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Pattern Requests. / Re: Do you think I can do it?

« on: December 22, 2011, 01:18:07 pm »

I was pleased with the frame, but wish I had left more room around edge of picture so it couls be cut at a 3deg angle and picture set back in a little, I think that would have set it off a little better. I'll try that when I attempt the other pattern that was done for me. Thanks everybody for all your help.
I had to cut it using a plain end reverse tooth blade as I'm still waiting for my blades from Mikes workshop, but I think thats more to do with Christmas Post delays than anything else.

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Pattern Requests. / Re: Do you think I can do it?

« on: December 22, 2011, 12:02:29 pm »

Just thought I would show you all how the pattern turned out. THANK YOU again Paul for the beautiful pattern. And a thank you too to Joleet (Ron) for the second Pattern, I will be attempting that one in the new year. I hope I did your pattern justice, but I think dad will love it.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: ex21

« on: December 22, 2011, 08:59:28 am »

No problem Sheila, I thought Clive should know that the back up service from Axminster cannot be faulted, there was no discussion about trying to fix it, just "we'll replace it with a new one"  Now thats what I call service and it is sooooo unusual for a company over here in the UK to do that.

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Brag Forum / Re: Memory book for my S.O.

« on: December 22, 2011, 08:53:20 am »

Another excellent piece of work from GB.

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Brag Forum / Re: Winter Cabin

« on: December 22, 2011, 08:52:06 am »

Thats a beautiful piece of work, with a hell of a lot of cuts to make too... When I improve a bit I'd like to attempt something like that. I'll have to look up the pattern sometime.

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Brag Forum / Re: Simple present for a friend....

« on: December 22, 2011, 08:48:31 am »

simple but nice, if you do things like that for friends, Can I be your friend??? 

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Pattern Requests. / Re: Transit Patch

« on: December 22, 2011, 08:46:46 am »

nice pattern, but the string on the bow looks very thin to me, I would have difficulty in cutting it that thin, but then I'm still a beginner

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: ex21

« on: December 22, 2011, 08:38:44 am »

A couple of weeks agi I purchased an EX16 from Axminster power tools, they are the genuine Excalibur machine, Axminster came to an arrangement with the manufacturers to have them in white as it's Axminsters "livery" and all their stuff comes in white.I found the machine to be absolutely fantastic to use till 3 days ago, I switched on at about 1/4 speed as I was doing some fine cuts and didn't want to go too fast, the machine gave a couple of really loud knocks before running smoothly. when I went to 3/4 speed for the next cut it was vibrating like mad and shook the whole table, now anything over 1/2 speed and it vibrates badly. I have just phoned Axminster who asked me to check a couple of things on the machine and when I said they were ok they told me they would replace the complete machine as it's only a couple of weeks old and shouldn't vibrate like that. Also the paint is wearing off where the top arm lifts and it rubs (which they also said shouldn't happen) I don't know what the service is like in the U.S. but over here they don't normally change things like that, it usually would go away for repair and we'd end up with a new machine thats been repaired. So plenty of extra brownie points for Axminster Power Tools. I hope it hasn't put you off the Excalibur machines as when it worked it was a really fantastic machine to use.

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Brag Forum / Re: Welcome Sign

« on: December 21, 2011, 03:25:13 pm »

Well I like the pattern, am looking forward to seeing the finished sign.

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The Coffee Shop / as promised "Technical Support - Male"

« on: December 21, 2011, 01:27:28 pm »

Dear Technical Support,

18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from DrinkingMates 4.2,
which I had used for years without any trouble. However, there are
apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.

To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several
other applications, such as LadsNightOut 3.1, Football 4.5, and
Playboy6.9. Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better.

I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and
left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for
several weeks. Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0
at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems
detected each other they caused severe damage to my hardware.

I eventually upgraded to Fianc?e 1.0, only to discover that this
product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0
tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled
with FreeSxPlus and Cleanhouse2010.

Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be
very unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were
automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail filter, and can, without warning, launch TurboStrop and Multi-Whinge. These latter products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what the problem is.

Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly,
requiring ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle
Express which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Saab 93 Convertible hard drive, it often crashes.

Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called MotherInLaw,
which can't be turned off.

Recently I've been tempted to install Mistress 2010, but there
could be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife
1.0 detects Mistress 2010, it tends to delete all of your Money before
uninstalling itself !!

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Brag Forum / Re: My Youngest Son's Portriat

« on: December 21, 2011, 01:16:21 pm »

very nice work, I'm sure he'll like it

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Pattern Requests. / Re: My New Grandson

« on: December 21, 2011, 07:57:11 am »

WOW, sometime I'll have to get you to teach me how to make patterns like those.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: I'm a Little POed

« on: December 20, 2011, 04:40:32 pm »

Looks like I'm too late lol

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The Coffee Shop / Re: Happy Oges!

« on: December 20, 2011, 04:39:05 pm »

Happy Birthday Oges

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The Coffee Shop / Christmas Turkey Recipe

« on: December 20, 2011, 03:55:24 pm »

NEW TURKEY RECIPE

Your dinner will be the talk of the TOWN!!
You should try this!
Sure to bring smiles from your guests!
Here is a new way to prepare your Christmas Turkey.

1. Cut out aluminium foil in desired shapes.

2. Arrange the turkey in the roasting pan, position the foil carefully.  (see attached picture for details)

3. Roast according to your own recipe and serve.

4. Watch your guests' faces...

Picture Below

May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey be plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your sprouts be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Christmas dinner
Stay off your thighs!

Happy Christmas