Sears Scroll Saw Handbook With Patterns-Woodworking (same day shipping)

Description: For the purposes of this book, the terms"scroll saw" and "jigsaw" have essentially the same meanings. The majority of manufacturers today call their machines scroll saws, and Webster's New International Dictionary (second edition) defines a scroll saw as "a ribbonlike saw stretched in a frame, adapted for sawing curved outlines.." Some of the new manufacturers of scroll saws do refer to the design of older-style, rigid-arm machines as jigsaws. Regardless of their preferences, for consistency all sawing machines discussed will be called scroll saws.The scroll saws that have become available in recent years are simply fantastic machines.They should probably carry warning labels like: "Use of this machine could become addictive." The more you use a scroll saw, the more you want to use it, and the more you find to do with it. This is because scroll-saw-ing today is exciting, relaxing, and often very therapeutic. The scroll saw user's confidence and skills grow quickly with each new proj-ect. The intoxicating aroma of freshly cut wood, the quickness and high quality of cut, and the pure joy and satisfaction of working with scroll saws has captured the fancy of amateur, veteran, and professional wood-crafters alike. Men, women and children from ages 10 to 100 can become very skilled in a short time. One manufacturer estimates that 25 to 35 percent of all total sales is to women. Scroll-sawing has even become a"family experience" in many households. Man's effort to substitute energy other than his own muscle power for sawing wood dates back before the discovery of America.Early saw mills were powered by animals, wind, and water.Between 1600 and 1620, the first American saw mills appeared in Maine and Virginia.Some of the saws that cut logs into lumber had long blades rigged in a frame; these blades were spaced to cut boards of equal width. The saws moved up and down in a reciprocating action, and the cut was made only on the downward stroke of the saw.This reciprocating blade movement is the same basic cutting action incorporated in all scroll saws today.The first scroll saws were handmade wood parts, except for a crude metal blade. The blade was strained or tensioned by attaching one end to a flexible wooden rod (used as a spring) that was attached to the shop ceiling.The blade extended downwards through the table, with the lower end connected to a foot treadle near the floor. (See Illus. 1.) The operator depressed the treadle to pull the blade downwards for the cutting stroke. The wooden spring rod raised the blade again when the foot pressure was released.It is believed that the first fine scroll saw blades were invented by a German clockmaker in the late 1500s. ORDER BEFORE 2 PM CENTRAL - SAME DAY SHIPPINGPR101422

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