wagner1958

Thanks for explaining why it doesn’t work. My wife does a lot of quilting and piecing and she will often ask my advice on color combinations as I have a fairly good artistic eye , but when I showed her the framed up piece even she threw me under the bus on this one . So I plan on working on it today and doing what you advise, thank you

So majority opinion is without frame so I have several questions. Is it frame color you don’t like or just frame ? Would you just hang it on wall without black background and if so how do you hang it without ruining it. If you hang it with the black background you would need it to follow live type edge which I’m not so sure about.

I was not planning on a frame but I just thought the frame helped pull it all together, I appreciate your input

Thanks, I appreciate it

I have a very old and very tired Performax 16-32 that I keep a course grit paper on . When it was new it would track pretty well but now I do have trouble with tracking. About 2 years ago I purchased the Supermax 25x2 sander and so far it runs pretty straight. Every one in awhile I will tweak it , but it is pretty easy to adjust and I probably only adjust it a 1/8 inch turn when I do adjust it.

Cut from 1/2 inch cherry with the frame made out of ash . i love my scroll saw but the other tool I find really handy is my drum sander. I ran this project thru my Supermax drum sander probably about 10 times and it did not break a whisker or a blade of grass. In a honest moment I will tell you there is a couple blades of grass missing but that would be labeled scroll saw operator error

Very nice, I kind of struggle making frames, I love how you made yours, very good job on both projects

To everyone I want to say thanks for great advice, I ended up making a slurry out of sawdust and glue. You can still slightly see it on the one side and very little on the other side. I am not sure which side I now want as my front side .it is far from finished but wanted to give an update on what I ended up doing.

This may show the crack a bit better

I probably should have taken the picture in better lighting, not sure why the wood grain goes different but the wood was rough sawn and i planned it down before using

Finished this up this afternoon and I have a small crack in the lower corner, it was not there when I started but this is just the nature of wood sometimes. It is 1/2 inch cherry, I have not stained it yet so all options are open. I’m not selling this so I could just leave it, or overlay it with different wood or somehow fix the crack . Any advice would be greatly appreciated , thank you

That is very well done, I still have my first project and it’s not even close to being this good.

I’m not sure if a machine can actually be a friend, but if it can this RBI 226 has been my friend since I purchased it in about 1991. It sounds dumb I guess but as I write this I have a few tears in my eyes from all the great memories associated with sawing with this machine. It has made the apostle clock , 4 Lord’s Prayers and so much more over the years. To say it has brought a lot of joy to my life would be an understatement but the motor was surging badly and the poor saw was hammering pretty badly. In all the years I replaced the switch and the back spring, that was it. I did not think I could ever throw it away but, just sitting there was hard , I did not use it anymore, so I took it apart today and have my 2 favorite parts from it hanging up. If my saw could hear me I would say thank you ,you was the best

This makes me very sad . Scrolling to me always brings me a lot of joy and when I sold something or gave it away I always hoped that the recipient could feel that same joy. I am still hopeful that craftsmanship will make a comeback someday but I am not sure that it will. The main thing I make for craft shows are Christmas ornaments and I always make them out of solid oak, cherry , or walnut, but to be honest with you I’m not sure that most care. There are still customers that appreciate it , but the phrase I hear a lot is “ i use to know I guy that did that “.

That is a fantastic job, love it

just finished this evening. Lettering is cherry , back board is Walnut and I framed the walnut with oak on the back. I had purchased the walnut from a widow years ago and when I planed it down I was disgusted when I hit a nail I did not see , it’s the first nail I had ever hit with this walnut so I was not expecting it. I of course ruined my planer blades but in my mind as I looked at it , the holes and black spots in the wood reminded of the nails on the cross .

Thanks , I appreciate the kind words. The children learn poem is a pattern that originally had teddy bears around it but with my wife’s help we designed it for martial arts. I got the original pattern from wildwood designs years ago but I don’t believe it is in print any longer

My daughter owns a martial arts studio so I made this for her

i purchased my first RBI at Iowa state fair which i believe was a 16 inch , about a year later i purchased what i believed was my last saw but soon ran into a pattern where i ran out of room and had to put my blade in backwards to complete project , so made a return trip to Harrisonville Mo to trade it for the 226

I think there are 2 spots where my vibration get better, one of them is around the 3 mark on the dial and the other is wide open. Unfortunately I like to scroll in the 5-7 range on the dial which seems to be one of the worst spots for the vibration

one more thing i forgot to add, i loved the old barrel style blade holder , i admit i have had a very hard time getting used to this new style

thanks for your reply, i have the chair legs on my new saw which i really do like . i have adjusted them and believe they are solid on my floor. the concrete floor in my shop was poured by the amish and everyone has commented how flat and nice the floor is so i think my base is good. since you own the bm series i have a question on the tension lever on the rear of the saw. it has a flat spot on the lever where it is supposed to stay but when the tension is off the blade it sometimes falls over which of course changes tension on blade ,( hopefully that makes sense ) what am i missing here ? also i put a mark on the rod to see if it turns when i scroll and it does , i would not think plastic washers are worn out already. my old saw i could make the blades tight and they would stay , on the new saw if i put on same amount of tension it will either pull out of top or break the blade just underneath the table. as far as vibration goes i have a magnifer light i cannot use on the new saw because it vibrates to much, i put it back on my old saw and i can use it just fine. i remember the old days when they would demo these saws they did the nickel test on the table and it would not move, there is no way my new saw could do that. sorry for the long rant but i have been scrolling for 30 years and with this new saw it feel like i have been sawing 3 weeks.

I actually started to write this late afternoon and accidentally put in in the wrong topic thread so I apologize and will try again . The pictures are the switch box on my 6 month old BM26 hawk. The metal screw connector holding it on came loose in the box so I am sending it back to Bushton manufacturing for warranty repair. This was kind of the final straw on a saw that I have not been very happy with. It constantly breaks blades, will not keep proper tension and has more vibration than my old RBI that I purchased new in 1992 and is very tired. I was showing my wife this evening what had happened and as I looked at the 2 saws sitting beside each other it was really obvious how much heavier build the old saw was in comparison to the new one. I went back to using my old saw this afternoon and to be honest it just felt like an old friend I have been missing. If I can’t get some of these issues resolved I may end up selling the new one and buying a good used one somewhere, I’m just really on the fence with this entire situation.

sorry i put this in wrong topic i dont know how to delete