While cutting out a number of MDO letters today I noticed that I was running out of fresh blades and I didn't want to have to run out to the store to get more. I noticed that only a small part of the blade was actually worn nearer the bottom while the rest of it was sharp. Hmmm.... the inventor/engineer in me thinks.... If only I can adjust the height of the cutting table??? Maybe that is possible on the high-end scroll-saws... I don't know but it should be.
So I grabbed scrap pieces of 3/4" and 1/2" MDF. I cut two pieces 14" square so that they were 4" larger than the round main area of the cutting table. I traced the shape of the aluminum cutting table on the 1/2" MDF piece and cut out that shape ensuring that it fit snuggly around the perimeter of my table. I nailed that cut piece to the 3/4" piece and measured out where the saw blade would pass through and drilled a 1" hole.
I slipped my invention over top of my scroll-saw cutting table, popped in a used blade and it worked like a charm and provides a larger more stable cutting base. Looks like I won't have to go shopping for blades for a while either!
Hope someone here can use this idea!
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Great idea, Marty Happy! so there is life after the first time (and not retirement into art-painted clocks on the wall!) thanks for the tip! Deb Fowler
