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I've never really met her or got into doing intarsia yet, but have seen the name thrown out there on the web a lot over the years. Prayers to the family and those close to her

My local store says they have several in stock.. according to the website. I need to go there at some point to pick up a new multimeter as the free one they used to give out 15 years ago quit working on me.. go figure.. I have a battery drain on one of my Jeeps and also need to test the coil on one of my tractors.. Never realized just how much I use those meters until I don't have one. I even had a back-up but it didn't work either, lol.. I think my son said he hooked something up wrong and blew the fuse in them.. turns on.. just won't test anything so not a battery issue. Anyway, maybe I'll take a trip there in the next few days. My store is usually good at having inventory but not great about getting a display out very quickly.. so they probably do have several still boxed up. It's kinda a smaller store than other towns have so that is probably why.

110% agree.. Over the years I've been toying with inkscape and I am able to do a lot more for myself but there are still many things to learn and many times I need those more talented than I to do some of these more difficult things. I hope one day I'll be good enough to help others with patterns.. but.. at the rate of my learning and experimenting with these drawing programs.. I might never get that good in my lifetime, LOL

I've posted about this some years ago and so has a few others over the years. I've kinda wanted to look into the magnifier lights that have the flip-up lens cover.. but back then many folks said that cover is cheap and most get broken off. For a while there I was putting a square piece of plywood over the top so it'd block the light from getting to the lens but I used the wood for a project and never replaced it with something.. So thank you for that reminder. The way I found it is one time on my old DeWalt saw the table top burnt me as the light was shining just on the edge of the table and made it hot.. so thankful it was only hitting the top of the table and not something flammable.. Many times I would get up from the saw and just leave my project setting on the top.. That could start that wood on fire very easily..

Most of the new saws coming out now days.. actually I think all of them are tilting saw and not the table.. Most are just a knockoff of the early EX saw.. and basically rebranded.. Some made in China and some of the better ones made in Taiwan.

That was one of the other things I did.. back then I was making a lot of desk clocks to sell and every time I'd have to set up my forestner bit in then switch it back out etc.. so I bought a new drill press to just leave the one set up with the forestner bit.

That was the original reason I first bought my first second saw second saw.. then the reason I ended up with several more was because of them being free and or so cheap they might as well have been free.. Only reason I bought my new Hawk was 1) I've always wanted to try the new one with the adjustable blade aggression and having the lower arm come out to the front of the saw rather than behind the angle adjustment mechanism 2) That year we was trying to stay under a lower tax bracket so at the end of the year I had to spend some cash for write offs that was also why I bought the CNC and laser.. always had a interest in them but they was always way out of my spending limits.. other than that one year. Anyway now for some reason i have 4 back-up saws, LOL.. and I'm really torn on which ones to send to a new owner so I've kept them all for a couple years.. My only regret in all of that was I wish I had bought a smaller cheaper CNC and a larger more expensive laser.. Turns out after getting to learn enough to use them I end up wishing the CNC didn't take so much room and I wish I could do larger projects on the laser, LOL I've never once used the full capacity of the CNC size and likely never will, LOL. Yet almost every time I use the laser I wish I could run a larger batch of ornaments and be able to do larger projects on it.

Welcome to the Village This is a single speed saw and it's been my understanding that the motor issues were on the VS ( variable speed ) models.. Probably be best to give Bushton Manufacturing a call and they could confirm if this motor is one with the issues or not. I'm kind of wondering if maybe a variable speed saw might be a better option with your dads health issues it might be easier for him to be able to slow the saw way down if needed. Also a lot of people have trouble with these older style blade clamps on these older saws ( the round barrel style lower clamp can be a frustration to some people.. I've never had any issue with them but I've seen many topics on these message boards over the years where many have trouble with these blade clamps )

Yeah I have a large 30 x 30 garden not to far to the right of the photo where I mostly grow red, yellow and sweet potatoes and they ate the tops of the plant off.. I'm wanting and maybe will next year fence a larger area as I wanting to do sweet corn too. I also have two 4 x 10 raised bed gardens up by the house in the back yard and this year did an experimental 5 gallon bucket garden that didn't work because we had a lot of rain and I didn't drill enough drain holes in the bottom of the buckets... IF the bucket thing works well next year I think I'll be building more of them. Anyway to get back to the deer eating my garden I read online that if you put some post in and tie fishing line around it at a couple different heights it scares them as they can't see the line but they feel it when they bump into it.. It worked well and my plants came back.. Just dug up 4 plants and got about 5 pound of yellow and 5 pounds of red potatoes this morning. I have about 60 plants. They stay in the ground and I just dig them up as needed.. any that I miss grow into plants again next year, LOL Been doing that for 30 ish years now.. no need to buy them anymore.

Not sure if it's just on my end or what but when I click on these links it just brings me back to this topic, LOL

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..