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Daily TipHere's a couple of great tips sent in via E-mail from Mac
Prior to attaching a pattern to the project wood I sand the face side of the board, usually to 400 grit. Then I attach the pattern with spray adhesive. I drill all the blade entry holes using an appropriate backer board. I like using half inch MDF as a backer since it usually remains flat. When drilling the entry holes through the project piece, I set the drill press depth gauge to drill not more than one eighth inch into the backer board. After drilling many projects I can than use the fresh Once I have completed drilling all the blade entry holes on the project piece, I return to the palm sander and sand the reverse side of the workpiece. I usually sand to 180 grit to provide a smooth surface to allow the workpiece to glide on the scrollsaw table. After sanding, I use a bellows (previous tip submission) to quickly clean up the sanding dust, leaving a very clean blade entry hole with no debris/residue what so ever. Should dust or debris resulting from the scrolling operation then later become lodged in any of the blade entry holes, a quick whisp of air from the bellows usually clears the hole instantly. However, I find that if you occasionally clean off your table while scrolling there are seldom any obscured holes to deal with. I generally cut projects that are intricate and require very small blade entry holes such as 2/0 and under. I also feed my blade into the workpiece from the underside of the table. This can make finding the small holes difficult. To eliminate this difficulty, I will circle every hole on the underside of the workpiece using a black ball point pen. This enhances the hole remarkably well, even in the relative obscurity of the underside of the table. (It's also a great time to count those holes) I have found these tips to be useful in my scrolling and offer them to you in the hope that they will be helpful to others. Thank you very much Jeff for the many hours of enjoyment and satisfaction. Keep up the great work.
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