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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Back to #1

« on: April 10, 2015, 09:51:28 pm »

Sounds like both cable and satellite have problems.  I have satellite, and I swear 3 flakes of snow can take it out.  Or some days it's too foggy, or cloudy, or raining too hard.  Then there are the times where there doesn't seem to be any reason, but it's just gone.  Makes it tough to run a business if you can't get email orders or make UPS labels!

When that happens, I just adjourn to the scroll saw and I'm back in my happy place.
Nancy

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Brag Forum / Re: Welcome by Sheila Landry

« on: April 07, 2015, 03:42:17 pm »

Hi, I'm Nancy from NW Washington.  Keith and Sheila have so many nice work art patterns, it's hard to decide which to buy.  I've made 16 of them, and my first show since adding them is coming up this weekend....we'll see how they sell.

Nice job of cutting.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Bandsaw

« on: March 28, 2015, 12:28:06 am »

I needed a saw with some muscle, so splurged and got the Grizzly 17" 5 HP saw and absolutely love it.  Some people think Grizzly tools aren't that great for quality, but I've had this one for 4 years without any problems.  It's so accurate I can even cut veneer with it.  Well worth the money.

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Introduce Yourself. / Re: New Member Jeff S.

« on: March 24, 2015, 09:11:47 pm »

Hi Jeff,

 Welcome and hope you enjoy your new hobby.  I'm Nancy from Washington state....also new to this forum, though not new to scrolling.  I have 2 of the DeWalt 788's and love them SO much.

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Introduce Yourself. / Re: New member from Washington state

« on: March 22, 2015, 05:12:55 pm »

My Dad and son Mick made the first 30,000 or so, but we got way too busy with orders, so now we contract out. Dad holds the design patent on the golf club shape.  He tried lots of other designs...fish, ski, baseball bat and more, but none ever took off like the golf club.

 I personally make the wine glass caddies. There's nothing I like better than wood shopping, but sometimes I have trouble letting some pieces go. I just finished up an order for 100 of them...all one design.  I'm now officially sick of cutting it!

 Plaques are new for me, most come from Keith Fenton at Sheila Landry Designs.  Between the 2 of them, and Sue Mey, I think they're trying to bankrupt me with all the great new patterns they design!

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Introduce Yourself. / New member from Washington state

« on: March 21, 2015, 04:33:12 pm »

 :)Hi, I'm Nancy from Blaine, Washington.  I've gotten Steve's newsletter for several years, but never joined the Forum.  I've been scrolling for about a dozen years now and do almost exclusively fretwork...ornaments, wine glass caddies, crosses, shelves and plaques.

My first 2 saws were DeWalts, and I love them except for the threads in the bottom blade holders are getting kind of sloppy.  Can't seem to find replacements or a machine shop to make them from steel. The DeWalt website has had them back ordered for months now. 

 I bought a 16" Excalibur last summer, and I like some things about it, and not others.  The painted on surface of the table is now wearing off and the wood drags on the spots of bare metal. Wax doesn't seem to help much. Also, the cheesy little plastic flip tension part has already needed to be replaced.  It is nice that the replacement parts that actually touch the blade are interchangeable with my DeWalts.

For my real job, I wholesale a wooden wine bottle holder in the shape of a golf club.  It's my Dad's invention, under the name of Duffer Bob's Wine Club, and we've sold over 250,000 of them.

My next project will be a pair of 70" wide door toppers for the exterior of my house...one over the front door, and one over the sliding glass door in the upper porch.  I made one of these for a friend and they look really nice.  It's the top of a really enlarged fretwork picture frame, and of course has to be made in several pieces.  Also made porch brackets for the front.  I love to scroll!

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General Scroll Saw Talk / DeWalt blade holders

« on: March 21, 2015, 02:24:26 pm »

Hi, I'm new to this site, so this has probably been discussed before, but I missed it.  I need help finding a machine shop that can make the blade holders from steel, but both of my local shops say they can't do it.  I know people have, and the part is small enough to send anywhere.

I tried ordering new ones from DeWalt, but they have been back-ordered since at least last August!  Can anyone help?