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I like it !!
One of the first things I'd be doing with it is trying to retrofit a razor thin japanese pull saw blade to it.
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That has a rib along the entire back of the blade.If you use just a blade, in the other saw, you can flex the blade for flush cuts.
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The Bosch is a flush cut saw. And it has an available miter box. Which makes it neat for doing a quick trim job.
How do you get a flush cut with that backbone in the way ?
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I believe it's only on one side of the blade.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I'll have to go look again.Thanks.
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It may be a decent flush cut saw, but the miter box accessory table sucks big time.FYI, this saw has been around as shown for at least 10 years.JT
Ok, I can see how that works.But you can still flush cut only as deep as the point where that backbone hits the material you are cutting.What I am talking about is a flexible blade, that can be flexed for a flush cut, such as to the bottom of a doorjamb.In fact, the blade I am thinking of, could either be permanently bent, or could be mounted to a bent piece of thicker metal, (like the MM blades are), and the thicker metal machined to mount to the saw.Still not as versatile as the MM, but getting there. Probably plenty versatile enough for most people. And much cheaper, to boot !
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Yup, yup and yup.
BTW, I think a japanese type blade tanged to fit a recip type saw, would shred it's teeth right quick. They are'nt eng. for speed strokes, forceful cutting or heat dissapation.
Even on a MM, they break quite easily.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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just fyi, they make offset flush cut blades for any sawzall. I've seen tem at my local lumber yard."it aint the work I mind,
It's the feeling of falling further behind."Bozini Latinihttp://www.ingrainedwoodworking.com
Thje picture does not show it well but the blade is flush with one side of the "backbone". The blade has attaching holes on both ends so you can be flush right or left.
I have two of them, they are handy. Would not trade the Multi master for a wheel barrow full of them though. I got one when doing some work at my son's, wanted the one with the mitre attachment but Lowes did not have it. Scored another beat up one on eBay to get the box. The box is not all that accurate. I almost prefer to use the saw with a wodden or plastic standard box.For those who have fought for it Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.
The flush cut blades are offset.
There are two styles of blades. One is a general trim blade and the back doesn't run the full length, so that you can cut through things.
The flush cut blade is offset, it has a kind of flattened z-shape. The back makes it impossible to through cut thicker pieces. You only have about 2-1/2-inches to work with. The blades are thin, about 3/32nd of an inch, and if you rest the blade on a piece of scrap flooring, it will cut the jamb with just enough room to slide the flooring under it, with out leaving a visible gap.
I like it because it, four or five blades, and the dedicated miter box fit in a small case that is easy to carry. With it and a couple of saw horses, I'm ready to trim out a room. Not the tool to do production finish work with, but great for the small jobs.
I'm in love!!!
-Lou
Hasn't Black & Decker offered such a saw for some time?
Brand disputes aside .... has there actually been a need for a smaller saw?
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Junkies don't but tools because they function well somewhere. If that weren't true, not a single Bammer would have been sold.
Edited 8/21/2008 11:02 am by Jim_Allen
On the plastic nose of the Bammer are words to the effect...
'Caution:Hot'
Somewhere sometime someone in charge of testing that thing had it working well enough and rapid enough to heat up the nose.
That must have been something to see.
I find that hard to accept....
they left it on the stove...
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Everybody disses the Bammer, but my Bammer has always worked well. But then I'm the only guy I know who read the instructions, and actually broke the thing in.
But I can't imagine getting the nose hot, even if you ran a full box of nails, through it as fast as you could.