Cutting things that are not wood.

[Roberta Moreton]

I saw a pattern by Steve Good that was an Angel cut from plexiglass. It got me thinking about other things that can be cut with the scroll saw. Here are a few.  Plexiglass, paper, a tablet of paper, metal, and leather.  Fabric can also be cut, I am not a quilter. Thats all I was willing to try.

 

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Edited December 2, 2023 by Roberta Moreton
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[Scrappile]

Very impressive.  About the only things I have tried other than wood is Corian and Plexiglass

[wombatie]

I made Chistmas cards and birthday cards last year, using the scroll saw and I have just finished cutting melted plastic milk bottle caps.

Marg

[barb.j.enders]

10 hours ago, wombatie said:

I made Chistmas cards and birthday cards last year, using the scroll saw and I have just finished cutting melted plastic milk bottle caps.

Marg

What did you make withe the melted bottle caps?  

[JessL]

Huh, I need to think outside the box more.....

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

I have cut many types of wood and some harder than others. Also cut some brass, and aluminum,  acrylic, and acrylic mirror. That is about all I  needed. 

 

 

[Roberta Moreton]

14 hours ago, wombatie said:

I made Chistmas cards and birthday cards last year, using the scroll saw and I have just finished cutting melted plastic milk bottle caps.

Marg

I need to see that! No picture, no fun!

Edited December 4, 2023 by Roberta Moreton

[Fab4]

Cut this out of a Betty Crocker baking sheet 11"X17" from the dollar store and used just a regular #1 blade
It was loud....LOL  added magnets to the back of the stickers.  Did I mention it was loud while cutting it out
The green tape did manage to stick to the non stick surface before applying the pattern
@wombatie  Where are those melted caps - Our curiosity is killing us

[Joe W.]

Heavy sigh.
I feel so inadequate.

WELL DONE ya'all!

 

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

I always loved people who cut vinyl records. They are always cool. That is something on my to do list. Like to see some examples of that here as well. 

 

 

I always loved the people who cut coins with the scrollsaw. I even think I had seen a few people show their work here if I remember correctly. here is an example of a friend of mine who did this one for me and it all happened on a bet we had years ago. We talked about ways of thinning a coin because that is what is needed when he scrolls the coins. I told him I can do that one of 2 ways. turn it down on a lathe or scrollsaw it in half and he did not think I could cut a quarter in half using a scrollsaw. well about 5 jeweler blades later I showed him.. He then had to cut me a New Jersey coin and place it on a pen blank that I made using copper braiding. I sent him the blanks and he did his things and when he sent it back I cast in resin and turned down to a pen. here is the photo of the pen and also of the quarters I cut in half using my Dewalt 788 years ago. Want to try your skill, try doing that with your scrollsaw.  Have to say those quarters are made from junk metals and are hard. 

 

 

 

[Wichman]

About 30 years ago I worked at a restaurant, in the back was an electrical panel with 2 breakers and no cover for the breakers. Fire Dept finally flagged it as an offense, Store manager asked me to fix it. I had a local sheet metal shop make me up a panel out of 18 gauge steel. I carefully marked out the opening for the breaker, then, using a mini hacksaw blade chucked into my Sears 20" "Professional" scroll saw cut out the openings. As Fab4 has stated, loud, really really loud ( foam earplugs + over the ear muffs; and it was still loud). Finished the monstrosity and installed. Done and passed all inspections since.

It was cut out of 1/8 plywood, but I cut a butterfly valve for a carburetor once.

Not on purpose but I have cut pin nails used to hold alignment on stack cut patterns. Its tough on the blades but they cut.

I have cut, steel, plastic, acrylic, copper, leather. And the list goes on.  

 

Edited December 6, 2023 by Wichman
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[Fab4]

4 hours ago, JTTHECLOCKMAN said:

I always loved people who cut vinyl records. They are always cool. That is something on my to do list. Like to see some examples of that here as well. 

 

 

I always loved the people who cut coins with the scrollsaw. I even think I had seen a few people show their work here if I remember correctly. here is an example of a friend of mine who did this one for me and it all happened on a bet we had years ago. We talked about ways of thinning a coin because that is what is needed when he scrolls the coins. I told him I can do that one of 2 ways. turn it down on a lathe or scrollsaw it in half and he did not think I could cut a quarter in half using a scrollsaw. well about 5 jeweler blades later I showed him.. He then had to cut me a New Jersey coin and place it on a pen blank that I made using copper braiding. I sent him the blanks and he did his things and when he sent it back I cast in resin and turned down to a pen. here is the photo of the pen and also of the quarters I cut in half using my Dewalt 788 years ago. Want to try your skill, try doing that with your scrollsaw.  Have to say those quarters are made from junk metals and are hard. 

 

 

 

John:
In a respectful way - That's insane, looks great, well done is an understatement
Fab4

[Tbow388]

LOVE The necklace!!!

 

[wombatie]

On 12/5/2023 at 1:27 AM, barb.j.enders said:

What did you make withe the melted bottle caps?  

Here it is.

Marg

Edited December 7, 2023 by wombatie

[barb.j.enders]

9 hours ago, wombatie said:

Here it is.

Marg

Do you just melt the caps to create a sheet of plastic? 

[Scrappile]

11 hours ago, wombatie said:

Here it is.

Marg

Well I'll be darned.  That is pretty cool...  How do you melt them?  In an oven?  I would never have thought of that!

[Wichman]

There are many YouTube videos on this. If you decide to try this look up the vids showing the safety aspects of melting, not burning, the plastic.

Personally, I'll pass, I remember the creep crawly thing maker fiasco from the 60's and 70's. 

[wombatie]

14 hours ago, barb.j.enders said:

Do you just melt the caps to create a sheet of plastic? 

 

12 hours ago, Scrappile said:

Well I'll be darned.  That is pretty cool...  How do you melt them?  In an oven?  I would never have thought of that!

We did it the hard way because it was a first time.  We put in a layer of caps in a baking dish and put it in the oven about 200C but that came out very thin so we tossed in quite a few more and back into the oven.  That wasn't thick enough so through in some more and back into the oven.  That was OK so Terry took it into the garage and put it between two thick blocks of wood and left it there for about 30 mins.  It took quite a while to cool down.  Next time we will use a smaller baking dish.  Also read that you can do it on a sandwich press.

Marg

[Roberta Moreton]

On 12/6/2023 at 5:06 PM, Tbow388 said:

LOVE The necklace!!!

 

It was a 50 cent piece.