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My version of Steve’s Santa truck. My wife has really gotten into the Christmas truck thing. She has all kinds from paintings to scale models to pillows and on and on. When I saw this pattern, I had to cut it and she loves it! Cut from 1/2” Maple with a 1/4” backer painted red. The base is 3/4” Maple.

A friend asked me to make a 51 ford f1 .This is a Steve Good pattern...made it with 3/4 inch pine

Making rectangular boxes, so ...

Each year we do an item for Christmas diner place setting. (19 coming for dinner this year) This year is an Elf on a Shelf. Modified Sue Mey pattern. Feet my design. Before you ask the shelf was a last minute design change as they are top heavy and would not sit up.

Well I love my new saw so much I hang out in the garage a bit more. The ornament is by hans holz. it is for my granddaughter. The other is for a co worker and it is the shape of Guam. And her granddaughter name and birthday. I thought that was pretty neat. Well that is all for today will how much I get done tomorrow. Thanks for looking

So after seeing the state of MI that @Nickel Falls did in this thread I went to his reference at scrolleronline.com I was all set to buy the Texas pattern, but it did not trip my trigger at all, so I fired up inkscape

I apologize I don't know the pattern designer, my wife found the pattern online. She plans on doing the finish

I recently posted a project of a Baby Elephant Puzzle by Judy Peterson and received nice compliments. Several people commented on the puzzle tray that I had made. I have made a lot of her puzzles for my Grandkids and make these puzzle trays for each of them. It makes it much better to keep things picked up and not lose any pieces. I decided to put together some pictures showing how I make the trays. They are made from a piece of ½” and ¼” plywood. I make an outline of the puzzle as a pattern and cut it out on the ½” plywood. I typically sand the cut out on the ½’ piece using a sanding mop. The ½” and ¼” piece are glued together, the assembly is recut to have clean edges and edges sanded or routed to have a nice round over. I like to mark these on the back with my name and a year. I have used a varied of methods but recently bought a very cheap laser engraver. Now, I take 1” diameter plywood disks and engrave my name and year on to them. I drill a 1" shallow hole and push the disk into them. I finish the trays normally with shellac. I put the first coat on with a 1” foam brush which lets me get into the smaller areas. I will sand lightly after that and then use 2 coats of spray can shellac.

So this lady wanted something for her husband for Christmas.....she just said "make it about the Detroit Tigers......" I came up with this......she was ecstatic.

I finally finished the Renaissance Keepsake Box from the Creating Wooden Boxes book. I had actually done this box a few years ago when I still had my old Craftsman Scroll saw. That had taken me a month and I used Padauk wood. Bottom feeding with this fine pattern and using hex nuts to tighten the blades was a pain. Love my EX. I found some nice 1/4" board Bubinga at the Klingspor expo last month and wanted to use a wood that didn't darken like the Padauk. I really like the deep color and luster of the Bubinga. It was a lot easier top feeding with my EX-16 but it still took a while to cut over 600 holes and broke a whole lot of .02 blades. One of the included pictures is the darker Padauk box.

Made this for my Grandson who plays goal for the Don Mills Flyers.

I took my Christmas trees to the craft show and my pictures. I sold out of the trees the first half hour. I took 10 thinking if they don’t sell they make great gifts haha. I sold 15 pictures. I was surprised. I wasn’t going to take anything, my hubby sells pens so I go along to help him but he encouraged me to take my stuff. He says I’m better then I think. I made $400. .

Bill I think it is the material its made from, the ex clamps are cast aluminum and the jaws can stretch apart pretty easily over time, pegas is machined aluminum, I forget the type of aluminum, but far sturdier than cast aluminum

Look again Bill,,,, they are a beautiful red!! Check out Denny's monthly special...

Gary, I did it on my EX21. Yes, it is highly recommended. Right now, Grobet has a November special on them.

I did on both of my EX and I have been extremely satisfied with the Pegas clamps, lot’s betters than the old EX clamps.

Wow dgman that rig looks great!

I just got my copy of Judy’s pattern book today. Will be using your idea of the trays for the puzzles. Some very nice an easy projects. PS: would you mind telling about your engraver? How easy to use, cost, buy it were? Thanks

Where did you find those cute yellow funnels? Your photos are very interesting. I think your using larger diameter hoses and nozzles makes sense.

Interesting as my Dremel will work with as small as #80 drill bits.

As has been mentioned on the forum a few times, it may depend more on what saw you are using. The more aggressive a saw cuts, you may want to use a less aggressive blade. I have an EX-21 and I'd probably use an FD-UR #1 for up to a 3 layer stack of 1/8" thick BB ply. Those bridges in the letters look pretty small, so that's is why I would tend to go with a smaller blade, for more control. Otherwise, I'd probably use an Olson #3 Mach blade.

Got a few more things done, winter scene from the magazine, Kleenex boxes from Sue Mey, one in red oak and one in white oak, Whitehorse scene from Canadian Magazine, Crying angel fro this site, basket from Alexfox . Enjoy. Still more to come.

I have a Bosch 1617EVS mounted in a cabinet that I made from castoff kitchen cabinet. I've had it a long time, has served me very will. It has the Incra router plate with the magnetic inserts. The top is hinged and I have to raise it to adjust the router height. Lately I have used this set up more as I make picture frames so now I am wanting a router lift. Haven't decided whether to build one I have the plans for or buy the JessEm one. Years ago, I helped a friend build this little bench top one. It was the second project we did together after he asked me to teach him some about wood working. The first thing we built was a folding workbench. This little router table work well for him for many years. By the way, it was only a couple years after he ask me to help him, he had a bigger, better workshop than I will ever have. There was no stopping him. https://www.woodstore.net/Benchtop-Router-Table-p/gr-00151.htm?Click=46506

They are the best. If all of the suppliers were as diligent as QTE is, we'd be in tall cotton.

Very nice work.

Neat truck. Lots of work. I am old enough to have driven them. The 4 speeds-(ones-most were 3 on tree) had to be double clutched to shift well!

Beautiful, and I expect heavy based on the thickness of the back piece. What wood is the back piece?

Simplified mechanism, no nylon screw to wear out. Just a better design and much more compact. JMHO.

Your question has been talked about quite a bit here Gary. But, the long and short of it is, most of us who have changed over to the Pegas clamps have sung the accolades. A couple of folks have had negative experiences but not enough to say "don't buy them". I put them on my EX21 and what little bit of vibration I had, went away. And they are far superior to the factory clamping/tensioning mechanism. I bought mine from QTE.com in So. Cal.

nice cutting

Very nicely done!

Just amazing and beautiful work!!!

very nice job

I love this, I might have to add it to my list of things to do. Great job on it!

A Most Excellent job!!!

I printed that a little bit ago myself. I didn't care for the red backer on Steve's site. But now that I have seen yours, the red looks good. I plan on using Maple for the truck like you did but will probably also cut one out of Walnut. Very nice nice cutting by the way!

They are terrific. Great work. Marg

Very well done Brent.

Nice pattern, nice cutting and nice mounting too!

I love the big cats. Yours is a beautiful one!

Nice setup Dan. Thanks for the pics.

Great job,and if she is a hobby painter,make her some more stuff...you will be the dynamic duo

Thank you for the interesting photos. The laser inlay is clever.

Lovely tree

Getting back to the original question for a moment regarding VAC noise. Using a Radio Shack DB meter I measured the noise from my Festool MIDI VAC running at low speed while extracting the dust from my SS. It runs at about 66 Peak. Not too bad. I will measure my shop VAC just for giggles.

This is a 230VAC motor, but it is a 3 stage and a universal type motor. I'm not sure the shipping charges from this shop, but its not a horrible price. https://www.surpluscenter.com/Air-Pneumatics/Air-Compressors-Vacuum-Pumps/Vacuum-Motors/230-Volt-AC-Ametek-3-Stage-Vacuum-Blower-16-1552.axd

Awesomeness!!! One can gt a LOT of supplies for $400 and a trip to Lowes....:)

very nice work, congratulations on the show

Holy Moly, that thing is expensive! Just like any tool, if you can afford it than go for it, but not for me. I have a full size dust Collector that I have connected to my saw as well as all my other tools. It cost less than half of that thing!

I purchased several glue sticks and none of them worked for me. I wanted to use them for real small patterns but it was no go. Do you have a garage that you could use spray adhesive in? I use it in my garage and even in the coldest weather the garage is warmer.