Comment by giarc
3 days ago
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.
3 days ago
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.
What are you talking about? Are you referring to touching a blade that is not moving? Sure, you can touch any object that is sharp if it's not moving. I'm referring to an operating scroll saw. You can absolutely not touch the blade when it's oscillating at 1200 strokes per minute.
I'm curious that amount of hours you've spent with a scrollsaw, because you absolutely can touch the blade running. You can touch the back easily, the sides easily, and the front while is may give you a cut, most likely would not give you an injury the same as touch any part of any other saw's blade.
I understand you if you run your hand into the scrollsaw and try and cut off your fingers, you probably could. But in practice, that is not what happens if you graze the blade. Your hand snaps back, you may get a cut if the teeth got you, but you will mostly likely not be on your way to the hospital. Again, this is very different that other tools in a woodshop. Yes, you can cut yourself. Yes, it is much, much harder to have a serious injury.