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Im reasonably sure I got them from Amazon. But at my age the memory will sometimes play tricks on me (lol)
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For me personally, I've used the headband type, and a magnifying lamp. Both worked good bur nowadays I use what Looks more like glasses. It Me with several different lenses in different strengths. The lenses do flip up outa the way if needed ,It does have an LED, but it's pretty much useless as I have plenty of light on my saws. Good luck
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Very nice!
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You haven't missed a step. Like riding a bike. Nice work!
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Makes you chuckle...Nice piece!!!
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Teacher plaque for my daughter - Steve good download
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Funny story, I posted this before showing it to my wife. As part of her journey to become a Priest she, along with others on the same journey, are in a class that has them doing Chaplin work at a local Covenant Hospital. They graduate on May 29. She commented after seeing the cross " wouldn't it be nice if I could give everyone in my class one? I asked how many in the class. She said 7. I responded " challenge accepted." Instead of 7 of the pictured cross as there is only 2 gals in the class, I'm going with a Sue Mey pattern for the guys. Let the saw dust fly!!!!
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Another Cross for my wife. I'm getting a handle on the frame work. This is a stained glass pattern and the frame work is about 1/16th wide cut from 1/8 ply. I have found that painting it copper helps the resin to pop. Backer is also 1/8 ply painted silver. For me the resin gives me a much larger color pallet over stained glass or acrylic. And so much easier to work with.
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Welcome back from Beaverton Michigan, Like riding a bike, you never really forget.
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Welcome back!!! I would recommend either looking for a used Hawk, I picked up a real nice one for $250. Harbor Freight has a 22 inch for about $279. I got one of them a few months back. Real good saw for the price. Which ever one you choose, You'll be happy to return!! Good luck.
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Looking GREAT!!!
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Looks great to me, well done!
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Excellent work! It will surely be apricated!
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This is an @alexfox pattern slightly modified, actually all I did was not add the middle layer. This time instead of leaving the wood untreated I painted it and in my opinion a success. No bleeding of the resin into the wood Anyhow, here it is.
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I've tried to top feed my Hawk, I just can't seem to get the blade holder tight enough on the bottom. So I just bottom feed now. And I agree, blade tension is tough, I don't try using the lever thing at the back, I get up from the saw , walk around to the back with the new blade in, pluck the blade, if it doesn't sound right I release the tension, just spin the tension connector rod, reset the tension lever and pluck the blade. Repeat this until I have the blade tension right.
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On the Delta P-20 it was easy, the Hawk not so much. Now that I bottom feed with the Hawk I can see an advantage to it.
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They have been a huge help to me too!!
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I still had the Delta for a few months when I got the Hawk. Being so accustomed to top feeding the blade, having to bottom feed on the Hawk was a real pain for me. And learning the tension intricacies of the Hawk took time. I'd tinker with it from time to time, but never really could get comfortable with bottom feed. After my daughter got the Delta I had no choice. And it finally clicked that day.
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Yesterday was an awesome scrolling day for me. I was actually able to spend most of the day at my Hawk saw, and it was incredible. I've had the Hawk about a year now and it did not start good. I'd been using a Delta P-20 that I got back in late 1998 and that's all I used until my daughter asked if she could have the Delta , I taught her on it when she was about 8. So faced with getting a replacement, and the Hawk is something I've always wanted for as long as I've been scrolling, I found this one. After I got it home I really wasn't impressed. You see with the Delta I was a die hard top feed for the blade, for more than 20 years. The Hawk, while it can top feed, fir me it was difficult if not impossible. Fast forward a year and I finally found a groove with the Hawk which is what lead to yesterday's awesome scrolling day, the result of which you can see from my dust tray I have under the cutting table on the Hawk. After a rough start a year ago, the Hawk is now my number 1 saw!
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This topic is quite enlightening....thanks everyone, gives me a better understanding of my Hawk
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One thing I did notice, my current project has me going thru several blades (1/2" hard maple), When I nip the notch it does change the setting on the blade tension (not much, just a quarter turn it seems) so going forward I'm going to try not nipping the notch and hopefully won't need to change the tension. But I will say, the more I use these Pegas blades, especially on hardwoods, the more I like them.
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Never considered that, Thanks! I'm trying another one this week this time using hard maple but I do have sanding sealer, so I may put a couple of coats on half of it to see how it does. Very much still in the experiment stages.
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I do have a grinder, and it helps. I was looking at the saws, but more than I'm comfortable spending. So I figure I'll see what I can do with the epoxy for now. Always like learning new things
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Not so much bragging rights. I'm posting this as a "lesson learned ". As y'all know, we learn from our mistakes, not out victories. I was working on this hummingbird, ⅛ ply frame ans attempting to use stained glass for the colors. It was not going well. Between trying to fit the small pieces and the shear cost of the glass, not to mention the "cut you" factor, I bailed on using glass. So I'm giving another run with epoxy resin and have learned much with this hummingbird . As you can see in the pic, bleed out from the epoxy was crazy, something I hadn't counted on, but learned something which, in my opinion is a win. I know I didn't get a solid, full bond between the hummingbird frame and the backer board (painted silver). I plan to try to paint the frame to cover up the epoxy bleed, at any rate, wanted to share for anyone wanting to try or if you have suggestions on how to improve the process
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