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About an hour from where I live Kevin. Up near the wood place that I found. I could hit them both in an hour or so.

That was one of the first things I put up when I got married 49 years ago. I don't like kids.

That's my biggest complaint about Bear Woods. I ordered blades from them and if I recall it took about 2 weeks to get to me. I hate waiting. I'm too old now and time is short. Like that proverbial "toilet paper" roll spinning faster and faster.

I just found these two charts and thought I'd throw them in here. I find these to compliment what you posted John.

. Trying to figure out how many balusters and the spacing between them was not an easy task until I found the formula online. I ended up having to make an extra 21 of them to have enough. I spaced them closer together to keep our cats from walking through them. Anyway, thanks John for your chart. I will print it and save it on my wall.

Thanks John, but it would have been much more meaningful if I didn't have to figure out what all those "mm" equate to. What size is 8 1/2" x 11"?

I realize you are way south of me but would you mind sharing the names of the places you use? If you want you can private message them to me.

The floor in my little shop is 3/4" plywood on top of 4 x 4's on top of concrete. I just bought a bunch of the foam floor padding that Harbor Freight sells and did the entire shop with it. What a difference in my scroll saws. No vibration at all. I built custom stands for both of them out of 2 x and 4 x construction and they were pretty good as to vibration but since putting them on the foam padding, it's like night and day. I strongly recommend it. Much better than carpet.

Thanks Kevin for your great explanation. I am going to be ordering some blades in the very near future. I forgot about Dnd. I was looking at Qtena and Bear. Qtena won't let you mix and match. Bear will but they are in Canada and it takes longer to get stuff from them. I will check out DnD and do a mix and match order. I made a couple of mistakes on blade orders in the past and I now have some blades that I may or may not use. But, live and learn. I'm pretty much going to stick with the Pegas blades but as mentioned above, I might give the FD Penguin blades a try. I'm not one to do a lot of cutting of the same thing all the time. I will be doing just about everything so I will have a chance to try most everything I have in my arsenal. Right now, puzzles don't call out to me as does intarsia. I like to make things that are functional so I will be more in the boxes, baskets and bowls area. I am not the most learned person when it comes to wood choice either. I will have to lean on others here for advice on what wood to use for different things. When it comes to finishing, that is another whole can of worms for me. So, onward and upward. Sorry to have taken this topic off course.

I would think that if you were to use the blue LokTite you would only have to do it once.

On the Dewalt you can take the bottom off the blower and turn it 180 degrees. Then the blower tube comes out the other side. I did it and it works just fine.

I have been following ALL the threads that talk about blades and I am seeing that the #5 seems to be the size of choice in most cases. I know when I took the marquetry class we were using 2/0 for the very thin veneer. But I see most everybody using either 1/8 BB or other thicknesses of hardwoods and it looks like most everybody is using #5. I have blades of all the major brands and in sizes ranging from 2/0 to 12. I have been experimenting with all sizes and configurations on this compound cutting project. So far, the best cutting comes from the Pegas #5 MGT. So, with that said, I guess I'll just order a gross of those and not have to go through all the confusion of which blade to use. Anybody who has input here would be greatly appreciated. Just wanting to hear all sides of the story. Which blade for which wood etc.

Think positive Les, you will go through a gross of blades long before your demise. Buy 2 gross.

Ok, I've gotta ask,.....what is a "live edge"?

Have I missed where you posted the price? If the price is right, and it works ok when tested, having been lifted by the upper arm may not be a problem. It's just not advisable to do that. Give it a test run. If you can get it for under $250 or so, go for it. Everything is still available for the saws but more than likely you won't have to buy anything. If you are at all mechanically gifted, you will be able to tear it down and put it together very easily. These saws are basically indestructible. About the only thing that might cost more than it's worth to replace would be the motor.

There was probably a study done that found pregnant unicorns got cancer for the paint on the Grizzly's.

The project I'm working on now requires 8 panels of compound cutting in red cedar. The short side is 3/4" and the tall side is 1 1/2". I have been experimenting with all the different blades I have. That included Olson, FD, PS Woods, and Pegus. I've tried everything from 3 to 9 in regular and reverse. After much cussing and a lot of mess, I have decided that the Pegus is by far the best. I'm using #5 MGT and they seem to stay sharp the longest and clear the sawdust out of the kerf the best. I'm going to place an order for all sizes of Pegus from 2/0 to 7, a gross of each. I'm tired of trying to figure out which blade to use. Just trying to keep them all sorted out and remembering what I have is too much for me.

I looked at all the different brands and prices. They all look very similar but the difference seems to be in the CFM. The Wen is much less that most others but for a shop the size of mine, I don't think it will matter. I'm going out now to collect cans and bottles so I can save up for it. Soon I hope.,

I'm lucky. The place I ordered from (Qtena) is only about an hour from where I live. I had them the next day.

Les, if you can live with doing all the tensioning at the back of the saw, it might be ok. I paid $300 for a 1996 with same equipment but mine had been updated with the new upper arm that has the front tension lever, it had the aluminum knob for tightening the blade upper blade clamp and a bunch of blade holders. It was missing the factory wrench though. That was a $25 cost. Make sure if you test it to look closely at the "soft start" feature. Mine had the soft start but it seemed to search for the desired speed for a second or two. That's why I sold it. I didn't like that. As far as I'm concerned, you have saws now that are as good as or better than the Hegner. I may have had a bad experience but now, I'm just going to lay back and wait for the right deal to come along on a Hawk like yours. Then, I think I will have all the saws I will ever need.

Yeah, I was always going to make one out of a furnace blower that I had. It was a 3 spd. and all but I never got around to doing it and eventually, we sold everything to go on the road. Big plans back then.

I did make a jig but I guess I didn't think about it holding everything together. I'll give that a try. Thanks again Dan.

Thanks Pete. I appreciate your input.

After reading another thread regarding air cleaning, I got to thinking about adding an air filter to my shop. I found this one on Amazon. Can anybody give me a thumbs up or down on it? https://www.amazon.com/WEN-3410-3-Speed-Remote-Controlled-Filtration/dp/B00LPD9BDI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1539110839&sr=8-3&keywords=workshop+air+filter&dpID=51yk6KdhUkL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

In my small shop, the wall studs are on 20" centers. There are a lot of them for such a small area. I put a double outlet box on every stud at 42" from the floor. I have outlets behind stuff that won't get used at all unless I move what's in front of them. But, they are there if and when I need them. Over my workbench, I have even plugged in six way outlets in order to have enough for all the stuff that I have plugged in. I have a computer monitor and the actual box, that's two right there. I have my Fein plugged in, a small air compressor plugged in, a soldering station, drill press, Dewalt saw, light/magnifier, fan, radio and a 6 outlet strip that powers my two battery charging bases for my drills. I could go on and on. The point I am making, you can't have enough outlets. I put them all on a dedicated 20 amp circuit. My lights are all on a dedicated 15 amp circuit. I also put 2 double boxes outdoors for when I am working on my driveway. If I had a shop the size of yours, I can't imagine how many boxes I'd have. A huge amount though.