Scroller Fred Wilson reporting as ordered, sir.  

Ken, when I got a new DeWalt, I had to square it front to back in order to get true vertical cuts.  Found out I had to bring the back of the table up almost 1/2" to get it square.  This is not really a fault with the 788's, it is just set for a more agressive cut.

 

ps - also had to modify my EX-21 as well.

 

Fred


Ken Cooper said:

I just got a new Dewalt scrollsaw and I am having a problem squaring the blade. When I use a 2" square and square the blade I will cut a small circle it is smaller at the bottom then the top. I go slow and am careful not to hurry.If I level the table top it is worse.My old scroll saw never gave me this problem. I do intarsia work only. It is driving me crazy!! If anyone out there lives in the New Orleans area let me know.

Greg Aksdal said:

Lynn Courtois scroller. count me in.

Glad to have you here Lynn

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

Welcome to group Lynn, Glad to see you.

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

Reporting for Duty *salute ..... better late than never hehe

BTW my website is www.the-cut-above.com if anyone is interested.  Still a work in progress.

 

I'm in - I have two scrollsaws (but I really only use the DeWalt).

Joe

Nice web site and work. Glad you shared.

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

Pierre

Welcome to The group. It is growing daily and happy to see everyone here.

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

Hmmmmmmm, does that mean that we count you twice???  


Pierre Benoit said:

I'm in - I have two scrollsaws (but I really only use the DeWalt).

Ken,

 

I have a couple of suggestions - works for me when I get into that trouble.

 

When squaring the blade (left and right), I always have a sheet of paper laying on the table so I can better see any gap between the blade and the square.  Also, I double and triple check the squareness (is that a word?) from both sides.  My little square is too tall to work like it was designed so I have to rotate the square so the short end can get next to the blade.

 

Hope one of these works for you.  Let us know.

 

Fred

www.pops-shop.com

Ken Cooper said:

I just got a new Dewalt scrollsaw and I am having a problem squaring the blade. When I use a 2" square and square the blade I will cut a small circle it is smaller at the bottom then the top. I go slow and am careful not to hurry.If I level the table top it is worse.My old scroll saw never gave me this problem. I do intarsia work only. It is driving me crazy!! If anyone out there lives in the New Orleans area let me know.

Greg Aksdal said:

I use a plastic protractor to check mine, the same type you can find in any store woth school supplies. 

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

You can also use a piece of any hard wood the is cut to a good 90 and you control the height of the board. Take a piece of walnut, hard maple what ever you have laying around. Cut a piece say 6" x 2" and verify the ends are square and the bottom is flat. Lay this on your scroll saw table top and move it to the blade. Any gaps ? Adjust accordingly and recheck.

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

I do some scrolling...

This was my last project, mostly cut with the SS...

Count me in

Been scrolling for 25 years , mostly do Intarsia but  also cut out letters for some of the custom signs that I do. I am the president of The River City Scrollers here in Richmond Va. Here is a pic of the sign that we worked on as a group.

welcome aboard Michael and Mike, glad you found us here

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

Welcome Mike and Michael. Nice work guys, thanks for sharing.

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

Good to see you here Steve


Steve Hovious said:

I use a 1950's Delta 24" variable speed scroll saw. We just moved so I have to wait to get back in it once I get a shop set up.

 

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Michael Coppez said:

I do some scrolling...

This was my last project, mostly cut with the SS...