All MetalShaping

Go Back   All MetalShaping > General Metal Shaping Discussion > General Discussion
  Today's Posts Posts for Last 7 Days Posts for Last 14 Days  

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #11  
Old 09-21-2022, 05:47 AM
123pugsy's Avatar
123pugsy 123pugsy is offline
MetalShaper of the Month Dec. 2019, Feb. 2022
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Markham,ON
Posts: 2,165
Default

Is a sabre saw same thing as a jigsaw?


About 100 USD for a sheet up here.
Metal Market centers gouge poor guys that need small orders.
__________________
Pugsy

my project:
http://www.allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=154
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 09-21-2022, 05:13 PM
rockable rockable is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Oak Ridge, NC
Posts: 73
Default

Yes, same as a jigsaw. Some calls it a jigsaw, I calls it a Sabre saw.
__________________
Rock. Able
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 09-21-2022, 07:27 PM
123pugsy's Avatar
123pugsy 123pugsy is offline
MetalShaper of the Month Dec. 2019, Feb. 2022
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Markham,ON
Posts: 2,165
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by rockable View Post
Yes, same as a jigsaw. Some calls it a jigsaw, I calls it a Sabre saw.

I gotta change. A sabre sure sounds cooler than a jig.
__________________
Pugsy

my project:
http://www.allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=154
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 09-24-2022, 10:04 PM
weldtoride weldtoride is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 896
Default technicalities

I readily agree many folks and even merchants currently use the terms interchangeably.

At the risk of being "that guy" I'm going to venture into splitting hairs here: The retired shop teacher in me traditionally considered reciprocating power saws without a sole plate to be sabre saws. Often having longer, pointier, blades, but not always.

For sabre saw, think of Milwaukee's famous trademarked Sawzall, or the ubiquitous body shop air saw like this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/152446308622

For jigsaw, think "has a sole plate" and of the first power saw your grandad might have let you use:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/12552281282...Bk9SR9CN36juYA

For those still reading, please notify search and rescue, as I am obviously lost in tiny town tonight.
__________________
Mark from Illinois
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old 09-25-2022, 06:57 AM
crystallographic crystallographic is offline
MetalShaper of the Month October '14 , April '16, July 2020, Jan 2023
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Western Sierra Nevadas, Badger Hill, CA
Posts: 4,388
Default Jigsaw ..... and "sabersaw" fixture

"Jigsaw" .... I think this is the style I have seen and used for many years:
https://www.khmtools.com.ph/products...gsaw-table-saw

AKA "scroll saw"
Rockwell-Delta-Scroll-Saw-1.jpg
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/best-scroll-saw/

My old one is similar to the above photo: cast iron and has a 1/4 hp elect motor. Table is 16x16in. Uses little 8in. long blades, varying in width from 1/16in - for fine scroll cutting on musical instrument sound boxes - to 1/4in for accurate curvy cutting 1in thick maple for standing wall-clock bodies... Very handy (& solid) benchtop tool, that weighs about 25 lbs.


Here also - a pic of adapting a "sabersaw" (sabresaw) to a fixture for having a "jigsaw"-type cutting machine:
61JYK6LYUlL._AC_SL1403_.jpg


...By one name or another, an up-down fast-moving reciprocating saw blade mechanism (whatcha-maycallit) cuts thin sections ....
__________________
Kent

http://www.tinmantech.com

"All it takes is a little practical experience to blow the he!! out of a perfectly good theory." --- Lloyd Rosenquist, charter member AWS, 1919.

Last edited by crystallographic; 09-25-2022 at 01:42 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #16  
Old 09-25-2022, 08:46 AM
123pugsy's Avatar
123pugsy 123pugsy is offline
MetalShaper of the Month Dec. 2019, Feb. 2022
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Markham,ON
Posts: 2,165
Default

That's a neat jigsaw. Never seen them before.
__________________
Pugsy

my project:
http://www.allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=154
Reply With Quote
  #17  
Old 09-29-2022, 12:07 AM
vkasiotis vkasiotis is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2020
Location: Greece, Sifnos island
Posts: 68
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by crystallographic View Post
"Jigsaw" .... I think this is the style I have seen and used for many years:
https://www.khmtools.com.ph/products...gsaw-table-saw

AKA "scroll saw"
Attachment 64505
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/best-scroll-saw/

My old one is similar to the above photo: cast iron and has a 1/4 hp elect motor. Table is 16x16in. Uses little 8in. long blades, varying in width from 1/16in - for fine scroll cutting on musical instrument sound boxes - to 1/4in for accurate curvy cutting 1in thick maple for standing wall-clock bodies... Very handy (& solid) benchtop tool, that weighs about 25 lbs.


Here also - a pic of adapting a "sabersaw" (sabresaw) to a fixture for having a "jigsaw"-type cutting machine:
Attachment 64558


...By one name or another, an up-down fast-moving reciprocating saw blade mechanism (whatcha-maycallit) cuts thin sections ....
i love the old machines! unfortunatky its almost impossibke to find them here in greece.
__________________
Vasilis Kasiotis
Car opsis
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:55 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.