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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Fleecewife on December 28, 2012, 08:57:16 pm

Title: pressy
Post by: Fleecewife on December 28, 2012, 08:57:16 pm: My Christmas pressy has arrived at last :santariding: :thumbsup: . It's a bandsaw to help cut up horns to make buttons, toggles, jewellery once I've had some practice, and :knit: stitch markers. I have a Dremmel with all the drilling and polishing bits and a small vice, so I should be good to go 8) I wonder what else I can use the bandsaw for :thinking:
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 28, 2012, 09:52:39 pm: :excited:

I'm sure you'll think of lots of uses.
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Post by: jaykay on December 28, 2012, 10:23:08 pm: Hand-made horn buttons, how cool :thumbsup:
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Post by: Alistair on December 29, 2012, 06:36:50 am: Sawing up bodies?
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Post by: SallyintNorth on December 29, 2012, 07:56:32 am: Excellent :thumbsup:
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Post by: Fleecewife on December 29, 2012, 11:47:09 am: Quote from: Alistair on December 29, 2012, 06:36:50 am
Sawing up bodies?

They would need to be very thin ;D although by the look of it I'm more likely to saw off my own
fingers :o
Not tried it yet - too torrentially rainy to make a trip to the workshop seem appealing
:raining: :raining: :raining:
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Post by: colliewoman on December 29, 2012, 05:27:21 pm: Jigsaw puzzles?
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Post by: Fleecewife on December 30, 2012, 12:49:12 am: Sadly not - a jigsaw has a thinner blade which apparently reciprocates ie goes up and down, whereas the bandsaw has a slightly wider blade which only goes in one direction (never-ending loop).

But that has given me an idea for pressies for the various smaller grandchildren - jigsaw puzzles of pics from here. The youngest is particularly fond of jigsaw puzzles and hardly ever gets this far north, but loves it here when he does come. Thank you for that idea 8)