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| View Poll Results: When cutting fretwork, do you feed from the bottom or the top | |||
| Top Feed |    | 28 | 44.44% |
| Bottom Feed |    | 35 | 55.56% |
| Don't cut fretwork |    | 0 | 0% |
| Voters: 63. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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01-29-2008, 07:41 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Central Indiana
Posts: 1,363
|  I have a Delta P-20 but I bottom feed. I have done it so long I just never did top feed. I guess old dogs don't learn new tricks. Bob
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01-29-2008, 08:04 PM
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| Grumpy Old Moderator  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Galaxy far, far away
Posts: 2,553
 | I don't think I remember how to bottom feed, hehehehe. I find that the more intricate the pattern, the bigger the advantage of top feeding.
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01-29-2008, 08:15 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Norfolk, UK
Posts: 643
| With a Hegner, bottom feeding is the only option. Not sure about the term "bottom feeder" though. It makes us sound like those scavenging fish. Can someone come up with a more aesthetic sounding term, please? Sue |
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01-29-2008, 08:26 PM
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| Banned  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wynndel, BC, Canada
Posts: 877
| Definitely top feed for me . Once a person has top fed on a Delta P-20 they would never want to go back to bottom feeding. I tried top feeding probably a dozen times with my DeWalt when I had it but it just wasn't for me with that big heavy arm. I found bottom feeding to be easier on my DeWalt. I always felt like I needed an extra hand but some have mastered it quite nicely with a DeWalt. With the P-20 the arm is balanced in such a way that it is almost feather light to lift the arm just by grabbing the top of the blade just under the arm and drop the end of it into the next hole. Also the blade holder is on a swivel on the P-20 so the blade goes straight into the hole whereas on the DeWalt the blade is clamped into the holder with a thumb screw so as the arm is lifted the bottom of the blade moves forward. It has to be "directed " into the hole rather than allowed to just drop straight in. That is not much of a problem with sawing thin woods on a DeWalt but when stack sawing or sawing thicker woods the the inconvenience is emphasized. I am not sure how other top feeding saws operate because I have only had experience with the two mentioned here. W.Y. |
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01-29-2008, 09:52 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Indianapolis, IN
Posts: 26
| The day that I started top feeding with the DeWalt is the day that inside cuts and fretwork became fun!!! Bottom feeding with my previous saws was so tedious that I just hated inside cuts. I've grown so used to top feeding that I don't even need to use anything to hold the arm up anymore. It's just second nature to me, I guess. Verna
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01-29-2008, 10:02 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Oregon USA
Posts: 1,197
| I started out bottom feeding and hated fretwork. When I got my DeWalt I started top feeding and will never go back. I enjoy doing some fretwork now along with my intarsia. Chris
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01-29-2008, 10:07 PM
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| Intarsia Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Eugene, Oregon
Posts: 1,128
| Another blonde question!... For you top feeders- do you leave the arm in place and bend the blade through or lift up the arm, put the blade in and lower it? |
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01-29-2008, 10:15 PM
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| Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Kansas
Posts: 64
| I lift the arm up on mine. |
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01-29-2008, 10:31 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seminole, Florida
Posts: 624
| bottom feeder Bottom feeder. I have a DeWalt 788 so I can do either, but I am more comfortable with bottom feeding. -Bill 
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01-29-2008, 11:08 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Bellport, LI New York
Posts: 2,249
| I only used to top feed for larger jobs with small holes. I have gotten so used to it on my G4 that that is all I do now. Janette, on the G4 the upper arm has a spring on the back end so when I release the blade tension and then the lower clamp the arm goes up automaticaly. Then you feed the blade through the hole into the bottom clamp tighten and off you go. Once you have done it for a while it is reflex like you bottom feeders.
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