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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Taking my saw back

« on: December 20, 2012, 05:13:28 pm »

Got my saw all set up and love it, runs smoother not much if any vibration unless run full speed. The blade change is kinda a pain but will take some getting use to. If this craftsman is this nice I can't wait till I can try out a dewalt.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Taking my saw back

« on: December 20, 2012, 03:33:50 pm »

Well got the craftsman saw, and already like it, looks better made of course, and is heavier than the skil, I like the table no insert to mess with, the skil insert I had to make one to sit flush with the table to plastic one was lower and the wood would catch.

Now I can get back to cutting some more projects.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Taking my saw back

« on: December 20, 2012, 12:59:55 pm »

I can't even get the porter cable one, price range for me is about 120. When I looked on sears website they have the craftsman marked down to 100, which is good deal and the reviews there most were very pleased with it, of course some had problems keeping the pinless blades in and said the bellows was weak but that can be fixed with a pump. I know too if craftsman still does it has good warranty on there tools. This is why I went for skil being its a good name brand, maybe I just a bad saw hopefully when I exchange it the new one will be better if not I will check into the craftsman saw. I have also thought about the one from HF, but the reviews on the HF site said it was junk was a pain to change blades, and motor was weak.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Check out this Clock Tower

« on: December 20, 2012, 12:14:51 am »

Now that is some nice work, and nice looking as well.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Taking my saw back

« on: December 20, 2012, 12:13:21 am »

Well so much for having fun. I noticed tonight after just about finishing up my air was blowing right, well the bellows was worn out, thought no big deal but it was soft and sticky like something got on it and ate it up. Well no biggie can get a fish tank air pump, but I also noticed the upper arm when off tension is loose, you can move it side to side, shouldn't be solid? Plus still got some side side blade movement when running, I see the arms aren't true to each other.

I did some looking and see the Craftsman is a good buy, read the reviews and all seemed happy, so if I can into a spat about taking mine back and exchange or just get my money back would the Craftsman be better? Its with in my budget, I don't have 600 to drop on a dewalt or I would go for it. Also what about the rockwell brand, though it looks just like skil, ryobi.

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Brag Forum / Re: My first scroll projects

« on: December 18, 2012, 11:31:09 pm »

I have a bigger cross I am cutting out right now for my woman. Going to make it a Christmas present to her, she saw it in a pattern book I checked out from the library and said she loved it, so took that hint to make her a Christmas present out of it. When I get it done will take a picture of it.

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: spiral blades versus regular blades

« on: December 18, 2012, 08:13:48 pm »

I am new to scrolling, been using the plain end straight blades, but have some spirals to try. I didn't like them, hard to keep a straight line, might be good to use to trim up the curved or round areas, but over all scrolling I didn't like the spiral.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Scroll Saw Artist made the News!

« on: December 18, 2012, 08:08:52 pm »

That was pretty good, and to boot thats in my home town.

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Brag Forum / My first scroll projects

« on: December 18, 2012, 08:05:10 pm »

Well these are a couple of my first attempts at some projects and fret work. I used some Luan since it was cheap and to practice with to get the hang of it then will get some better wood and start bigger better work. Name plaque is my Mother In Law she loves roosters, then I made 3 Christmas ornaments, the bass is my dads, I added the lure to add some feature to it also it does have veining that was my very first scroll. The rooster of course is my MIL, the cross will be my moms. I am happy they turned out pretty good. Wouldn't think the small one would take so long the took at least 2 hours I was surprised.

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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / Re: My some what home made foot switch

« on: December 18, 2012, 01:23:45 pm »

I have wondered this before, but what about the monetary foot switch that you get from HF? Would it be the same way or is it because the sew machine pedal is a variable speed switch as well. I tried to turn the speed to full then use the pedal to go slow it does to a small point then hits full speed.

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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / Re: My some what home made foot switch

« on: December 17, 2012, 09:51:33 pm »

Your welcome just look for the pedals that has the two plug ins on it one for light one for motor, some pedals are wired into the machine but if a machine is junk you can cut the wire and add your own plugs. I am excited now, haveing this much control on my speed makes it alot easier, plus if get into a bind and my wood gets away just lift foot off pedal and it stops, no rushing to find the switch while the wood slaps at table top.

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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / My some what home made foot switch

« on: December 17, 2012, 06:52:10 pm »

 I needed a foot switch really bad, its hard when you have small pilot hole, close to the blade and have to use one hand to flip a switch, so I thought for a bit. I didn't have 15 bucks for a foot switch from HF so I used a old foot pedal from a sewing machine. Works really great, just wish I good turn my speed up full power then use to pedal to speed up and slow down, which I can some makes it alot better, I can slow down some in turns or small spots have good control then speed back up on long runs. And the best part was didn't cost me anything had a couple sewing machines in the garage.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Blade moves front to back

« on: December 17, 2012, 12:19:52 pm »

Well the skill saw is with in my budget untill I can I can afford a better one. I plan on lokking more into it and see if there is any adjustment if not will have to live it I guess. I know my blades are installed right, I already put one in wrong and it was obvious it was when the wood jumped up and it cut funny. One thing I noticed is the clamps screw down there is two holes like the clamps can be flipped over, does this make sense that they need be flipped over to use plain vs pinned? But look doing that the clamps would be far apart for the blade to reach. I will get it figured out one way or another I like the saw.

We do have a joannes here my woman has already been said its a cool craft store, therr is also a WoodCraft store but its a drive in the NW part of the city. If all else I may take some time go find it and see what they have.

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Introduce Yourself. / Re: Hello from Oklahoma

« on: December 17, 2012, 12:10:47 pm »

I know where Paris TX is. Use to live in Greenville TX.

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Introduce Yourself. / Re: Hello from Oklahoma

« on: December 17, 2012, 08:20:32 am »

Thanks every body I have always loved woodworking love smell of fresh cut lumber more so of fresh cut cedar or pine.