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Blocking IP addresses could get tricky. If my connection is offline for an extended time (hurricane), when I finally get reconnected, I usually have a different IP. Then, there are always those various VPNs that hide your IP address.
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I am 73, retired from the military, and worked after for 28 years before retiring as a Systems Programmer, specializing in Unix/Linux administration. I am busier now in retirement than ever. My grandkids take a huge chunk out of my time, and I don't regret a second of it. I have zero spare time. I have been getting up at 0400 for so many years that I still wake up between 4 and 5 in the morning. The best thing so far is no alarm clocks. For exercise, I ruck with 30 lbs of iron on my back, typically four miles but occasionally five or six. I also do some resistance training when I can force myself to. It's pretty boring.
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I know someone whe fell for the Nigerian prince scam.
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I spent the last few days working on computer projects, mostly trying to figure out which of my old computer collection are worth keeping or upgrading. I used the Grok AI extensively for this. It was extremely helpful. This is related to scroll saws because if it were not for my computers, I probably would not be scrolling. Now, if I could teach Grok to draw scroll saw patterns for me.
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A Little Something for the Bottom Feeder
BadBob replied to Scrappile's topic in General Scroll Sawing
This type of punch can generate up to 82,000 psi at the tip. This is because all of the force is concentrated in a tiny area. I looked it up. -
I'm 73 years old, and I try to learn something new every day. I have been taking online courses for a few months and have completed these. Intro to Neuro Science Intorduction To Nutrition Intorduction to Nietzsche Brain Plasticity Why We Get Sick Evolutionary Inference (current) Intro To Psychology Basics Of Biology The Boy Crisis I read mostly nonfiction every day. I like books on history, medicine, and nutrition. It makes me sad to hear someone say they are too old to learn. Learning new things can make your brain grow.
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I occasionally see boxes cut with a similar pattern used for padding in shipping, usually for heavy items. Obviously, they have some machine to cut up used boxes. I can easily wad it up.
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I think I got one of these in my email, which was strange in itself because I don't use this email for my online sales. However, I have had people contact me this way that turned out to be legit. This one claimed that they got an error message when he tried to add a listing to the shopping cart. He did not tell me which site but sent one of my photos. He wanted to purchase directly and get the item delivered in four days. This would have been a Sunday delivery. I tested the listings on all my shops and sent him links with an explanation of how shipping worked. Crickets Was he a scammer? Possibly. I'm not exactly hiding, so someone with some computer skills could easily find me. If you knew my name, you could probably guess my email address. I treated this as if it were legit, but I am suspicious that it was not.
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I haven't been doing much-making things in the shop. There is much broken stuff. I made these fluffy kittens today for a custom order. Nothing fancy, just some cutouts for her to paint. I cut them from a piece of premium pine from Home Depot.
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X.com is where I use it. There is also a grok.com. This is Elon Musk's AI. I also use ChatGPT, Gemini, and the built-in Gramerly. Grok is by far the best. If you are on X, you can use it to analyze posts, and it also does trends. Grok is very good at writing code. I gave it a short program written in a very old version of Basic that they used in the time when computers used tape reels and everything was printed on paper because there were no monitors. I asked Grok to convert it to a bash shell script that I could run on Linux. Not only did it do the conversion, but the script worked right out of the box. I have tried this sort of thing with other AIs, but I never got code that worked. This morning, I wanted to teach it how to draw a scroll saw pattern that didn't work even after I uploaded samples.
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Grok is very good at answering technical questions about computers—it's much better than the typical search engine. However, you have to ask clear, specific questions, or you will get some strange answers. I think they are great tools, but they are far from being intelligent.
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That is set and forget unless it somehow gets out of adjustment. You align the upper arm parallel to the table. I assume that is the same for all of these saw styles. I have an EX-21 and a Pegas, and it is the same for both of these.
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Spectraply compound cut BirdHouse
BadBob replied to Roberta Moreton's topic in General Scroll Sawing
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Every paper book has copyright information in the front of the book. You can legally copy the patterns for your personal use, but you can't copy them and give them away or sell them. Some books, also usually somewhere in the front, will tell you what you can do with the things you make. They will say things like "for personal use only" or limit the number you can make to sell. Some don't have any restrictions. All original creations are copyrighted as soon as you create them. If you sell online through a platform like Etsy and you post copyrighted or trademarked items, your listing can be shut down, or worse, your entire shop can be closed. I had a listing shut down because of a word in a listing that was trademarked by a German company.
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I don't cut portraits, but I do count holes.
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That's a good idea. I wish I had thought of that. If it breaks once...
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Whichever method you choose, you will need to sand the edges. I make mine slightly larger and use a simple jig to sand them to size. I have made wheels from squares with an axel hole drilled in the center. If you have a sander with a table, make a simple jig and sand them around. I don't have a photo of the jig. It is just a piece of wood with an appropriate-sized hole drilled in it. The bit is removed from the drill and inserted in the hole. This is clamped to the sander table at the appropriate distance. Put a wheel over the bit and tweak the position if needed. Turn on the sander and turn the wheel. I have made hundreds of wheels like this.
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You could make a pattern, print it, and cut it on the scroll saw. First, drill the axel holes.
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Shopsmith was not the first multitool.
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Use the widest blade your saw can use with the lowest tooth per inch. I usually get three per inch. I like Timberwolf blades. Most bandsaw blades are steel and will dull fairly quickly. How long they last depends on the wood you are cutting. I have destroyed bandsaw blades and am trying to resaw ipe.
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Mine was purchased from a furniture maker, used, and refurbished by me. There is no telling how many times that spring was cycled before it broke. How long they last depends on how many times they get cycled. How old it is probably doesn't matter much. I have a pistol that breaks a spring every so often, but when I tell people about it, they always say mine never broke a spring. When I ask them how many rounds they have fired, it's never anywhere near what I was shooting. I was buying ammo for the pistol, 5,000 rounds at a time.
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I ran across this in another forum and thought it might be of interest.
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So, depending on the type of wood, you may need to get it done and finished quickly. You make some very nice intarsia.
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Wood changes color as it ages or is exposed to light. So what do these look like when they are ten years old?
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The forum search could not find it. I should have used Google to search. Forum searches never work well. They are not a charity. They sell these things, although they may qualify as a nonprofit in the UK. They are quite proud of them. The group of figures in their post sells for about $90 US. I don't work for free. I have been ripped off so many times by so-called charities that now I only donate to things where all of it goes directly to the place they are collecting the money for.
