Comment by ethan_smith
3 days ago
Scroll saws operate at 400-1800 strokes per minute with metal teeth that can absolutely cause serious injury - please don't test this safety assumption with children.
3 days ago
Scroll saws operate at 400-1800 strokes per minute with metal teeth that can absolutely cause serious injury - please don't test this safety assumption with children.
Scroll saws, unlike more common woodworking power tools (table saw, bandsaw, router, joiner, planer), is one of the only tools that touching the blade does not typically cause an injury.
That's incorrect. A scroll blade is just like any other saw blade, but moves up and down many times a minute. It will 100% cut you if you touch the front of the blade.
> A scroll blade is just like any other saw blade
No, not all saws are the same and treating your tools like that will cause injury to yourself. Different tools have orders of magnitudes of different consequences when a blade is touched.
I've worked in multiple production and educational woodshops. I've touched running scrollsaw blades and even touched a running table saw blade and seen live a hand into a joiner. These things are no where close to being the same.
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I think I know what they're talking about; I had a wood lathe that ran on D batteries, and I think there was a saw version too.