Top feeding survey

[dgman]

For those of you who have a saw capable of top feeding, who here actually top feed and who don't?
For me, I am a top feeder!

[amazingkevin]

Is the dw788 a top feeder?

[Tom J]

I have a EX-21 and always top feed.

 

Tom

[JustLarry]

my saw is capable of top loading but I am not, so I don't.

 

Larry

[LarryEA]

This came up once before but I cannot find where or when it was.

I'm a bottom feeder.

[Scrolling Steve]

I have a EX-21 and proudly bottom feed!

[Rover2]

I have an EX-21 and a DW788  and top feed with both.  Got used to it and now feel strange doing it any other way.  Tried a couple times to bottom feed with my EX but found it more difficult to clamp the blade in the upper blade clamp.  Old man stuck in his old ways I guess.

 

Al

[dgman]

Is the dw788 a top feeder?

Hey Kevin, I don't know you well enough yet to know if your kidding or not, but yes, the DeWalt DW788 is a top feeder. Of course you can bottom feed on it.

[sweetsaw]

I have a ex-21 top feed

[Dan]

Delta P-20 and top feed.

[amazingkevin]

Hey Kevin, I don't know you well enough yet to know if your kidding or not, but yes, the DeWalt DW788 is a top feeder. Of course you can bottom feed on it.

Thanks DG,the more i know about scrolling the more i too can pass it on ,thanks!P.s. i did'nt know

[wombatie]

From my very first day on a scroll saw I have been a bottom feeder.

 

Marg

[Bill H]

Delta 40-694 bottom feed

[Bendita]

My saw is a Dw788 but I bottom feed as I find when ever I top feed my blade always gets stuck behind the holder instead of in front also find it hard to push the blade through that tiny hole with the teeth pointing down.

[danny]

Have owned three other saws along with what I use at present....HEGNER....  All have been Bottom Feeding.  The Hegner ONLY FEEDS BOTTOM.

Side note....  Seems if TOP FED you have to attach to bottom of the blade IN THE BLIND.  Can't imagine doing it.    Danny  :+}

[mikewix]

I have 2 saws 220 RBI Hawk and a 788 DeWalt and bottom feed them both.

[ike]

I have a DW 788 and I feed both ways, but mostly from the top.

[dgman]

Have owned three other saws along with what I use at present....HEGNER....  All have been Bottom Feeding.  The Hegner ONLY FEEDS BOTTOM.

Side note....  Seems if TOP FED you have to attach to bottom of the blade IN THE BLIND.  Can't imagine doing it.    Danny  :+}

Hey Danny, yes you do attach the blade "in the blind", but it becomes secund nature after a little practice. I can change from hole to hole without looking at the bottom clamp in about ten seconds and you don't have to lift the work off the table.

[Fish]

DW 788    I feed both ways

[browders]

DW 733. Feed from the top, but now I'm intrigued.

 

Jim

[dansnow]

Top Feeder and Proud Of It!!   

[Scrappile]

I've tried top feeding many times and really struggle with it.  I have an Ex - 21.  I find it very difficult to line the hole I am feeding the blade through with the hole in the table.  On the Ex there are holes around the blade hole and I often get the blade fed into one of those holes.   I think I just not coordinated enough for top feeding.  I'm a carp.

[Wilson's Woodworking]

Top feeder now. Before I had always bottom fed with my Hegner and Dremel but with the cam action clamps on my Delta P20 it made it easy to top load. I be lovin it.   :D  

[fredfret]

I top feed with both the Dewalt and my Bushton (Hawk) I can never find the tiny holes and bending the blade cuts down on blade life.

Just my $0.02

Fredfret

Wichita, Ks

[browders]

After reading all the posts, yesterday I thought I'd give top feeding another try. Nope, just not gonna happen. I think my experience with top feeding is like my experience with spiral blades. Great for others, but not for me.

 

Great thread though.

 

Jim