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Yesterday was only 10F here.. I worked most all day out in the shop and never really got cold never had to come in to get warmed up etc.. was out there about 6 hours... Temperature is a funny thing.. and I'm guessing the humidity plays a huge role in ow it feels... for instance there have been times where I'm freezing out there but the actual temp is 30F.. or the difference between 40F raining and 30F dry.. I'm warmer in the 30F dry than the 40 and rain... Funny because I got 4 made to order clock orders yesterday and had some orders to finish up from a few days ago.. I was all worried about being cold.. got the all cut.. just gotta do some finishing touches to them today.. was trying to knock them out before the real cold comes this next week.. high temps on Wed. supposed to be -4 We don't normally get too many days in Michigan like that.. might get a few - degrees but it's usually overnight if we do.. so this next week is going to be a cold one for us.. Like I've said earlier... this gives me time to work on the website.. and because I listed things on Amazon the other day when I talked about it being cold.... that is where 2 of my sales came from that I'm working on now.. I hate doing the website work so days like that actually help me do the stuff I don't really like to do and probably wouldn't do otherwise .. I'm always having to make myself do the website stuff, LOL

Great idea Jim... as they are not placed very high in google search when searching for the Pegas clamps.. They were a few pages back when I did my search a few month back.. I was about to give up and buy from another source just as I stumbled on their site.. Every link to them that gets posted around the web from them helps their ranking with google searches.. to get them closer to the front page and at the top of the front page.. without paying to be there.. Bear woods is top do for me when I search.. everyone that searches will get different results based on their user history.. Another thing that helps them is people clicking on these links that we post... A good reason for people to post their website links all over the net.. like I have in my signature for my site.. the more people clicking that in my signature helps my rank in google.. Anyway... enough rambling about that.. here is a link to their pegas chucks https://qtena.com/b-pegas-scroll-saws-br-b-pegas-head-clamp-sets-br-c-2409_2554.html

That’s where I bought my Pegas upgrade chucks for my Excalibur.I had never heard of them until searching for the best deal on the Pegas. Had a great experience with my purchase from them.

Pretty sure this was discussed on another forum, believe it was on the fox chapel forum. Anyway if I remember correctly they said the Hawk clamps are just the same as the factory ones. But they used to sell a retro fit for the Hawk to use the quickset Delta saw clamps.

I don't have a Jet either... That said.. I do have an Excalibur and they are all the same basic saw design.. The procedure for doing this is that the upper arm has to be parallel to the table.. then having a blade in the saw.. speed all the way down and the motor bolts loosen just enough to turn the motor... place something behind the saw blade on the table... run the saw and spin the motor until it has the least amount of blade travel.. You may need to shut it off.. take out the bolts to the motor and spin it around to the next set of holes and re- insert the bolts just tight enough to spin the motor like before.. then start the process again.. I had to take the motor off on my excalibur to the next set of holes... If I remember correctly moving the motor counter clock wise is the direction to move it.... Mine didn't make a huge difference either until I moved the motor to the next set of holes.. This info.. should be in your manual.. I believe... it was in the Excalibur manual... I'm betting that Jet isn't going to be able to help you much.. Ray at Seyco sells the Jet saw and I imagine he'd be the better person to contact... he has been known to walk people through stuff over the phone.. Just my pennies worth... Good luck and hope you get it figured out..

A lot of saws come with a dust port.. My old Dremel did.. My excalibur does.. I think Hegner too? I do think that a onboard system probably is asking too much BUT.. the dust port these saws have are either an annoyance or work marginal at best... They could design something better.. they know the port they put on them is more for a attractive selling feature instead of a good functional piece.. I do think they could offer upgrades to an onboard vac system if they'd take the time to design something that would work.. Seyco does offer this vac system...and I've heard it works quite well.. quiet too.. I've really considered this and almost pulled the trigger a few times, LOL http://seyco.com/dv-10a-cyclonic-action-scroll-saw-dust-collector/

Wow nice!! I'm a pretty slow reader.. If I'm gone for a couple months.. I'm probably still reading.. so now you know where I'll be, LOL... I learn so much better by seeing it done.. so many times.. I go to youtube to look up things..

The write off of taxes only works if the building is the Business's building I believe.. and I don't have it written up that way.. Would have loved to insulate and do other improvements rather than buying the CNC and other tools but the way the chips fall don't always land where you need / want... it is what it is.. I do have a small LP radiant heater that sits next to me while sawing https://www.harborfreight.com/15000-BTU-Tank-Top-Propane-Heater-63073.html.. This keeps me quite warm running next to me on low or medium.. The biggest issue for me is the bellows blowing air on the fingers.. which in between cuts sometimes I'll warm my hands and go for the next cut, LOL.. For the most part.. this works well until we get down to the single digit temps.. As for too hot to work.. don't think I ever posted that one.. but is possible I suppose.. rare around here to get too hot though.. Most of my jobs I've had in my life was working outside.. in the elements. rain, snow, hot sun... whatever it's doing I was working, so maybe it's in my mind to just deal with it..as that's how it's always been... My wife tells me to bring the saw inside on those real cold days.. LOL guess I'm stubborn like that.. Though before the shop.. my saw was placed off to a corner in the dinning room But that was back before I was " really " production cutting.. I think she'd change her mind real quick when she see's the sawdust accumulate the way it does these days, LOL

So you're not working in the back yard during a blizzard is my thinking.. or while it's raining.. not too smart to scroll in the rain, I literally only have about a dozen days a year that is too cold to work... I take advantage to this by working on my website adding new inventory and promoting my site etc.. That all said.. heat is on my list of things to do.. but it's quite a ways down the list.. I never seen any point it heating an un-insulated shop.. Most of the shop is insulated but I do have a ways to go with it.. This shop never got finished in the beginning because I got really sick ( almost died ) about a month or so after we just got the shop up.. All my saved up money went to medical bills instead of finishing the shop.. I didn't want to move into it until it was finished.. but had no choice to because I had to make money to finish it up.. You see.. I don't borrow money .. I pay cash money.. If I don't have the cash I do without.. That's where getting heat comes into play, LOL ..

I use the crop feature within windows photos when an image is in the center of a page.. It'll fool with sizing though.. I almost always size every pattern I do anyway.. at least the first time and then save it so its ready the next time.. IF it's a ornament in the center of the page.. crop it down to just the ornament... then I right click the file ( photo ) and choose print.. this brings up "Photo" size to print photos.. you get options for 8.5 x 11, 8 x 10, 5x7 etc etc.... I usually choose the one with 4 photo to a page I think it's 3.5 x 5... This will print at pretty close to the normal "ornament size that I do.. then I can print 4 to a sheet.. or if I only need 2 then just select quantity to 2.. I do a lot of sizing with this for my ornaments.. For instance the puzzle patterns from Iggy.... I do this but usually print on a 4 x 6 or 5x7.. Then I don't have to alter the puzzle patterns original size.. but I do crop it down and save a copy that way.. sometimes once printed I'll scan it and save it in my hard drive in the ornaments pattern folder with the 4 patterns on it all ready.. but when doing the puzzles you only get 2 patterns per sheet.. anyway sure beats wasting several sheets of paper.. This may not work for those that only want to cut one pattern though.. most everything I make gets cut multipal times anyway... With the Sue Mey patterns.. They don't all sell the same as one another.. She usually has 6 patterns to a sheet... usually 1-2 sell real well and the others not so well.. so then I was ending up printing patterns that I didn't need to cut, LOL.. Those that didn't need to cut I saved for a while..and boy was that pile growing.. I finally printed a sheet and scanned it to the computer.. I then singled out ( cropped ) each ornament pattern and saved the file.. I know do the same as mentioned above... This way I print one full sheet of the popular patterns by printing them at the 3.5 x 5 mentioned above.. Probably a better way to do this but... This is how I've been doing it and it works for me with my production cutting.. Now... be awesome to be able to do the photo printing like I do.. but be able to choose several different ornaments so I could do a sheet with 4 different patterns... I haven't figured that one out yet.. Now I just need to go through all these patterns that are printed that I only cut half the sheets worth and I have the other half of sheet with the patterns already printed..

Lots of lighthouse patterns here for free.. you might have to make an account for this to work..There use to be ( maybe still is around) a designer that loved lighthouses.. he made a ton of deigns.. I had them all at one time but.. my back-up drive crashed and I lost about 25,000 patterns.. yeah I used to save every pattern I come across.. I no longer do that.... Anyway i think the designers screen name or pattern signed name was okiearkie https://forum.scrollsawer.com/forum/patterns/free-scroll-saw-pattern-vault/13648-landscape-and-architecture

I use to see a lot of talk about these several years ago.. many people loved the retro fit clamps etc.. What I'd like to know is... what is modified with the Hawk clamp.. They really need to show what it is that you're actually getting / improving for the Hawk... Back in the day before Delta discontinued the quickset II blade clamp.. they use to make a retrofit kit that would make the Delta clamp fit most any saw... the Quikset clamps from Delta are some really nice clamps.. most older saws have / came with them.. I believe Rolf has the kit installed on his Hawk G4 and uses the Delta clamps.. Since Delta discontinued the clamps and the parts became obsolete I don't see much mention of these retro fit systems anymore.. and those Hawk clamps look like the factory clamps to me... so that is why i wonder what are you really getting if anything other than a stock clamp.. LOL

My favorite magazine went bankrupt or something along those lines and went out of business.. otherwise I'd probably still get that one.. Think if I recall it was called Creative Woodworks and Crafts.. The one that's out still is not bad.. but that other one for me was awesome.. and was a monthly.. not a by monthly or whatever the current one is 4 or 6? issues a year.. anyway.. that one was the bomb in my opinion..

I quit subscribing partly due to this.. When I did use a pattern from the magazine.. I bent the staples to lift off all the pattern papers out scanned them to my computer.. fold as best I could back up and re-insert them in the magazine.. But what I really hated about them was the fact that the patterns are on big sheets so in order to scan them I had to fold them all sorts of ways to get them to fit in my scanner.. then by the time you get them in the paper is all crinkled every which way, LOL.. Also hate the fact that.. the magazines take up quite a large space after you save them for 10 years.. i'd like to see them go digital.. or.. subscribers get a yearly CD with the magazine in PDF so you could ditch all the issues.. LOL Magazine companies always offering subscribers deals to subscribe.. My issue is I like to keep my copies.. and being into cars trucks and several other things that have magazines.. don't take too long before they take up a whole room in a house... when they could be on a CD.. I'd pay full price for subscriptions if they gave out a disc.. or even make it online subscription.. where you could go print patterns out from the magazine issues... Some of the car ones have went online subscriptions..

I think they came out pretty darn nice! I like the barn wood idea too.. I also like the idea of doing the backer larger than the project.. If you choose to cut the backer the same shape but maybe 1/4 or so larger... I found that using a flat washer and using a pencil in the hole of the washer you can trace around the outside edge of your project to get the same shape as the project at hand.. The washer will roll along the edge as you trace. I knew you could do it, and glad to see you proved to yourself that you could..

Great tips Wayne and Jim!! I've always used the toothpick method and have had a few instances where I was out of them.. I just go out and saw something out of a piece of scrap.. I throw all my used blades into a 5 gallon bucket.. have almost a full bucket.. Maybe I should list them on ebay as recyclable glue sticks applicators, Flexable long lasting made of metal so won't break.. $.50 each or a dozen for $2.00 What glues do dry clear if there is such a thing? I think I've always used Tite bond III because it was recommended for making cutting boards...

Thank you Brad, I don't always make accomplishments LOL... or at least not as much as I'd like to anyway.. LOL Your story of the dogs .. My dog is the same way.. but he's plenty tall enough ( Great Dane ) for the most part that only his legs have to deal with the snow.. but he still hates having to go out to do his business.. and he sure doesn't get very far from the door either... If i'd let him he'd go right on the porch, LOL... But... I wouldn't want to have to go outside either.. LOL so I let him get away with just a few foot out away from the porch..

Was 14F here this morning too so I went out and did some sawing. I can deal with the + side of temps but with the - side I stay in. I didn’t get much cutting done cause my wellhouse heater must have stopped and my pipes froze so I spent part of my day with that. Here is a picture of my project. Pattern is in the pattern request section. Almost got it all done lol.

I can't / or shouldn't probably say anything negative about it because quite frankly.. I never gave the saw a chance.. after unboxing it and not having the VS dial change anything.. the thing about vibrated off the bench before I could get it shut down.. But.. that being my fault for not mounting it.. being somewhat new to the scroll saw world I didn't know they really needed mounted or clamped down.. I had used my fathers old Delta 2 speed saw model 40-560 type 2.. he never mounted or clamped it.. and neither did I. that was one smooth running machine.. still have it too.. just as with most old saws... parts are no longer available.. but anyway.. going from that saw to one that right out of the box didn't work correctly and vibrated bad I took it right back.. same day... and rather than exchange it.. I just took cash back and bought the Dremel.. There was and still is nothing wrong with the that old Delta.. but back then.. I thought I needed a saw with variable speed... turns out... I rarely take any saw I have or had off full speed or at least very close to that.. Guess I sort of just learned the two speeds of that one saw.. as those seem to be about the same speeds if and when I do slow a saw down would be about the same as the low speed on that old Delta..

That's the one, LOL

That must be the craftsman version I bought.. that didn't work.. as that was a selling point for me being the novice at the time.. I liked that built in angle gauge for some reason, LOL

For my first "New" saw I almost bought the CW-40 as well.. But instead I bought a Craftsman that lasted only long enough to un-box it and turn it on.. the variable speed wouldn't work and after seeing the quality next to my 16" Delta 2 speed saw I took it back.. Then ordered a refurb. Dremel 1800.. The first one mailed to me wouldn't even turn on.. so the company sent me a return slip to ship it back.. the next one came only a few days later.. they mailed it out before I even mailed this one back which surprised me.. Anyway the replacement ended up being a good saw for me.. I run it quite hard for about 3-4 years.. then bought my DeWalt.. I kept that old Dremel up until just a couple years ago and finally sold it. Saw didn't own me anything as the refurb I believe was only $180 and I sold the saw for $100 I kept the stand too LOL

My Thermometer is showing -18F outside right now... so I suppose I'll stay inside and work on adding a few items to my Amazon store, LOL Not too many times through the year that I wont go in and work because of too cold or too hot... at most.. usually around 3-10 days.. Guess that's why I refuse to spend the $$ on heating and cooling.. but as I get older I'm sure sooner or later I'll bite and buy a system, LOL

Dewalt screws are pretty darn good ones I think... Mine are the original ones that came with the saw.. I bought the extra set once and then found that Seyco sells just the tips.. then I read about the sanding the ends off.. so i did that and never used the new set screws or the tips.. BTW.. if you order the tips set.. don't do as I did and thought each set was for just the upper or lower, LOL a set includes both upper and lower... so since I haven't even wore out the originals.. I assume I should be good for many years on these.. LOL.... especially now that I end to use the Hawk more now anyway For what it's worth.. when I talked with Ray about them.. he said they was all sourced from the same company.. at least back then.. so the DeWalt and Ex screws was made by the same company... I'm guessing the Delta too? BTW, I do agree with you about the price and the fact that they shouldn't be getting worn out already.. But I also am betting that Pegas didn't actually make these.. possible a bad batch went though or the company that made them maybe got a bad batch of steel.. I hope this isn't going to be the normal for these.. you know... it seems every company tries to cut cost and cheapen things up...

Looking good, That saw looks a lot like a older Dremel 1800 that I used to have.. was a pretty nice saw for me for a couple years..