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Michael,

Nope! Don't count..

[muntin chops]

Thanks so much for the help.

I can't stand not having my CarveWright here yet!

Looking forward to my first show-&-tell!

[sensei]

I just got off the Sear site, I think I would like to buy one but wow the people that wrote reviews were not very kind to this tool.

Have they took care of some of the problems they had?

Thanks for the input.

Sensei

[newt55]

I keep getting a message "power fluctuation" every few minutes while the machine is running. The machine shuts down. I push enter, and it starts to work again. I have no porblems with power anywhere else in the house. I have tried plugging it in to different circuits, but with no improvement. HELP!!!!
Dave

[Jeff_Birt]

Dave, give CW tech support a call. It sounds like you might have power supply issues.

[oldman]

I don't know if Sears has fixed the problem of not. When I was looking to buy one there were out of stock, so I look at who made the machine and it was Carvewright so I ordered one from them. It took a little while to get here but that was because they were testing each machine to see if it was working correctly and then they shipped it. When I received it there was still some saw dust in it so I knew it was checked, do far no reary problems. Also if you haven't looked at the tips & tricks links there are a lot of good tips.

[aikenaugie]

I just got off the Sear site, I think I would like to buy one but wow the people that wrote reviews were not very kind to this tool.

Have they took care of some of the problems they had?

Thanks for the input.

Sensei

Sensei, I did the same thing in reading all the reviews on the sears site. I have worked in machining for many years and really wanted to purchase this machine! I went ahead and purchased the carvewright from sears. I read and studied all the manuals and went to the carvewright site and read everything that I could find there in the tips and faqs. Finally started the machine and it is fantastic!! A lot of the negative reviews came from inexperience and operator errors. The carvewright is awsome!! Don't believe everything you read....especially in this case.

[Kenm810]

Hey Guys, I just wantned to say Hello and Welcome to the CW Forum.
If you post your messages in the users sections below,
you'll find that you will get much more response to your posts.
Again Happy to see you and Welcome.

[Ajnin]

I purchased a new basic bit set from sears, they have a carbide coating on them, when I look closely at the bits, there is a sizable gap between the outside of the coating and the cutting surface and is definately not sharp to the touch, my questions are;

Do I need to prep the bit in some way to remove or reduce this coating?

Is there some way to tell the design software which bits I have, so it can optimize bit use?

Thanks in advance.

[Jeff_Birt]

Please post you questions to the users forum section, NOT HERE.

Router bits come with a wax type coating over them, it just peels off. This is not carbide. The carbide is the squarish looking pieces that do the cutting.

You cannot set up your own bits in the software at this time.