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Interesting, Steve Good had a blog on it and built a wood box to the height he wanted and mounted the pedal to it. I think he was also writing on a switch mod. for turning a timer on and off to keep track of project time and scroll saw run time. RJF

Master Artist grade work! RJF

I was thinking of cutting a bunch of wood portraits of myself, but all I could do is donate them to the military torture units. I'm sure your family will love your gifts. Its becoming rare that a gift is thought about and made, just grab a tv gadget and they will mail and gift wrap it. RJF

Have him clamp the wood in a wood clamp on either the scrollsaw or band saw. If they over cut or make a mistake they cut the wood clamp and not themselves. By using a wood clamp, rather than a metal C clamp the blade hits wood, not metal. RJF

In case you would just like a dispenser. RJF https://www.uline.com/BL_7302/Multi-Roll-Tape-Dispensers?keywords=tape+dispenser About same thing RJF https://www.uline.com/BL_7305/Bench-Tape-Dispensers?keywords=tape+dispenser

Grab Travis's practice pattern, buy cheap sheets of plywood, and maybe a few thicknesses, not great finish or fine quality. Get a blade assortment. Maybe if you think you will work with any metal, get a small piece or check roofing and see if there is a small cheap piece. This is cutting and experimenting without any pressure that your going to mess up a nice pattern. Print out or copy travis's pattern, 10 sheets, more or less. Then just glue them on to the boards and metal pieces. Start at a slow speed and get the feel of the blade. Increase the speed a bit, change out blades and try. Since this is scrape, there is no pressure to mess up a pattern. Take a day and vary the speed, check out blades. You may keep a piece of paper near by for speeds, blade, material thickness to write out for reference. Wear safety glasses. If blades snap, fly, they won't be hitting your eyes. https://www.scrollsawgoodies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TCF0003_Practice.pdf Occured to me writing this. If you can find a sheet of cheap, junk thin plywood go with that. Then tape pieces together to make it thicker, doesn't have to match, your just creating thickness. Either does buy plywood, or wood with knots or cut around them. The machine may grab it and pull the piece of wood your holding. Maybe someone has played with wood with knots, normally that pattern are cut into the wood knots. RJF

Guess you live further from the store. We have one, a block from us open til 6 pm. We live in an area of a national park, so there are gas stations open 24 hours with a decent food section for the RVs. RJF

I've been kicking that around in my head. Didn't start trying any calculations or anything. There are charts for speeds for materials, I typed scroll saw speed charts on the search. Should have looked closer. Though speed charts for drill, circular saws lathes, bandsaws seem to have a common factor. They seem to give speeds for materials, ie metal, wood, steel, AL, bronze. The circular saw is rotational speed, drill rotational speed, lathe rotational speed. The bandsaw starts rotational, but the blades are a linear speed going one direction. Scroll saw is linear going two directions, traveling so far one way and so far the other, so a conversion of distance would be similar. All these machines tend to have charts that give a speed for a material. The scroll saw on this board is basically wood blade, some metal, so if a chart shows a slower speed for metal on other machines, the scroll saw would probably be similar. The scroll saw motor is normally smaller, so speed might compensate for thicker material, though that's going to be a preference. I've been packing and taking a break for my back and didn't do a very good search for a scroll saw speed chart. Wonder, would other machine charts give a sense of speed for the same materials? Just check the board after killing my back for the day. RJF

There are speed charts out there. Might give some a general idea. RJF

I don't know about all the state laws, but I don't think you get a ticket if you run the scroll saw full speed. RJF

Grab a jar of jam and grab some dinner rolls at the store. Put a bow around it. Then tell them its a breakfast gift. Your project is much nicer. RJF

EVERYBODY ALWAYS HAS A DEAL!!!! Just pay for the Product and the Shipping and its YOURS! RJF

Beautiful puzzle. I was curious on piece size and number for children. Found this. RJF https://www.castorland.pl/en/how-to-choose-puzzle

If you run out of wood try some new materials. Make a figure out of an ice cube, Cut paper plate into clever figure shapes for up scale serving, Take pieces of drywall out and cut in custom patterns, then the drywall can be put back in for a one of a kind wall. Cut cucumbers into whole new shapes for salads. Just think of the patterns you could make taking up the hardwood floor and laying it back down! RJF

I've never been a remember a joke guy, so I would put in a line from the situation. The woman can read me. RJF

Santas' mail sled is too over loaded to make all the deliveries. RJF

Anytime. Humor is a special part of life. I've thrown lines at my wife for so many years, she can cut me off and finish what I was going to say. RJF

I like that idea, but I think I would have a problem taking the motor out of the furnace and putting it back every time I needed it. RJF

https://www.amazon.com/Rockler-TATS-26-Router-Speed-Control/dp/B001DT4T4A/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=120+volt+variable+motor+speed+controller+20+amp&qid=1576350309&refinements=p_72%3A2661618011&rnid=2661617011&sr=8-1 One of these kicking around the shop and a tach meter will pretty much control speed of most hand powered/ small shop motors. Searched and found this which is about 20 amps at 120 volts. Hand held tach meter will take care of dialing in the speed you want on a rotating shop tool. RJF

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With a little metal added on and riveted a regular heavy duty toggle can be put in, or an industrial rocker switch. They use low quality electronics and figure they will just sell the parts anyway. Not much of consumer electronics lasts long. A lot of brands are the same taiwan or china mgr painting and stamping a name on it. RJF

https://www.ereplacementparts.com/dewalt-dw788-type-scroll-saw-parts-c-1009_2631_2632.html https://www.fix.com/parts/power-tool/saw/scroll-saw/dewalt/ https://www.toolpartsdirect.com/dewalt-dw788-type-2-scroll-saw.html Take your pick, there seems to be a type or model 1 and 2 double check that and you should be good. RJF

If you haven't seen the design before, look at rotating or flip tables. They are design to have a machine on both sides. One on top and another stored underneath. Then flip to the other machine when needed. Helps on shop space. Also seen a lazy susan setup that had 4 machines on a plywood circle against a wall. Each machine was rotated to the front. Heavy duty shop cart wheel frames that go under heavy machines, they can be dropped down or raised on the wheels to move out of the way. RJF