To achieve the perfect cut with a jeweler’s saw, use the scale on your saw to adjust the bevel angle to 45 degrees. Mark your cutting line on the material and align the saw blade with it. Hold the saw firmly and make the cut, allowing the saw to reach full speed before driving it into the material. This video will teach you how to use a jeweler’s saw, provide tips for proper sawing etiquette, and break less saw blades.
A jeweler’s saw allows you to cut intricate shapes, holes, or other shapes inside a piece of metal sheet. Before using a jeweler’s saw, it is important to understand some important things. Kim Thomson shares a guide for using a jeweller’s saw for making jewellery, explaining how to choose the right piercing frame and which saw blades to use.
To cut something in the inside part of a piece of metal, punch a small hole where you need to cut, insert the blade in the hole, and do the job. Master sawing and piercing with a jeweler’s saw securely is the first step to creating unique jewelry creations. Support the metal with your hand, using an anvil and bench pin. Have a loose grip and place the metal over the ‘V’ of your wooden bench pin while holding the saw frame lightly.
For cutting a design out of the middle of a shape, use a technique called “piercing”, which involves drilling a small hole.
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Copper inflexible – easier to cut due to resistance to bending when cutting pressure is applied. Brass flexible – harder to cut due to bending when cutting pressure is applied. Got it! Never knew that. What a lovely clef design you cut out. Makes me want to cut metal all day. It was very soothing to listen to your voice. Thanks Randy, for another great tutorial! Thank you for no music! One tip – when you showed the polished cut out at the end, the links blocked the view completely. This was frustrating. Try to place links elsewhere or wait a bit longer till the end of the article. Too many folks are plastering links all over the grand finale.
Good to remember to oil it. Occasionally, I forget. Know what I get for that? Broken blade lol. Dude excellent website. I am still an amateur but already made and sold a few nice things. I love to craft, being disabled it is my one outlet that really takes my mind completely off my pain. Your presentations are very thorough and articulate, thanks!
Wow! That’s amazing! I love music and the treble clef symbol. The first wire jewelry I made and sold were treble clef earrings. You are very good at that. ❓I was wondering if Gulf Wax (it’s wax used in canning and candy making) could be used to lubricate the saw blade? I’ve got to buy a saw to make the copper rings from your other tutorial but I already have wax (and olive oil) on hand. Thanks! 🙂
Great article. I love when people are thorough in their explanations. So I just purchased my first saw. I’m totally new to this. For now I’m experimenting on small metal pieces I got from Michael’s. Can you maybe share a link to a place to get metal sheets? Thanks again. I will be subscribing for lessons!
I watched another article before I watched yours. It was just about inserting the blade. They made it so over complicated. At the end she strummed the blade like a guitar! Ha ha! Your way is much easier! I think that’s a big part of my problem. I am not loading the blade with enough tension. It’s so awkward for me because the screws are on the right side when holding the frame like you are in this article and making the adjustments with my right hand is awkward because it’s not as strong and coordinated as my left. I feel like I cannot hold the blade tight enough too. Damn righties, you guys get everything! The can openers, the scissors, the pens at the bank that are attached to the string!! lol.
It’s a bad idea to use cooking oil as a machine lubricant, because (as you observed at the beginning), it gets sticky as it gets old and exposed to air. There are many other mineral-based oils that will not get gummy. I get “Cool Tool-II” cutting and tapping fluid in a squeeze-bottle, to put a drop right where I need it. Or you could use ordinary 3-in-1 oil, or save a few cc’s of motor oil next time you work on your car. But NOT cooking oil!
Don’t even have a saw yet and this article is fascinating and informative. Edit to Add: I decided to buy the saw you suggest from the marketplace link, and subscribed. Thanks for the vid. you answered questions I didn’t even know I had! I’d had multiple saws in my list for months but your explanation helped make the decision easier.
my teacher is a lot slower, he started teaching us how to start a cut, having us starting them hours at a time so the saw wouldnt slit and scratch everithing then, continuing the cuts a bit longer, now he is making us cut strips, all of this in 4 weeks, we will be practicing cuttin for 3 months and he says that that depends on our quality so we should practice at home
I know this is an old article but I’m finding the chart a little confusing so I have a few questions. Firstly, I wish to cut 0.5mm and, 0.75mm brass sheet, and 0.5mm and 0.8mm thickness G10, can you tell me what blade sizes you would recommend? Secondly, I’ve seen blades that look like the one in your illustration which are similar to a coping saw blade and also a spiral blade. What are the spiral blades for? And help is much appreciated thank you.
Hi, what i do for lubricant is use soap, you take a bar of soap, like Ivory or any cheap soap, put it in a container with just a bit of water in it, to keep one side of the soap a bit scummy, then you just run it along the blade from time to time, works very well. Soap also works well to lubricate screws before screwing them, which ends up a bit like glue once the soap dries up in the screw hole.
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That’s not a very tight blade and not how u should be showing people, u are ment to push/flex the frame again you bench adding tension them clamp down the blade and when u release the tension your have a proper tight blade like a guitar string that will ring high when plucked! Yours was far too loose, yes it will cut. But it’s not a good was to show people who may only be starting our ✌