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I like the speed that Lacquer dries.. BUT, you need some very good ventilation as that stuff has a strong smell.. and will make your projects smell bad for a couple days.. That said.. I have messed with some of the water based polyurethane and I have to say it dries just about as fast or maybe even faster.. Much less potent smell and could actually be mailed out after drying for a few hours.. so that is what I've been using for the last 6-8 months. I suggest you buy and try spray cans of either one and see what you like. Those two I mentioned is probably about the fastest drying finishes that I know of.. OH, another fairly fast drying finish is Shellac.. also not too strong smelling.. Lacquer is potent stuff.. don't light any sparks or matches after spraying that stuff, LOL

That will be perfect Dan, Thank you!!

Guess I should have been more specific... I wasn't asking for advice on how to make the design, I have those ideas in my head.. I'm not proficient at the design software yet so I don't have time to set for 45 - 1hr. designing a pattern.. I was asking if anyone knows of one for sale or otherwise that is already made.. When I said I could easily remove the hat.. I meant as in not working with a pattern at all.. just take my existing ornament I have in stock and sawing the hat off / out..

Doesn't the newer style Jet saws have a tension adjustment via the tension lever? Like turn it clockwise for a bit more tension and counter clock for less tension? Maybe that got turned several turns and got it out of whack? BUT as I said Jet made a few different saws over the years so without knowing the model I don't know for sure..

Well honestly I probably should have left off the cowgirl in my post as she said cowboy boot.. I think they are pretty much the same style between the two.. other than the girls boot sometimes are pink or other colors.. but I may be wrong.

Welcome to the Village!! I'm assuming you're talking about a newer model Jet saw? They made some old saws that I would have no clue on.. send the model number of the saw and maybe someone can give some ideas to look at.

I had a request for a cowboy boot ornament pattern. I have the one shown from Sue Mey but they don't like the hat in it. I could easily remove the hat but then I think it'd look pretty goofy with the one booth way off to the side with nothing on the other side, LOL Thanks for any leads on a pattern.

Since it's happening to two different blades and completely different brands I'll go out on a limb and say it's not the blade.. Saw set up might be the same etc. But is the blade tension slipping / flexing? during the stroke? Are you pushing straight into the blade or off to the side a bit? Heat kills these blades... a slight side pressure will create heat.. pushing too hard feeding the blade creates heat. I find it real easy to either push too hard or sometimes onto the side of the blade when cutting out the rounded outer profile of an ornament, patients is key when doing those long cuts. I used to have a lot of troubles with this until I found the Pegas MGT blades.. they bite right through fast enough on those longer cuts I don't tend to push like I did with other blades..

I agree with what has been said already.. you can always find places to "donate" for local charities, toys for tots, salvation army, goodwill.. mail it to me Many years ago there was a portrait for fallen military men and women site where artist donate their patterns ( judges voted on the best design ) and then there were looking for sawers to cut said portraits.. etc.. They would have designated folks to deliver these in person per-area etc.. pretty neat operation and a good cause... This was back in 2004-5 when I was first getting into scroll sawing as a hobby.. I never felt I was good enough in the beginning and once I felt I would like to give that a try.. I lost the website contact info etc.. Anyone else remember this or know where the site is.. This is something I've often thought about doing.. Might be something like this you could do in your local area or? just some thoughts.. Edit to add: There is also a company that had contacted me several times through etsy, my site etc.. that you can mail your products too and they sell it for you.. crazy % though so I never wanted to do it.. I want to say they get 60+ % of the price.. but it is getting you a little money to help off set the cost of materials.. If they message me again I can bookmark the link and pass it onto you.. They haven't messaged in a while, may not even be doing it any more but there has to be something of this nature online.. If not maybe I should start one up.

Sounds basically like the same issue I had with the Hawk and basic idea of what they told me to do with the uprights.. Good info incase I ever buy a Hegner.. MY OCD kicks in on having the saw tuned properly.. I think most just pull it out of the box and expect it to work great.. might happen on luck but I've never bought a saw yet that was straight out the box tuned and ready to go.. Yeah they work that way but not as efficiently and or smooth.

Yes, Denny sells the Pegas brand blades. If you used the blade I had installed and liked it it was a Pegas Modified Geometry blade.. I think that one was a #5 but may have been a #3.. That said small samples of a lot of styles and sizes is the best method to find what you like for your style cutting and your comfort level. Here is a link to his site https://www.artcraftersonline.com/

Have you contacted Hegner about this? I think if nobody here can give you suggestions on saw alignment and fixing the problem I'd contact Hegner to see what they say..

My RBI are not like this, but one of them was at one time, brought it up to the fine folks at Bushton and the rear uprights are out of alignment when this happens. You loosen all the bolts that hold the uprights from underneath the stand and turn the saw on the lowest setting.. run it for a few seconds and it should alien itself. Can't help with the Hegners because I've never owned / used one.. But I can say it's not supposed to be that way ( at least on the RBI's ) It's amazing how nice and smooth a saw actually does work when one takes time to learn and tune them..

Could be a couple things going on.. Since you're using shelf liner most times that stuff comes off pretty good so I doubt its because that it sticking too good. I have had cases where I had a dull drill bit and I was drilling too fast for the drill bit to keep up with removing the chips.. this punctures the back side of the ornament and while it may not look punctured after drilling.. but it loosens it up in the last layer of the ply.. then when you cut it loosens and chips fall out creating somewhat what you are talking about but on the back side usually.. but can also happen on the front too if you're really pushing the drill through to hard. Also pre-sanding the blanks helps a lot.. especially if the plywood is older and has been in some higher humidity at some point.. the high humidity sort of loosens the fibers of the wood.. I find sanding first helps a lot with this..

Glad you got things sorted out without having to spend money.. Is this on the little 8" Delta drill press? My bearings in mine have been noisy for a couple years.. it's probably worn enough that it may not be repairable... I've wanted to take it apart and repair / rebuild it but it lacks a few things I'd like to have on a drill press so I think I'm going to buy a new one at some point. What one I have no idea.. I've posted about them a couple times in the past and never have pulled the trigger.. Gotta say though.. I only paid $2 for this thing 13 years ago at a tractor swap meet, so I think I probably drilled enough holes to get my moneys worth from it.. I assume I could sell it as it is still working decent.. just a bit noisy bearing.. Might even be able to get my $2 back out of it if I list it on FB Marketplace, LOL Anyway, I'm glad you posted this as I learned a few things from this topic.. Oh, was also going to say.. This is weird but.. I have one of those little chuck inserts for the smaller bits.. and it also wobbles quite a lot, but I learned something about it maybe 10 years ago.. Why this happens I have no idea.. but it could be worth trying on your drill press.. Anyway, I learned that if I mount the small adapter in a certain way it smooths out the wobble big time.. so when I figured this out I took a marker and marked a line on the drill chuck and on the adapter.. If I line those to lines up I get hardly any wobble.. When I first discovered this I had it running very smooth and then went to drill a clock hole and then reinserted the adapter with the small drill still in it and it wobbled crazy.. Nothing changed in that 2 minutes other than the position that it was mounted in... so I took the adapter out turned it ( my adapter has a hex shank and probably where the issue lies ) so it clamped onto another portion of the shank.. still wobbled so did it once again and it worked great.. so that is when I made those marks.. now I look for the marks to line it up.. never had much trouble from it since then.. You might try this..

Here is something you might find useful... https://www.mikestools.com/ownersmanuals/DeltaScrollSaws/40-540.pdf Mikestools is the best place around to find obsolete parts for these old Delta saws.. I rebuilt one of these saws back in 2006.. many parts were no longer available but searching online for parts and part numbers I found Mikestools.. He was a great person to deal with.. I haven't dealt with him in about 6 years now. He had a obsolete part for my old Delta jointer that kept me from throwing it in the trash..

I'm a little confused as I've never heard of one using pinned blades on the quickset ll blade chucks.. that saw should have a blade clamp that you use a lever to clamp the blade.. Photo is of one of the quickset style clamps.. does your saw have this style? If not them I'm betting someone had changed it over to a older style clamp...

Just curious since I know very little about drill press / drill chucks.. Is there any reason not to go with a keyless chuck? Got to admit I hate messing with having a keyed chuck on my drill press.. and it seems so nice to not have that key on my cordless drill.. I'm assuming that the keyed chuck probably holds better? I think if I was to replace the chuck on my press I'll be looking at keyless unless you all think there would be an issue with it holding my forestner bits.. Though I have used it in my cordless with no slippage issues..

This one is the one Karl posted a picture of ( I think ) and it says 0 - 3/8 which yeah it only goes to a 3/8" ... that wouldn't work for me as I need to use my forestner bits for the clock holes which are ( I think ) 1/2" https://littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=1659&category=

Took me a while to find them so I put in the search bar JT33 on the site Karl mentioned.. Not sure why but his link wouldn't work for me.. even copy and paste to google search wouldn't bring it up so I searched just the name.. Here is the results from the JT33 search.. https://littlemachineshop.com/products/search.php?tabName=Products&term=jt33

I'm not either.. the seller has seemed to skip the important description.. In the reviews I found a person saying that it measured at 24.5 inches at the lowest setting.. But that review may be for a different chair too.. LOL

Sure I make campfires out of scraps and ooops projects every summer and from those scraps come homemade smores Okay on a more serious note, yes but it has been about a year or so.. But to be quite honest.. I really like cutting the car clocks.. I have no place or use for 100 different car makes and models so.. it's fun to make new designs etc.. Some of them I've taken down off the web because I got tired of making the same one a 100 times, LOL.. If sales are slow I sometimes will make a few batches and send an alert out on social media that I have them back in stock.. they usually sell within a couple weeks..

The last few 1000 of them I bought from a recycle place on eBay.. but they went out of business I think.. I try to use recycled and earth friendly packing supplies when I can. I just bought a sample pack of some Kraft paper ones.. as I'm not super fond of the poly ones.. shipping labels don't stick real well to the poly ones.. I buy packing peanuts from Staples that are a by product of wheat I think it was.. anyway they melt once they're wet.. and I had a hard time keeping my dog from eating them. Anyway I'm looking into a place that makes / sells biodegradable cushion mailers.. I might try a sample.. Meanwhile I just bought 500 of them from this seller and they seem to be decent.. just that they're poly and I'm trying to find a better source. https://www.ebay.com/itm/373087821222?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=641873188375&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Packing orders in the nice warm house. About half done with the overnight orders in the top box. Bottom box is yesterday’s orders. Then I get to pack the boxes that contain larger items like clocks etc. So during the holidays I spend most my time packing orders or making custom / personalized requests orders. Usually turn those away the 1st of December. I have a dozen to make now so that’ll take me up to the delivery deadline. Many folks will order even though they won’t get it until after the new year. Then I spend a large part of January doing bookkeeping for tax season. Mid January- February I get to go back to production cutting and starting to restock next years sales.

Almost 11 years ago for me.. however I didn't really become active until about 7-8 years ago.. There was only two other sites that was even close to being as good as this site... One was a MSN Group and when MSN shut the groups down that family of scrolling friends kinda split up.. many migrated to the Magazine site.. and a lot of wonderful designers and others didn't get along with the rules etc. of the magazine site and lost a few more family and friendships.. Then a site called Free4AllScrollSawPatterns was developed.. Many of those lost designers and friends moved to that one.. That was my hang out for a long time, I found this place through that site from someone there. Joined up but never posted much.. just read topics etc. That site shut down.. lost a lot of those folks again.. after that I stayed behind the scenes of several sites.. and eventually felt this place was home.. Thanks to Travis and the team for keeping this place picked up and tidy.