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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Scroll Saw Table

« on: June 28, 2016, 05:48:36 am »

Another area to look at is the hockey puck in the center.  Unless they changed manufacturing specs it is not flush with the table top.

It needs to be flush to provide support for what you are cutting or the vibration caused by the blade moving up and down will cause the area to split/break.

Some make a new hockey puck, some glue playing cards over it to make the surface even.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Diode Lighting Of Scroll Saw Creations.

« on: June 14, 2016, 06:01:54 am »

erewhon

The step down transformer you mentioned for the bilge pumps is the same thing I was talking about in my last sentence about stepping down ac to dc for the LED.

LED lights that come from the factory already assembled and ready to plug in, have that step down transformer built in, or it is a black box on the power cord in some cases.  The DC operating voltage that the LED needs is a function of it composition.  Some work on 12vdc, others on 5vdc, to the user it is immaterial if you can plug it in and it works.

The suggestion to use Christmas lights is a good one.  The only caveat I would propose is to insure that if one bulb goes bad, the whole string does not go out.  sometimes they do that for economy sake (takes less wiring) but sometimes is a load feature where you must have all lights burning or the string would burn up (wiring gets hotter and hotter).  As a result the string can not be modified or shortened.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Diode Lighting Of Scroll Saw Creations.

« on: June 11, 2016, 06:35:04 am »

Just for semantics sake, diodes have many uses in electronics, a light emitting diode (LED) is a sub set of diodes.

Google for LED night lights and you will see various styles that you can incorporate into a project. 

LED's work on DC voltage, so any household LED light has to have a power supply that steps down and rectifies the ac supply. Building your own will be more expensive than adapting the project to accept a pre-made device like a night light

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Warning Labels

« on: May 19, 2016, 05:31:04 am »

While it doesn't apply to me in this hobby, in another business I print warning labels on a sheet of avery labels and stick them on anything I sell that could be put in a mouth - better safe than sorry is my view.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Warning Labels

« on: May 18, 2016, 06:41:40 am »

try this set of guidelines from amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200296270

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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / Re: FIlling voids with a contrasting color.

« on: May 05, 2016, 05:53:49 am »

Jim
DAP Water Putty Wood Patch  by Plastic wood

Home Depot carries it

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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / Re: FIlling voids with a contrasting color.

« on: May 04, 2016, 06:25:32 am »

I used to do faux inlay, I am not good enough to real inlay.

There is a product, comes in a container like a pint size milk carton, that is water putty for wood work.  It dries white, says you can stain it but I have not had luck with that aspect.  Sands like wood and is hard as a rock.

Just mix the powder with water to a consistency like oatmeal, and pour it in, sand it flush.

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The Coffee Shop / Re: Only In A Stupid World

« on: May 03, 2016, 06:33:07 am »

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a.replacement.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

 There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird, now they take prozac to make it normal.

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"

Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt."

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Blades

« on: April 10, 2016, 04:48:48 am »

You know what?  I'm glad I read this thread because I couldn't remember where I purchased the last set of blades I bought and it was through WTB.. The next part is I can't remember what blades I actually bought.. I do know that the last blades I used to cut through 3/4 inch oak were nice and sharp and thin. Number 2? Skip tooth perhaps? 
This is the part that drives me crazy.. I should keep a journal.
I have some 1/2 inch oak I want to use and my blades are beginning to rust and dull..
Does number 2 skip tooth sound about right?

Try sending an email to WTB, he may have your last order on file and can tell you what you ordered.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: felt ?

« on: April 08, 2016, 06:18:45 am »

Thanks to all for the suggestions

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General Scroll Saw Talk / felt ?

« on: April 07, 2016, 06:33:42 am »

So I tried my hand at a clock, pine on a cedar stand, with felt on the bottom.

Anyone got any tips on cutting felt in straight lines, and without any fuzzies??
I worked it out obviously, but there has to be an easier way.

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Introduce Yourself. / Re: newbe

« on: April 03, 2016, 05:19:58 am »

Howdy Jack, Jim from Texas here

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: sCROLL SAW DEFECTS OR MAINTENANCE ISSUES TO LOOK OUT FOR ?

« on: April 02, 2016, 06:43:52 am »

It would help if we knew what brand of scroll saw you bought.

Check the blade, it must be at a right angle to the top of the table (left to right), if it is too far off it binds the blade.

Sharp blades are a must, they are tiny and they wear out, buy some new ones.

Slowly feed the wood into the blade, watch the blade if when you are cutting it is being pushed to the back you are feeding the wood too fast/hard. 

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General Scroll Saw Talk / foot switch

« on: March 30, 2016, 06:14:10 am »

So everyone talks about a foot sw, I figure what the hey, so I order one, I order an on/off sw since that is what I saw another post talk about making.

They send me the wrong one, it is momentary on.  Nothing ventured - so I try it .... I LIKE it!  Who would have thought.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Blade angle

« on: March 27, 2016, 08:05:42 am »

Bill, thanks, what a complete site!