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A co-worker asked if I could make her Family's Coat of Arms. I put out a request for a pattern here and got two very nice designs. A big thanks goes out to Dutchscroller and Birchbark! I let the co-worker pick the design of her choice. This is the first scroll saw piece that I have made in the last 6 months except for a couple small Christmas ornaments, I have been spending my time making pens on my lathe. Here is the pattern and the finished piece. I used the pattern made by Birchbark, thanks Russell! I used 1/4" BB for the top piece and 1/2" BB for the backer. I used vinyl for the colors. Started off using my go to blade, Olsen #2 reverse then switched to a Flying Dutchman similar size just for the heck of it. I will take it to work today, hope she likes it!

I have been in my shop some of the time since I returned to Arizona from Oregon.. I made a name plaque for my granddaughter from a Sam Custodio pattern but I forgot to take a photo of it before I gave it to her and this little rose plaque from a Judy Gail Roberts pattern, I have had for sometime. I am currently working on another intarsia pattern that I will post when I get it finished. The outside temperature today is 108 degrees, beats the tornado on the Eastern side of the U.S.A. and all the fire and smoke on all the western states, right now. Dick heppnerguy

Thanks to Travis for making the pattern for this wall sign. The back story on the walnut is ** About 40 years ago my uncle took down his barn. Best he was told the barn was built around 1860. He was a woodworker an planed down a piece of rough saw board. Story short most of the inside boards was walnut. He sold a lot of them, made a lot of things an gave me a bunch. So I would guess the wood is around 300 years old. The grain is different than most you get now. Back when the barn was built they used what ever was on the farm.

My 11X14 pattern. Top layer 5/32" Maple solid core ply over a high gloss black painted backer. All cutting was done using a Pegas #0 MGT blade. The panel was finished with mutiple coats of high gloss lacquar. The Font is from dafont.com called Hard Sports and was very scrolable requiring NO bridges, and it lent itself to the subject nicely. I found the free bike/riider figure on line. I cusom made the frame. I cut down a 2 1/2" wide Poplar board to 1 3/4". After gluing up the miters I distressed the wood with various bits for my Dremel tool and then finished it with a combination of Expresso and Weathered oak stain followed by multiple coats of satin lacquar. Hobby Looby sells an almost identacle frame for over $30. This one cost me about $6, the price of a 6' long piece of a nominal Poplar 1 x 3 from Lowes with the understanding that everything else I needED I already had.. This project is what I would call a "half fun cut". The font cutting was time consuming and tedious but oveall enjoyable and satisfying...but not much fun. Lots of eye strain. The Bike/Rider image was an easy and quick cutting... fun to see come together. This project will probably wind up hanging in some bikers man cave. I was thinking this same quote, slightly modified to read "WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU A CURVE...STAY ON THE LINE" with a scroller image might make a good project.

Been busy cutting hoping some shows get started back up and getting a few new things besides the puzzles. The crosses took off quick posted on Facebook and sold 10 just from friends who saw it. Dark one is walnut and the other is cherry finished with Danish Oi The sea turtle is one laying around that we used to test out the photo booth. Clocks are from scrap pieces of pine. Also bought a photo booth and very happy with the results in these photos.

A customer in NY purchased the Pegas Scroll Saw Large Table from me and installed it on his EX21. The initial comments were slick surface so less drag and no vacuum holes.

This is a Wooden Teddy Bear pattern cut out of 1/4" solid core ply using a Pegas #1 MGT and a #1 Pegas spiral blade for the leaves. The Rose is painted with craft acylic paints. The backer is an 8x10 piece of 1/8" thk BB Ply stained with a clear stain. After the painted rose was glued to the backer the panel was finished with multiple coats of clear gloss lacquar. The panel is loose fit into a store bought frame and uses the cardboard backer with table stand that comes with the frame to hold the panel into the frame. It can, therefore, be a wall hanging or table displayed. This was a quick "fun cut" taking less than 2 hours. Painting and finishing was much more time consuming that the scroll work.

I do take pride in my work! I took that picture this AM in a hurry because it was going to be picked up soon. I had forgot I had a better picture taken yesterday. Hope it is better

The receipt had it and she wore white nails. Won,t she be surprised!!!

Made these as a gift for my mum and dad,both Steve good patterns. I had some oak worktop left over from my kitchen so used it up. first attempt at a clock i think it turned out ok, Also added a stand to the Mother rose as it was quite fragile. Finished with danish oil and 3 coats of clear varnish.

Well I've created a monster. The wife is now scrolling and I hardly get anytime on my saw. She wanted to create a Halloween theme for her office and so, well I found patterns and she started cutting. Then she asked for more and started cutting. The she asked for puzzles and started cutting. And now, basically I'm on the computer and she's cutting! LOL Anyway, I did manage to get a few new of my own cuts in, here is a new dragon (drying) and a new Angel (both new to me) . \ Here also are the wifes new cuts. Halloween cuts, and a few puzzles she did. The cat and fish did not color very well, but I think she did a great job anyway. Thanks as always in advance for reading

Great projects. I agree with Melanie your household clearly needs two scroll saws.

She’s doing a great job. Kudos to her. I think you better start looking for that second saw.

I have a vac. hooked on my x21 and it really helps keep down the dust. I am well satified with this set up , the vac is a little noisy but I got useto it. IKE

Bob Brokaw on gwinette woodworkers has all the videos to do your bearings. He is the Ray Seymore of dewalt

It's not difficult to take those saws apart. It sounds to me like something has come loose more so than a bearing going bad. A couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon and you will have it apart and more than likely have found your problem. Once you understand how it all works, you'll be able to do it much faster. Watch the video series on Youtube done by Bob Brokaw on a Dewalt. Not that much different.

Some how in the move I lost my DeWalt plastic funnel for the planner . Would have been nice to use it cause it sure makes the wood fly.

Don,t you just hate it!!! Our eeonly love, our scroll saw.when I wear one out it,s bye bye and up grade everytime.new is always nice!!!

Kevin, it is not only longer, but also wider. About the same size as the Seyco. I didn't like the vacuum on the EX21 and now the Pegas, so I took off the plastic even before starting up the saw. The finish on my EX21 was well worn even after a year. I have had the Pegas for just over a year and very little wear.

Strange bird. Like a little penguin but can fly. For my younger daughter. Pattern by Florian Manke.

3/5" oak finished at a big 6" long dog bones- Michelle is the lady with a warehouse here done in marine plywood 3/8"I just met yesterday and the other Michelle is the UPS lady in cedar.no time to start the last 2 so tomorrow we will see. All projects were cut with Denny,s MGT blade#5R.very sharp blades!!! This is one of those days where things happen for no reason.i printed out sassy but cut two luna??? So I fixed it! I

These were fancy chair and I had to salvage they but now stumbling offer them months not knowing what to use them for any items??? All are clear.

My EX-16 cutting deck was getting tired looking and the vacuum holes were a pain. Several previous postings have suggested using a magnet sheet as an upgrade. My wife found a 5' x 24" sheet on Amazon for $26. For that price, why not. I took off the original deck and traced it out on the magnet sheet and cut it out with a utility knife and cut out the hole for the saw blade and laid it on the original deck. Waxed it up and it works like a champ! If it wears out, I have enough for plenty of replacements!

Really pretty Frank. Good job on making this.

Well, that tells you that when you "load" the mechanism, it is removing the "slack" from all the parts and transferring it to some other parts. I'd seriously look at adjusting the tension rod and relieving the area under the tension adjuster cover so that the rod cannot contact the cover. Once that is eliminated, if you still have the noise, then you will know that's not it. But, it's a fairly common and known condition that is very easily fixed. Also, spending a few dollars on the Pegas blade clamps will take the sloppiness out of the area that is now very loose. When I first heard the knocking noise on my used Dewalt, that's when I decided to dig into it. When I got it apart, I found a very loose bolt back toward the motor on the main drive link. Someone had installed the wrong bolt. I replaced it with the right one and installed it the correct direction. While I was in there, I took it all apart from the rear to the front and cleaned and greased every bearing with the Valvoline synthetic grease. That in itself will go a long way toward removing unwanted sounds. I inspected all of the sleeves and found none that required replacing but I could see where there were many that were dry and would have failed. Do yourself a favor and either do it yourself or have a more mechanically inclined friend help you with it. Your saw will outlive you if you do.

I too find that painting or staining doubles the work . Looks real good Frank!!!

That,s so cool the two of you share a common interest, you on the computer and her on the saw,lol

Nice work Frank. I haven’t seen that pattern before.

After reading and thinking back on my Dewalt, there was a problem with the tension rod that after a while would start a knocking noise. And the fix was fairly easy. It did require a bit of work and some filing but nothing to serious. Go over to Rick's Scrollsaw, Scrollsaws.com, and read on there about the Dewalt tension rod adjustment and the filing away of the underside of the tension rod cover where you make your tension adjustment. You might get away with just a turn or two on the rod to take up some of the slack in it. Very easy fix.

Even with the labels I still use the Shelf liner... Though if your work isn't too fragile you can use a heat gun to loosen it off the wood directly.. but if the wood is not super smooth I've had cases of the labels not sticking real well.. the labels I use aren't super glue sticky like the spray glues are.. but they are way less messy in my opinion.. It's not real practical to use them if you just buy a few labels at a time from the store because they are pricey that way.. I buy them from the eBay link I posted earlier but he does sell smaller quantities and you can shop around to find a decent deal.. I came up with this by accident my first time.. as I use the labels to print m shipping labels and one day the printer had labels in it instead of regular paper.. been using them whenever possible ever since then, LOL.. I would buy a very small quantity first to see if you like them.. unless you have a use for them anyway..

Holy cow!!! That thing looks like an aircraft carrier!!! But then again I'm use to looking at a 16" saw, not a 21". Denny, I heard somewhere ( a while back) that Pegas made a 16" but only released the 21" for the U.S.? If so do they make an extended table for a 16" ? If I ever have "extra money" HA then I'll get a 21" saw with a big table to leave at the "home shop" and keep the 16" King for our 5th wheel travels.

great job

This may help

Seems like a nice upgrade. I always thought the front of those original tables (my Jet included) was a little on the short side. Denny - any idea if that table would fit on a Jet 22"?

Designed and cut this one today......1/4" sanded plywood

Very cool. Very nicely finished.

Beautiful wood and a beautiful piece. I love using wood where there is a history and the history is known. It makes the piece ever so much more special.

Now we wont' be able to tell the age of these saws by the wear on their tables . . . . but progress is progress LOL

The last can I bought is the 3M 45.. I just used it the first time the other day as I had a big pattern to do that wouldn't fit my full sheet shipping label size.. seemed to work good.. You are certainly correct about the 3M77.. we use that stuff in the autobody repair shops to glue molding and emblems back on cars / trucks etc.. they stay on even through those high powered car washes etc.. We also used to use the 3M-45 back in the day to stick sanding pads to the DA sanders.. Now days the disc papers come with adhesive.. I remember one of the guys in the shop ran out of 3M-45 so he used the 3M 77 for the sander.. Hahahahaha... ruined his sanding pad on his sander.. pulled the paper off and half his rubber sanding pad came with it...

I like to test my arm on anything around the saw. Makes for comfortable scrolling as I held my arms up for years and years. This wide table may do the trick.

I had one and it ran good for 2 years and then everythin happend . It vibrated a lot and made the noise as yu discribe it was still under in the warent area. so Itook it to a repair shop that was 4 month ago and the repair shop is still waiting on parts in lthe mean time I bought a new saw and it wasn't a delta. I wish you luck. IKRE

I'm catching up on this threat... 3M77 is EVIL, almost as evil as spiral blades! It's crazy sticky. I use 3M45 along with the shelf liner.

To me a fun cut is something thats extremely challenging - sometimes even something very simple is fun - depends. At the moment almost anything is fun -as long as Im on a saw !

Nice work and sure to be well loved by the recipient.

Well worth the extra effort for a worthwhile project some bikers gotta have!!! You biker know what rev,s you up,!!! Frank keep your work coming!!!

My most enjoyable or fun cuts are when I am making a project for a young child. Putting a smile on a young face is my favorite thing to do.

I generally make stuff that appeals to me, even if it ends up being given to someone else. I don't make things to sell, so most of what I make is of a pattern, style and material of my own choosing and on my own schedule. Thus they become "fun cuts" sort of by default. Building an inventory of items to sell them does not appeal to me at all. I admire those who are disciplined enough to do that. A good example of what I consider a "fun cut" is Christmas ornaments. I make dozens of them every year and have been doing it for many years. It's become part of my annual holiday tradition. Even though I am making large quantities of the same ornament, I choose the pattern and material that appeals to me. I listen to Christmas music non-stop, while in the shop. The whole effort serves to put me in the spirit of the season. Giving them away and seeing the reactions of the recipients is the pay off. While I'm glad when I'm all done with them each year, I always look forward to doing it again next year.

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