Heed these simple instructions to keep your saw in working order By Charles Hand, with Rolf Beuttenmuller This may be hard to believe, but in over 15 years of scrolling, I have never replaced a clamp or thumb screw. I’ve been able to keep my various machines—my oldest saw is […]
By Bob Duncan Rockler Center/Offset Marking Tool $9.99 plus S&H Rockler, 800-279-4441, rockler.com Rockler’s ingenious Center/Offset Marking Tool works so well you may wonder how you ever lived without it. This handy device lets you mark the center of the edge of a board, or draw a line a specific […]
Want to revamp your scroll saw? Switch out that clunky old blade clamp for a tougher, more streamlined model By Bob Duncan and Mindy Kinsey The blade clamps are among the first parts to fail on a scroll saw. The clamps, which are also called blade chucks or blade heads, […]
Make blade changes faster and easier for a couple dollars and 20 minutes in the shop By Bob Duncan The partially free-floating blade clamps on the Porter Cable scroll saw make it a challenge to change blades. But with a few tools and basic hardware, you can make them stay where […]
