Greetings all:
I am thinking of using a scroll saw to cut leather. The leather I work with is in the 6-7oz range (a little more than the thickness of a nickle). So it is tough to quickly cut with hand tools.
I have zero experience with scroll saws and so I was hoping to get a few questions answered.
1. Can scroll saws be effectively used to cut leather without shredding the leather?
2. What type of blade should be used? The patterns I work with have some turns in them but nothing too tight.
3. I was thinking of the Sears scroll saw. Is this considered a decent saw?
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...seBVCookie=Yes
4. I read in another post about cutting leather with scroll saw, that the poster used a "guard." Is this something that is used to hold your project down so it does not move while being cut?
Thank you all for your comments.
(btw, my first post!)
~Robert
I am thinking of using a scroll saw to cut leather. The leather I work with is in the 6-7oz range (a little more than the thickness of a nickle). So it is tough to quickly cut with hand tools.
I have zero experience with scroll saws and so I was hoping to get a few questions answered.
1. Can scroll saws be effectively used to cut leather without shredding the leather?
2. What type of blade should be used? The patterns I work with have some turns in them but nothing too tight.
3. I was thinking of the Sears scroll saw. Is this considered a decent saw?
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...seBVCookie=Yes
4. I read in another post about cutting leather with scroll saw, that the poster used a "guard." Is this something that is used to hold your project down so it does not move while being cut?
Thank you all for your comments.
(btw, my first post!)
~Robert
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