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Fretwork tray designed by Steve Good cut from some rimu tongue and groove from the back of an old wardrobe and a piece of drawer side for the base. One coat of 50/50 BLO and mineral turpentine. I will give it a coat of beeswax once it is fully dry. This was fun to cut and I was able to stack cut the sides and ends which saved time. Rob

Last week we watched an episode of 'Have Gun - Will Travel' in which Quanah Parker was a character. I knew he wasn't fictional, so I looked him up. I just had to do this portrait. The pattern is by Gary Browning and found in his book, "Wild West Scroll Saw Portraits". I enlarged the pattern by 65% to fit an 11" x 14" frame. I used 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood and backed with a black mat board. In framing, I used Acrylite, a framing quality plastic. The blades used were FD New Spiral #1 and there are two coats of spray Shellac. Comments welcome.

Delivered these custom plaques Saturday. The original pattern was by Steve Good. I changed it a bit and added the name.

I have a couple of wedding coming up - 1 next weekend & one in July for family members & close friends. I decided to cut a piece for the Weddings. Thank goodness for stack cutting or i would still be cutting the 1st one. 1st one complete and the 2nd one all i have is the frame itself. Pattern came from Cherry Tree and is a Wildwood Design called Home Rules. Woods are 1/4" Cherry & maple and 1/8" Baltic Birch

got a $100 dollar tip from going to the hospital .reason ,i found a wallet on the yellow line at 4 A.M. got out of ER 4 hours later and stopped to see what was on the yellow line .It was a wallet loaded with credit cards.i called right away as the info was in it and he came 30 miles to retreive and gave me $100, for my honesty,and i made his name to boot witch got me more work when he returns next Saturday.YES,I'm gave him a cross too.The cat is 1.5 thick

Just finished my new project! It was a challenge, I haven't made anything this big before. I'm kind of a newbie, and I'd definitely recommend this project to anyone. (even a newbie can tackle this.)

Well my Wife and I are going to The Smokies in the A,M, (FINALLY) YEHI!!.so I thought I would post my latest cuttings. I have been wanting to cut the CSX for sometime.and finally got around to it.I plan on visiting the Train Museum while we are over there.and going to Cooter's. I will be back in 4 days.You All Take Care.

Here's my 1st attempt at stack cutting. Pattern by Steve Curtis

Love that plaque Tabitha. The process is called Lichtenberg Fractals or figures. Here is a link to how folks can do this for themselves. http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/Fractal Lictenberg Figure Wood Burning with Electricity.html DW

Thank you guys for the help on the patterns.

Nice cutting Rob..........

A wonderful work on that tray. The work is just right.

I finished this last week for a neighbor. Sorry I have no idea who made the pattern. It's cut from 3mm Hoop Pine, using a 2/0 Reverse Tooth flat blade. Marg PS. The pattern is by Lawson56, thanks Bobby.

Thanks, Jeff. That would be very hard to imagine!

Beautiful Rob. I love the color of that wood. It looks pretty thick to stack cut. You did a great job cutting it.

Looks great and super way to reuse wood from other items. Like it. jim penquin

Lovely tray Rob and great re-use of wood. We can not get rimu and you get it from furniture Jeff

Love the tray Rob and love the wood!

Nicely Done!

So when are you going to fix your collection of Dewalt saws, Kevin? Charley

It a micowave transformer... it's really dangerous so do your research please.... you said the wood out a mix of baking soda just one coat with a brush and water on the wood... hook your clips up to the wood and stand back cause of you touch the wood you will die... nice your clips around so you get everywhere.. I really can't tell what goes it to making the actual whole thingy father in law made it but it's all over Google... and this is cedar planks on a board.... it's my favorite to burn... but if you do end up trying this please be safe and do research especially if you are not familiar with electric....

Nice job. Beautiful wood.

That is awesome !...Love the wood !

I remember the pattern request great job Steve and great patterns again Thanks for showing us

What a great back of a wardrobe you have there Thanks for showing

Awesome. Great cutting and of course I love the wood. Well done. Marg

They look terrific. I love the one with the birds, it made me smile. Marg

Thanks to Wayne for the pattern of the circular holder. These are for holding "diffuser" bottles, customer wanted a circular one to hold 15 bottles (Wayne Pattern) and two rectangular to hold 6 bottles each. Wood used is Walnut 3/4" thick Now let's hope for sunshine and good golf.

Very nicely done. Jeff

This is lengthy so stop now if you are not interested. When I said I had ordered the Seyco some asked that I give a review. As you read of some of my issues do not jump to the conclusion I had no idea what I was doing - I grew up on a farm and have been assembling things since I was eight years old and that was a long time ago. Also, this applies only to the machine which was shipped to me and, hopefully, will not apply to all machines which are shipped. I assembled mine with the bench top legs rather than as a stand and then mounted it on the 3/4 plywood top I have on an EX stand. I will be interested in viewing whatever video Steve Good does for assembly of his to see if he encountered any of the problems I had. I will also be interested in the assembly and operation experience of others who are getting the Seyco so hopefully they will weigh in with their comments. The manual says there are upper and lower blade guards but my unit had only an upper blade guard and none of the manual pictures show a lower blade guard. This is not a problem for me as I have viewed blade guards on scroll saws as a nuisance rather than a safety factor and have always removed them. The manual says the speed is 400 - 1600 strokes per minute but the motor says 400 - 1550 not a big difference but they both should say the same thing. When you look for the mechanic’s square, it is in an unmarked box with two positive blade angle stops which are provided but not listed as enclosed. The manual does not say what tools you will need so I suggest you have a 12mm and 11mm open end and or box end wrench. A hex key is provided but it does not fit the hex heads for the table top attachment and you will want a 5/32 hex key. Assembly bolts for the stand assembly all worked fine but were of two different lengths, someone reached in the wrong bin or had thrown some extras of a different length in the wrong bin. The swing tilt head which is the actual saw unit was a problem when assembling it to the frame. Where shoulder bolts were used for the front and back swivel the distance from front to back was probably 1/4 to 3/8 inches too far and too much pressure had to be used to mount the saw to the swivel points in the frame. I am hoping that in operation there is no thread failure due to this extra stress. Also, the bolt welded on the saw which slid into the arc for adjusting the swivel/angle was slightly off and would be totally unacceptable if I ever wanted to adjust the swivel/angle as it has to really be forced to make it swivel. If I did work with adjusting swivel/angles, I would either need to return the saw or grind 1/16 to 1/8 of metal off of the swivel arc for freedom of adjusting. In this respect the EX had a much better method for angle adjustment. Every place where I had a problem with tolerances had a weld rather than being stamped and I am guessing this was the problem. If each weld were just slightly different, assembly of the saw to the frame would have been a breeze. Although they probably were robotic welds, they really looked more like manual welds. The preceding made assembly of my unit extremely frustrating. I did get a hammer but ended up not using it. Although not a problem, this same lack of tolerances appeared in the rather long tilt locking knob and when screwing it onto the bolt there was an up/down type of movement indicating the thread insert was not placed straight in the mold when it was formed. Tolerances were also slightly off on the brackets the table top was mounted to and the bolts took a little forcing which should not have been necessary. I do suggest you get six larger flat washers for when you mount the table top to the frame. I am sure there must be a reason for it but it is incomprehensible to me. What you do not see on the Seyco web site is that if you take the magnetic table cover off, the steel table top has a fairly large rectangular hole through the table which is a few inches in back of the blade slot and directly above the under table mechanism for changing the angle. For better or worse, this means you are almost wedded to the magnetic table top (which I am not sure I will like) or you are going to be getting a lot of saw dust going down that slot as you rotate your work or the blower (which is designed to blow from the front to rear of your work) removes the saw dust from your scroll line. It is not likely it was meant as a sawdust dump since the magnetic table cover conceals it so I am at a loss on the reason for it. I will be interested in whether anyone ever finds the graphics on the magnetic table top helpful as I think I am more likely to find them a distraction. If there was not the rectangular hole in the steel table top, the magnetic table top could also have been left out and offered as an option. I do not do any angle cuts and have no use for a digital angle gauge and I prefer the hand switch for on/off so will not use the foot switch. Nothing indicated whether the foot switch is on/off or a dead man’s switch. Both of those items could have been left out or been offered as optional features. Most folks probably already have the Wixey Digital Angle Gauge and rather than the nesting place in front of the speed control for the Wixey I would have rather kept the on/off switch closer to the front where it is somewhat more convenient. Most scrollers who like the foot switch probably have one of those also. I know I have a foot switch because I had to try it to find I did not like it for the way I work. Maybe I will find something else to put in the Wixey nesting spot. It is to small for a can of beer but a shot glass might work. The money spent on those two items and even the mechanics square would have been better spent improving the angle/tilt mechanism or for offering a slightly lower price (maybe even using a table top without a rectangular hole in it and making the magnetic table top optional). All of the manual photos show the same clamping assembly as the EX and which is also similar to the DW and the thumb screws come with the swivel ends like the EX and DW. The set screws in manual photos all appear the same as the EX and DW but on the unit I received the set screws were longer and had a nut on the outside - I am assuming this is a method for locking the set screw rather than using Loctite. All of the mechanisms for (i) adjusting blade as vertical by setting table top (sideways blade adjustment) and adjusting motor (back to front blade adjustment), (ii) adjusting the back knob for adjusting upper arm horizontal to table top, and (iii) lifting the top arm to a stationary up position are the same as on the EX. The manual does not tell you that the motor adjustment can be used to adjust the back to front for a vertical blade - that knowledge comes from the EX manual. After assembly I did start the saw and ran it from slowest to fastest and it is quiet and does seem vibration free so after the frustration of assembly I am anxious to drive it and expect I will really like it. I still need to complete my under table dust collection hookups so have not tested it with actual scrolling but should get to that over this next weekend. Although Seyco seems proud that the dust blower is designed to blow the dust to the back and away from you, I have a feeling I am not going to like it positioned in front of or near the front of the blade and likely will change the blower tube end and maybe remove a few links.

They don't get any better than this

you sure keep your customers happy

Very beautiful tray Rob.

That's col. Nicely done

That's awesome! Great work.

I would love to see the photo also. It sounds like a very interesting project to me. I hope I can find time to get to you FB page, before I forget about it. I might suggest that you PM Travis Cook about your photo posting problems. I am sure he can help you understand what you need to do to get that done. He is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Dick heppnerguy

Great job all around,patterns and cutting

Nice work Terry. I really like the idea of stack cutting. Thanks for sharing.

Great Pattern by Bobby and excellent cutting Marg. I am sure your neighbor was thrilled with the finished project. Thanks for sharing.

Super pattern and cutting.

Very nice job. Stack cutting makes a fella feel that you are getting a lot done.

I give every thing I make away so I don't need to worry about all that stuff. Another thing about giving things away is you don't have any trouble getting rid of it. I will say I am a little jealous of you guys that sell your projects.

Great to read. Hegners are work horses. It will last you as long as you scroll. I love mine. Took a while to get use to, now I will never part with it in my lifetime.

As much as I've read about Seyco and how they always pre-set-up the Excalibur saws for each and every customer.. or at least that is how i always read / understood it.. I am really thrown off coarse that they are sending these saws out un-assembled.. or at least not partly assembled and tested.. I really had wondered how this was all going to pan out with these saws.. considering ( in my opinion ) they ( Seyco ) really rushed to get these saw out there and in the market.. I am in no way trying to talk bad or degrade the saw or the Seyco company.. But I sort of felt from the beginning when i heard about the new saw.. they seemed to be rushing to get the saw on the market before the new named EX-s become available to the USA... With the reputation that Seyco has I am sure they will get the new saw's bugs and flaws taken care of.. and be sure all their customers are satisfied with their purchase. Hopefully this is just an isolated case.. and the others will go together as smooth as silk. Kevin