For me, this was the hardest thing to learn.
I must have burned up 30 gross of blades before I figured it out.
There's no perfect setting as each type of blade is different,
but getting its tension set in a happy medium is the real key to blade life.
Too tight and too loose are bad things on scroll saw blades and shorten their life either way.
I always set my tension by ear, by plucking the blade with the saw turned off.
Once you get accustomed some certain notes you hear, when you pluck the tensioned blade, you'll remember it forever amd make note of its optimal setting for that type of blade!!
Hope this helps out some new folks by saving them a few gross of blades!!
BladeDancer
I must have burned up 30 gross of blades before I figured it out.
There's no perfect setting as each type of blade is different,
but getting its tension set in a happy medium is the real key to blade life.
Too tight and too loose are bad things on scroll saw blades and shorten their life either way.
I always set my tension by ear, by plucking the blade with the saw turned off.
Once you get accustomed some certain notes you hear, when you pluck the tensioned blade, you'll remember it forever amd make note of its optimal setting for that type of blade!!
Hope this helps out some new folks by saving them a few gross of blades!!
BladeDancer
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