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Thanks to “Beaver” who give me the plans for the case. Now I have to make two more for my other models.

Commissioned box from a good client. Maple and nogal.

Something new Fun project to do.

My wife got us a re-home Eclectus parrot last summer, and has been looking at different tree perches and table-top stands online. Those things are EXPENSIVE!!!! So she had showed me a small A-frame style stand, of course I said I could make one for a LOT cheaper. One trip to Lowes for a 1x12x6' piece of pine, a 3/4" dowel, and a set of paddle drillbits (my current set went up to 1/2", the two larger bits being sacrificed to the "you must lose something" house move several years back), a little bit of tinkering in Inkscape, and I think I have a passable stand. We also made one out of PVC pipe, wrapped the cross-piece in athletic tape for grip, and use it in the bathroom, but no scrolling was done on it. Stack cut the two sides so they're equal and the drill holes matched up. Scrolled the center portion, and then scrolled the outer edge. About an hour on the saw and drill press. Sanded down the ends of the dowels a tad bit, everything is pressure-fit together. Since parrots are known to nibble on their stands, this will remain raw wood. They are also very susceptible to fumes, we have to take her out of a room for a couple of hours when doing touchup painting on the walls, so staining would require a long drying time to make sure that nothing is off-gassing anymore. Rosie hopped over to it from my arm with only a little bit of coaxing (and a walnut bribe....spoiled rotten, she is), and seems to approve. She likes being near her people, so we bring her over (she's less than a year old, and previous owner had her wings clipped at some point so she's still learning how to fly....she's starting to figure out that its easier to land with her claws than just slamming belly-first into the perch and scrabbling for a foot hold. Next, steering!!!) whenever we're congregating in the kitchen.

Hi Dave. The "hockey stick" on a blade is usually an indication of the thumb screw with swivel where the swivel is not working. Check the swivel and make sure it works. The thumb screw with swivel is replaceable. You should have received one with the new Pegas Scroll Saw.

I "read" the instructions, but my eyes seem to skip the most important step the first time through. Not just sawing, but many other projects as well.

I have always been a top feeder. I site the hole on the table and place the wood over the hole. Works most of the time, but when it doesn’t, finger under the table.

Thanks for the reminder. Been busy doing Easter projects and forgot all about St. Patrick's Day. Here are a couple of patterns that may be useful. Funny how there are so many variations as to what folks believe Leprechauns to be like. By the way, the second pattern is titled "Who ate my Lucky Charms?" Be well all.

Typical male......

I really enjoy being able to use my saw outside, just want to show pictures of my busy saw. Also I needed a small drill press because I used forstner bits to make miniature bird houses and they do not work with a cordless drill. I found that small drill press on Amazon and I really like it, great gift to me. LOL

Not sure about other places, but in the US, we celebrate St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) to celebrate our Irish heritage. It's mostly an excuse to drink green beer and eat boiled meats. I thought it might be fun to do a scroll saw challenge around "The Luck Of The Irish." This one is pretty open to interpretation. You can do a St. Paddies day theme, something Irish or Celtic themed, luck, green, etc. It'll be fun to see what you come up with.

Hi my name is Jack, Jack Jay Jones to be exact. I have been scrolling and wood working for many years and came upon this forum recently. Everything I’ve read here is very informative and you all sound like a very helpful group. So I’d like to thank Travis for building this platform and allowing me to join. Cheers

After reading Jaun's question about available magazines relating to scrolling, it made me think. I used to subscribe to "Scroll Saw, Woodworking and Crafts, but I found it became a bit same same. However that is not what this is about. I would deliberately not read the instructions attached to a pattern or project until I had thought through how I would make the item. Then when reading the article there would be "I never thought of that!" or "Nah, that's a much too complicated process to achieve that" etc. Just little mind games I would play.

Hello everybody, Spring is almost here for a few days, it gave me an idea (I found it on web) I added something I like. see you soon Eric

One is 1/4” 9” X 11” MDF core cherry plywood in an Oak 14 X17” frame. The second is 1/8”, 8 x 11” Baltic birch plywood in a 14 X 17 frame I painted black.

Seams to be working fine. I did replace it.

Check the screw adjustments, it sounds like the screw is not even with the brackets where your blades slide in, therefore you are bending the blade in the screw hole when you tighten the blade.

Pattern by Bruce Worthington

That is really cute! I like it!

Nice work!

Instructions are for patterns? I thought that paper was to start the fire to burn the scraps.

I was a bottom feeder with my fixed arm dremal it was easy to switch to top feeding once I got a saw with raised arm capabilities. just took time , practice and patience.

very nice, beautiful bird

I can understand the need for copy right regulations and I respect a scroll saw pattern maker not wanting me to resell their pattern as my own but restricting someone to reuse an old calendar picture is stupid copy-rite legislation.

I've been close to the art publishing business world for close to 30 yrs. The state we're in is chaos. There is no rhyme or reason to any of it and no consistent rules. One business I worked for ended up shutting down over copyright issues (the business would buy books, "the art of xxxx" then cut the art out, use clever matting to enhance the art, and then sell a finished product. The publisher of the books send numerous letters insisting that the business stop. They finally did stop and the drop in sales killed the business) About two years ago one of my coworkers (also a photographer) was working on some new images of his to add to the businesses lineup. While researching his photo's he came across a copyrights notice from the park where he took the photos, no commercial use of images taken in the park. So he shut down the project. Be aware the phases are copyrighted or trademarked as well, so be careful with your word art pieces. Some copyright free sources: https://www.si.edu/openaccess https://buffer.com/library/free-images/

I don't know about the US, but here, once you purchase something it is yours to with as you wish. The only caveat is you can not make copies for distribution. The one you purchased you can burn, cut it up, sell it at 100 times what you paid for it or even make puzzles. I use calendars for most of my picture puzzles as they are usually printed on good quality paper and if you get them after the year they are intended for they are almost given away. I have also used some plates from nursery rhyme books etc.

I have tried top feeding using a blunt pin with a wood bead on one end. I put this in the hole I am going to cut, then slide the piece around till the pin falls into the table hole. The bead stops it from falling through. This got the hole lined up, but I have trouble controlling the arm of my DeWalt from suddenly going down fast. This always ended up bending the blade, so I gave up on it and went back to bottom feeding. Should work all right if you can control the descent of the upper arm. If you try this, let us know how it works for you. Tom

A lot of photos can be found on wikicommons in wikipedia. These are all public domain. Ton

On my Pegas I like top feeding the best. I have the top of my table scratched up a bit around the hole from moving my work around to find the hole. After I line up the first hole the next one is pretty easy. The only real problem I have is that the bottom of the blade ends up like a hockey stick so I end up bottom feeding. If any of you can suggest a fix for this please speak up.

Kevin, my understanding is that if you buy the picture (e.g. calendar) you can use the picture for anything you want. If you want to make a puzzle out of it to sell that’s your prerogative. The only thing you can’t do is make copies of it and then sell the copies. One word of advice. If you use calendar pictures, make sure the paper they’re printed on is heavy enough. If it’s too thin you will see whatever is on the reverse side bleed through when you glue it down.

Sometimes it lines up, sometimes there is enough open cuts near to see, sometimes I put my other hand under the table and sometimes that works, sometimes I put my other hand under the work so I can touch the blade and the hole. Mostly, nothing is perfect.

A friend, furniture maker and source of nice scraps of wood, requested a small Christian cross. I did this one, using some of the wood he gave me. The wood is Acacia from his family ranch in central Texas. I resawed it to 1/4" thickness and is about 8" tall. The first picture shows the 3 parts separate and the second picture shows the 3 parts assembled. For those who are religious, it has the symbology of the holy trinity.

Great idea @FrankEV! I gave it a try using acacia and red oak and here is the very preliminary result, still a good bit of sanding and finishing work to go.

Google public domain photos.

From what I remembered, if you purchased the images (calendar or cards) you can use them as you please. You market them as your photos but you can make puzzles and sell them. I'm no lawyer, but just passing on what I read. Others can chime in.

I'm not sure what type of images you are looking for, but in the past I would collect calendars that have nice pictures, mostly landscape, and use them for puzzles. Even Christmas cards were good sellers as puzzles. I remember from a puzzle site years ago that Carter Johnson was a member of and most members used these types of sources for puzzles.

Hey strangers, long time no see... I hope everyone is doing well. Busy times as always for me with the day job and two side businesses. Winter has been stockpiling season. I cut about 250 puzzles to bulk up to around 500 on hand, and now working on key/leash racks. 44 of them stacked in the photo below. I'll store them as they are and then I'll finish them and add hooks as I need them. Hope to cut another 100 or so before my first event of the year coming up in mid-April. What's new and exciting?

Pattern by Mike Williams Coloring done with water color crayons

Cut in live edge air dried red oak with a pine backer. About 9 x 9.

I kind of do the same thing John! Sorry Marg!

Been a few since I've done any Celtic knotwork, but here's a couple from not too long ago.

IMPRESSIONS & COMMENTS AFTER 8 HOURS SAWING: I now have the saw fully set up with dust collect and rear slightly elevated. Here is a photo: I do need to do something about all the wires but, other than that, this is where the saw and it's paraphernalia will be. The points below are in no particular order, they will be just as I think of them. 1) I've spent 6 hours working on a real project (the one that you see on the table) and another 2 hours testing out things such as really thick wood and sawing with the arm tilted. 2) I like the dust collection. I thought that the noise of the Festool vacuum would bother me but, at least so far, it doesn't. 3) Notice that the two rear legs of the stand are sitting on a 2x6. Like many others I know, I like to saw with the saw's table slanted slightly towards the front. I had thought that the adjustable bolts at the bottom of the legs would provide enough slant for me, but they do not. 4) I really really like the arm that stays up when one pushes it up. It was very tedious to have to jam something (usually a paint can) under the arm of my EX-30 in order to keep it up. 5) I mentioned in my first report that I find the hard stops at certain angles to be cumbersome. I found another manufacture's saw that has the same tilting mechanism at a nearby store and that one is just bad. Oh well, not everything about the Pegas can be perfect. 6) The blower is excellent! I did install a similar blower on my EX-30, but this one is better. 7) The clamps, of course, are excellent. One of the reasons that I purchased a Pegas was the quality of the after-market Pegas clamps that I installed on my EX-30 some time ago. 8 ) What did surprise me was that the clamps are much further apart than they are on my (about 20 years old) EX-30. I measure the separation as about 89 millimetres on the Excalibur and about 114 millimetres on the Pegas. That's a difference of 25 millimetres (or about an inch). All of that and a little more is above the table and that allows me to work with thicker wood. 9) I find that since I can clamp the blades much closer to the end, blade installation is much easier and more reliable. This also means that I am much let likely to break delicate blades. So far, on my real project, I am breaking the, very delicate, 2/0 spiral blades at about half the rate that I have come to expect on my EX-30. If this continues to be the case, the saving in the cost of blades alone will pay for my new saw. 10) I can saw at a slower speed on the Pegas. I have already found this to be advantage when doing some very tricky sawing. 11) The table on my Pegas is slightly bigger and I like that.

I thank everyone for who liked my post and those who posted their congratulations and good wishes. I now have the foot-pedal and the lighted magnifying lens. I am still trying to find a reducing connector between my Festool vacuum and the dust port. With most of my set-up complete, it was time to start sawing. Here is a photo of the very first cut on this machine: The project that I am sawing is appropriate because the two people in that photo (myself and my grandson Ethan) are the only two people that ever used my old EX-30 scroll-saw. My preliminary report based on only one short cut is that the saw is quiet, solid, steady, and accurate. I realized too late that the blade I used was not a Pegas. It was a Flying Dutchman #1 Spiral with Flat Ends. Oh well, I do plan to be using Pegas #0 and #2/0 blades for the majority of the sawing on this piece.

According to Facebook Messenger Alex Fox was last online at 11:00 AM EST today. I take that as a good sign.

I made this for my wife for valentines day a few years ago. It's a band saw box cut solely on my scroll saw.