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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe
impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
boorite wrote:
If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html I have a scroll saw, but for some things this works better. I have had mine set up like this for years. Just a hole in the counter top for the blade and two counter-sunk flat head screws that fit into threaded holes in the base of my jigsaw. Set-up or take-down in a couple of minutes. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA A pessimist is a person who mourns the future. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
I had a Hersch (?) saw table (sic) many years ago that did this. You
could mount a circular saw, jig saw, or router under the table. Mike boorite wrote: If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
Mine has clamps. Just slide the saw in and tighten the wing nuts.
"Gerald Ross" wrote in message ... I have a scroll saw, but for some things this works better. I have had mine set up like this for years. Just a hole in the counter top for the blade and two counter-sunk flat head screws that fit into threaded holes in the base of my jigsaw. Set-up or take-down in a couple of minutes. |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe
impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html At one point I tried to set up something like this in a router table, but I couldn't get it to cut anything that resembled a straight line. Gave up and bought a cheapo HD bandsaw. Just recently gave that up and bought a used 16", 1.5hp Grizzly. (Still learning to only cry once...) Andy |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
boorite wrote: If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html Often easier to bring the work to the tool. FoggyTown |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
boorite wrote:
If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html For a lower cost version, non electric see the latest Woodwork magazine. The web page shows a picture of it now, but not a real good one. http://woodwork-mag.com/ Joe |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
Joe Gorman wrote: boorite wrote: If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html For a lower cost version, non electric see the latest Woodwork magazine. The web page shows a picture of it now, but not a real good one. http://woodwork-mag.com/ Joe Cool, have to pick that up. Found these 1954 PM tearouts for sale on eBay... http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5...pm54jigsaw.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5...m54jigsaw2.jpg "Jigsaw from a Small Engine Block." |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
boorite wrote:
Joe Gorman wrote: boorite wrote: If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html For a lower cost version, non electric see the latest Woodwork magazine. The web page shows a picture of it now, but not a real good one. http://woodwork-mag.com/ Joe Cool, have to pick that up. Found these 1954 PM tearouts for sale on eBay... http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5...pm54jigsaw.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5...m54jigsaw2.jpg "Jigsaw from a Small Engine Block." Rats, until I looked at the pics I was thinking more of a Ford 289 running a saw to match David Marks' jointer:-0 Joe |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
Joe Gorman wrote: boorite wrote: "Jigsaw from a Small Engine Block." Rats, until I looked at the pics I was thinking more of a Ford 289 running a saw to match David Marks' jointer:-0 Joe Yeah, "small block" could mean a 350. That there would be for hardwoods. |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
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boorite wrote: If you want a scroll saw, but your wallet suffers from a severe impaction, then a thing like this will either fill your scrolling needs or convince you to get out the crowbar. Either way, to me it's worth the price (pretty much free). I hope it at least amuses. http://woodslacker.officeweasel.com/jigscroll.html You would probably be interested in Nick Englers book on scrollsaws. It has a design for an actual C-arm scroll saw, made mostly from wood, that uses a chearp jigsaw as the power source. And if you are looking for a quiet scroll saw, one that runs like a sewing machine, how about making one form a sewing machine? As I was looking at your web site, it occurred to me, that it was kind of a wimpy outfit. Now, if you had used a reciprocating saw instead of the jig saw... -- Every complicated problem has a simple solution that doesn't work. Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland lwasserm(@)charm(.)net |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
As I was looking at your web site, it occurred to me, that it was kind
of a wimpy outfit. Now, if you had used a reciprocating saw instead of the jig saw... Now you're talking. Or maybe something gas-powered. You mean like a gas laser? - Owen - |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
Owen Lawrence wrote:
Now you're talking. Or maybe something gas-powered. You mean like a gas laser? I was thinking more along the lines of a curb saw or chainsaw, but the laser is hard to pass up. I think I would have to decide based on which one would win in a fight. |
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My jury-rigged jigsaw table thing
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boorite wrote: wrote: As I was looking at your web site, it occurred to me, that it was kind of a wimpy outfit. Now, if you had used a reciprocating saw instead of the jig saw... Now you're talking. Or maybe something gas-powered. YEAH! That's IT! a CHAINSAW!. Why bother using a bandsaw for resawing? Why, with a table-mounted, vertically pointed bar chainsaw, and a tablesaw-like fence setup, except for wasting slightly more wood with the wide kerf, you'll be resawing like a saw mill! Imagine, you need a 2X6 or something, just cut down a tree and push it through your tablechainsaw! I've got an old Poulan out in the shed somewhere... I can hardly wait! -- Every complicated problem has a simple solution that doesn't work. Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland lwasserm(@)charm(.)net |
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