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Took my time,rested between paintings. The 3 girls at the store were paying way to much attention to me so surprise, next time I see them.

Just piddling around in the shop.....came across this old pattern from Scroller, and thought it looked pretty cool, so I decided to knock it out......

I knew I did something but finally 2 days later I remembered what it was.16" tall,FDsr#12-#5 blades.

It's been 2 years since I was last at this show and it's about a 1.5 hr drive to get there. It was well worth the trip. There are a lot of demos and vendors but especially some great scrollers. I had a chance to talk with several scrollers but especially enjoyed talking with Steve Good. What a great and open guy. A nice experience. Spent some money with Rich at richardscraftwood.com booth. Good pricing. Interesting guy. Emigrated from Rhodesia. Definitely a well organized and interesting show to visit.

No need to wait till St. Valentine day - just make this project and give to whom you love. Video of making project Pattern

This is the first project that I decided what I wanted on it...designed the pattern from scratch and printed it out, cut and finished it. I used 1/2" Oak and finished with a couple of coats of Helmsman Spar Urethane. Now I need HELP!!! My wife put pictures on Facebook and by time we finished dinner 2 or 3 friends wanted her to get a price for me making signs! OMG...what do I do now?? I need help pricing these fast...please! From what they sent her already the signs will be similar to this one...a name or two, maybe a word and a name, etc. Randi, who lives in OR, wanted to see if I could also put a pine tree on hers. She said her mother, who is in her 90s, may want several to give as Christmas gifts! Or should I find out what each one wants first, then do a rough workup to make sure it will fly, then show them a workup and the price? I don't know as I didn't think it would come this quick! Thanks everyone!!

The Rifleman (Dual Pose) Portrait Pattern I've had several requests for more Rifleman projects, so here is another one, a dual portrait of Lucas and Mark McCain from the TV show. This TV series was (and still is in syndication) a very popular western. It starred Chuck Connor and Johnny Crawford as the main characters. The show ran from September (remember when TV shows always started in September), 1958 to April 1963. I made this pattern with as few cuts as possible and most of it is two large areas. I cut mine from 1/4" birch ply and painted black a backing board of same wood and glued them together. I cut the words out from cherry wood, but you can leave it without the title if you like. Download the free pattern from my Free Page:http://baggetta.com/pebooks/puzzle_patterns.htm

I have been wanting a more portable saw to take to shows and demonstrations. Through a series of events a 16" Excalibur with the Pegas clamps already installed came to my attention. For $275 I had to buy it. The saw was manufactured in Taiwan and with the exception of some table coating wear is in pristine condition. For those that know me know that I am a loyal proponent of Hawk having my G4 26 since 2005. The Hawk has paid for almost all of my tools in the workshop. Modified an old Delta SS350 stand with a piece of 3/4 ply and some left over Formica. The Ex is bolted to the plywood and I have three fixed studs on the stand to hold the plywood using Wing nuts for easy disassembly and transport. 1, Clamps I never liked the EX clamps, I am heavy handed and the probability of stripping the threads and or spreading the clamp arms on the stock Ex clamps was a real concern. The Pegas clamp upgrade is a significant improvement. Putting the blade in and clamping it is a breeze no fiddling. I do like the removable clamps that the Hawk uses. I usually have several pre-loaded when working on a project. 2. Table Vs blade tilt. This is the reason for me wanting an EX type of saw as a second saw. The fact that the table stays level while the arm / blade angle changes, makes inlays and any bevel cutting, scroll saw bowls come to mind, much more controllable. No fighting the tendency to push your wood downhill. 3. Front -back blade movement. The Hawk has the ability to adjust this to almost perfectly vertical, crucial for my fine fretwork. This EX has been adjusted to almost zero front back motion. I am not sure if that was from the factory or the prior owner. 4. Vibration, All saws have some in different speed areas. My Hawk has these massive long arms going up and down so there is some minimal vibration. This EX sitting on the same concrete floor has none worth mentioning. 5. Reliability, Time will tell, hard to beat the Hawk in that area. 6. Blade tension. Simple up front cam and you can tweak it at the back if needed. 7. Guards. I removed the bottom guard as it was in the way of the bottom blade clamp. 8. Dust collection. It does have the membrane and a 2 inch hose connection for a shop vac.That is not going to work for me way too noisy. I will probably set something up like what I have on my Hawk connected to the Festool vac. (much quieter) The only con I see is that the Hawk has a huge amount of room under the arm just behind the blade. I put my finger there when cutting 3d Compound cut work. The EX does not have that much room so for compound cuts I will have to change how I work. Overall impression. I am very pleased with what I have experienced so far. I am kicking into my Christmas ornament season so that will really show me the saws capability. I will also be cutting for two straight days at our clubs woodworking show Nov 9-10. This may be a bit premature but If I were in the market for a new saw, and based on Hawks current delivery delays I would probably buy the Pegas 21 inch saw. Why Pegas over the other similarly designed saws. The clamps, full 45 deg both left and right, rack and pinion adjustment with pinned main angles, and silly me I love the color. These are my opinions,

Due to my wife's stained glass business getting bigger she needed more space. So I made a door that now goes from her shop into the garage. Because my wood shop was in the garage I had to find a new spot. We have a barn for three horses and storage. I took a 20' x 20' section and remodeled it for using as a new shop. The pictures show it as you enter and go clockwise around the room. My son did the wiring for me. The barn/shop now has 8 circuits, three for barn and 5 for shop. The AC has it's own, 10 4' LED lights own, jet air filtration has it's own. Then every other outlet drop is on a different circuit. This way I can have two big drawing machines on at the same time without popping a bleaker. I put the dust collection and the shop vac on the outside of the shop to help with the noise an to save space. I insulated an put in a new floor with OSB sheeting on walls. Makes for a nice work space. The wood storage is in the barn space. Now to find were everything is again LOL

Yeah I don't know what it is either.. but my pricing is typically $60-80 hr.. at the saw.. divide that if I'm stack cutting by the number of pieces in the stack.. Pricing in this way allows me to make about $3 and hour for myself after expenses.. I'm just kidding really.. I do strive to a $60+ per hour but my price structure changes when all said and done.. Plus.. while I make $60+ and hour at the saw.. it's real amazing how much time you spend on prep work, sanding, finishing, Packing, Mailing, Photographing putting listings on the website etc etc.. so at the end of the day that 60+ is actually more like $20-30.. So if that piece is an hour at the saw.. I put about a $60 price tag on it.. that said.. some things you make in no way will bring that kind of money... those things like that I make... I don't make again.. so I stick to things I have a pretty good idea of if it'll be a money maker.. Some things can be made much quicker off the scroll saw too.. I look for productive ways to make a piece bring me more $$ while keeping the price down for the customer.. (ie stack cutting... make bases on a table saw or bandsaw rather than scroll them out etc.. )

Lol, on my back porch!!!

Hi Gary: Well done, what fonts did you use? Keep in mind that you will never get rich doing this If you can buy your materials and a bit more from what you sell than you are ahead of the game Wood, blades, finish (paint or stain or varnish) and time Word of mouth will be your best advertising Good Luck and I wish you all the best in the new venture Fab4

I got cold and tired so I didn't get all my pictures taken.. this is about half of them... I've been a little more quiet on here the last month or so.. because I'm building up inventory on the sold out ornaments from last year and adding these new ones.. I made 25 of each style on in stock and of these new ornaments.. I got a long ways to go.. before getting all the "NEW" ornaments stocked up and once I want to add to the site etc before the holiday shopping gets into full swing.. Anyway, Enjoy these few "new" ornaments I made last week.. Hope to have about 200 different styles of ornaments on the website in the next couple weeks.. Not sure I'll make it.. I think I've got about 165 right now..

Two days ago, I placed an order with QTE (Qtena).com for a gross of #3 mgt Pegas blades. I also wanted one dozen of the #1 blades but everytime I added the dozen to my order, in the cart I found that it had doubled my gross order to 2 gross. So, I added the single dozen by asking in the comment box. I explained that I was having trouble with the cart/order area. They hit my card for the $29.90 plus tax for the single gross but there was no extra charge for the single dozen. I figured they just missed my note. Anyway, yesterday, one day later, I received my order. The package contained the gross and the single dozen with a card attached. On the back of the card Richard noted that he was not charging me for the extra dozen blades to make up for my problem with ordering. That is a "stand up" company in my estimation. I will be buying all of my Pegas blades from QTE. It's the same company that I purchased my Pegas clamps from. Their service is top-notch. I realize that I live very close to them and that is probably why I got my order overnight but if they have what you order, in stock, it will be shipped out very fast. Give them a try. Best price around. But to keep their price down, they don't split gross orders. Richard explained to me that his best price from Grobet is in gross quantities but he is working on trying to get a better deal now that Bob Duncan has come on board with Grobet. I can't be happier with this company. Qtena.com.

Kevin, that's great info but I think the biggest majority of us do it for the run and relaxation. Not a business. I recently made that round jewelry box for a gift but I posted pics of it on FB and a local friend wanted me to make one for her and asked what it would cost. I told her that I had probably 20 hours total in it and even at minimum wage of $15/hr, it would run her $300. She thought that sounded fair. I about fell off my shop stool. I never thought in a million years that anybody would actually pay me to make something and reward me for my time. Restored my faith in humanity. Sort of.

Thanks, I did just that and found that I had saved the pattern but at my age, the gray matter was keeping it from coming forward. I will have to make a couple of them. I do need to buy some BB so I can whip out these quick projects.

Single ply or two ply?

Very, very, very nice. It really is. I like it.

You realize that you keep making it harder to KEEP that AMAZING Title-- Most of us are way PAST that for you. You are going to have to change it to a DOUBLE A.K>--! Nice work.

You are correct.. and that was the point I was trying to say.. By keep having to adjust that knob at the back to release the tension you'll soon have the upper arm out of wack.. BUT also doing that changes the aggression of the cut too.. at least to an extent.. might be minimal but.. your best bet is to not touch that knob at all if possible.. Also make note of where it's positioned because some of these saws ( actually many of them ) will turn on their own over time.. Mine was so bad it turned a half turn or more just doing one small fretwork cutout.. I ended up taking it apart and using blue loc-tite on the threaded shaft.. No issues with that at all now.. Some of the saws have a line marked on the knob and some do not. Mine did not.. so I took a paint marker and made one for a reference point to be sure it's where it should be.. Piece of tape or something would work as well if you have no paint markers.. Hope you enjoy the saw for many years.. Had I had a good experience with my China made EX and had I known the Pegas was coming out last year.. I'd have bought a new Pegas instead of the Hawk.. But i am happy with my Hawk and I'm still questionable on this China made EX.. I've basically rebuilt that saw and it was running awesome for about 30-40 hours use but i feel like something is messing up again.. Believe I just need to bite the bullet and replace all the moving parts OR.. sell it and a Hawk or two and buy a Pegas.. Been really thinking about selling some of the saws and getting a Pegas I'll always keep one of the 26" Hawks for the larger projects..

Thank you, everyone. Many of you are always so encouraging, and I really appreciate it. Though making these projects from other people’s patterns is often challenging, I am trying hard to teach myself to use the Gimp program to start doing more original designs. Honestly, I think that is harder than cutting Alex Fox, or Mike Williams type patterns. My goal is to become more proficient at it this winter.

Kevin , a blade tension ? on the EX I understand using the back knob to set the upper arm parallel to the table. Even if your blade, say 2/0, which is a heavily used blade by me, is too tight and you tweak the back know to relieve the tension. As soon as you release the blade and put it back in it will will be set back to the original too tight condition. And you would have to keep tweaking the back knob eventualy putting your upper arm out of adjustment. I say that because, from what I see the blade tension is set by the distance that the tension cam travels, and that never changes. Correct me if I am wrong.

DUH, I never thought to turn it around. This is the way the Delta was mounted with the third leg pointing back, so I just duplicated it. It was real easy to reverse it, so I did, that third leg sticks out a bit further and I am not sure I like it that way. By turning it around I ended up with a bit more of a shelf under the front saw. This is why I like these forums many minds with lots of ideas. Thanks to all of you. I have never seen anyone else put their finger behind the blade to hold down the work, It is one of the many reasons I bought the Hawk instead of the Hegner. That extra space under the arm also made bottom feeding easier. Which is a non issue on the EX as the arm can be raised easily with out additional gadgets to hold it up.

terrific job

I love the Panda in the background of pic No. 5. Looks like it was a lovely show to go to.

$20 sounds about right

Great pics thanks for showing. Roly

Chuck in a toilet roll & perhaps a design on the lid £20 EACH Roly

If I were making a sign like that I would charge $25-$35 depending on the size, amount of letters, type of material, stained or natural. I always show my customer artwork before I start a project. That can take a lot of time. I like to make enough to pay for my material, buy some new tools, and maybe a bit of mad money. Good luck.......pricing is hard.

I have managed to find 4 of the photos. Thanks Travis. Marg

They look terrific Kevin, well done. Marg

Another splendid display. Very nice.

Looks like it was an awesome show to attend. I am sure you had a great time.

WOW! That looks exciting. Wish there were something like that around here. Thanks for the great pictures.

ArtCrafters is a distributor for Pegas. I purchased a scroll saw for demos, trials, and classes. As I set it up, I removed the hold down clamp just as most of us do. I noticed there is a blade clamp about 1 inch in front of the blade clamp. It made it hard for my fingers to install the blades, so I removed this blade guard. Rather easy, but I had to remove the table to get at the blade guard. Now on to scrolling.

Be careful about turning that knob at the back of the saw for adjusting blade tension... turning that messes with the blade aggression and the upper arm height.. That said.. you really shouldn't ever have the "need" to adjust that for tension.. Maybe.. and a big maybe is possibly when you use those supper small blades.. I've used 2/0 with no issues but that's about the smallest blade I've ever had or used

Thanks for the pictures. Makes sense now. I do compound cuts also with my EX21 but can’t say I ever put my fingers in that area.

I would go for the Pegas. Seyco is an excellent saw with super support but some of the design changes did not make sense to me. Removing the rack and pinon adjustment, and the removable table surface. The big plus for me on the Pegas is the clamps. Just my opinion, don't beat me up.

April 16, 2014 a ferry that sailed from Incheon to Jeju, sank Only 172 of 476 passengers survived 304 deaths and missing Among them, there were 324 students from Ansan Dango High School who were on a school trip. We lost many young students by this accident My son was two years old at that time accident on TV was an unforgettable big shock I have also conveyed the sadness of losing my family. We will have to remember And it should never happen again I didn't design puzzles after my mother died of cancer, The first puzzle was remember ferry 304 I draw and modified for 4months Puzzles started in July 2019 finished in August making video In YOUTUBE remember 304 ps: I was so sad as we lost 304 victims they was highschool students I really quited design 4years ago why I started design again is that I hope to put some feelings into my puzzle

There are a lot of people over here that would love that. My granddaughter plays cricket. Great work. Marg

I also cut Steve Goods small nativity. Had some 1/8" BBPLY scrap available. I used water color paint to brighten the nativity up. (Need painting lessons)

Plus 2 on ash. I made the little round jewelry box out of 3/4" ash and it seemed easy to cut. I used #5 mgt Pegas blades on it.

very nice work I think corner curves are good idea ,look great

what a cute cricket man in pattern my country people don't know about cricket but I have seen that when I was in australia

That is really neat. It's good to see a cutting of a sport I understand

My hats off to you and Brenda for this nicely done sign. Everyone seems to love these. Thanks for posting so we all can enjoy it Dick heppnerguy

very nice

you've been a busy little boy there, Kevin. Lots of different art forms there and lots of attention to detail.

keeping the DeWalts humming I see. The usual nice quality work coming from you. Interesting assortment Dick heppnerguy

It’s a good thing homeland security took some time away from keeping us safe so they can bust some retirees making some emblems. Let the NFL patrol on there own. You know someone in our government in charge of this got some sort of kickback or side deal from big money organization to push this. Do nothing government jobs in our useless government.