After I got the new tires & thrust bearings installed on the 10 inch Rockwell Beaver bandsaw was ready to make sawdust. This little Rockwell Beaver was a step from the 9 inch Ryobi bandsaw I had. Over time I learnt this bandsaw had some flaws. The wheels that the blade rides on were plastic. The wheels had no bearings. Only brass bushings that needed oil every use. The saw blade didn't track very well. Even with these flaws the bandsaw did what I need to do. I knew I would want upgrade to a better bandsaw some day

The Delta 16 inch scroll saw seem to be in pretty good shape.  So this was a plus. I order some scroll saw blades to give the saw a whirl. I was fun to use. I found a project online to make. So I tried my luck out making bowl with the scroll saw. I glued a template on a board cut rings in a octagon shape. When the cutting was all done. All the parts were cut to make the bowl including the bottom of the bowl.

Now the bowl was ready for sanding a glue up. The glue up was alittle tricky as there wasn't alot room for glue. Each ring was glued to corner of another ring. Then next ring would be rotated to offset the next corner until the bowl was complete. These bowls turned out good. The upper blade clamp flew apart. Now i was on the search for upper blade clamp for 30 plus year old scroll saw. I started off looking online. I didn't have much luck. I did that someone was making replacement blade clamp. It was a bit pricey and with shipping I didn't worth it to buy.  I remembered there was a place in my area that sold Woodworking Equipment. I drove there to see what they had. I was lucky they had one on the shelf. I learnt there they would be hard to find as Delta when out of business.