Northerner Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 hi everyone! looks like you all have a nice community here and i look forward to hopefully getting to know some of you? my name is kevin and im 45 (dec 17) and i live in vermillion, sd and im fairly new to woodworking (18 months) and very new to scrolling (2 months) actually a little longer but not happily! i found myself a hegner saw not long after i started with woodworking and i thought it vibrated to much so i didnt get much enjoyment out of it so after tripling my money on it i later bought a dewalt 788 and not knowing much it also vibrated a lot (i guess it had the bad top arm assembly) so i sold it too and went for almost a year till i found an rbi hawk saw cheap and it runs pretty smooth and i have been happy and making all sorts of things with it but the only thing i dont like about this saw is all the work it takes to change blades for fret work. i would like to see if i can save up a lot of cash and get me an excalibur but if i cant maybe i will get another 788 and see if i can do the fixes to it now that i know more about it? other things i enjoy are watching tv & movies, buying and selling on ebay and craigslist and just woodworking as im partially disabled and cant do the things i used to enjoy such as golf and competitive archery and drag racing. anyway, that about sums things up with me. hope others here are from south dakota and will stop in and say hello! and as for the rest of you, i hope you will stop by also! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oges Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Welcome the the Village, you have indeed found a nice and friendly scrolling community here. Sorry to here about your dramas with your saws in the past, hope you can find a solution to them. I have heard the Dewalt is a good saw if you can get a hold of one, there are a few adjustments you need to do once you get the saw, but after that its apparently smooth sailing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted December 3, 2010 Report Share Posted December 3, 2010 Welcome Kevin from another Kevin to scroll saw village.You've had some nice saws.i agree that the blade changeing is upseting on the hegner.Of all my knowedge maybe rbi is the way to go.If you want to have a good time and learn from the best your in the right place!Everyones too eager to help you what ever way we can.spend some time in the forum reading new and older posts. There's a wealth of knowedge packed in all of them.What i do best is take big piece's of wood and make smaller piece's out of them, .I'll be chating with you soon and thursday night ,tonight is the chat room.Go and make friends there with happy scrollers.See youn there!7 o'clock till? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolbeltman Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Welcome to the Village Kevin...hope to see some of your cutting soon... Regards ....Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton717 Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 hi Kevin and welcome to the village. if you have question or need help just ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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