"Bob La Londe" wrote in
:

Greg, (and anybody else interested)

I am a member of a number of different fishing tackle making forums,
and your post the other day reminded me of a trick one member in
Malaysia came up with due to the difficulty of ordering various tools.
He roughs out blanks for crankbaits, and then hand carves them to
finish before adding bills, hardware, and paint. It's a pretty common
skills set practiced by the hard bait members of the forums. Many of
them use a small bench top band saw for roughing out their basic
shapes. A few use a scroll saws. Neither was readily available where
he was located so he came up with a different solution. He mounted a
jigsaw upside down to a small table with the blade sticking up through
a hole. Much like the cheesy table saw adaptations we see using a
circular saw. I don't know how safe it is, but he claimed it worked
really well for roughing out his wood blanks, and was much easier than
using a jig saw in a conventional manner to cut a blank out of a
board.

I hope I didn't just cost somebody a finger for passing this on.

John Smith
LOL




The Shopmate Sabre-lathe Model 2610T0 used a jigsaw blade in such a
manner. There was apparently a table that came with the saw, and a
jigsaw blade would be mounted on the rear oscillating piece using a set
screw.

Puckdropper
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Make it to fit, don't make it fit.