Hi Mark. What I could not get my head round was the guy that designed the Dewalt also designed the excalibur and for the life of me I could not understand why he designed the worst blade clamps I have ever used, if he had made them the same as the dewalt it would have been great. It is fairly obvious now that the excalibur's sold in America are made in a different factory to the ones we get here. First of all the wiring is crap, its cheap and nasty. The table does not last long, the so called protective coating came off round the blade area after a few days I had the ex-21. I went onto what is called Rick's scroll saw site where he gives details of how to tune the excalibur such as reducing the fore and aft movement of the blade. I cant remember all the problems I had with it now as its just a vague memory but there was excessive vibration at high speed. There was knocking as well. I ended up stripping the saw to bare bones and re-building it and it did improve for a while but after a couple of weeks they resurfaced again. It is just a poorly made machine. I don't know if they are still doing it but axy had that many back they were flogging them off on e-bay. I wish I could get a company to produce the perfect scroll saw, they would sell millions of them.
