Variety is the spice....

[Brucio]

It just shows how diverse we are in the "woodworking" community.
In this forum we talk about 1/8", 3/16", 1/4" plywood, MDF or ordinary wood. Sometimes a little bit thicker, up to 1" perhaps, like it's about as thick as we'll ever use.
And there's a chap on the general woodwork talking about thinking of buying a four foot diameter tree!
I'd like to see the scrollsaw that could handle that.... :shock:
Bruce

 

[Gill]

:lol:

I don't think I could even fit such a scroll saw in my workshop! It was bad enough trying to cut a 3' diameter piece of board on a scroll saw - I had to use support rollers and physically run round the workshop as I tried to manipulate it. Even worse, I couldn't see if the blade was actually following the pattern. It's difficult to distinguish a fine scroll saw blade from the pattern line when you're stood several feet away and wrestling with the board .

Gill

 

[Woodmagnet]

Now that's a sight i'd like to see, our Gill wrestling. :shock: :lol:

 

[StevieB]

don't think I could even fit such a scroll saw in my workshop!

How about if you put outside the workshop all the other scrollsaws apart from the one you were cutting with? :twisted:

Steve

 

[Gill]

Now that's a sight i'd like to see, our Gill wrestling. :shock: :lol:

Visit the Bromsgrove Dance School on a Tuesday evening. Our instructor doesn't call it 'wrestling', though - he calls it 'salsa'. Our jive is conducted according to the Marquess of Queensberry's rules and our samba has more than a passing similarity to the haka. Don't ask about our ballroom - that's not so much unarmed combat as nuclear warfare.

How about if you put outside the workshop all the other scrollsaws apart from the one you were cutting with?

Ouch!

Actually, I already have . It's still a devil trying to swing boards around a 3' radius, though. Of course, you need to add on an extra couple of feet just so that you can fit into the workshop at the same time. At one point, I had to physically duck beneath the boards and scroll blind, guessing how to feed the board correctly. Fortunately, my luck was in that day.

Gill

 

[Woodmagnet]

:lol: Nice description Gill. :lol: