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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 4:32 pm
by billmayo
I keep a jig saw without the arm (very light and easy to store) and use 2 wide wood jigsaw blades (from an electric hand jig/scroll saw, not the skinny ones) with a very small clamp holding the open ends together. This gives me a quick way to cut out inside wooden areas by drilling a hole and setting the wood over the jigsaw blade and on the table. No arm allows no restrictions to the size of the wood being cut.
I was getting too much blade flex using just one blade but I am sure others could have better luck using one blade than I did.
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:26 am
by pennview
In addition to holding jigsaw blades, Shopsmith used to sell small files for power filing on the jigsaw and you can fabricate sanding sticks for power sanding small pieces where a strip sander would be too large.
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:35 pm
by JPG
pennview wrote:In addition to holding jigsaw blades, Shopsmith used to sell small files for power filing on the jigsaw and you can fabricate sanding sticks for power sanding small pieces where a strip sander would be too large.
Sanding drums with 1/4" shanks will also fit. IIRC
I bought mine
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:41 am
by fiatben
I bought one from a member of this forum. I've used it a couple of times, but I have lousy luck with breaking those itty-bitty blades. But since I don't have a scroll saw, sometimes it's the only tool in my kit that will do what I want. (I'm not a big fan of a hand=held jig saw).
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:54 am
by JPG
fiatben wrote:I bought one from a member of this forum. I've used it a couple of times, but I have lousy luck with breaking those itty-bitty blades. But since I don't have a scroll saw, sometimes it's the only tool in my kit that will do what I want. (I'm not a big fan of a hand=held jig saw).
The jig saw does not have 'itty bitty' blades. But the scroll saw surely does. Last project I was feeding the blade through a 0.030" hole.