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"Vamp" 36,5cm x 45,5 cm, backer board 4mm, Vamp 4mm, 'cheap' DIY store ply, done with a hand held fretsaw with a #1 blade.

Well the cutting is done, now to decide about the backboard (thinking green) and the framing P.S. cut 2 at once

Wow, less than a year and I've got it done!

I spent the last few days working on computer projects, mostly trying to figure out which of my old computer collection are worth keeping or upgrading. I used the Grok AI extensively for this. It was extremely helpful. This is related to scroll saws because if it were not for my computers, I probably would not be scrolling. Now, if I could teach Grok to draw scroll saw patterns for me.

Finished! "Vamp" 36,5cm x 45,5 cm, backer board 4mm, Vamp 4mm, 'cheap' DIY store ply, done with a hand held fretsaw with a #1 blade.

This type of punch can generate up to 82,000 psi at the tip. This is because all of the force is concentrated in a tiny area. I looked it up.

I'm 73 years old, and I try to learn something new every day. I have been taking online courses for a few months and have completed these. Intro to Neuro Science Intorduction To Nutrition Intorduction to Nietzsche Brain Plasticity Why We Get Sick Evolutionary Inference (current) Intro To Psychology Basics Of Biology The Boy Crisis I read mostly nonfiction every day. I like books on history, medicine, and nutrition. It makes me sad to hear someone say they are too old to learn. Learning new things can make your brain grow.

I finished cutting this scroll saw wood-art piece yesterday. From an original painting by artist Ken Zylla.

I’ve never done one of these as all I’d seen was a few celebrities and it didn’t seem worth the effort. I found a site called Spiral Betty where you can make your own patterns with lots of adjustments you can make like, orientation of lines, number of lines, contrast, etc. It didn’t turn out exactly as I’d envisioned but I’m thinking my granddaughter will like it.

Cool pattern, great job!

I have 4 or 5, maybe 6 of these. My wife has one that was her Mom's. My Dad refinished it around 25-30 years ago,, it still works. The others, I have torn apart and made table stands out of them. I say go for it!

Thanks, @BadBob. I just read your response about learning something new every day. You just taught me something I did not know. You would think that would punch right through the wood but it does not.

awesome job

On a service call, about 1975 in Kenosha Wisconsin, I was in the basement of a local inventor, and he had 15 sewing machine bases like yours with various pieces of metal working machines mounted to them.

Wow I learned a new word today "fretsaw". I had to look it up. If a saw doesn't have a motor attached I don't use it. LOL

I use the same thing, a meatal scratch awl. Works nice on all woods no matter the thickness

Steve Good has a “Living Hinge Box”. The box walls are cut so it bends to make it a round box. I guess that’s what the design is called.

Bob, that's what wrong like the scare crow I have no brain to grow, RJ

We are two miles East of M66 and about 20 Miles North of Ionia. So that's not bad at all. We go to Charlotte a couple times a year just to check out their wood. Plus hubby doesn't mind driving my truck. LOL

X.com is where I use it. There is also a grok.com. This is Elon Musk's AI. I also use ChatGPT, Gemini, and the built-in Gramerly. Grok is by far the best. If you are on X, you can use it to analyze posts, and it also does trends. Grok is very good at writing code. I gave it a short program written in a very old version of Basic that they used in the time when computers used tape reels and everything was printed on paper because there were no monitors. I asked Grok to convert it to a bash shell script that I could run on Linux. Not only did it do the conversion, but the script worked right out of the box. I have tried this sort of thing with other AIs, but I never got code that worked. This morning, I wanted to teach it how to draw a scroll saw pattern that didn't work even after I uploaded samples.

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

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