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Take a pic of it, there are some really amazing pattern makers here who will help.

Customer special order , I cut it and made the backer board and made a frame for the backer board and my wife made the pattern and did the detailed paint job . I would have though the ladie would have wanted the 49ers on it too but no all she wanted was just S F . Used Baltic Birch Plywood and as you can see the wife hand painted it .I installed a picture frame Saw tooth hanger on the rear top where it can be hung on the wall . Any comments welcomed .....

I hate to paint wood, but sometimes you need some more vibrant colors on the work you do. I found a new trick, that might be old hat to some of you, but not to me. By mixing oil based artist paint with natural wood stain, you can create just about any color wood stain you desire. This opens up hundreds of new possibilities

I have a friend that has an art studio in Custer State park every summer. He is going through some health issues and I thought this would be a nice gift. The pattern is by Gary Browning and found in his book "Wild West Scroll Saw Portraits". I used 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood 12" square. and back with a black mat. Of course framed at ArtCrafters. I used FD New Spiral #1 blades and finished with spray Polyurethane. Comments welcome.

I agree, take a picture of it and see if any of the awesome pattern makers can do their magic.

Nicole called me today, My saw will be shipping out later today.. she said usually arrives within 3 days.. Sounds like they've had issues in the past with UPS or their packaging.. she said this batch of saws will be packaged with added padding.. customers have waited long enough... ( you think? LOL ).. She mentioned to open the box and inspect it before signing for it.. make special note of the rear table mount.. apparently this is where the damage always is and the mount gets damaged.. She also said they have been experimenting with different packing methods.. and they really would like to not have to have the customers have to put their saw table on as it's quite a process to get it all aligned but they've been looking into shipping them like that... I told her she could leave the table off if she liked as I've rebuilt many different kinds of saws including the older Hawk.. and I don't have an issue mounting the table and tuning the saw.. she said they might leave it off for me.. but still make note of any damage before signing for the saw.. Now... hopefully it was worth the wait.. I know this isn't the old style Hawk that I know and like.. She is also quite lucky they called today.. I had my deadline set for tomorrow but contemplated waiting another day or two.. but I had planed to cancel out my order this very week... simply because I've been communicating with a seller of a used Hawk 220VS Ultra... had looked at the saw ( like new ).. and was going to be buying it this Saturday..

I saw this in his email last week and thought I would make one. I enlarged the pattern by 15% to make the basket just under 6" square and 2 1/2" high. The sides are 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood and the top and bottom are Mahogany. I used FD Polar #5 blades as I stack cut 4 pieces. Finished with spray Shellac. Getting each layer lined up when gluing was the hardest part. Comments welcome.

Hello friends. someone requested a pattern, I did this work one year ago based on the image, I hope you like it.

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of BW... But then.. also not a big fan of Amazon.. while I do sell on Amazon.. I just don't like buying on Amazon... This place doesn't have the cheapest shipping either but.. they do have awesome service and I try to combine a order large enough to justify ordering from them.. Woodworking Parts

Do a paper and pencil rubbing themn trace the lines that need to be cut.

A photo, touched up and enhanced in Photoshop or a similar program will get you the pattern, but you will need to take a high resolution digital photo with the camera perfectly positioned at right angle to the surface of the pattern for a perfect image with no distortion. The closer you can get to achieving this, the better (life, and photography is never absolutely perfect). Another possibility, if you can do it, is to place this item laying flat on a scanner and scan the image. It will need to be flat against the glass of the scanner to avoid distortion. An image larger than the scanner glass can be scanned in sections to create several partial images, which can then be merged together into one image using Photoshop or a similar program, but with the newer high resolution cameras, it's usually faster and easier to take a photo of it. Charley

Finished this series of the Butterfly crosses. Walnut, Poplar, Red Oak and two Red Cedar. Plus, had a little extra time to day and did two fun ones that I found in SSV Vault.

I have to go buy some plywood for a backer tomorrow so I haven't lacquered this yet but I figured I'd post it anyway since I've nothing better to do... This pattern is by Judy Gale Roberts... I used Maple, Poplar, Walnut, Red Oak, White Oak and Cherry...

Steve keeps us in the loop for sure.

There are thousands of articles and products that are out there just to level machines and building projects. An unlevel floor and uneven walls are given for many owning and rehabbing old houses. I've been stuck renting under HUD and its amazing the cheap garbage and weird building practices they use since their just renting for the 'poor'. if you can't level the floor either because you don't own it, or it's out of the range of expense, everything can be leveled by adjusting stands, using fillers under legs or using adjustable feet. It doesn't take much of a tilt of a scroll saw and chair to get tired fighting the tilt of the chair and readjusting your body to correct for the tilt. My wife and I can walk a little and I can get a few feet with a cane, but any distance puts us both in wheelchairs. There are days we have been sitting waiting and the sidewalk, the floor was out of level. Since we can exactly adjust the tilt of the chair we are stuck. And at the end of the day hurting from trying to fight the tilt in our chair. Extending this to working for long periods with tilted scroll saws and chairs and you're probably going to end up more tired. There are going to be extremes on each end of the scale a one-degree tilt and probably most wouldn't notice, take that to a 45-degree tilt and you're going to be putting your foot out to keep from sliding. One HUD apartment came to mind. The first year we were freezing. That summer I pulled the molding around the windows. There was a gap in the thickness of my hand on the sides and top. They either couldn't measure for a window or got the wrong size and threw it in. I could look straight through and could have handed things through the gap to the outside. We are now living in a place with bad windows that was just built. The air conditioning/ heating is built wrong. The contractor came to look and said that they were 'HUD' windows and that's the way they all are. When I was discussing the problem with the heat, I could sense he had no idea what I was talking about. Asked him which way heat goes. He couldn't answer. Yep, not everything is built level or to our standards, but things can be adjusted to correct them. I've seen many 'hacks' for around the shop and home to level furniture and shop machines. RJF Note: I'm not trying to lecture. My training and working and interest in engineering always examining problems and looking for solutions. When my company's go complaints, they were directed to the engineering department to either solve or redesign to correct it. Problem 1: Square of the blade to the table. Problem 2: Measuring the angle so there is a correct measurement by the person and equipment. Problem 3 Basic level of the saw, which may create angle measurement problems or future problems for human ergonomics and how the saw runs. Problem 4 Stop examining the top three problems and just cut the darn pattern! RJF

Could you take it to a store that does coping services. They have bigger copiers and could probably get better copy and on one page, if it is bigger than an normal home copier. I find them very inexpensive.

Well, so far I'm happy with the quick cheap fix of a couple drops of loctite.. scrolled all morning and the saw has so far stayed tuned where I set it.. I just wanted to add that if you ever take that thing apart it's a pain in the rear to get that nut and washer back in there and threaded onto the shaft.. can't reach back there too well with fingers.. can't slide it back into the relative position because there is a raised ledge sort of spot where the rod pushes on the arm. I kept either dropping the washer or the nut... three drops of super glue on the washer and sticking in onto the nut did the trick though.. I've used grease and silicone sealer to do this trick before on cars.. I didn't want grease on there to make it turn too easy since I washed off all the oil that was on the threads etc.. so super glue was the savior of the day, LOL

Leveling equipment is a given to me. When I did building projects a level was always out. When a machine is set up one step was to level the machine. Level floor, a level machine with large casters rolls easily to put away. Even with a machine not level the level is going to show and you setup from there. RJF

The primary use is for tilting the table as it can be referenced to the table regardless of the level Ness of the machine.

My wife and I own a flip phone when we hit the road we take it for safety. I can make a call and receive a call. Now all I have to do is buy a smartphone to get the free app. Nothing like being 25 years behind the time. Got that phone and took the 1000 feet of phone wire out of the trunk. RJF

BB might be your best bet. 1/4" solid wood is highly susceptible to warping. No matter which way you go stack cut at least 2 pieces.

Got er done. I put my leveler on the saw this morning and it works perfect. Leveling was never easier.

I emailed Dave at D&D in January and asked him if he was going to be selling them and he told me yes. I decided to go with him because his service on saw blades.

Ray told me about Jing. It works so easily and I use it often. It is always available. It just hangs at the top of the screen ready for instant use. Thanks again Ray.

Didn't know of the snipping tool. Just tried it. I've used screenhunter for so long I'll stay with it since I know everything about the software. There are so many window features hidden I could use a book to look them up and see them. I had a very thick manual for XP Windows and I could thumb through it to fix it or just learn of the hidden features. I'm a book learner and lover. Unfortunately so is my wife. We need a house with book cabinets for all the walls. Just don't have to power a book and they go anywhere. RJF

Only you Kevin. I will not be asking you to buy me a saw any time soon.

Okay... just got off the phone with Seyco.. and.. he asked a series of questions to determine what was going on.. (ie make sure the knob is tight to the shaft etc etc.. ) getting down to the nitty gritty of it.. asked me to remove blade and wiggle the back knob and estimate how much play it has back and fourth etc.. His conclusion was.. the threads are too loose in the shaft and or the steel block that it threads into.. The three fixes he suggested was.. 1) Buy a new shaft and block assembly ( since saw is out of warranty) approximately $30 2) pull the assembly apart and put some blue loctite on the threads to tighten it up some and see if it helps. 3) pull assembly and use some thread tape on the threads and see if that helps. I didn't order the parts yet.. pockets are somewhat empty today.. have blue loctite on hand.. since I'm not one to change a set up on a saw much at all I'm guessing the loctite will last me quite a while.. Apparently the saw I got was built on a Monday or Friday.. Monday everyone comes to work with a hang over and can't function properly.. LOL or Friday because their mind in on the weekend and not focused on the work at hand.. Just goes to show that a bad apple slips through every company from time to time.. I've had issue after issue with this saw.. I'll get it running as it should sooner or later after I rebuild the whole thing.. LOL Also just goes to show that it's not just me bitching about this saw.. it really is a bad apple.. and since I had no experience with these saws.. really made me wonder what was so special about these that everyone likes them so much.. apparently most of your saws was built in the middle of the week, LOL If someone got there hands on this saw that wasn't mechanically incline how do you suppose they would feel about the Excalibur saw.. Or even me.. only reason I keep messing with the thing is because I wanna see what everyone else does about why they are such a nice saw... After hours of puttering around with it... I'm starting to see the glimmer of a nice saw that everyone else has.. and loves..

My Dad was career Air Force, and for the longest time I couldn't read the huge building numbers painted on each building, because they used these fonts. It wasn't until I was about 7 or 8 that it clicked for me. Before that, I thought they were alien symbols!

My Hawk has a bolt on the left side and once the table is square to the blade you adjust the bolt up to be tight to the under side of the table.. then if you move it doing angle cuts you simply just move it back until it hits the bolt and it should be squared up again.. Mine has a piece of plastic / rubber cover other the threads of the bolt to protect it.. maybe to keep it from having baby bolts .. or would that be baby tables?

A little while ago @heppnerguy did a beautiful cutting of a plane, however, the font that he used amazed me. I couldn't find it anywhere. However, Dick was kind enough to let me know where I could get it from. So today I tried it.

One day project... Just a quick logo commissioned by a fellow facebooker... It is all 1/4" Birch Plywood... I don't know if it is easy to tell but the words are applique...

I saw this in someone else's post, and was directed to Steve Good's site. It almost needs Sid the Sloth's mugshot, but it hit all the right funnybones with me. 3/4" whiteboard from Lowes, finish is Minwax "Gunstock"....I ran out of my darker stains on my Mark Twain project, and since we were at Lowes this afternoon....following a family morning at the gun range....I thought I'd give this one a try as well. One of the best parts? My smallest drillbit is 1/16", and the #3 blades STILL rattled around inside that hole!!! But the bit is small enough that, for the first time EVAR, I was able to drill a pilot hole small enough to cut details like below the lower-right leg of the "A" or the end of the leg in the "R". I now know how Dr. Frankenstein felt. For slightly different reasons, of course, but the feelz are there.

Big thanks to Bob & Paul. @grampa @bobscroll for the pattern and text. I used a 2/0 Olsen blade for the pattern and used a No 5 for the 35 deg bevel.

At a company I worked at they received sample transducers. These are a ceramic/clay ring wrapped with wire, connect to an amplifier and they put out a high volume of a specific sound. The company shipped samples by UPS and the padded envelope was about the size of a postcard. Three times the envelope came in with a large footprint and the transducer was crushed. The company then upped their game and put the envelope in a small cube box. Two times the box was crushed and the transducer smashed. They finally sent this little thing still in its padded envelope in a knee-high box. Sucess! Probably spent 100 times the amount in shipping than the value of their sample! RJF

Yeah, that could be something to do with it.. I did know about adjusting the motor. but I didn't do that until after it was mounted to the stand.. and it does run quite smooth now.. and that could be the tuning or the EX stand or both..

I just received word that the Pegas saw that I pre-ordered is going to ship in the next week... Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy...

That's good. I'm keeping m fingers crossed for you Kevin. You've been more than patient.

Well, lets hope that will take care of your problem for a good long time. Maybe now you will be able to fall in love with your EX as much as the rest of us who have them. I would not let mine go for most anything. Well maybe for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. After I get my Hawk home tomorrow, I will have a new love affair. I hope so.

If I want to do something like this, i take a picture of it and email it to myself. Then i can play with the pattern and resize it and such as much as i like. When done I print it out and spray glue it to the wood. Now I will always have the pattern for future use too.

Thanks I will try them and let you know what worked or not Barbara

Yep, got my notification too...even got a shipping number...still hasn't shipped. Can't wait to get it though!

Saw arriving tomorrow (Wednesday). UPS has it in hand.

I use 1/4 BB all the time,I have cut some pretty thin cuts,it holds up pretty darn well.Then I use 1/4 for the backer.

Your saw is different than mine on the adjustment knob Kevin. Mine sticks up about two inches or so above the cover. Mine is a 2010 green model. That was aid I just wrapped electrical tape around the threads. There was plenty of room. You do not have that option. Hope you get it resolved. grizz

Just got an email from UPS and they are saying February 20 (Wednesday) for delivery!! I may have a Hawk for sale next week.

I have been looking for some Australian content in scroll saw patterns so when I found this one in the pattern library I jumped on it & thanks to Patch for the pattern,I made the backer a little larger to give it a framing effect.

Fond memories. Nice job... When I was a kid, my uncle had an Indian motorcycle. He also had a side car for it and use to take me for rides. He had cherry bombs for me to throw at the dogs that would chase us... ahhh the good old days. One time he had his Indian parked at our house while he was gone..... somehow, not me, no way, never, honest,,,,,,, it got tipped over... It took every kid in the neighborhood,,,, "Our Gang" (remember those short movies), to get that motorcycle back up... My mom even came out to help!

Very nice idea .it turned out great...Mrs. did a fantastic job on her end.you couldn't find a nicer arrangement in a flower shop.

Very beautiful work. Looks like we have another very talented team in the village.

terrific job