Thanks to an email about this forum from Steve, I found it. I don't know where or when I signed up for his emails but it must have been sometimes this past spring.
I am not a total newbie to scroll saws as I did some back in the late 80's and early '90s when I was overseas in Japan. It was a cheap scroll saw though! I was younger and could handle the vibration then.
I used a coping saw considerably back in the late 50s and early 60's as a kid for hobbies. This past January, I was looking at drum sanders at Grizzly in Springfield, MO (daughter lives there) and LOML asked me if I would like to do some scroll saw work. Not one to pass up an invitation for a new tool, I said yes. She bought me a DeWalt. She also bought half a dozen books for projects for me to work on.
Free tools come with a price!
I do mostly flat work, but got into pen turning in Japan because of space limitations for large tool set up and layout. I am back home now and halfway retired but still working. I had a bunch of tools (BS, TS, welder, lathe, DP, router table, sliding miter saw, thickness planer, jointer, and more in Japan, and had the
same and more here. I brought all of the tools back with me and my shop has been a storage area for tools for the past 5 years. This summer I was able to unload some on a son in law, and now I have room to move around in my shop so that I can work.
I have a fair amount of lumber of different kind and am ready to use it.
Intarsia is where I really want to get started. And LOML wants me to also, plus make toys for grandkids.
