Sawing, Beveling, Fretwork, Inside Cuts

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FIG. 7

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MATERIAL	SPEED CONTROL KNOB
HOLD-DOWN
THUMBSCREW
	FIG. 8
ALLEN SCREW
	ON/OFF SWITCH

PADLOCK HOLE

MATERIAL

HOLD-DOWN

Sawing

Hold material firmly against table. Always feed material toward the blade. Feed the workpiece fast enough to allow the blade to cut, but do not force material into the blade too quickly.

Beveling

The table of your scroll saw bevels 45° left and right. A detent is set at 0°. To bevel the scroll saw table, loosen the bevel lock knob (Figure 9), and bevel the table to the desired setting, indicated by the bevel pointer.

NOTE: Before tilting the table for bevel cuts of 45˚,check the clearance around the lower thumbscrew. To facilitate an accurate 45˚ cut the thumbscrew and setscrew may need to change places. On the setscrew side, sufficient clearance is available.

Fretwork

INSIDE CUTS

Your scroll saw is ideal for making inside cuts for detail work. To make an inside cut:

1.Drill a pilot hole in your workpiece.

2.Make sure the blade tension lever is moved fully to the right

3.Loosen the top thumbscrew blade clamp.

4.Leaving the blade held in place by the bottom blade clamp, lift the top arm of the scroll saw, as shown in Figure 10. Thread the saw blade through the pilot hole in your workpiece and reattach the blade by tightening the top thumbscrew.

5.Readjust the blade tension and begin the inside cut.

Alternately, you can loosen the bottom thumbscrew blade clamp in step 3 above, and thread the blade through the top of the workpiece.