132 Re: Grizzly's scroll saw
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This article is from the Woodworking FAQ Collection 5, by multiple authors.
132 Re: Grizzly's scroll saw
From: sland@padeds.harvard.edu (Steve Strickland)
Date: 20 Dec 89 17:15:08 GMT
In article <1165@m3.mfci.UUCP> colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell) writes:
>
>Having been forced to enter a Grossman's recently, I happened to
>notice that they've got a scroll saw on sale for $85. Guess what?
>It's exactly the same saw as what Grizzly is shipping. The only
>difference is that Grizzly's is green, and Grossman's is black.
>
It seems that some guy in Taiwan is making a *lot* of these ~$100 scroll saws
and shipping them to *everyone*. In the local Trendlines store, there are two
scroll saws sitting side-by-side. One is a Delta *on sale* for $129 and the
other is some acme brand (Reliant?) for $99. They are *identical* except for
the nameplate. Same shape, castings, and everything that can be assessed by the
naked eye. Also, the AMT catalog has a saw which looks identical for $89. It
seems that everyone that sells scroll saws has this model in their line.
Which brings up the following questions:
- Is the plastic orange holdown useful or useless? Does the work bounce up
and down? Do you have to hold it tightly?
- Other than a better holdown and a little air blower to clear the sawdust,
what do you get for the extra hendreds of dollars you can pay for some of
these saws?
And some more general scroll saw questions:
- I have an old style Dunlap fixed arm scroll saw (with the spring at the
top) and have been frustrated in trying to make those thick animal jigsaw
puzzles for my kids. The saw just won't cut purpendicular---the blade
flexes while pushing the wood through and as a result the pieces don't fit
together properly.
Is this just a problem with fixed arm saws?
Are constant tension machines immune? Or only the better ones?
Anybody have suggestions to alleviate the problem?
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