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Subject: Re: [motm] What are you going to build in 2004?

From: Scott Juskiw <scott@...>
Date: 2004-01-02

At 7:14 PM -0700 2004/01/01, Scott Juskiw wrote:
>I'm not sure about a Dremel, I haven't tried one. I use a table saw
>with a very fine tooth blade.

I just remembered that a jigsaw also works for cutting plastic. I
used to do it that way before I got my table saw. It's harder to cut
a straight line with a jigsaw. But at least a jigsaw doesn't take up
a lot of room, isn't too loud, and doesn't throw all the plastic bits
back into your face. If you go the jigsaw route, I recommend a fairly
wide blade to help make the edges as straight as possible. It's too
easy to accidentally cut a curve with narrow blades. Get a blade
that's got lots of fine teeth in it and make sure it isn't one of
those blades with the teeth pointing downwards.