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That's a interesting idea... look forward to hearing how the transport goes.

A few years ago I did a parts list comparison for bearing and sleeve numbers via the manuals for each saw. According to the manuals I looked at they're the same thing inside as far as I could tell. I have not had my hands on a Pegas or a "real" Excalibur to take apart and actually compare them side by side. As you may remember I did buy Excalibur guts from Seyco a few years ago and installed them in my China EX-21 version and everything fit fine except the aluminum pieces that fit into the arm tubes at the front of the saw where the rocker arms connect.. The tubing size was smaller for the China saw so I couldn't use the inserts. I was able to take the rocker arm assemblies apart and install them into my china made parts so those were the same otherwise. Be interesting to see if each saw uses the same quality bearings / sleeves.. just because the sizes are listed the same doesn't mean the brand / quality is.. The China saw certainly had cheaper looser bearings in it vrs. the ones that I got from Seyco..

That worked.. I just made another one and had to resize the pins and the square cutouts had to be resized a bit too as the other day I had to sand them to get them to fit at all.. apparently the 3mm ply they designed this for is slightly different than the 3mm ply I have, LOL.. probably because my ply has been sitting since last year absorbing moisture as the grain is lifted some from what it was when I bought it. Anyway, thanks for pointing out the issue..

Okay that might make sense to me now after looking at the parts again. I was thinking that if I glue the pins that it wouldn't allow the door to move at all, LOL.. But looking it over again I think you're right. Maybe I'll go make another one and see what happens.

So bringing this back up and looking for suggestions.. I made these yesterday ( not my design, I purchased a pattern from Etsy ) with my laser. I've actually made quite a few with my laser via several laser designs I purchased from etsy. So far we like this one the best but I have a complaint about the box doors. They swing open which is really neat, however when you swing them wide open the weight of them lifts up the hinge part off the stem and the door falls off if not careful. I've been trying to think of a way to solve the issue but I have no idea so I thought I'd share the photos here and a screenshot of the assembly directions that came with the pattern.. maybe someone here has a idea as I'm at a loss of ideas for the issue. Heck, maybe I'm not assembling it right.. I used no glue whatsoever other than the center part and the two circle pieces on top of the hinge..

I've seen it in the past but I guess I didn't realize how it was done.. Do this from time to time with metal work but metal doesn't break like wood either. I've never seen anyone doing this with scroll work.. I know it'd be a pain in the behind to do but it'd give the piece that much more wow factor in my opinion if scrollers did this sort of thing.

Oh, that's not too bad of a drive.. last time I was that way M66 was a nice road to take and I'm only about 4 mile west of M66 and 42 mile south of Ionia. Let me know, I'm in no huge hurry so can wait for nicer weather or when / if you get down this way instead of making a special trip. I'd just like to have some of this stuff out of my loft..

Don't know what part of Michigan you're at but you should come get a free stack of rough cut walnut from me.. I have about 5 stacks waist high that was given to me.. If I didn't take it they were going to put in the wood burner.. I've tried putting it on FB marketplace last year for $100 per stack, and not a single person messaged.. I'm about to burn it myself.. I've been giving some of it to my future son-in-law as he toys around with woodwork stuff.. I'd like to make some space in my shop for my new laser so going to be selling off some tools and moving this walnut wood whether someone takes it or I burn it.. by mid - late summer it's going to be gone one way or another. I hate to burn it as there is lots of good stuff there.. I'm just tired of the space it's taking up and I'm not doing much working with wood anymore as I'm going into the laser dark side, LOL

So this is something I've been messing with on my laser cutter but I don't see any reason someone couldn't do this with a scroll saw.. though you'd probably need to be a pretty good with the scroll saw to make it work correctly. Look at how you can cut several lines into this 1/8" BBply and then you can bend it right around a corner. When I first run across this type of work I thought no way that really works so I had to purchase a laser file ( also comes in a printable PDF for those wondering ).. so the design could be printed and cut on a scroll saw. The designer has many different things like clutch purses etc.. I'm not sure how the designer quality of the particular person I purchased this design is as I'm having fitment issues so they are sort of working with me on a fitment flaw of their design. For clarification the design comes made for several different thickness of plywood and they designed this maybe they tested with 1/4" but the 1/8" version is off I don't know but the one I used is not correct to work right.. hopefully they'll fix the pattern and make it right with me.. But anyway back to my point of this bending right around the pretty sharp curve by just cutting several relief cuts.. I've not seen anyone doing this sort of thing with a scroll saw.. I may have to try it on on the scroll saw just to see if I could do it. Btw: This is a card box if you didn’t figure that out. Edit: Guess I should have uploaded the pictures.

AI drives me crazy as it wants to do everything for me and then if I let it, it does it wrong anyway. I haven’t messed with it for designing work partly because some selling venues don’t allow you to sell artwork from AI generated art/patterns. I don’t know how to tell if an image is generated from AI from the many pattern designers I buy patterns from though so at some point I might get kicked off those selling sites anyway. One thing that bothers me is the two sided use of it. For example I can’t use it for my artwork but the same sites use it to see if the sellers are using it, . Many sites using it to help create better selling / listing pages for better search results and they encourage sellers to use it. Yet I can’t create anything using it. I’m happy and content not using it but I feel I should probably learn it as it seems to be the way of the future and someday I may need to know how it all works.

She had done many special request for me in past years and was awesome helpful.. That said I had a special request a few years ago and she finally did reply but it was several weeks and said she was too busy to do the request. Last fall / winter I had another request to modify one of her designs and send a request in.. after week and a half or two weeks I thought she wasn't going to even answer me but turns out she did send me the revised design free of charge because it took her a few days to get back to me.. the reply was in my spam mail folder for some reason so I didn't know she sent me the message until several weeks later.. Unfortunately I found a different pattern from Steve Good that I was able to modify and use so I never did use the design she did for me..

Maybe send Rolf a message, he has done test cutting for the magazines over the years so he may know something..

Can't help with the pattern but I do sell clock inserts.. I have many sizes on hand but only have a listing of the 2" one up currently because I'm running low on inventory. I'm getting out of the clock making / selling so I don't mind selling off a few more. Many sizes from 1-7/16 up to 3" so let me know if there is a certain size you need I may or may not have something, LOL

Welcome to the Village! If it were me I'd probably see if they would exchange it for a different one.. I don't think there should be any thumping noise..

Yeah too much time, . I'm currently caught up on YouTube videos.. I've watched every single uploaded youtube video they have and am patiently waiting for someone to upload another, .. My favorite channel ( sleeperdude ) usually uploads on Saturday around 1pm so I guess I'll have to settle for FB Marketplace ads for the next couple hours. On a more serious note, I built a exhaust system for my new laser and finally powered it up.. out of the box it run pretty good but mirror alignment was slightly off and I've effectively made it much worse,. I have a engraving job coming up that needs to be completed by August and at the rate I'm going with this mirror alignment thing it might be 2026 before I have it running correctly, I engraved / cut some ornaments on it the other day and even not tuned right I successfully cut 4 of them in 6 minutes and my small laser took 16 minutes to do the same ones.. I think once dialed in this thing will be awesome for where I'm going with future business. I also will say that there is a lot of YouTube time in the shop now as the machine makes my products and I either watch it do design work in the background, work on website or take a nap... I always wondered how so many etsy folks had so much time for promoting their laser / cnc products and now I know..

Just seen this on YouTube and thought maybe some of you might like to see this for some ideas.

Guess I'm going to stop eating glue then... We all had that one kid in school that would lick the glue off his fingers..

I feel like the corrugated cardboard will create a problem with coming loose around the edges and then cause it to get hung up on the edge of either the table ( large enough piece ) or around the hole where the blade is and essentially mess up your cut.. Then you'll scrap the wood and the cardboard. I hope this doesn't happen and only stating it so you'll possibly be thinking of that and use caution while cutting. I think your saws are the older models without all those dust port holes so you may have less of a problem with this happening than those of us with the dust port holes in our Excaliburs, Pegas etc..

They won't ship that stuff to Michigan now... and my local supplier for the Watco spray cans has changed up to something different as well and went from $8.49 a can to $15.** for whatever they replaced it with.. I ordered several cases of the Watco spray cans from Max Warehouse late last fall.. The local shop was still selling quarts / gallons but I assume that'll be gone as well once sold out. I like the water base poly other than the water tends to lift the grain of the wood so I have to sand after the first coat.. and that's tough to do when I have double layered ornaments unless I spray before I glue them together but i prefer to glue wood to wood rather than wood to a painted surface.. Shellac doesn't work either because I use alcohol based craft paints to paint details on the ornaments and certain finishes make the paint bleed. So far lacquer and the water base poly is the only things that have worked for these painted ornaments.

I like the Lacquer because of the fast dry time.. I also like the water base poly because of the quick dry time... that said, I don't honestly know the actual "cure" times.. My experience using same brand (Watco) the quart can mix is different than what is in the spray cans. Quart can dries too fast for me.. I tried reducing it with adding more lacquer thinner and that didn't help much at all. I may experiment more with reducing it with slower drying higher quality of lacquer but those type reducers = more $$ so then I have more investment.. Then is it really worth it.. as far as cost goes there is more to it than just the price.. there is clean-up of spray equipment.. my spray area would need to be plumbed for air line from compressor or a new small compressor for just this purpose.. there comes a point and time where the convenience outweighs the cost. Many times I'm only spraying 1 ornament that was custom ordered etc.. not really worth using a spray gun for that just to save a few pennies worth of finish. At the end of the day the cost goes into the finished piece anyway.. Now if I could save enough percentage to a point where I could significantly lower my final cost to the customer I'd be all over it.. Also if I could get set up to a point where I could do a large production run of spraying 100 or more ornaments at once.. the spray gun method probably would be more worth it.. at some point I might get to that position..

Max warehouse has been cheaper for my finishes for the last few times I've had to restock. I don't use much Watco Danish oil anymore but used to use about 4 gallon a year and that used to be cheaper at Home Depot with free shipping than Amazon.. Still expensive to use finishes.. especially aerosol cans.. I mostly use Lacquer these days.. and had been looking into buying gallons instead of spray cans.. still not sure the cleanup etc is worth it in buying the gallons and using a spray gun or not.. sometimes convenience is worth the cost.

Thanks for sharing the experience and the advice

A 214 would use the round lower blade holder shown in the third one down from the top of the page. I showed the whole page because I didn't know if you need the lower one or upper one.. I assume if you need the upper one it would be the "Old Style" one towards the bottom of the page but I would contact them by phone ( email is sometimes ignored by them ) with the model and serial number and they will get you what you need. https://stores.bushtonhawkstore.com/blade-holders/

Maybe I need to make another account with them under another phone number and email.. Then I can go back and forth between the accounts to get the good coupons.. LOL

If you don't mind doing a little digging around online many times you can search for coupons.. I have gotten many this way.. I order quite a lot of car parts from Rockauto and they usually send out a coupon after an order.. there is a lot of folks that share that coupon on the FB car groups etc.. Always find one on there if the one they sent me had expired before i got to use it.. They can be used more than once on RA.. good until expire.. HF used to send me a monthly 25% or 30% but now they've put price limits on them most times..