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I got lucky this weekend!. Was given a new DeWalt Scrollsaw by LOML!
(Question below about foot switch type.)
Visiting my daughter near Springfield, MO on Valentine weekend. . . . For all of the places I had to take LOML and my daughter, I asked for 20 minutes of Grizzly time. We went. I wanted a Maloof style chair plans set that I knew Grizzly had - from a previous visit. I did not realize that LOML had also looked over the plans section on a previous visit. I went to the "plans" section, and so did LOML and my daughter. Daughter picked up a couple of scroll saw related books: fretwork and intarsia. LOML joined in on looking and asking. They began talking about the things I did when I was in Japan such as making signs with Japanese Kanji characters cut out. Where was my (cheapest Sears, 1989) scroll? she asked. (Left in Japan with a freind.)
I told them I couldn't do those things - fretwork and intarsia, puzzles, signs, without a good scrollsaw. A salesman came by and I asked where the scroll saws were. He told us. LOML bee lined for the scroll saws, and I followed. We saw three or four on display. What is the difference besides price?, she asked. After my basic explanations, she asked "Will you makes some of the things I want? Me: When I get time - However, scroll saw work is much like Pen making - doesn't take a lot of set up time, clean up time, other tools to set up or space like larger flat work."
Then, our daughter found a "$20.00 off of $100 purchase" in one of the "Springfield" books up at the front (Daughter works in Springfield, so she knows the books, magazines and coupons of Springfield). The stand, light and scroll saw as a set were $499.00 minus the $20 + sales tax. We went to the order section.
ONE problem, there is an elderly man who works on weekends (and who waited on me when I bought the Grizzly Track Saw last year). This guy doesn't understand the computer system very well. He typed in the catalog number for the set and said they didn't have ANY DeWalt Scroll Saws in stock. (I went through that same dialog with him when purchasing the Track saw, last year.) So, I asked, do you have the DeWalt Scroll Saw in stock? Yes (80)! Do you have the Stand in stock? Yes!, Do you have the Light in stock? Yes! ME: Then give me one of each and I will pay for them at the "set" price at the cashier!. HIM: You can't do that! Me: I did that last year with the Track Saw! He kind of argued but said "It might be possible!"
At the check-out, a new lady said I couldn't; I asked: please check with a supervisor. She did, came back and said "apparently, that is the way they sell 'sets'". She was not familiar with that. So I got it at the set for $479 ($499.00 - $20.00) instead of having to buy the individual price of around $550 - or settle for the Saw alone for $479 minus $20. By the way, LOML did the buying, I just made sure we were getting the right price!
NOW, to my question: From your experience with foot switches, what is better with a scroll saw: Deadman (lift foot and it cuts off) or Power Maintained (click once -on, click twice-off?
Foot switches are not that expensive, but which is better for a scroll saw? And for what use is each better?
(Question below about foot switch type.)
Visiting my daughter near Springfield, MO on Valentine weekend. . . . For all of the places I had to take LOML and my daughter, I asked for 20 minutes of Grizzly time. We went. I wanted a Maloof style chair plans set that I knew Grizzly had - from a previous visit. I did not realize that LOML had also looked over the plans section on a previous visit. I went to the "plans" section, and so did LOML and my daughter. Daughter picked up a couple of scroll saw related books: fretwork and intarsia. LOML joined in on looking and asking. They began talking about the things I did when I was in Japan such as making signs with Japanese Kanji characters cut out. Where was my (cheapest Sears, 1989) scroll? she asked. (Left in Japan with a freind.)
I told them I couldn't do those things - fretwork and intarsia, puzzles, signs, without a good scrollsaw. A salesman came by and I asked where the scroll saws were. He told us. LOML bee lined for the scroll saws, and I followed. We saw three or four on display. What is the difference besides price?, she asked. After my basic explanations, she asked "Will you makes some of the things I want? Me: When I get time - However, scroll saw work is much like Pen making - doesn't take a lot of set up time, clean up time, other tools to set up or space like larger flat work."
Then, our daughter found a "$20.00 off of $100 purchase" in one of the "Springfield" books up at the front (Daughter works in Springfield, so she knows the books, magazines and coupons of Springfield). The stand, light and scroll saw as a set were $499.00 minus the $20 + sales tax. We went to the order section.
ONE problem, there is an elderly man who works on weekends (and who waited on me when I bought the Grizzly Track Saw last year). This guy doesn't understand the computer system very well. He typed in the catalog number for the set and said they didn't have ANY DeWalt Scroll Saws in stock. (I went through that same dialog with him when purchasing the Track saw, last year.) So, I asked, do you have the DeWalt Scroll Saw in stock? Yes (80)! Do you have the Stand in stock? Yes!, Do you have the Light in stock? Yes! ME: Then give me one of each and I will pay for them at the "set" price at the cashier!. HIM: You can't do that! Me: I did that last year with the Track Saw! He kind of argued but said "It might be possible!"
At the check-out, a new lady said I couldn't; I asked: please check with a supervisor. She did, came back and said "apparently, that is the way they sell 'sets'". She was not familiar with that. So I got it at the set for $479 ($499.00 - $20.00) instead of having to buy the individual price of around $550 - or settle for the Saw alone for $479 minus $20. By the way, LOML did the buying, I just made sure we were getting the right price!
NOW, to my question: From your experience with foot switches, what is better with a scroll saw: Deadman (lift foot and it cuts off) or Power Maintained (click once -on, click twice-off?
Foot switches are not that expensive, but which is better for a scroll saw? And for what use is each better?
Loring in Katy, TX USA
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