{"id":2349,"date":"2011-01-31T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2011-01-30T19:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T08:25:22","slug":"cool-new-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"cool new tool!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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new saw, arrived in a small pizza box. om nom nom, so luscious red, I could _almost_ eat it...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Don’t you love a new tool? Even more when it works as advertised! I got a new saw frame delivered from America last Friday. I found out about this amazing invention via The Justified Sinner<\/a> who is a regular poster on Crafthaus<\/a>, which I joined earlier this year. (Can we say that yet, only one month in?) I was well chuffed as it arrived in time for me to start on my Buda entry (which incidentally, requires an absolute f-bomb’s load of sawing, which for me needs to be finished in the next week or so.)<\/p>\n

It’s a Knew Concepts 5″ Jewellers Saw<\/a>, ordered online. I have to say, it’s very light. On picking it up it weighed so little I let out a surprised “Whoa”, to nobody in particular. It’s actually 115 grams. (I had to know, ok?) I just weighed my really old 3″ steel saw frame – the standard wooden-handled type, and it is 142g (with a 6\/0 blade, in case you were wondering.) The other impressive thing that I noted on its arrival was that it made it all the way out here with the installed saw-blade fully intact. It looked about the size of a 2\/0, so maybe that’s not such a big deal. (Does a 2\/0 exist? I use only 6\/0’s so I really don’t know…)<\/p>\n

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how fast is that hand! see that blur? yeah! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most importantly though, it cuts a very fine line. Better than my other beloved (yet still expensive) Vallorbe saw frame, from Tool World<\/a> in the city.\u00a0 I’ve been a little worried about my sawing of late, since I made two sawing errors last year. Just between you and me, I was starting to think to myself “Maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m losing my touch.”<\/p>\n

I think that the wobble of my new (dodgy) desk might have contributed to that, and a slow developement of more flex in my old saw frame. Now that I have such a tight saw frame, I’m noticing less vibration, so I can go faster. On the flip side, I’m also now more aware of the vibrations of my dodgy setup, so that might be the next thing to fix!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a new tool, I got a new tool, I got a new tool hey, hey, hey, hey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,109,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewellery","category-process","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}