stevan

Very cool!

So sorry Hans. Best of luck on a recovery.

I built my own from scratch for my Hawk. http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/topic/23209-dust-collection-on-my-hawk/

Yes. Camel Flamingo Kangaroo Multiple cats Mustang (Horse not car) Iguana Chinese Dragon Juggling clown and I think that is it.

Got mine Monday and it's my first issue. You mean they're all not like this?

Impressive work! And welcome aboard. I agree with Marg above. The first thing I cut my wife hung on the fridge (because it looked like something I did in the first grade!)

Very Nice! My wife is going thru a "bird phase" right now so when my skills get there, I'll be doing some birds too. I only hope mine turn out as well as this one did.

My wifey is Always telling me "Happy Wife, Happy Life". I have learned not to doubt her words.

Dust?! Dust?! We don't need no stinking dust!!!!

Mine doesn't flip, it folds.

I had a Delta that was close to that model. Never did any real scrolling with it. I think I just used it to trim tricky pieces when I put in the engineered hardwood floor in the kitchen. I was able to sell it for $65 (plus a magnifying light and a foot switch). Apologies for the upside down serial number. It's a model SS200, Type 1.

This note is not really much about your passion for scrolling but like a lot of you, I'm not getting any younger. For a large portion of my life I have been involved with martial arts of some type or another so based on my experience from a young guy to my present 62 year old guy: If you're looking for a very beneficial exercise, look into Tai Chi. Lots of youTube videos, DVD's through the mail or even your public library, classes all over the place. I am of the opinion that Tai Chi is almost the perfect exercise or at least the perfect exercise for people who don't exercise or like to exercise. Good for the body, mind and spirit.

I, too, am impressed. Good job and another item I would like to build.

Thanks mates!

Okay, I searched for this topic but didn't get any forum hits. I have plenty of light but when I'm standing straight on to the saw blade and a straight line in the pattern, I sometimes lose the blade and all I can see is the black like. Anyone else has this issue and if so what did you do? And even if you have not had this problem and you have any ideas, please feel free to shoot some suggestions this way.

It works okay if you turn your monitor on its side.

It's a 20 incher and I have the blade release on the front so I don't have to go to the back every time I change a blade.

No (or little) drift sounds wonderful to a beginner like me. It's almost too bad I have about 300 blades total that I need to run through first.

The workshop sounds great. We can't do anything like that in my neighborhood. How are you going to power it? Run wires, generator, long extension cord??

All I can say is WOW. That is a tremendous volume of work.

I've not really gotten to the point where I can show any work here (unless you really want to see some asymmetrical circles and squares). But I did get my dust collector for my Hawk finished this weekend. I started with a shop vac short upholstery nozzle, added a stand and magnets to the base (ss8.jpg, ss9.jpg, ss10.jpg, ss11.jpg). Adapted a PVC elbow and fit the nozzle and 2 lengths of straight shop vac pipe. I drilled a hole in one pipe and epoxied a short tube to connect the blade tube to and then everything is collected by the shop vac. (ss2.jpg, ss3.jpg, ss4.jpg) These fittings took a little sanding or cutting to get everything to fit. The silver pipe clamp at the end of the base also has magnets on the bottom so everything can be moved/shifted, broken down, cleaned, stored, modified, etc. ss7.jpg shows the entire set up. The blade tube is connected to the hold down foot and is therefore adjustable up and down depending on the thickness of the work (ss12.jpg, ss13.jpg). It works quiet well. After about an hour of sawing last weekend there may have been 1/2 a teaspoon of dust on the table and maybe a full teaspoon under the lower arm. I don't have a before and after picture yet but I'll try to post one up after next weekend. The only items I purchase for this (that I didn't already have around) were the plastic tubing, tubing holders and the 90 degree elbow. The magnets are even recycled. They come from the toothbrush part of my Sonic electric toothbrush and I must have 40 of them that I've collected over the years.

My favorite saying is: Good judgement comes from experience.... Experience comes from bad judgement.....

I'm not sure if a full blown $250 dust collector is any better than my $20 box fan and $10 furnace filter. But for now, I want to be careful and this is cheap lung insurance. I also use my shop vac.

If you buy a box fan to duct tape a filter to for homemade dust control, you may want to be sure to buy one with the controls on the top or on the side of the fan. Not on the back... Where they will be covered by the filter... And you have to cut a hole in the filter to access said controls.... Just saying.....

When I bought my 25 year old Hawk, it came with about 250 25 year old blades (and an abundance of #5's). So far, they're great. I'm still in practice/learning mode so I don't mind running though them at the first hint of dullness. I do "wipe" the ends with some 1000 grit sandpaper before installing.