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Setting at my scroll saw and looked out the window.. They must like that I just cut the grass and wanted to lay in it.

Just came in from cutting some ornaments on the Hegner... I do really like the saw but this is one of the hang up for me. though I am starting to get used to it. Also the accessory arm where the dumb hold down foot thingy that we alway take off saws.. that is actually lower than the arm and I'm going to try to pay more attention next project to see if I'm hitting that instead of the actual arm, as I think that's what I'm hitting when trying to feed the blade or remove it.. I know I hit that once while removing the blade to move to the next spot which is what brought my attention to that. That arm doesn't really need to be there I don't think except I do have the light mount and use it for my mag light.

If you look closely at the photos you'll see they do not have a slotted motor mount so adjusting the aggression is probably not an option.. Makes me wonder though if I could make a slotted mount and make that work so you could adjust it.

Organization is my flaw.. but I am kinda a clean freak.. my wife will sometimes organize things for me.. My wife can pack things up in half the space I do so that is what I'm talking about organizing.. I guess what I'm saying is I get clutter but it's not dirty clutter.. If I could have someone lay out my shop and tools to where it'd work without having to move stuff just to use it that'd be awesome.. my wife doesn't understand that I need space around the table saw and planer for the infeed and outfeed of lumber.. I don't like digging things out just to rip a board or to chop a length to size.. I have all the rolling stands for the planer and really all the stuff is on mobile bases other than the scroll saws themselves as for me having wheels on those stands makes them pick up vibration..

There have been a lot of these coming out lately, and I don't think they're made in China.. most I have seen are made in Taiwan. Grizzly has one just like it but it's green.. they also have a larger table than the others.. There was a couple other brands (Bucktool) I recently seen too when searching for the grizzly one. I also noticed they have a different dust collection set up to hook the vac to.. I'm wondering if the parts from a 22" Jet would be the same.. My issue with buying these is parts... though I suppose at the price you could just pitch it and buy another, lol.. But like with my China made EX-21.. all the normal EX parts from Seyco worked on it other than the tubing size was different for replacing the rocker arm assemblies I had to take all the pieces off the new ones and put them on the older mounts. Been an awesome saw since I did that rebuild. Pushing close to 600 hours on the meter now and still doing decent..

Yes a clean shop is a much safer shop.. piles of sawdust can be a fire hazard.. especially in my shop as I do autobody repair stuff from time to time and welding / grinding etc creates a lot of sparks that can easily ignite that sawdust that many folks just leave there or just blow it out so it settles back down in harder to get to areas.. This is why I use a vacuum to clean rather than blowing it out during my deep clean.

You have that set up very nice! I like it.. I try to keep everything in one bay but it's started to spill over into my other bay which I like to keep opened up incase I need to quickly pull a car in or tractor etc. for a repair.. which is why I need to set a few tools onto someone else. It looks like your floor is painted? If it is how do you like that? I painted my shop floor right after they poured the concrete but I just used more of a sealer paint that was clear.. and I tell you it's slick if you go in with wet shoes.. It needs to be recoated (probably next year now) and I was thinking about going with the grey color to help "brighten up the shop.. that clear stuff I used sort of darkened the concrete and I think the lighter grey would help find my lower blade clamp on the Hegner saw when it goes flying during the blade breaking, I was a eBayer for a lot of years selling car and tractor parts.. then they started catering to the "power sellers" where you sell cheap but in high volume.. then started encouraging sellers to do free shipping and raised the fees etc. so I got out of it because of the competition.. and moved into selling my crafts on various sites.. now those sites have been doing the same stuff and I'm kinda conforming to this as everywhere is basically the same way or else if not the sales are dead.. Catering to the shopper is what brings in the shoppers to these sites.. I don't like how it works but that is what these big venues research and find so in order to get any sales you have to do what they do no matter where you sell at.. They found that shoppers are too lazy and many times dumb to calculate shipping cost so to fix the problem they found people are more likely to buy if you offer free shipping and run sales / discounts every week or so..

Depends upon what saw you have.. the older Hawk saws was not capable to do top feeding... but the G4 (2005) and newer saws you can top feed with them.. I don't know if you can still get them but there was a guy making retrofit blade chuck adapters so you can put the Delta Quickset blade chucks on a Hawk and many other scroll saws. @Rolf I believe has them on his Hawk.. The issue is finding a good set of Delta clamps since they discontinued them many years ago.. about the best way now is to find a old saw at garage sales etc to rob the clamps from.

Yeah I've seen the topic on here some years ago about doing that.. Probably could search and not find the topic though, LOL.. I struggle with the search function on here.. LOL but sometimes I get lucky if I know who posted the topic or some pretty specific info then it works better,

I do a deep clean 2 times a year... typically spring and fall and I mean running the shop vac with a brush attachment and clean the dust off the walls, ceiling, lights, spray dry lube on the garage doors, wax all the equipment and their stands. I find by waxing the stands and everything metal that the sawdust doesn't stick to them so bad and typically falls to the floor where it can be vacuumed easier. Mop the shop floor only once a year or so as I do pull cars in on the one bay now and then to do a repair.. This is kind of the downside to having a larger shop and too many tools, LOL.. I currently have 5 scroll saws but mainly only use 2 of them.. been thinking it's probably about time to sell off a couple and a few other things.. I used to be good at wheeling and dealing but I've grown to hate selling things online anymore so the stuff just keep piling up, LOL. Now days there are just way too many idiots on marketplace.. It started getting bad on Craigslist but that place is dead anymore since FB Marketplace came onboard.. People say they're on there way and then don't show.. people offering 25% of asking price without even coming to look at what you have.. I've thought about putting stuff on eBay and see what happens.. but marketplace just has way to many people that do not give any respect / courtesy whatsoever to a seller..

So the other day I decided to get back at scroll sawing to build up some inventory after quite a long break away from sawing other than the occasional custom order I've let much of my inventory get depleted over the last couple years really. I thought I'd dig out the Hegner I picked up a couple years ago and blow the dust off it so I can get it covered in sawdust, LOL... Let me say it didn't take me long to switch back over to the Hawk, While the Hegner is a good smooth running saw I couldn't get past the annoyance of the upper arm not moving up out of my way far enough and the tiny table top had me ruin a blade because my project was falling off the edge and trying to catch it I smashed and bent my brand new blade.. This isn't a Hegner bashing post at all and with saw time I'd get used to this stuff as I've only put 5 hours run time on it in the 1.5 years I've had it. Love how small the triangle stand is and how smooth the saw runs.. (way smoother than the Hawk throughout the speed dial even though the Hawk is quite smooth there is more shaking than the Hegner and Excalibur) Anyway, using the Hegner the other day for a short time brought me back to memory lane of my first saw which was a 16" Delta two speed saw which the upper arm didn't go up very high on either and also have special tool for blade changing etc. This made me realize just how far I've came over the years of starting out on several entry level saws trying to find a cheap saw that'd work for me on a tight budget. I went through several Deltas, Ryobi's, Craftsmans.. before I ended up with a Dremel 1800 that was finally a "decent" user friendly saw but made from poor quality because I had to rebuild the rear linkage about every 8 months.. but I used that saw for 3+ years before upgrading to a DeWalt and wow was that an upgrade. Today with being spoiled with spring loaded upper arms and all the blade adjustment things that the Hawk and Excalibur type saws have I don't think I could even go back to a DeWalt even though they are great saws.. So what's your first saw? and could you happily go back to use it again? Some of you might still be at your first saw and some might have went all in and bought a good (user friendly) saw from the start.

You know I had never thought about the glue sprayed on the pattern doing this but over the years I've also had times where the sawdust really doesn't want to blow off of my pattern very well with the dust blower.. Only been a issue once in a while. I'll have to try to be more conscious about how much glue I spray on and see if this is the reason. I don't use spray glue very much anymore since using full sheet shipping labels. There are times when I do a larger pattern where the full sheet label won't work and then I have to use the spray glue.

I don't know how much you are intending to spend but if looking at "new" saws Grizzly has a pretty impressive price on their newest saw which is very much like the Excalibur or Pegas.. Probably a bit steep for what you're looking at as I think it's priced in the $500 - 600 ish range. Personally I'd look at some better name brand used saws like Ray mentioned before I spend about the same money on a new entree level saw.. the thing is that these lower end saws can make the scrolling experience not very desirable with a lot of vibrating and not very user friendly blade changes etc.. Many times people start with a low end saw and find that they are limited and find themselves somewhat enjoying the sawing but cumbersome blade changing etc. has them searching out another saw in a short time.

I've done a lot of test like this over the years which also included trying said blades on various different saw set-ups.. My conclusion is very similar to what you found.. Really hard to beat those Pegas blades.. only thing I found that might be very slightly better and longer lasting was the P.S.Woods Super Sharps blades.. BUT.. they are very expensive blades and no reverse teeth so they leave you with more sanding of a rough back edge, but they are a bit faster more aggressive blade.. Not worth the money in my opinion but they it's worth mentioning them because they was the only blade that even came close to what the Pegas MGT blades could do..

My camper doesn't have a slide out and I've never really been around one enough to know if that would be normal or not. So far I have taken the dinette seats and a portion of a cabinet out. I then took the stove, sink, and refrigerator out as I found the wall on the other side was soft and I have another what appears to be active leak.. I kinda stopped working after that as I'm trying to decide if it's worth trying to fix.. We plan to go looking at some new and used ones and have looked at a couple older used ones that we spotted what looked like maybe the start of some leak damage so nope.. not going that route since I have one that I could rebuild and make it however we want since it looks like I'll have to basically gutt the whole thing if I continue with repairing the one I have. All of the stuff I've removed so far had been screwed from both outside and inside into the wall studs. more screws on the inside but there are some that come in from the outside. It makes for a really tough job to remove things without destroying them.. so I may turn this into something else like a makeshift mobile shop or turn into a flatbed trailer, LOL.. Making a shop out of it would allow me to use the furnace and the A/C.. I don't care if I have to rebuild some of the walls or even reroof it again.. but gutting it out I won't care if i destroy the cabinets or anything because I'll just be gutting it.. If I try saving the thing as a camper then I want to try to carefully remove the cabinets etc.. and that is a lot of work.. was doable with just the one small portion of the wall on one side but now that I discovered the other side too.. This thing is old and served us well through the years of my kids growing up.. I neglected it for several years now as life happen with the kids going to college and everything we hadn't camped in close to 8 - 10 years now.. Used to spend most of a summer camping..

That is wonderful that he is still around. I don't get out into some of the "other scrollsaw forums" like I used to and although a member of most of them I only check in on them every now and then.

Yes I also use the shelf liner.. I don't like the smell of MS.. and don't even keep any around.. Unless I'm cleaning car engine parts.. works great for a degreaser.. LOL.. Never used it for my woodworking though.

If you put your blade in backwards it's not as sharp and won't cut you.. might get a burn though. It also makes a single project last 3 times longer..so you don't go through so much wood.. Glad you had quick reflexes and wasn't worse than it was..

I mostly use full sheet self adhesive shipping labels so it takes me a couple years to use up a can of spray glue. Aside from the nozzle clogging up now I seem to have the can leak down its air pressure so either way I almost always end of tossing out a 1/4 of a can in one way or another.

I think having the quick clamp will help tremendously.. Sounds like a good saw as not all of them were variable speed and the Multimax 18's are perfect size. I might be wrong but I thought I read where you could upgrade those older 18" saws to have the up front tension release? Though probably not cheap as nothing in the Hegner parts line is cheap, LOL

Glad you was able to get it sorted out and working better. Sorry to hear about the storms and what they did.. We've had some strong storms roll through quite a lot more than normal this year.. lots of rain too.. normally the grass is all dried up by July but I've been having to mow 2 times a week to keep up with it... in between the rain, LOL..

No pictures it didn't happen, LOL What model did you get? I'm not certain if the quick clamps are available for the 14" saws but I think you can for the 18" saws.. probably better off to listen to those that have more experience with these than me. I've just never seen the 14" with the quick clamp on it.. Even the newer ones.. I'm thinking the 93 18" models probably don't have the up front tension release either..

Are you saying you want to stack cut three at a time? The way the question is asked is a bit confusing because you say cutting them individually at the end. If you mean you want to stack cut three at a time of each design.. then there are many methods to achieve that. I mostly use either packing tape or painters tape around the edges of the wood blank.. in certain situations I've used short wood screws in waste areas.. such as if the pattern design is going to be a very large cut and the tape around the edges don't hold the center portion very well.. but I don't so that often.. most projects 12 x 18 inch I just use tape around the edges..

I'll try to remember that for the next person that might ask me for the pattern.. This post was 7 years ago and I have no idea if the person that messaged me still needs it or even how to find who that person was now.. just some random message I got from Etsy.. for some reason I get people all the time spamming me for access to patterns of items I have made on there..

I have the full disk of patterns and Paul is 100% correct.. Not ALL patterns are available on that site. I do not sell these but was told "Certain CD's " did have rights to sell them.. I don't know about that and am not chancing it nor would I want to sell any of these anyway.. For what it's worth.. there was no agreement within the download that I received with these designs either.. I purchased the "download" not the CD.. you had a option to get it on disc mailed to you or digital download.. almost seems like the disc was also sold out and was only available in the digital format, but anyway rather than wait for a disc I did the download.. maybe the agreement didn't get bundled with the downloaded files? I don't know, I do know they was only available for a very short time before they (Rick and Karen) sold to Benjamin. Either way I have not sold any of these and don't intend to. P.S. Quoting Len won't get anywhere with him as I don't believe he is with us anymore. He and I communicated quite a lot in PM's and he was pretty rough shape 4 years ago.. I see he hasn't been longed on since 2022.. so I assume he is no longer with us.. EDIT: Just wanted to clarify that I did in fact find the Terms within the downloaded files that the patterns are not to be sold etc.. They was in a folder that you would never expect it to be in.. Probably should have had a "Terms of Use" folder so people could find it. I spend a good 40 minutes to find it and actually had to download a program so my computer would even open the odd file.. Now everyone knows..