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Most new cans have these rings that you put your finger nails under and pull. I found a finger nail saver, can opener tool from Niles Bottle stoppers. This is my 3rd one so far. This is donated to a local "Cat Crew" that Traps Newter Release neighbor cats. She sent me a picture of her cat and I used it as a pattern. I used red gum wood to capture the red tone of the cat. Some wood grains go between the eyes. The offset tool allows space for fingers to get grab the wood better. This allows for a good pull. I used Arm R Seal for finish / protection, 5 coats. Cat food can get messy. The 2nd pic shows the cats face. I just printed and glued to wood. Then drew lines where I wanted to cut. #4 Spiral makes good eyeliner and lipstick. #2 spiral was used for trimming whiskers. Me. Mark Eason

My perspective when quick glancing is that the dragons wings are transluscent. Then after seeing the silverish body skin armor my wing thought went to solid thick silver skin. When thinking of actual scene, the viewer is toast. Your projects brings my attention into the scene and feel like I am actually there. If you do consider making another version maybe coloring the wings different? I dont know. Me. Mark Eason

great video. !!!

I got my hawk 3 years ago. I had to get used to the feel of inserting the blade holder in the front position of the lower arm. The back position is a bit too agressive for me. Sometimes I still have to look under to see if I have it to far back. I don't think there is a way to attach pinned blades to the top. If there is a way, there is not a good selection of pinned blades. Me. Matk Eason

Very nice. The pattern is not too busy which makes the lamp look balanced. That is not too much light and still shows off the scrollsaw work you did. The bottom curves to add feet to the corners just adds to the overall eligance. That is not just a box. For next versions, Is there something you can do with the top to make it not just a square lid and remove possible warping? Would allowing light coming through the top be distracting? Me. Mark Eason

use an IV Bag with a drip adjuster.

The hawk saws have a hole in the metal table right below the bottom blade clamp. I put a small funnel in that hole to catch sawdust in a container. The hole is probably for water coolant.

I did own a rock cutter, home made 10" diamond saw. I used some coolant that was made for machinist. A evap cooler pump to keep filtered coolant running on the rock. Basalt rocks that might have opals. Keep the blade cool and clean with some water dripping. Might also check about diamond saws for scrollsaw. Also search for diamond wire.

Well done. Maple does have some brown blemishes tbat show up verticle. Here is my finding. I thought I was burning the board also.

ok very complex project. Looks amazing. But what took you longer, the pattern or the cutting?

Thanks for the website. They have alot if cute stuff. The have fighter planes but no bombers. The B2 should be easy. But no plans for any bombers. They do have space shuttle plans. I love the corsairs and P51s. Oh yea there is a better way for cones on the p51. Dowel fairly big, stick in in your drill and shape it with sand paper.

https://www.sawbird.com/scroll_saw_blades.htm

You did a nice job. Very nice capture of bonding buddies. Some of those hairlines look pretty long and fragile. The bridal chain loops also look scary to cut. My chiropractor "John Red Eagle" adjusts horses and people. Both him and his daughter "River" rides in rodeos. She would love this.

oh I forgot to keep it non-technical again. Inlay angle equation is on the side picture a a hmmm, just for scale showing 4 inches wide.

Last year I made 2 versions of this recognition award. I posted 1 version already. The 2nd was delivered a few months later. I did not want to post the "jwk" version before giving it to the guy. This was based on company symbols. The original company logo was a light bulb with the filiament showing "iW" signifing iwatt. 2 companies bought us, the 2nd company started with a big R. So the wood award shows that these 2 guys came from iWatt and still work at the big R company. The 1st pic varied the filiament to the workers initials "jwk". The 3rd pic show a zoom in of the silicon wafer that I cut down. to 44mm. Wood is purple heart and yellow heart.

Project complete Team Tokens. 27 inlay tokens for engineering team I work with. I wanted some inlay practice. See my other long post for what the symbol is. Warning I kinda got too technical.

The emblem is a signal in a flyback power supply. The wall chargers for almost any rechargeable device use some form of flyback circuits. The emblem is pretty simplified version. The whole team has is trained to analyze this signal and report if something is wrong, and make improvements. Our team makes the controller chips that goes into wall chargers. We are always improving how much energy is being used when cell phone is not plugged in. 15 years ago a wall charger took about 0.1 watts when on the wall but not charging anything. Multiply that by the number of wall chargers across the world and there is alot of wasted energy. My house has about 15 of these wall chargers. Power tooth brushes, cell phones, laptops, cameras, printers, bluetooth devices, etc. Now this style of chip is also in microwaves, cable boxes, washer and dryer machines. It provides a low power sleep mode for TVs. When you turn off your TV a small circuit is still on to listen to your remote. To each person this 0.1 watts is really low. But greater than 30 billion world wide sucks alot of energy. Now we are running standy power near 0.006 watts. Almost 500 times less. Sorry for the long answer. I was in the training mode. When I interview a new people I put that chip on the table and tell them that is what we build.

I took my time at these 27 tokens. I cut out 3 per day. 2 are on the drying rack. After struggling with getting the correct blade and table angle. The inlay technique came out very good. Use a #1 blade for tight turns , 0.8 deg cut angle. I am delivering the team tokens tomorrow. Sent out emails to each team member and all responded surprised and thankful. Me. Mark Eason

i am not a dewalt guy. But is there a Walt20 (deg) he looks like a Walt15

Sure. Tilt your cut at 45 deg. Drill a hole at 45 deg, cut a circle. A very tight circle, like 1/4" . My machine I like tilt the table left side down. Cut 1/4" circle turning the wood clockwise. Dont use any blade that has reverse teeth. And try very soft wood at first. The blade will try to push the wood off the table so you need to hold the wood. Go as slow as possible. Keep the blade from bending. As you get 2 or 3 cuts you can move to harder wood and even move to reverse blades. 30 deg will be easier than 45 deg. The bottom circle will be huge. Thinner material will be much easier. My pic shows 1.5" thick using a 1/8" circle. I had to calculate the angle to fit in the 1.5" area. This experiment was trying to make a hollow cone, a bell.

In fact there is a ring that he made that shows perfect hexagon light panels 5 panels. He showed the ring during his lunch presentations. He allowed GIA to photo it. They said is is the only opal specimen that showed crystaline structure. He said he will donate it to smithsonian when he dies. It did not make it to Smithsonian. It is in the LA Historic museum. I considered a this to be a personal message but the topic might be good for other readers. I have been thinking how I can mount my specimens in wood. I only have 2 small ones. It seems I also forgot to tell you your work is really nice. Very good ideas and execution.

I love airplanes. The way you present them in threes is great idea. I might suggest to change out the prop cones, with actual cones. At first glance I thought the exhaust pipes were just painted. You did great by having them stick out. We have 3 or 4 p51s at my nearby airport. The group refurbishes them and flys them.

opal is my favorite gemstone. There was a "Barnett" opal mine in mojave desert that I used to go to. Attached is a museum piece.

so nice. It seems like I am there.

correction, polar blades are equivalent to skip. So when polar for some reason don't cut, change to something else. sometimes switching to a smaller blade allows it to cut. Example... I was cutting hard wood with P5, for 20 min. I only cut maybe 1 inch. So I switched to P1 and made much better progress. I don't associate heavy vibration with blade type. I have only used 2 types of machines. The hawk machine changes power and noise changes when hard grain is encountered. It tries to keep the strokes per min from changing.