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Where are you guys buying the large blue flex hose stuff from? I am planing to buy a higher end vacuum around the holidays and really wanting to set up this type of dust collection on all my saws.. so I can just move the hose from one saw to the next.. though now days I'm pretty much only using the Hawks and Excalibur.. and liking the Excalibur more and more now that I put those Pegas chucks on it..

Brad, Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling all that great.. I sure hope you can get to feeling better and be able to get out in the shop to make some sawdust... I've been wondering the last few weeks where you been and how you been doing.. Reading through the post here.. and Ray mentioned about wood carving.. I've never tried that but I also just wanted to say that one can do wonderful woodwork with just a cheap ol wood burning kit too... which is something you can probably do right in the house without making a big sawdust mess.. though they might smell up the house like a campfire you may want to put a fan in the window and suck the smoke out.. anyway.. just a thought.. Praying for you to get to feeling better

Yeah, I see your problem.. I was going to say.. mine has feet on it... and can set on a bench or floor.. not quite sure how well one would work down low.. but in looking at your work area... doesn't appear to be much floor space either.. BTW, I have the same drill press I think.. sure looks like mine anyway.. I think it's a 8 or 10" Delta? Gave $2 for mine at a old tractor swap meet about 10 years ago.. I didn't get a chuck with it but my friend had one he gave me.. Mines pretty well worn and has plenty of run out.. but does what I need for the most part..

Well I was browsing the FB marketplace ads last night and ran across this same saw.. I messaged the seller through there ad.. and they messaged back this morning and said it had sold... Grrr hate when people don't remove ads or at least mark them sold... I really wasn't planning to buy anyway unless they was going to offer a great deal.. kind of wanted to look it over.. but no need to know anyway.. LOL Really just wanting a newer BM series I think.. and have spotted a couple but distance is a bit far.. might have to think it over a bit.. LOL

Just put a band aid on it, I'd certainly try making some sort of repair on it.. Maybe someone has a perfect idea on how to repair this.. I'd probably try to take some of the sawdust from cutting it ( same wood ) and mix up some with glue o make a homemade wood filler so to speak.. and try filling it in.. You may need to re-cut the corner of the M out a little.. This will still be a different look in that spot.. but wouldn't be so noticeable.. If you paint it it'd hide that spot if you fill it like I mentioned.. Also see what other say.. they may have a better idea..

Yep... heat gun user here as well... but that said.. I've found also that they peel off harder in different temps.. If you don't have a heat gun... just set it out in the sun for 20 minutes or so.. that will also help some.. or the wife's hair dryer...

I agree with Al... The instructions with mine say to keep it a minimum of 3 feet from any obstruction for best performance.. including shop lights, garage doors etc.. I realize that would be almost impossible to do in a very small shop, LOL but I think where you have it placed is really restricting its use considerably. I wanted to put mine right in the corner where all my saws are.. but then it's just in the corner with a wall on two sides.. so figured that probably wouldn't work out too well.. seems to be doing great where it's at..

I've done this on some tight inside cuts where hand sanding wouldn't work..

Just paint the blades.. ... then you can still use the black ink from your printer.. I've cut both red and black... and honestly I like the black... That said though.. it really is dependent on what magnifier light I'm using... My newer LED replacement bulbs light up the black line perfectly but makes the red lines awful bright and kinda strains the eyes.. guess I'm just the odd ball and probably use to the black since I've cut black for the last 14 or so years, LOL

That's a cool little display.. I display my ornaments in clear top gift boxes.. but I rarely do shows.. every now and then I do a church craft show because I somehow let the organizers talk me into it.. LOL... Thing is.. I need craft shows to be in the off season.. not when I'm busy selling online... I've had a few instances where I sold items online that also sold in person at the show.. so I just keep plucking away with the online... then I don't have to fool with set up take down etc... I sell most of my ornaments at $14 - 20 range.. but to make it simple for cash and not having to deal with a lot of change.. I sold them at the shows for $10.. and did really well.. I see a lot of sellers online selling them anywhere from $5 - 10 - 12 etc.. some are starting to get up to my rice range and some sell for a little more than I do now days.. If I was selling at crafts shows I might do 10 each or two for 15.. or something similar to that.. doing those kinds of things helps sell more.. because.. well they see one they like and they always want a bargain.. the second one is half price so they're going to look at all you have.. LOL or you could do 10 each or 17 for two.. whatever works for you.. just making a second one deal sort of makes the customer look through them all a little better.. Good luck with the show.. hoping you sell out LOL

I made a set of the Stackaloos.. and ordered plans for one of the hot rod cars a few years ago... I never did make the car.. lots of small cutout pieces and I was just too busy to do it.. They have a lot of cool projects... however my kids are grown, and I'm not too enthused about trying to sell toys as there are a lot of conflicting grey area rules that I never really looked a lot into for selling toys...and I always felt that selling toys was a higher liability risk than say.. clocks and ornaments etc...

I've probably used about 8 cans in my life.. I print my patterns on self adhesive full sheet shipping labels.. less mess.. just peel and stick.. I do keep a can of spray adhesive around for those patterns I rarely do that happen to be larger than a sheet of adhesive paper... my last can lasted about 4 years.. LOL

Maybe that is why he is buying the drafters chair with the caster wheels on it... then you can chase it around the shop while sawing,

Hawk makes a wheel chair accessible stand.. just basically a wide front stance.. looks like it'd take up a lot of room though.. at first I didn't like my Hawk stand compared to my DeWalt three leg stand that I was so used to.. as well as my DeWalt is on quite an angle / tilted that I really loved.. I've tried to raise the back of my Hawk saws... and my Excalibur.. only ended up picking up a lot of vibration... so I put them back level.. Now that I've been using these saws quite a lot over the last 1.5 years and not using my dewalt much at all.. I've grown used to them.. though if / when I do actually sit at my DeWalt.. I do feel more comfortable.. Maybe one day I'll fuss with tilting the other saws again.. when I have more time to tinker around with it.. i'm sure I can probably get the vibration down to a minimum if I took some time to tune the stand and whatever...

I cannot believe how much dust mine has already collected.. You'll be happy with it I'm sure..

Ray, little story about me and my wheeling and dealing, LOL... I don't remember doing this but my parents tell the story all the time... I was the youngest of 7 boys... when I was about 4-5 ish years old I saved my allowance.. and my older bothers (oldest ones was teens and just driving) .. anyway.. they always spent all their money.. and I was always saving for that big expensive toy.. so before next allowance or their payday... at least one brother would be broke and want to borrow money for something.. i became the bank to them and caught on quickly.. they would borrow my money but they had to pay me back with a few extra $$ for the borrowing opportunity.. If one brother declined that deal another would bite on it before the next allowance came around.. My dad says I made like $100 or so in just a few months loaning money and making them pay extra back.. so.. just a little history about me and wheeling and dealing... LOL like I said.. I think I was born this way... Not too many deals in my life where I didn't figure out a way to come out ahead on deals.. yeah I've bought things that once I got them realized I'd have a hard time getting my money back... somehow I always manage to figure a way to do it..

Beautiful pattern and nice job cutting.. I personally find the detailed portrait type cuttings hard to sell at the same hourly type wage that I would get for ornaments and the other things that I sell... which is a big reason I don't typically do portrait type work.. but seems like that is what most pattern designers make.. the few portraits that I have made.. I always stack cut to help keep price points down.. I do have an hourly wage I make for my work plus add the supplies cost.. I do divide the stack cut pieces but also do add slightly more because most portrait type work sets around for a couple years before you sell all of them.. so then you have storage and overhead in something that's not flying off the shelves so to speak.. I've been known to do a raffle drawing on these type of things where I sell tickets if I have enough interest in the item to help bring up the dollar value to my pocket and have a little fun with it..

Could always sell raffle tickets to win it.. sell enough tickets to pay for the saw and maybe a little extra for the time and hassle you went through.. say $10 a ticket and once X amount of tickets sold is when the drawing will be.... LOL that way you can get your money back.. and some lucky winner will get a saw for $10 well unless they buy several tickets.. .. I've done some things like that in the past to sell something that otherwise wouldn't sell for the amount I had invested... I'm sure many folks would gladly pay a shipper the money to package and ship the saw to them.. that is if you have a local packmail or pakNship type store where you can just drop it off and they handle the rest.. See, I was born to be a wheeler dealer sales type person.. it's in my DNA I think.. LOL

You make a very good point about that.. something that I had not thought too much about.. I certainly wish I had two saws.. it seems every time I want to use mine.. I have to change over the complete set up... LOL.. If I was to buy another one.. I'd buy the 10" rikon.. because I don't do a lot of resaw work simply because I use it more for other things and don't want to change the set up..

I'm betting it'll be on sale again around the holidays.. but maybe not as good a deal.. glad you was able to get one at that price.. Do you still have that Hawk?

This and the fact that there is a wide variety of blade holders in his homemade blade holder rack with several tubes.. He certainly wasn't new to scroll saws... kind of makes me think that the saw was possibly put to a lot of use... Not certain of that.. but... Also why I feel whoever listed this.. doesn't know much about the saw.. since they gave no details about the saw nor the blades etc etc... I could be wrong in assuming that though.. I emailed them yesterday afternoon.. still no reply back.. saw has been listed for 15 ish days.. so maybe it's gone... which is something that really annoys me.. if it sold take the ad down.. but since they took so much effort to clean the saw I sort of think they'll take about the same effort to remove the ad, LOL

I don't suggest modifying it if it's working okay for you.. Wiring it direct isn't going to give you more power... and also won't get any more speed out of it.. I wired mine direct because the speed control circuit board messed up and it was " speed hunting " ( fast slow fast slow ) which is almost impossible to use safely.. I almost did a video on how to do it.. but then thought against it simply because I don't want to be held liable for someone else's idiot mistake.. Like I said.. bypassing it doesn't improve anything... it doesn't give more power or make it run any faster than the fastest speed on the variable speed dial.. if it did.. then expect it to be more dangerous to use and also expect the motor to burn up soon.. trying to get more power or faster speed sounds to me like you need a bigger machine.. rather than playing with danger and injury trying to modify what you have... these small units are designed for light duty use.. If you're up on electrical stuff and having a problem with the variable speed.. and have general knowledge of switches and motors etc.. just take it apart and wire it up.. actually was quite simple.. but messing with it if you don't know electrical wiring etc.. I would advise finding someone that does know..

That was exactly my thinking. That and the fact it looks like it’s probably had a fair amount of use. Just doesn’t look like a “great “ deal to me. Especially since I’m not desperate for a saw. Lol

I really kind of question if the seller really even knows anything about it.. My experience with these higher end saws that have very little information about the saw has been that the actual owner had past away and the seller has no idea what they are trying to sell.. I question the Variable foot switch. why have that? the saw has variable speed.. so does the person really know what it is? I don' t know.. Same for the saw... I may be wrong but I sort of feel like if this person selling the saw knew what a G4 is they'd have stated that the saw is a G4 and a 26" saw etc.. I only knew it was a G4 by looking at the emblem at the back of the saw... No where in the ad do they give any kind of details.. By the looks of all the blades, blade holder tubes. etc. I'm kind of assuming the owner used it a fair amount..

The one Hawk saw that I don't know much about other than reading about it being the top of the line Hawk saw... Does anyone know if they are only made in the 26" throat or did the make a 20" version? I found one not too far from me for $400... I sent the seller a couple of questions but I honestly am not all that interested.. unless they are selling it at a few hundred less.. I don't need another old worn out Hawk to rebuild.. If I'm buying another it'll be new condition if not new.. Really like to get the new BM series if I'm buying one, LOL https://grandrapids.craigslist.org/for/d/scroll-saw/6717264257.html It's been on there for several days now.. maybe they sold it already.. or maybe not and now they'll bargain.. LOL