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[kardar2]

Well it has been a couple of crazy years. Couple of years ago The wife and I bought a house and been busy doing thing and remodeling the house and trying to take care of 8.25 acres raised 3 hogs and butchered them. ( boy was that a interesting project )  so after a couple of years my wife wants to move from California to Springfield OH. So here we go again packing everything up including my scroll saw. I am really missing the hobby. My wife is missing the projects that I make. So when we get to OH  and in another house with less property. Will see if my EX 21 still works. I been looking at Seyco new ST21. Sure looks a lot like a ex 21 LOL. Do any of you know if General makes that saw and where is it made? So come December 1 st I will be heading East and happy to see California in my rear view mirror. 

[wombatie]

Welcome back Karl.  I have lived in the same house for 40 years and 1 week, I hate moving but then again I did move from England to Australia.  Hope you get to scroll more in the future.

Marg

[bobscroll]

Hi Karl, Life get's interesting at times, Thanks for the story and I wish you well on your move, Also hope it's not too long before you settle in and get scrolling!

Bob 

[Scrappile]

Karl, the Seyco is made for Seyco in the same Asian country/factory the Ex use to be made in.  Taiwan, I think.  The Ex is now made in China. The Seyco is a good saw with a few differences from the Ex.  Head doesn't tilt as far as the EX and does not tilt by turning a knob, you move it by hand.  The table on the Seyco is larger than the Ex, I believe it is the largest table you can get on any scroll saw, least that I know of.  The Seyco is a little more difficult to assemble, I.e. there is more for you to assemble.  Steve good has a good video on putting it together and very worth watching.  Steve also has a video review of the saw that is very good.  The Seyco has the great Ray service that he use to give the Ex.  Hard to beat that. Use to be when you bought an Ex from Seyco it was pre-tuned and ready to use right out of the box.  Not so now, there are two posts here about the new Ex's recently purchased.  There appeared to be some tuning involved before the saw was usable.  They were purchased from Home Depot.  I had an Ex, now I have a Seyco.  I really can say, for the kind of sawing I do that I like one more that the other.  Both great saws.

Edited September 24, 2018 by Scrappile

[heppnerguy]

Welcome back, Karl. We just moved from Oregon to Arizona a little more then a year ago. I still have a lot of things to organize and understand about our new home. Our move was fairly easy, as is possible, because we sold almost everything in the house except our bedroom furniture and I sold some of my tools and shop things to make sure we could make the move in a UHaul truck. The cost of having our things moved for us was over $10,000 so we came out ahead and now we have all new furniture, besides. I do not envy you making another move but, I do wish you a good move and hope you can settle in quickly and get that EX humming again. I now have 2 EX's, one I bought from Scrappile and one I found on Craigslist in Phoenix. I love both of them a lot. 

Dick

heppnerguy

[Janie]

Hope your move goes well.  Quite a distance and quite a difference in locations too.  I'd love to have a few acres so I could spread out some and not worry about complaining neighbors when I fire up the planer.  Luckily my scrollsaw isn't very load cuz I'm buzzing all day on that thing.  Good luck to ya and hope your old saw still works but a new one is always pretty nice.

Janie ....   woodpecker.

[kardar2]

11 hours ago, Scrappile said:

Karl, the Seyco is made for Seyco in the same Asian country/factory the Ex use to be made in.  Taiwan, I think.  The Ex is now made in China. The Seyco is a good saw with a few differences from the Ex.  Head doesn't tilt as far as the EX and does not tilt by turning a knob, you move it by hand.  The table on the Seyco is larger than the Ex, I believe it is the largest table you can get on any scroll saw, least that I know of.  The Seyco is a little more difficult to assemble, I.e. there is more for you to assemble.  Steve good has a good video on putting it together and very worth watching.  Steve also has a video review of the saw that is very good.  The Seyco has the great Ray service that he use to give the Ex.  Hard to beat that. Use to be when you bought an Ex from Seyco it was pre-tuned and ready to use right out of the box.  Not so now, there are two posts here about the new Ex's recently purchased.  There appeared to be some tuning involved before the saw was usable.  They were purchased from Home Depot.  I had an Ex, now I have a Seyco.  I really can say, for the kind of sawing I do that I like one more that the other.  Both great saws.

Yes I watched Steve Goods videos about the saws. I fine tuned my EX21 when I got it a few years  back.   I am wonder why the magnetic mat for the saw ? Why not just have it Like the the EX Table . Do you know anyone that uses the saw with out the mat? Thanks 

[amazingkevin]

Welcome back Karl!Homes where you hang your hat!

[Scrappile]

1 hour ago, kardar2 said:

Yes I watched Steve Goods videos about the saws. I fine tuned my EX21 when I got it a few years  back.   I am wonder why the magnetic mat for the saw ? Why not just have it Like the the EX Table . Do you know anyone that uses the saw with out the mat? Thanks 

I gave my mat away, but I have an auxiliary table made of masonite on top of the original table so I can use zero clearance inserts.  The original table has a rectangle hole in it towards the center, hence the magnetic mat to cover it.  The hole give some clearance for some hardware that sticks up when the table is tilted.  It sticks up even with the table top.  I put washers under the table where the bolts for through to fasten the top to the frame.  This raises the table just a hair so there is no problem of the hardware sticking above the table top. The hole concept was to lower the table enough that there 2" cutting thickness or something like that.  I don't care If I only have 1 7/8" or so.  I wish they would have not had the hole.