Scroll Saw Blog

Taking a chance here…I really need that micropinner (My Porter-Cable PIN100 had an encounter with a slab of concrete and bent its nose) and I’m not sure when the replacement parts will arrive.  We were down toward Indianapolis today, so we swung by Harbor Freight and found they did have a 23 gauge micropinner. My [...]

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Today I used the Kreg Bandsaw Fence for some “real” resaw work. The first piece was a 4-1/2″ wide piece of sassafras.  Initial prep work was the usual jointer (flat face) -> planer (other flat face) -> jointer (square edge) -> tablesaw (other edge parallel).  Since the piece was not going to be flipped like [...]

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This is a new blade sold be Bens Scrollsaw blades.  He sent me a few with the previous order to demo, but I never got around to it–I was cutting animal puzzles, and I use #5’s for that.  I did order a gross of them, and today I was cutting wooden beads for jewelry and [...]

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This past weekend I decided to buy a Freud circular saw blade.  What I wanted was a decent blade that had a 1/8″ kerf (all my blades are the thin kerf kind).  There are many times I need a 1/8″ dado, and I was getting tired of two passed.
Anyway,  I found a FRELU84R010 Combo blade [...]

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I finally got pictures taken of the Mask Pen Holder from Finescrollsaw.com. I’ve put it on the “Reviews” page listed in the left column (as of this writing). You can also go directly to the review at this link here. It’s a .pdf file with links to larger pictures.

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