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I did test drive one at Klingspor. The bottom of the blade is first locked into a special barrel type holder that is then snapped into the saw. I believe only one holder comes with the machine. Then you lower the top arm and there is a lever to lock the top of the blade. The saw was smooth and appeared well built. If I was a bottom feeder and needed a new saw I would really consider it.

Any will do. Even Walmart sells them: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Aqua-Culture-5-15-Gallon-Single-Outlet-Aquarium-Air-Pump/44662572

Sanding to shape and contour the pieces bring the project to life but the real key to Intarsia starts PRECISION cutting. You are cutting pieces out of different pieces of wood and often times different thickness wood. If you cutting is not right on the pieces will not fit together properly and all the sanding and contouring in the world won't fix that.

What Brian said. You need to use a brad point bit and a sharp one. Remember drill bits do get dull and wear out. Keep extras on hand.

I put over 1,000 hours on a Type 2 I have owned for 15 years. I still have my original brushes. I guess they can and do fail or at lest wear out but I doubt it is common.

At slower speeds I find myself pushing the wood more and not feeding the wood. The causes the blade to bend. I do 90% of my cutting at the max speed setting. Especially on puzzles.

I give thanks to all the designers and wonderful people at SSV for their efforts. I am very glad to be a part of this and I do my part making a donation. Hopefully next year I will have the skills to donate patterns and money.

Lee you really did your home work. I have seen to many people attempt this and fail because they were not prepared. The number 1 and number 2 biggest mistakes many do is not to research the event they are going to and not investing in good looking displays.

Wishing you all a BLESSED Thanksgiving.

Super WOW. First show? I have been doing shows for over 15 years. Here are a few things. - Get a Square or other charge card device. Any more at least 30% of my sales are credit card. - As Rolf said only display one of each item. The exception being ornaments or if using different color / type woods. - Try to stand all day. If you can't, use a tall chair like a directors chair so you are always at eye level with the customers. - Greet everyone walking by. You will be amazed at how many people will stop and shop by simply saying "Good Morning". - Get business cards. Pass them out like candy and give every paying customer one. - Most cash customers carry $20 bills because they stopped at the cash machine before coming. Have plenty of change on hand. Typically I bring $180 in change (30 $5 and 30 $1). - As Iggy said bring water and snacks. If you plan to eat lunch have someone take your place in the booth. Trying to talk to a customer with 1/2 a sandwich in your mouth ain't cool. - Dress nice. Jeans are OK if are clean and not worn. - Unless they are all the same price have prices on all you items. - Keep records of what you sell so you know what to remake. - If you plan to do custom work ask for 1/2 deposit unless it is someone you know and trust.

I joined that club this year.

Try ereplacement parts: http://www.ereplacementparts.com/search_result.php?q=delta+40-530

Setup takes about 2.5 hours. Take down takes about 1 hour. My wife helps with both and she also helps in the booth during the show. Both of these shows have "Helpers" that help transport items from your car to your space and back again.

While I use some poplar I also make them out of walnut, maple and oak. Walnut seems to be my best seller. For a finish I dip my puzzle pieces in Watco Danish Oil - Natural.

If you are like me forget the books and You Tube. I learn better by doing. Make a letter pattern of the entire alphabet using something like Brush Scrpit font in MS Word. Blow it up or print it out (two copies) so the letters are about 3" high. Attach it to pieces of 3/4" poplar or 1/2" Baltic Birch. No piece of wood should be greater then 12" long. Cut all the letters. Congrats you have now made just about every cut you could ever do using a scroll saw. Now do it a second time and see how much you have improved from the first cutting. Now you are ready for some real projects.

Tough one to answer without knowing what you plan to make and what woods you are using. Just like different golf clubs are made for different shots, different fishing lures are made for different kinds of fish and different shape wrenches are made different projects different styles blades are designed for difffernt types of cutting and different materials. If I had to choose my favorite all around blade it would be a #3 or #5 Flying Dutchman Ultra Reverse. You typically don't use a spiral blade to make a puzzles or do inlays because of the size of the kerf. Same token you would not use a flat puzzle blade to cut a 1 3/4" compound ornament as the blade is too thin and flexible. You would not use a #9 skip tooth blade to cut ornaments from 1/8" stock because that size and shape blade cuts too aggressively and would tear your wood. Sorry if I sound so harsh. I would love to help you more if can provide some idea of what you would like to learn to make.

This time of year it is easy. Ornaments would be #1 followed by puzzles.

I sell the military emblems for $30 and the military word art for $25. I do believe I sold 8 military pieces this past weekend.

...and it was just great. I did better than last year by roughly 20%. I guess the fire hose cage did not hurt business one bit. The sales pattern was very different. Day one was 8 hours. I did not have a single sale in the first hour. The next three hours I sold about $400. The last four hours I sold only $150. Day two which is only six hours typically 1/2 of day 1 sales. This year I sold more on day two than I did on day one. I sold about $75 in the first 15 minutes. Then maybe $50 in the next 3 hours. The last two hours the buyers swooped in. I actually made a sale while packing up. Here are a few pictures. Now to start to rebuild inventory for 2017.

Heading up to South Hill, VA for day one of a two day. Pictures to foillow. Not happy with my spot. There is a fire hose in the middle of my space. They did give me a double spot 24 x 10 to make up for it. Let's see if it impacts my sales. Last year at this event I sold over $1,000 so wish me luck.

This was posted on Facebook yesterday 11/16/2016 by Janette Square. She is a world famous Intarsia artist. "I know a few people have inquired about the availability of the Excalibur scroll saws. Today I sent Ray at Seyco an e-mail asking about it. He now also has the new JET scroll saws listed for sale on his site. Here is Ray's response. Hopefully this will answer some, but I'm sure not all of your questions. My comment to this would be that if Ray is selling it - he will stand behind it - regardless of the brand. Hi Janette. Excalibur's are not available. They are not saying anything at General and we are not into speculating so we are just going our own way. Jet is made for Jet and General has nothing to do with them. They are link drive but very different features. Jet is a good saw, good company behind it and both perform well. Excalibur's unique FEATURES will be back soon but probably with a different name. We have plenty of parts in stock and source for future supply. As for as sharing on internet, I have nothing but here-say and that we avoid repeating. Seyco was here long before General bought Excalibur and I can say with authority (barring unforeseen catastrophes) we will be here long after they are gone. --- Ray Seymore SEYCO, The Scroll Saw Specialists, INC. (800)462-3353 [email protected]"

For the number of times I need it I just can't justify paying Adobe $180 a year for their PDF editor. Looking for recommendations on a lower cost editor. I know there might be some free tools out there but I worry that free software often contains virus and spyware. My basic use will be to allow me to copy and paste parts of PDF documents into Inkscape or other like tools.

At the bottom right of your screen you should see a button More Reply Options. Click on it. It should then pop up another screen to input your comments. Just below and to the left of the text input box you will see a paper clip and a button to Choose Files. Click that button and it should allow you to select pictures to upload.

I use Alder all the time to cut compound projects. Never had any issues. I suspect you have some other species of wood. Can you post some pics?

Great looking.