17-05-2012, 08:04 AM
Hi,
Many thanks for adding this Gary it is most unusual. How these are sold for 8 Euro's makes me wonder just what profit is involved; the material has to be bought and to make a single one of these must be time consuming doing the cutting; assembly and finishing. Credit to the maker for ingenuity.
The spiral saw cut is obviously one cut and done freehand; this will take a lot of practice and as the cut will be so long if opened up it must be demanding on blades. I think if I had to make six such cuts I would feel giddy as a lot of concentration must be needed.
I never realized the full potential of my Hegner scroll saw as I always regarded it more of a toy than a serious woodworking machine; I seldom used the Hegner and it just sat on the bench idle most of the time; at well over £500 new these Hegner's are not a cheap bit of kit. I didn't even like using mine as it wasn't secured to the bench so vibration used to make it walk around. This is not the fault of the Hegner more down to my lack of use for it; when I bought it I thought it would be ideal for cutting patterns in plywood but I just couldn't settle with it so I finally sold it getting a very good price. I have reverted back to using either my coping saw or fret saw and to be honest I find this hand work to be more interesting.
I'm sure you are right Joe as I can just see David gearing up to to turn some nesting rings using slicing cutter on his lathe with the pattern being cut freehand using a fret saw.
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks for adding this Gary it is most unusual. How these are sold for 8 Euro's makes me wonder just what profit is involved; the material has to be bought and to make a single one of these must be time consuming doing the cutting; assembly and finishing. Credit to the maker for ingenuity.
The spiral saw cut is obviously one cut and done freehand; this will take a lot of practice and as the cut will be so long if opened up it must be demanding on blades. I think if I had to make six such cuts I would feel giddy as a lot of concentration must be needed.
I never realized the full potential of my Hegner scroll saw as I always regarded it more of a toy than a serious woodworking machine; I seldom used the Hegner and it just sat on the bench idle most of the time; at well over £500 new these Hegner's are not a cheap bit of kit. I didn't even like using mine as it wasn't secured to the bench so vibration used to make it walk around. This is not the fault of the Hegner more down to my lack of use for it; when I bought it I thought it would be ideal for cutting patterns in plywood but I just couldn't settle with it so I finally sold it getting a very good price. I have reverted back to using either my coping saw or fret saw and to be honest I find this hand work to be more interesting.
I'm sure you are right Joe as I can just see David gearing up to to turn some nesting rings using slicing cutter on his lathe with the pattern being cut freehand using a fret saw.
Kind regards, Col.
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