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Well done Pete. I hope it brings you many hours of joy and you make some really nice things. It's nice to meet another fly tier. Reading your post it sounds as if you are well and truly hooked, as many have said, scrolling is addictive but looking at your first test piece I can see you will be a...

I endorse what Scrimper said. I have the multicut 2S and have never used the hold down, it would just get in the way and serve no purpose at all. Very little pressure is required to hold the workpiece down while it is being cut. I think you will find that by law the scroll saws supplied to...

Martin. You are a star. It is the one thing I have not done and it is so obvious to me now that what you have suggested will cure the problem. The allen screw is not screwed in enough, hence the blade slipping, It only needs tightening a gnats whisker. As soon as I go in the workshop I will get...

I agree with you John. Yes, I tried a piece of emery between the slot, I tried everything I know. I had no problem with the little silver disc insert on the knob, clean as a whistle now. The saw is only two years old, I had to replace the tension rod a couple of months ago and now the quick...

For a few days I have been having a problem with the top clamp on my Hegner saw. The blade gradually loses tension. It is the quick release clamp with the chrome knurled knob. I took it all apart as far as I could and cleaned it up and there was a slight improvment but it did not cure the...

Over the last few months I have been buying quite a bit of stuff from e-bay, mainly supplies and accessories for my small business. What gets up my nose more than anything is the after ordering i normally get an e-mail the following day saying the item has been marked as despatched and then wait...

My mistake Martin. I should have realised. Doh.

Hi Jamie. I had a look at the link you gave and indeed they are genuine Niqua blades but it does say of MEDIUM QUALITY. I don't know if I am right but it sounds as if these could be seconds. It may pay you to give them a ring or send them an e-mail and ask if they are indeed seconds. They are...

Hi Jamie. The blades you are looking at on e-bay are incredibly cheap. I pay more than £20 for a gross of blades. I would be very wary of that deal. Does it say who the seller is, I know that hobbies sell blades on e-bay so if the seller is Hobbies then you will have no problem. I assume they...

Welcome to the forum Jamie. There are a lot of very experinced people on here who will give you loads of helpful advice, all you have to do is ask. My advice concerning blades is firstly not to use the ones that came with the machine and not to buy cheap blades from e-bay or Amazon. The reason I...

On Saturday I attended an annual craft fair that I go to every year, it is held in a small village but from when the doors open to when they close it is heaving with people. I had one of my best days and made £320, not bad for five hours work. When I got home I could see the delivery guy had...

Like Chris the quick change clamp came with my 2S when i bought it. It makes my work a lot quicker to do but if the quick clamp knob had not come with the saw I would certainly not have bought one from Hegner. I would have had one made. Now theres a thing for you Martin, with your superb...

Everything Gill said is very sound advice. The problem is Jimi is that it is all new, it is a lot different to what you have been used to so it will take time to adjust to the new saw. Once you have been using it for a while you will find blade changing a piece of cake and you will be doing it...

That looks really good Martin, something every workshop should have. I don't know if I am right that they cost an arm and a leg from a supplier. I to am thinking of making some to use with a bench grinder but like Bodge would be interested to know how you would mount them to a grinder. Shame...

With regard to my test on Olsen blades. I had made a mistake when I made my order and clicked on the wrong supplier. I should have clicked the wooden teddy bear company but got another supplier, both sites are quite similar hence the mistake. I had quite a shock when I received an invoice the...

A lovely piece Bryan that obviously took a long time to put together. Very nice cutting and as usual up to your very high standards. I sincerely hope the bidding far exceeds your expectations but I feel if I were in your shoes I would be tempted to put a reserve on it, just in case.

Martin. I did a little bit of working out. I looked up the cost of the Olson mach speed blades, taking into account that they are more expensive than the other Olsen blades. From the Wooden Teddy Bear company they are $3-50 per dozen (£2-22) or $42-00 per gross (£26-63). I then looked up the UK...

Hi Brian. I never gave it a thought about the stroke, I should have taken that into account. I am on the long stroke. Jasdon. Just copied this from my initial post. Hope it helps. The bottom 5 teeth were facing upward and then the next tooth was at right angles, or 90 degrees to the blade, and...

Chris. I had originally wanted to order from the wooden teddy bear company but had one of those senior moments when I was on the internet and clicked on the wrong site, they had all the blades you could imagine from various manufacturers. When I was finalising the order I had a problem with the...

I finally received my order of Olsen blades from America. I had ordered three different types, double tooth, reverse tooth and mach speed. As I only wanted the minimum quantity of each type and size I had packets of a dozen blades with the idea I would test each type to see what was the best...