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Ask Steve a question. / Re: Corel Draw and Windows 10

« on: August 15, 2016, 03:56:01 am »

I honestly don't know. Paint is primarily a photo editing program, but it does do lettering, vectors, bezier curves, shapes, fills etc etc so I would imagine it's fine for patterns - I certainly use it for mine.

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: Corel Draw and Windows 10

« on: August 14, 2016, 04:04:26 pm »

Corel Paint Shop Pro Ultimate edition X8 cost me £34 direct from their website via Amazon.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: kNOCKING SOUND

« on: June 17, 2016, 05:24:37 am »

Any luck with this?

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: kNOCKING SOUND

« on: June 16, 2016, 11:07:40 am »

They hold the work down and protect your fingers, there's one above and one below the table (depending on your model.)

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: kNOCKING SOUND

« on: June 16, 2016, 04:26:02 am »

Have you moved either of the safety guards/work holders up/down so that they're being caught by the arms as they move? That's quite a simple error to make that I fell foul to a few times before I took them off.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Finishing Christmas Ornaments

« on: June 01, 2016, 03:38:33 am »

Thanks for the info Don.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Finishing Christmas Ornaments

« on: May 31, 2016, 11:26:26 am »

i can't find those patterns anywhere; they don't come up with searches for Christmas, Snowman, 2015, Layered, anything

I assume they're on Steve's site catalog? Can you give me a pointer please.

Cheers.

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Introduce Yourself. / Re: Newbie

« on: May 20, 2016, 06:52:17 am »

Welcome from here in the UK.

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Introduce Yourself. / Re: Hello folks

« on: May 20, 2016, 06:51:42 am »

Hi there, I'm a UK scroll sawer too.

I spent ages trying to find a decent supply of wood and in the end found a local (ish) woodyard where I wander around and pick-up odds and ends that will suit me. Some they let me have for ?1-2 whereas other pieces they charge me the full rate. It depends who serves me and how long the piece is.

I tried the other routes of asking local joiners & kitchen makers if they'd let me buy offcuts off them and not one was interested

Good luck.

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: Corel Draw and Windows 10

« on: May 17, 2016, 06:13:53 am »

I got the entire Corel X8 suite direct from Corel for ?34 (GBP) earlier this year in a sale (reduced from ?70), and that works perfectly in both Windows 7 and 10.

Keeps your eyes open for another sale?

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Brag Forum / Re: 2 part project

« on: March 30, 2016, 08:13:56 am »

That Schwibbogen is epic - it puts my home-made designs to shame, I need to up my game!

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: foot switch

« on: March 30, 2016, 07:06:00 am »

I bought a cheapo one for my Excal-16 and I love it, it's so much easier for doing all the interior cuts of fine work than the fiddly on/off button atop the machine. (My Excal doesn't have the safety cutout switch that I forget the name of.)

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Swap Shop / Re: UK Supply of SOLID wood boards, about 1 inch thick. Would people be interested?

« on: February 29, 2016, 04:03:15 am »

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but did anything come of it? I would be interested if it ever (unlikely I guess) came to fruition.

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Brag Forum / Re: Big Cat

« on: February 26, 2016, 04:09:01 am »

Bag of holes, I love it

Great work, you certainly have more patience than me, I think even the drilling alone "wood" have driven me insane.

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Brag Forum / Re: Cockerel & Hen Clock

« on: February 24, 2016, 10:30:28 am »

Thanks both