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Well since I’m not a video techy and it was a large video in size I couldn’t upload it. Then I downloaded a app to compress the video which worked great but... the app saves the video in a different format that won’t work on YouTube. And apparently won’t work on my phone now either so I can’t even play it on my phone. Thankfully I did snap a picture of the stack before doing the video. And was able to grab a screenshot of the stack after cutting.

Are you in San Antonio? Actually I think we've talked about this before but I forgot..My sis in law lives in San Antonio and Father in law lives in Nixon... when we go down there I typically stay in New Braunfels.. Haven't been in a few years and due to go again in the next couple years... be fun to meet up sometime

I've got 5 scroll saw.. 1 DeWalt, 1 Delta, 1 Excalibur and 2 Hawks... Might be 3 Hawks very soon,

Here is a topic about it with quite a lot of good info on these lights.. I switched my cheaper florescent light bulbs out for some nice bright LED's ... There is some info on that with links to where to get the LED's etc in this topic.. Should have more answers than you wanted here.. LOL

I just came in from cutting the 25 ornaments.. I did a video of cutting one of the ornaments also you'll get a glimps of the shop since I wanted to show what time it was and what time it was when I finished cutting all the 25 ornaments.. cutting on the Excalibur this time.. LOL anyway.. took me about 1.5 hours to cut the 25.. I've gotta eat my dinner now.. but hopefully I can remember how to upload a video again.. been about a year I think.. LOL But in the meantime.. yes I have 5 blanks of BBply.. blank size is roughly 7 x 7 all pre sanded and shelf liner on and then packing tape to hold the 5 pieces together.. drilled pilot holes and sanded the back before cutting.. Each pattern place (5 patterns) on the 7x7 stack of blanks.. 5x5 was 25 the last time I checked.. 1.5 hours cutting.. $15.97 each ornament.. not bad income for overall prep work and finishing will have me at about 2.5 hours..for that 25..

BBply can be some tough cutting when you get too many layers. I typically cut 4 at a time but sometimes as many as 6. I find that cutting slows up quite drastically after 4 pieces. Also depends upon the complexity of the ornament I’m cutting. Today I set up to cut a stack of 5 and have 5 patterns stuck onto the 5 blanks. I typically cut my plywood in blanks about 7x7 inch.

JT, The construction themed ornaments might do well with your themed clocks you been doing... Many themed ornaments I sell are of Sue Meys design from scrollsawartist website.. She has some awesome ornament designs.. and they seem to sell really well for me.. I'm just not sure how these would do in a craft show type setting... takes the right person looking for that unique gift for someone.. and marketing unique gifts online is much easier than trying to sell odd things at a show.. At least I think.. I could be wrong

Yes, Ornaments is what really makes the business profitable.. selling clocks is just a filler for the "off" season which also helps business.. but really.. the ornaments is the bread and butter for making money.... for me anyway.. The big order is for a company that will be handing them out to the employees at their Christmas party.. so yes they are all the same style ( pictured below ).. Another company last year ordered this same ornament and ordered just over 100 of them.. quick easy to make.. I made the pattern myself per request of the company. This year I've already sold 60 of this same design to a different company last month.. and a few to individuals.. I do make at least 20 ornaments per style throughout the summer.. some I make more of than others due to demand.. I try ( but fail ) to get all stocked up for this time of year so I can take on the task of personalized ornaments and custom request.. Had 8 custom request orders yesterday and so far a couple today.. I don't always get the orders and some I turn down.. I use to custom cut personal ornaments.. but not much anymore.. a couple years ago I bought a cheap wood burning pen to just woodburn the desired name date etc on existing ornaments.. this is quick and simple to do.. and I typically add $5-10 to the price depending on what is added.. A lot of the ornaments I make ( themed ornaments ) may not do well for the craft show scene .. I focus on the themed ornaments because I market them to small companies that may need to find cheap unique themed gifts for the employees.. Also market male themed ornament where their are women looking for that special gift for the male friends and family that are hard to buy for.. My construction themed ornaments sell quite well as do the nurse themed ornaments.. Hottest nurse themed one is the flight nurse with the helicopter.. I tend to get a lot of orders for those from either other nurses or managers to give out to their co-workers.. not uncommon to sell 20-50 of those at one time.. some will have them personalized with the hospital name right below the chopper..

I just figured it out... looking at the picture I realize that I had a priority mail box to package this in.. but these boxes are for shipping in the USA only... This clock goes across the big pond.. They would have refused to ship it in this box.. I had the wrong box.. Duh.. Can't tell you how many times I've almost packaged international orders in the wrong style box.. in fact.. I have done it before and realized it as I was about to attach the shipping label.. LOL

You dug into this farther than I have so I guess I don't have any suggestions for you on taking it apart.. Maybe contact Bushton... I only took it apart enough to get that connecting rod off to change the bearings on each end of it.. Sorry you got took by the dishonest seller.. Hopefully you'll be able to repair this without too much extra $$ .. I absolutely hate dishonest deals like this.. even when it happens to others.. makes my blood boil.. On a more positive note.. I think you'll find you'll love the saw once you get it running right.. Oh... I was going to mention that when you send an email to Bushton.. they don't usually respond very fast.. it's much better to give them a call... They run multi pal small business's and also are Farmers.. so I think they respond to email when they get a chance.. where as a phone call it much quicker.. and sometimes easier to explain something in detail too..

You know... I talked about this on another site ( not a scroll saw site but a online sellers group ) and it just made me sick what many others said.. They said to package it and ship it that way with insurance and then when the customer complains of a broken item claim it on the insurance get paid for that one and another by the insurance claim... Just sad how many dishonest people are out there like that.. You know.. I like getting a bargain as much as anyone else does... but I like mine to be honest deals... Yeah every now and then i like to tell some tall stories etc.. but when it comes right down to dealing and doing business.. honesty is the only way.. at least for me.. Probably why shipping prices are so high.. all the people scamming the shipping companies... A couple years ago I ordered a laptop charge cable on eBay.. the seller sent the wrong one.. after I contacted them they commented that they sent out the correct one right away and when I receive it told me to carefully open the box and switch the cables out and carefully tape the box back up then mark it return to sender... This way nobody has to pay extra for the mistake.. well except the postal company.. that comes out of their profit.. needles to say.. I just packed it up and bought a shipping label... I'm not getting caught up in some other person fraud just to save $5

That's exactly how I always think about things..

First thing this morning packing orders this happens. Guess I should hold onto stuff better .. I have two custom orders I’m working on and two made to order jobs going on. With this breaking puts me a little behind schedule. So I’m out sawing a new one and my phone keeps chirping with alerts of new orders both Etsy and amazon. You know when the phone makes a order sound I’ve just gotta check to see what the purchased item is...several orders came in today and one of the orders is for 53 ornaments. Lucky me I anticipated this and already had 32 made. Probably a record money making day for me. Not uncommon to do a few hundred a day this time of year but well into the four digits is not something that happens for me anyway. So anyway mad about the broken clock first thing in the morning but getting these orders is kinda making a sour day a little bit better. Now.. gotta get to work. If I’m a little scarce around here, just know I’m probably knee deep in sawdust. Or tangled up in bubble wrap and packing tape and stuck to a box.

Hi Dan, First, welcome to the scroll saw village My Hawk is around that same year... While the saw is quite old.. mine was still newly boxed when I purchased it last year... Common bearing problems? I don't know how common.. but after about 4 months of use with my saw it picked up a vibration that turned out to be from the bearings in that connecting rod ( flat steel bar that connects motor to the lower saw arm).. There is a video on the Hawk web site that explains the difference between the ultra and the new BM series.. In that video they mentioned a upgrade to the BM series motor counter weight and motor.. the motors like we have has a bearing in that counter weight as well as right inside the motor casing and something about the two bearings creating heat or something.. I can't remember now without watching the video again.. but anyway.. they did in fact have some issues in that area on the older saws and they claim to have fixed that issue with the newer saws... They do also mention about the set screw working loose and that the motor shaft has a flat spot on it.. and that they have seen that set screw wear the motor shaft clean in half.. I myself cannot phantom how the operator couldn't notice something odd in this scenario but... LOL That bolt that holds that connecting rod to the counter weight.. they are supposed to be tight.. Mine was so tight I ended up having to remove the motor from the saw and I had to rig up some clamping contraption to hold the motor etc so I could loosen that bugger... There is a hole on the end of the motor that you stick a hex ( allen ) wrench to hold the motor from spinning while you loosen that bolt.. ( if I remember correctly ).. but it's not seen until you take the motor out, LOL.. Believe it's on the top side of the motor when it's in the saw maybe? funny how I can remember some things and not others LOL.. Anyway, good luck with it and let us know if you have any other specific questions.. Also let us know what you find out.. maybe something for the rest of us to learn upon or watch out for in purchasing a used saw

A lot of your high end equipment is price by the manufacture.. like you said (Festool.. Another purchase I'm doing before the end of the year).. Stil does the same thing.. I think Fein also.. anyway yeah.. many companies do this price setting.. You can ( I have ) contact the company directly and sometimes do some dickering with them.. not real easy to do.. but have been there done that and won a great deal.. Did it years ago with a Stil chain saw..

Thought some of you might like to see that you don't always need tools to make things You'll think this is interesting.. I was amazed at what he can do with these cans

Same here Ray.. I rarely go on Facebook.. so not sure how i seen them.. just right timing I suppose.. My wife uses my FB more than I do.. she cracked me up as she didn't want her own account because she don't get on computers much.. but man she is addicted to that FB and my Pinterest accounts, LOL I rarely get on either one.. Mostly my online besides working on the selling sites and communicating with customers is here as well.. I get email notifications from my sites and go answer questions customers have then while I'm online I check in here, LOL sometimes answer something here... then I get back to work, LOL

I sort of thought the same thing about the smaller HP motor.. I figure though.. if it's not enough.. I can always put a small block V-8 in its place.. That's why i like the safety features of the Saw Stop saw

You're a member of " All Things Scroll Saw and Bandsaw " ..... There was a video posted 20 hours ago.. that saw has the Ex Pegas clamp on the DeWalt saw.. Another group called " Scroll Saw & Wood Projects " click on the videos section on the left column and scroll down a ways.. there is about a 2 hour video of another couple of people sawing with a dewalt with the Ex Pegas clamp.. There is another one somewhere too.. so there are some using them.. you might go and comment on how they like this clamp on the DeWalt and maybe they'll give you some insight on it....

Well I did build a big shop for this reason.. but I still feel the need for a bigger shop, I'm thinking about this rig right here.. https://www.rockler.com/sawstop-1-75-hp-professional-table-saw-w-30-fence-rails-and-extension-table?sid=V9146?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&utm_content=pla&utm_campaign=PL&gclid=CjwKCAiAiarfBRASEiwAw1tYvzobG7jpVDe9RZY_TwoELZK_24Ra3YpoUHPCG4Z0b_fgxD0El7e9exoCBgMQAvD_BwE

There is a better way to explain this I think.. but.. I think of the blades with a " / with a 0 behind it as a negative blade size number.. ie blades 0, 1,2,3,4,5,6 and so on are positive or + numbers... then the numbers like shown here 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0 etc etc... are what I call negative sized blades.. so anyway.. your thought is true for the positive sized blades.. but with the number 0 behind the number and / sign is opposite.. if there is a /0 behind the number then the higher the number the smaller the blade.. Kind of weird how they do that but.. anyway.. that is how I think of it in my tiny little brain..

There are several people running them on the deWalt Ray.. I've seen quite a lot of post and videos on some of the Facebook groups where people have them on their saws.. Never seen any about how well they like them or anything of that nature.. but I've seen quite a few different people running them.. I also thought that it might make running the DeWalt easier because the Ex and the Hawks have the lever similar to one another rather than spinning the tension lever... Don't use my DeWalt enough to really justify buying the set though..

I see a wide variety of blade sizes and uses just in the few post so far.. I personally cut my portraits out from 3mm BB plywood.. and always stack cut at least 3 at a time... My go to blade is actually a #1 new spiral and sometimes a 0/2 blade.. BUT that said.. again depends upon the saw I'm cutting on too... every saw cuts differently.. and everyone has a different cutting style.. Many people like the Pegas spirals.. I bought some and didn't really care for them all that much on my Hawk saw.. but they are great on my Excalibur.. Love Olsen #1 or maybe it was a #2? cutting on my Hawk.. But they are harden steel blades and tend to be quite brittle.. and I break a lot of them LOL.. compared to the FD blades.. If they have a sample pack of sizes.. I might suggest going that route first to get a feel or what blade YOU like.. as I said... look at all the different go to blade used that has been posted so far... Also remember... the more teeth and smaller blades will give a smoother cut edge too.. why I don't care for anything larger than a #1 for most cuts I do.. and the larger number doesn't always mean a faster cut either.. as they are a wider blade so they have to cut through more material.. I personally found that a #1 generally cuts faster than a #3... See if you can locate a sample pack.. On a side note: Someone mentioned you don't have to spin the wood around.. While that is true.. but... the scroll saw is designed with the intent to cut from the front.. and so they make the blade stroke go in a forward motion on the cut stroke ( down stroke ) so... the spirals cut pretty good on the front and even from the sides .. but trying to cut on the back side of the blade is really slow going... I typically still spin the wood to some extent to keep the cutting going at a more constant rate.. Another thing to mention... Since they cut any direction... you'll find that if there is some soft / hard spots in the wood.. those blades like to take the path of least resistance.. so if you are cutting next to a soft spot.. the blade is going to want to travel right in to that spot.. They are a little tricky to use... especially on solid wood.. plywood not so bad because of the glued layers etc they are typically pretty consistent with soft / hard spots.. so the BB ply is a good wood to learn them on..

That's why I was asking questions here... considering I don't claim to really know a lot about table saws.. so I could easily be talked into something I don't want or need.. LOL...

Mine does something similar to this when it's cold out when i first start it in the morning.. but once it run for 10-15 seconds clears right up... I figured it's probably not to good for it to run that way so i got to where I'd heat it up with a heat lamp for a few minutes before turning it on... Another possibility is the bearings are dried out of grease and dragging the motor down..