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Check this out. The smallest pieces of this are about 3 mm x 1 mm.

An Alex Fox Basket C21 Modified. I used 1/4" solid Walnut 8" square. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1 MGT Blades. After sanding each ring with a Mac Mop, glue one ring at a time. When complete, one coat spray Shellac, another light sanding, and one coat spray Lacquer Clear Gloss. Comments welcome.

AI is just new. I do not even have a cell phone yet. Nothing against "New". I just would rather talk to people. So @JTTHECLOCKMAN, I say state your opinion. It will not offend me. I do not know if I love or hate AI. I have not been involved with it. Probably never will. At 81, I do not think I could figure it out, just like a cell phone. I do think with Gimp, and Inkscape, other available software; Pattern making is way more difficult than it should be. But just because I can't do it does not mean I hate it or it is bad. Just means it is all way over my abilities. I have been around computers most of my life. My main job when I got out of the service was as a computer operator, way back when Computers took up rooms. They were in climate-controlled rooms, cooled by liquids and took crews to operate them. So look what has happened in my lifetime. Now, a cell phone has more computing power than those old computers. Pictures back in my day: Yes, you had to wear a coat and tie to operate a computer, even on graveshit!

I took my reply down because I do not want to start another tech war. Seems there are people that love that stuff. I am old school scrollsaw hobby. No lasers CNC or AI for me.

I try to have nothing to do with AI.

I was a computer programmer for 40 years and this stuff is way beyond me and have no desire to learn. Much rather sit at my scroll saw rather than the computer.

My new pattern and project "Gone Fishing" - Key hanger with kinetic mechanism. When you hang keys - fish appears. Project size: 4x2,5x1 inches (box only); 7x2,5x1 inches (box with fish and hook). Watch the video, it shows how it works and full assembling of the project Pattern includes step by step assembly instruction - Key hanger pattern

Good point! Pun intended. I am a top feeder.

This is the third chess set I have made using the scroll saw. Black Walnut and soft maple. Chess pieces were cut on my Hegner with Pegas #5 MGT. I went through 43 blades. It took me roughly 50-60 hours to make. Finish for board and box is shellac/alcohol, 50/50 split, applied using French polish method. Same finish was applied to chess pieces using a rag and tiny brush. A shout out to Dave Monk the master of chess sets for his input. IMG_6438.mov

I just wanted to share something that has helped me over the years. Being a bottom feeder, this works very well. Several years ago, I somehow acquired a spring-loaded nail set/punch. I have been using it for years to counter dent the holes on the bottom of a piece I am working on, so it is easier to find the hole and feed the blade into it. It actually works so well that often, I do not need to raise the piece high enough to see the hole. I can do it by feel. I have worn the punch out, so today I ordered a couple more. Here is a picture of the nail set and the nice indent it makes when used on a hole.

I haven't been doing much-making things in the shop. There is much broken stuff. I made these fluffy kittens today for a custom order. Nothing fancy, just some cutouts for her to paint. I cut them from a piece of premium pine from Home Depot.

AI absolutely frightens me but I’m old.

Grok is very good at answering technical questions about computers—it's much better than the typical search engine. However, you have to ask clear, specific questions, or you will get some strange answers. I think they are great tools, but they are far from being intelligent.

Okay, I admit it, NOBODY HAS MORE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE than me. I worked as a tech in a development lab for 28 years in BIG BLUE. There were days when I walked out of there with my head spinning from all the engineering talk, we would build the circuits that the engineers designed, and they would pull their hair out until the designs worked. Great work, but I'm so glad I'm out of it. Rick

I also know those room computers. air conditioning from the floors. Yea the mag tape. I don't think I had to wear a tie. As for AI I played with it. But I expect it to do way more than it can. I hit the free limits within 10 mins. So far it does not do what I want.

I'm with you Denny. If I can live out the rest of my days without ever having to engage with it, I'll die a happy man. But as fast as new technology worms its way into every facet of our lives, I hope I don't die that soon.

I like old stuff. I like the thought of salvaging those remnants from our past that trigger nostalgia & sentiment. I also like the idea of not wasting something that still has useful life in it. That said, I don't think our parent's generation worried too much about saving things for posterity. They used stuff until it was worn out, then repurposed it and used it for something else, until there was nothing left. If you were rescuing it from a dumpster and it had enough damage to discourage restoration and it looked cool in your shop, then I say go for it. Otherwise I think you could probably build a better, more suitable stand yourself and let some collector enjoy the sewing machine.

Dianne had one, I think it went to our daughter. I would not use it as a scroll saw table.

AI drives me crazy as it wants to do everything for me and then if I let it, it does it wrong anyway. I haven’t messed with it for designing work partly because some selling venues don’t allow you to sell artwork from AI generated art/patterns. I don’t know how to tell if an image is generated from AI from the many pattern designers I buy patterns from though so at some point I might get kicked off those selling sites anyway. One thing that bothers me is the two sided use of it. For example I can’t use it for my artwork but the same sites use it to see if the sellers are using it, . Many sites using it to help create better selling / listing pages for better search results and they encourage sellers to use it. Yet I can’t create anything using it. I’m happy and content not using it but I feel I should probably learn it as it seems to be the way of the future and someday I may need to know how it all works.

Steve Good has been experimenting with AI, check with him. He should be able to help you.

Like you I hardly never find any decent wood. Couldn't put this in the car fast enough. I am going to take the truck and go back and take a second look at the wood hubby said was water stained. Along as it's not warped I can stain over or paint. Second day everything is usually half price.

All before my time and my brain, RJ

Building a sign and lamp for my son's Tiki Bar.

The current generation, my kids and grandchildren, do not put the same value as the our generation and before did. I do not know if that is good or bad. but it is a fact. My wife is really struggling with it. She is an antique person. Our kids, not so much.

Not for me. I learned on a bottom feeding saw. When the DeWalt saw first came out, it was advertised as a top feeding saw. I so hated bottom feeding that I had to have one. I quickly learned to top feed and never went back!