Wot! not another machine?

[Taffy Evans]

Hi all, I decided a fair while ago that there is no way could/needed to fit in another machine in my shop. But with a particular task I had I needed a scroll saw that could cut accurately through thicker timber [neck blank], the Dremal scroll saw I've had for 30 years just was not up to it.
A mate of mine said I could borrow his [pictured] so I took it home and set it up on a bench in the repairs shop. It worked so good I thought I have to have one. My mate said I could buy his off of him as he had not used it in four years, make an offer he said. So not knowing what this model was worth I started at a price I could afford and he kept say no too high, no too high. In the end I got it for a carton of VB stubbies.

Can any of you please tell me what it might have cost back in its day, I understand Carbatec used to carry it. This may give me an idea of where it stands in the quality range. It's variable speed, pin/pinless blades with dust blower and it's heavy.

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Here's the job it done in the Qld maple and ebony.......

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Test

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Unfinished neck
Cheers

[charangohabsburg]

A nice lil machine Taffy, congrats! But... are VB stubbies so expensive? Seems not to be a good idea to be thirsty in Charters Towers.

It worked so good I thought I have to have one. [...]

Can any of you please tell me what it might have cost back in its day, I understand Carbatec used to carry it. This may give me an idea of where it stands in the quality range.

I guess it is of great quality, or you would not like it. I only know that cheap ones are worse than nothing.

[Kamusur]

It looks fairly solidly made Taff, good thirst quenching score.

Steve

[nnickusa]

Looks like a nice tool, Taffy. I've had thoughts about them too, but have yet to look too far into it...

Markus: Beer down here is ridiculously expensive. When I left the US, I was buying a carton of beer for not much more than I started paying for a 6-pack here. Couple years back, we went to Europe and beer was less than half the cost than in Australia. It's all "Sin Taxes." And, they've just gone up again!

[Taffy Evans]

This little baby cost me just around $48, had to get it quick before my mate lost his thirst. I figured that's a good deal, including six packets of blades and no freight costs.

[Kev3]

Excellent deal if you ask me Taffy.
Long live the beer economy

[charangohabsburg]

This little baby cost me just around $48, had to get it quick before my mate lost his thirst. I figured that's a good deal, including six packets of blades and no freight costs.

Well done! Considering what you got in exchange I was afraid beer in North Queensland would cost even ten times more than that!

[demonx]

Nice score

I can imagine that would be quite handy to have

[J.F. Custom]

Hey Taffy.

Nice one - there are certainly jobs it would be handy for. They were a decent little machine too, no longer available as with many other Delta products.

As to price, RRP was $299 from memory... May have crept up to $319 when the dollar was bad and $269 on the occasional big special. So your price was pretty much a bargain

Jeremy.

[simso]

I enjoy using the scroll saw,