzle

    JOE_M replied to alexfox's topic in Bragging Rights

    Is that top one a mouse?
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    can you give us all the specs you can on the motor?
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    Those feathers inside the wing must have been a headache.
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    Help

    JOE_M replied to merlin's topic in General Scroll Sawing

    This is a font called "all I want for christmas." Does it look close? I'd do 6mm or smaller ply, not MDF but that's because I'm not a fan of the termite barf. edit: If that's the font, tell me what number you want and I can throw it together in a few minutes in the morning.
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    Everyone's starting the Christmas stuff, thought I'd be different. Here's a couple of Easter egg boxes just waiting for the flocking. Size is approx 5.5 x 4 x 1.25". One walnut with mesquite root lid and the other bubinga with bubinga/yellowheart/maple lid.
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    If you're still talking about at-home, off-season, storage and not something you'd have to drag to events, how about a cheap dresser? You could probably hit the thrift store and find something tall and skinny, or short and fat - whatever would fill a particular empty space you might have in your garage .
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    Looks great - how many do you cut at a time, and how do you finish them?
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    That's odd, all my blades are FD - I use the small "puzzle" ones and have rarely broken one in use. I use them until I can feel they're dull because it's harder to turn the wood.
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    I wouldn't give up so quickly on the travel. New venues = new potential customers.
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    looks good.
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    Can you post a pic? I doubt it's a left-hand thread, not for something that simple - they're usually reserved for bigger things like holding chucks to hand drills. It may have loctite on it although a company that skips grease on bearings probably isn't going to take the extra 2 seconds to squeeze a bit of loctite on a screw either. Is that all that's busted is the adjustment knob?
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    Can you stack-cut vinyl or is it too brittle?
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    Good luck tomorrow!
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    http://www.atompoppopper.com/contact-us and: http://www.quincraftproducts.com/contact-us
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    Thanks. My only "newsstands" are HD and Lowes. We lost our last real bookstore over a year ago (and Horror Freight just moved into their old building.) My Lowes had the Summer issue still out on Monday when I was in there, I'll look again next time I run into town.
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