A Hand Saw-Table

You can saw out your designs much more easily and neatly if you use a hand saw table as shown in Fig. 10. This is a board about 4 x 6 inches on the sides with a V sawed out of one end and a clamp screwed to the bottom of it.

This makes the end of the board project out from the table it is clamped to, raises the wood you are sawing from the surface of it and gives you a firm grip on it. You can easily make a saw table or you can buy one for 50 cents.

Fig. 10. A Hand Scroll Saw Table

Files for Scroll Work

To do a really neat job at scroll sawing you should have a set of scroll saw files. These files are long and thin and are made round, oval, knife edge, half round and three cornered as shown at A in Fig. 11.

A Twist Drill Stock

A twist drill stock and a drill, see B, Fig. II, is far better for making holes in wood than an awl and as they only cost 50 cents you should have one. You can make a hole in a 1/8 inch thick board in the 1/100th part of a minute.

A Pair of Pliers

A pair of flat-nose, side cutting pliers is a very useful tool which will go a long way

11 The Millers Falls Company, Millers Falls, Mass., makes them and nearly all tool companies sell them.

toward making your scroll sawing efforts a success. A pair is shown at C in Fig. II.

A Small Hammer

And finally get a small hammer to drive brads with as pictured at D.

Scroll Saw Blades

There are two kinds made and these are known as (1) Star saw blades and (2) German saw blades.

As one is as good as the other by all means buy

Fig. 11. Some Necessary Scroll Sawing Tools

Star blades. The sizes from 1 to 10 are shown at E in Fig. II, but three smaller and two larger sizes are made. The smaller sizes cost 10 cents a dozen and the larger sizes 15 cents a dozen. The spacing of the teeth on the blade is shown at F.