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Great job, especially on the painting.

Unique piece. Great job, both cutting and painting.

Very nice, Charlie. I'd love to watch you make a pattern or two.

Happy wife, happy life! Great job!

Happy B-day, Ron. Wish you the best and many, many more.

Great going Gene. I wish my body would allow me to play golf again... although that would take away time at the scroll saw.

Nice job, Dick. And as far as you trying out the paint you purchased, with your talent I don't think you will have any problems at all. I cut and painted a piece when I first started scrolling and used a paint brush. Since then I've purchased a couple air brushes and found they do a fantastic job. You can use cheap acrylic hobby paint from Walmart and just thin it down with a little water. Harbour Freight has a couple air brushes that work well for me. I will add that I limit my painting due to the fact that I like the beauty of the wood. In most cases I try to stay with stain and typically only paint when there is a defect in the wood or I screw up and have to hide it with the paint.

A lot of work went into that. Awesome job!

Looks good, Alan. I believe you've got a handle on the 3D pieces.

Welcome, Bryon, for North Carolina.

Really cute pieces. Well done. Great job by your wife as well.

Awesome piece, Jim.

Very detailed piece with a lot of fret work. Cutting this piece with MGT blades had you doing a lot of spinning on the table top. The end results turned out great.

Love the live edge. Great job!

It depend on the model. I have the 3922 which has served me pretty well for 2-years until I retired it in July after getting my Pegas. The 3921 and 3923 have blade lamps that are a pain in the rear. If that is the model you are looking at, I would suggest staying away from it. I had a few issues with the 3922 but nothing that I didn't overcome. The bellows lasted about 2-months before I had to replace it. After it wore out a second time I replaced it with a fish tank blower. The blade clamp knob broke after about a month also and I just started using a nut driver to tighten the clamp. The clamps will wear out but WEN sells them for about $5 each and they are pretty good about shipping. I would buy them a half dozen at a time. My saw had considerable vibration when I first mounted it to a stand I built. The top of the stand was a little weak so I removed the saw, beefed up the top with some 2X material which made a drastic improvement in reducing the vibration. It would "almost" pass the nickle test. I will add WEN provides a 2-year warranty on their products when purchased new and from what I've seen, you can get a better deal, in most cases, when you purchase directly from their website. I used the warranty to replace the first bellows and didn't have any issue with the warranty claim. I purchased the saw new at $107 2-years ago. It is currently listed on their website at $114. Your purchase would depend if the warranty is worth the extra $50.

Nope. Gotta pay extra for him!

Finished a couple pieces over the weekend. The Eagle is a Arpop pattern double stack cut in 1/4-inch ply Birch. One is finished Natural stain while the other is Ipswich. Both have 1/4-inch Pine backers painted black. The frames are custom fit using framing material. The Lab with Duck was at the request of my wife and is a pattern by H. Botas. I double stacked 1/4-inch Maple ply and again finished one with Natural and the other Ipswich. I used 1/4-inch Birch for the backers and painted one black and the other is stained with Espresso. Again, the frames were custom cut using framing material. All the pieces were sprayed with four coats of Polyacrylic with light sanding using 320-grit sandpaper between coats. I used Pegas 2/0, 0, 1 spiral and 2/0 MGT blades. The wife plans to gift one of the Labs with the duck to her dog training instructor. Obviously, she has a Lab. I'm almost finished with a Papillon piece she plans to gift one of her dog training classmates. She and my wife are the only two training Papillons. Both were fun and relatively easy cuts.

Complicated little case. Great job.

Nice to see you back, Kevin. Sorry you lost your phone with your account information. Letters are always difficult for me.

nice job, Charlie. Really like the mix of stains on the one piece.

Welcome from North Carolina. Looks like you've set up a nice shop. Now to create some dust!

Awesome job, Jim.

Very nice, Dick.

I've been focused on the dog theme due to several requests I've had recently. The first is a Jim Blume pattern cut on 1/4-inch Maple ply stained with Natural with a 1/4-inch Pine backer painted black. The frame is custom cut pre-fab framing material. The duo Aussies are a pattern by Tutor cut on 1/4-inch Maple ply. One is stained with Natural with a 1/4-inch Pine backer painted black and the other is stained with Ipswich with a 1/4-inch Pine backer stained with Espresso. These were also framed with pre-fab framing material cut to size. The last is a Steve Good pattern on Maple and again a black Pine backer. All pieces were sprayed with 4-coats of Polyacrylic with light sanding between coats. The three Aussie pieces were cut using Pegas 2/0 Spiral blades. The Hound piece was cut using Pegas 0 Super Skip blades. All were cut on the new Pegas saw which is so much faster than my WEN. All were cut within the time it would have taken to cut only one of the Aussie pieces on the WEN. I'll also add the Aussie pieces were much easier to cut than you would think by looking at the patterns. There was only one area that was a little weak on the Tutor pattern but not so much I wasn't afraid to hit it with the palm sander after it was finished. The Steve Good pattern was a really easy cut.

You've been busy, Pete. Excellent work.