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Okay thank you.. just figured I'd ask what you did as you come up with some cool ideas..Didn't want to make one and then see a better way, LOL

I've searched high and low for a clock.. preferably a 2" or less with an alarm feature on it.. I have a customer that bought a clock from me saying they need it by next Friday.. nd was telling me they thought they could pop out my insert and install one with an alarm for a alarm clock in their bedroom, LOL.. Boy.. so this person is searching for a clock.. as i told them I've never seen a smaller clock with alarm.. They then show me some plastic motorcycle clock on amazon that had a clock in the wheel.. kind of like the one they bought from me.. however the clock is like a 4" clock insert.. that they was thinking about buying and putting it in place of the 1-7/16 clock that I had put in.. LOL... Oh Boy.. so now I'm teaching my customer via email how to measure the clocks... and that the clock they was going to use is bigger than the whole motorcycle clock they just bought, LOL Now they say they found another one on eBay that is a 2" clock.. but they don't know if it's 2 inch mounting or what.. I've never seen one with an alarm.. other than there used to be a digital clock with alarm that was for the 1-3/8 hole like the clocks I use.. but I can't seem to find any now.. If anyone knows of anything.. let me know.. I'm afraid I going to mail this person a piece that they aren't going to be able to use with the clock they purchase. LOL

Jerry, how did you mount the hour meter or where did you put it.. LOL I hooked up one to the Hawk 226 and one to the Excalibur.. but I need to find a spot to put it.. Not too king on having the wires hanging off the back of it too.. probably not osha approved without being in a electrical box, I was thinking just that.. buying a electrical box and a blank block off type cover and or make a cover to cut out so the meter can sit in the box... Then maybe mounting the box to my saws stand.. Gotta say... Really interesting to see really how much time a project takes..

Sort of, LOL.. The table will tilt either side but you have to remove the stop bolt. most saws I see don't have it on.. it also has holes on either side so if you mainly tilt to one side or the other you can swap sides.. I don't do angle cuts.. and if I did I'd do it on the Excalibur instead anyway.. The tilting mechanism on the Hawks is actually their biggest flaw in my opinion.. LOL. It's not the easiest to tilt for a precise angle.. at least my two Hawks aren't .. I did spray the older Hawk with some dry lube to make it move smoother.. which created a self moving table while sawing issue, LOL.

Very nice work!!

I've seen this topic on that group... and the designer was credited and they posted the website of the designer to the group.. There are a lot of folks on the FB groups.. especially younger generations because those young ones like social media sites.. You shouldn't leave the group simply because of them sharing the design around.. but rather explain the copy write laws and whatnot to the new people.. I believe the group is run by a few newer people so maybe they do not know.. This group is loaded with a lot of newbies.. Not only that.. but how can administration know who designed every pattern and not know that the person sharing the design didn't design it? That is a full time job in itself.. The design I knew.. but.. the designer also didn't have their name on the pattern either.. so.. who's at fault? Also the person said they picked up the design on pintrest.. I cannot do anything about the pattern sharing.. I see it all the time on many sites... I've also seen folks ask for patterns here and post the finished work on FB and say the design is theirs... I think a lot of it is designers fault too.. years ago designers put their names on patterns.. websites and disclaimers could also be put on them for how they can be used and shared.. IF the designer was really that concerned about it.. But then.. that's not my place to say or to tell them what to do.. I've mentioned it many times on many groups and also on this site.. how I wish they all at least signed it so 5 years from now I could remember who the designer is Etc.. Most of the older designers do put their name on them... some do put a disclaimer to not share it or use it for laser / cnc etc.. I do my best to educate those that do wrong.. I used to manage a few of the yahoo groups back in the day.. and keeping track of what everyone does is a royal pain in the behind and the dumb spammers and porn stuff that would be posted that I'd have to delete etc.. It became a full time job... I shut the site down.. Anyway.. it's best to try to educate.. so hopefully.. the newbies will understand and stop doing this sort of thing..

Not sure you can see it in this photo or not.

My Hawk has a bolt on the left side and once the table is square to the blade you adjust the bolt up to be tight to the under side of the table.. then if you move it doing angle cuts you simply just move it back until it hits the bolt and it should be squared up again.. Mine has a piece of plastic / rubber cover other the threads of the bolt to protect it.. maybe to keep it from having baby bolts .. or would that be baby tables?

I've never been super impressed with Bear Wood.. Yeah Bushton is on my list too, LOL Anyway, I ordered blades last year.... I also ordered blades from DND on the same day.. infact I also ordered blades from Mikes too.. same day.. It took Bear Woods 3 weeks to even mail out my order.. I had already had my order from DND and Mikes.. both orders came in the mail the same day 3 day later.. was 3.5 weeks for BW's .. I realize they are in Canada and I knew it'd take a little time to go through customs etc... but... three weeks just to get it packaged and on its way.. This wouldn't stop me from ordering again from them.. I just know that it takes them a long time to get orders out.. Much like Bushton.. I understand with Bushton because they're having issues... Never did hear why it took BW's so long to get my order in the mail.. I''ll order my stuff from DND or QTE before I would order from BW.. That's just my opinion... if you all have good experiences with BW.. by all means buy from them.. Not bad mouthing them.. just telling my experience.. Every business at some point and time has a issue from time to time.. How they handle it is how I decide to handle it next time.. LOL

I buy mine from a local lumber store that I get most of my lumber and many tools from.. http://theworkbench.com/.. Don't think they do online orders or ship items.. but anyway they have two locations one here in Michigan and one in Indiana.. They're about 30-35 mile from me.. but I typically buy enough to last me a good 6-10 months..

I'm hopeful that Pegas will set the standard and produce a premium quality saw that comes set up to run right out of the box.. If they have all their saws ready to cut right out of the box.. I think they could put a hurt on the " other like saws"..

Always a good day when the new tools arrive.. Glad you like it so far.. Hopefully it'll be a great and enjoyable saw to use for you.. That style saw in my opinion is the only one to have for someone that does angle / bevel cuts.. they are awesome to work with doing those cuts with the table staying flat.. Hopefully Iggy (Scott) will have the same experience with his saw when it arrives..

Yes, I use the Eclips ( I think it's called ) same one you bought but said it didn't fit.

Well temps up to mid 30's and this is the first cutting I've done in a while.. in part, due to feeling blah from a sinus infection.. and another part.. I've been reworking my kitchen cabinets and doing some work inside the house.. I started out with the intention of video the whole cutting.. but.. my phone don't like the cold.. and died doing the first part of this cutting.. so then plug my phone in and then I ran out of storage memory on my phone.. LOL.. time to delete a lot of stuff I suppose.. Not sure you'll be able to get this since the upload in on Facebook on my business page.. you can find that searching FB for KevsKrafts... Maybe the link will work. Probably isn't going to be viewable to those that do not have Facebook.. Cutting is done on my Hawk 226VS Ultra Edit to say: I turn off my overhead light partway through the first part of cutting due to the light interfering with the camera..

My brother gave me some Beach lumber a couple years ago for a big order I had of deer head mounts .... I thought the stuff cut nicer than Oak.. and like Dave said it's a closed grain wood.. also finishes pretty nice.. I find it's nicer to work with than Oak.. But.. I don't see it a lot in my area for sale..

Appears to be a very early 220.. When you see these saws with the Red back C shaped section at the back of the saw... That's a early saw.. Most of these was either single speed or 3 speeds via changing belt to different pulleys. These also do not have the up front blade tension quick release.. I'm not sure if this style has the motor issues that the other older ones did because the other motor ones that had the issues was because of the VS controller.. so I don't think these have that issue.. My understanding is these did have weaker arms.. heard of cases of the arms bending.. Note the arm design.. it has hollowed out areas to lighten them up.. but they bend where the hollowed out areas are I believe..

Not a golfer either.. You did a great job cutting.. and also recycling that old chair.. win win.. I also cut this pattern and have the products on my site.. make mine from 1/8 BBply and a walnut ply backer.. Sell a lot of these.. more than I expected..

Have thought about milling some of this stuff down and selling boxes of 3/4" or less thick ( scroll saw friendly ) boxes similar to what Ooch Hardwoods does.. Don't think I'd want to get involved with specific orders of sizes etc.. but not too hard to put a bundle together and mail it out..

The fence probably cost another $100 if you wanted the fence.. doesn't look like it'd saw more than maybe 6" resaw unless you got a riser block...

I sure wish I could use this stuff now.. but it's still very green.. I stacked it up and stickered it to dry.. Probably be a long time before I can use it.. This is why I don't fool with getting this stuff from him very often.. many of the pieces are short 15" ish.. and it's hard to stack it up in a way to dry out without warping etc.. A lot of times getting these cut offs etc only get about half of it being worth using buy the time it dries out good enough to use.. and the space it takes up while it's drying.. I usually get a 4 x 4 foot pallet and stack the lumber on this layering it so it all can breath.. but it's hard to get enough of it to weigh enough to keep it from warping etc.. we'll see how this turns out in a few months.. if nothing else it's practice wood for the CNC and fire pit.. I have some ash and some spalted maple he gave me about 4 years ago that I just started using up a little bit of.. It cuts nice but I don't like doing fretwork with it as the light / dark spots of the stuff sort of hides the fretwork.. Thinking about making bowls and bandsaw boxes with it..

Hard Maple doesn't scroll very easily though.. I might make cutting boards out of a lot of this.. Or practice using my CNC on some of it too.. . Most of the the cherry load I got will become clocks.. if scroll sawing it.. it'll all have to be resawed in half as they are thick pieces.. below is the pictures of one of the loads of cherry with just a few oak boards in there too.

My brother owns a lumber mill business and called me last Friday to come dig what scraps I want out of the scrap bin and the guys were there doing grade lumber and they cut off ends and what not whatever is left goes into the wood stove unless I come get it. Last month I hauled about this much cherry and a little oak. He said they’ll be there again next week if I want more. I didn’t get time enough to get the other bin. But maybe swing back tomorrow to get the last bit. First picture is one of the 5 bins and the other is what I dug out of the bin. Some nice pieces of curly hard maple and I think there was a couple Birdseye.

Mine isn’t from Seyco but is before they changed manufacturers.

IF, one uses the flying Dutchman Ultra Reverse blades.. the simplest thing one can do is simply put the blade in upside down and use the other end.. you still get reverse teeth as they run throughout the length of the blade anyway.. It may cut slightly slower due to the fact the in the saw the correct way i believe they have two teeth down and one up.. reversing it will give you two up one down, LOL.. but.. sharp teeth.. Like the others.. I simply toss a blade out as they are pretty cheep when buying bulk.. I might not do this if I was buying at $8 a dozen from the hardware store though... Makes a big difference in price.. and many many people do not know about gross buying..

First in Late Jan. I called and got on the phone with some other lady and she didn't seem to know how to explain very well what was going on.. she just said something broke and they was trying to repair it.. It wasn't clear if the scroll saw broke or something of theirs LOL.. I tried my best to get more info but honestly don't think she knew what it was.. Then I called again in mid Feb. and got Nicole on the phone.. she explained that the CNC machine had a broken part.. Never said what the part was broke but the more we talked I gathered it was a electronic controller? which I doubt another machine shop can make..She said they ordered the part but it was on back order for 3-5 weeks.. but said the good news was that they had received a tracking number and UPS website showed it was at their local UPS.. so she thought it would come that day..Said they had the CNC in a million pieces scattered all about the shop.. and also said everyone's saws are put together as far as they can go with them until the CNC is repaired and can start making the parts for them.. She mentioned all these saws some being in here office etc and they have no room anywhere to move.. Think she also said something about some saws at their house LOL.. all waiting on this one last part.. She also mentioned that they tried contacting the local machine shops to see about outsourcing and getting the part made from them but they was booked out until mid March.. she did get on the wait list just in case.. My last call the other day was... The good news is the part came in and they put the machine back together.. they just fired it up and they all jumped for joy as they are all stressed and worried about this.. I said me too LOL.. but.. she said more bad news.. The coolant or oil isn't pumping and they can't run the machine until they get that fixed.. she said they was all out in the shop working on that machine trying to diagnose why it's not pumping .. She said worst case is the local machine shop should be calling any time to make their part so they can at least get these 18 saws they have waiting for the part shipped out.. Sounded to me like they was having the local machine shop make a run of these parts whether their machine is running or not.. they set it up to have them make a run of the parts..