Ergo, a bandsaw to make a bandsaw puzzle! :)
Ergo, a bandsaw to make a bandsaw puzzle! :)
a good example of nomenclature drift. what we call today a scroll saw was called a jigsaw by my grandfather. what we call a jigsaw he called a saber saw.
certainly a bandsaw box- a sort of jigsaw puzzle.
I *still* call it a saber saw...
I have a table jigsaw. It differs from my definition of a scrollsaw because it is only powered on the down cut - the upcut being spring drawn. if you take the sideways U shaped arm off and put in a nice stiff saber saw blade it becomes a table based saber saw. I like my Bosch handheld jigsaw but I very seldom use my Craftsman scrollsaw. Damn, I have them all ;-)
Dave Hall
on the side of my saber saw some joker at bosch wrote "jig saw"
Your grandfather? I'm not that old and those were the names used when I was a kid.
when I was a kid both names were in use. grampa called it a saber saw, other people called it a jig saw...
Grampa's gone now- I can't ask him what it was called when he was a kid... probably nothing... not too many hand held power tools in the
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