James E. Welch

rafairchild2 explained it better than I could. It's pretty easy to install. You don't have to remove it to change blades if that's what you were meaning. Once installed it stays in place. There's a channel that circles around the blade that lets it collect dust right at the source but it is out of the way enough to change blades.

This works good on painted or stained surfaces?

You use wood glue on painted surfaces? Does that work well?

I wasn't happy at all with the dust collection on my king industrial 16 so I got to work on a solution. After a little design work and a few adjustments I came up with something that works much better than the original. Just thought I'd share. If it'll help anyone I've listed them on my etsy shop. I know it fits a king industrial and an Excalibur 21 for sure.

60 grit or 80 grit ? LOL Happens to me more often than I care to admit.

Even the Tablesaw could be dangerous when cutting small pieces if not careful, but you're right the miter saw is not a great option for small pieces. I'd go with the bandsaw or Scrollsaw with a bigger blade. I keep an old cheap pin style Scrollsaw for this kind of thing or use my bandsaw. Sometimes I'll use the Tablesaw but usually with a sled

Welcome from Louisiana !

Welcome from Louisiana !

Welcome from Louisiana !

What glue do you guys use? I'm wondering specifically what glue you use on painted/stained backer boards. Wood glue wouldn't stick to paint well right? Does CA glue hold up well long term??

As promised. This is the better of the two pieces cut.

That is a good way to do it. Thanks for the tip, I may make something like that.

Sneak peek at the tighter cut "better" side.

I did an inlay of a batman logo and this is the off-cut side. Not bad. I'll post the good side soon, the glue is drying on it still.

I can't blame you there. It is brutally hot down here. It's always been a dream of mine to now day visit Alaska. It's on my bucket list. Seems like such a beautiful place.

You're right, most gets sucked up at the top but if I turn off the bottom portion I get dust in my lap, so some goes that way. And as an added bonus with the larger size most of the small off cuts go into the system with the dust. I get a lot less small pieces on the floor, still some, but less. Your setup looks like it would work good enough to get most of the dust. I'm just guilty of going overboard most of the time. Lol Send me your address via private message and I'll send you one of the ones I made if you want to try it.

Hi all !! I have been a woodworker for pretty much my whole life (42 years young), well certainly as soon as I could hold a toy saw anyway. LOL I got into scrollsawing back in the early 2000's when I'd saved enough money to buy myself a craftsman scroll saw. I know that doesn't sound like a huge deal but at the time I was a young father with 2 kids both in diapers. We lived in a rented mobile home and I used the back porch with a tarp wrapped around it as my workshop. If you dropped anything chances are it would roll into a crack between the deck boards and be gone forever. There was no power outlets so I tapped into the outside light fixture with one of those screw in things that give you an outlet. If anyone turned off the switch I was in the dark and my tool stopped. Fastforward many years and I have a full shop. I wore out the craftsman scroll saw years ago and only just recently bought a new saw. I went with the 16" king industrial which seems to be similar to the excalibur, pegas and excellsior -- although I'm still not clear on the differences. Oh, and I also 3d print and designed a better vac attachment for my saw that works pretty well. (I'm sort of proud of it) LOL

Update -- Now I flipped it over and zip tied my dust collection loc-line to it.

Simply breathtaking. It makes me feel patriotic. Great work.

I scored a piece that I think might have been a table in a previous life. It was amongst some cypress lumber listed on Facebook marketplace that I picked up an hour or so from home in South Louisiana. I thought that since the cypress was recovered from an old home on the bayou that pelicans were in order. So here it is.

Here's my set up. I use the valve on the bottom to restrict the airflow because when your board doesn't have many holes in it has a tendency to suck to the table making it difficult to move the board. The valve allows for regulating this. The top is a loc-line fitting. It has come to my attention since I mentioned this 3d printed fitting initially that some or maybe even all excalibur saws don't have the 4 bolts like my king industrial saw does, so I'm not sure if it would help anyone that doesn't have a king industrial saw.

Flying dutchman and Pegas mainly -- I have used Olson and they aren't terrible. Anything is better than the ones that come with the saw. LOL

Years ago I had a craftsman scrollsaw and I flipped the hold down upside down and out of the way, leaving it in case I needed it someday. There is sat until I wore the saw out and in the trash it went with the saw, still in the flipped over position. Now I just remove them before ever turning the saw on.

I didn't take a picture of it, but I have a king industrial 16" that I designed and 3d printed a better option that bolts to the existing holes. I'm assuming that it would work on excaliburs and other similar saws. When I get home maybe I can remember to snap a picture of it. I thought about adding it to my etsy shop so folks could order it, I'd list it at a price to just cover my plastic and shipping costs if I did.