Jealously watching an old video....

[Cozzer]

....earlier, featuring the talent of Silas Kopf.
He's blessed with an Excalibur Sommerville (with an astoundingly long throat), with the table set to give a bevelled cut with his 2/0 blades.

He's an expert. I'm far from.
He has an Excalibur. I haven't, but have a very tasty Proxxon DSH, the model with variable speed.
The only thing we have in common, therefore, are the 2/0 pinless blades....

When he's cutting his completed cartoon (a tulip) into his background veneer, he uses a waster, top and bottom.
Up to that point, there's no waster involved with cutting any of the design parts.
The video shows him holding 2 veneers, with the grains in any direction that suits, cutting each petal along a drawn line in order to fit perfectly with its neighbour.

The veneers appear to be the same circa 0.6mm as we get in the UK, but there's no splintering, no blade wander, no "shards" flying off.

His machine doesn't appear to be on a particularly slow or fast setting, and he doesn't appear to be holding the two veneers down with any great strength either side of the blade.....

So how's he managing amazing neat cuts in such thin material?!

 

[TRITON]

I know nowt about the scroll saw(unfortunately) so googled Silas Kopf

Wow, with capital F.

https://silaskopf.com/gallery/

 

[Inspector]

I have been aware of him for a while as he used to be featured in Fine Woodworking at times. A buddy of mine took a class with him in the early 80's. If his scroll saw is the model I'm thinking of it has a 30" throat. I have one, bought because it was a good deal but I haven't done a lot with it. They made the same saw in 19" and 21" as well.

Any chance you can put the link to that video up?

Pete

 

[Bristol_Rob]

I have been aware of him for a while as he used to be featured in Fine Woodworking at times. A buddy of mine took a class with him in the early 80's. If his scroll saw is the model I'm thinking of it has a 30" throat. I have one, bought because it was a good deal but I haven't done a lot with it. They made the same saw in 19" and 21" as well.

Any chance you can put the link to that video up?

Pete

 

[Cozzer]

I have been aware of him for a while as he used to be featured in Fine Woodworking at times. A buddy of mine took a class with him in the early 80's. If his scroll saw is the model I'm thinking of it has a 30" throat. I have one, bought because it was a good deal but I haven't done a lot with it. They made the same saw in 19" and 21" as well.

Any chance you can put the link to that video up?

Pete

Will do later, Pete.
It's an archived job from this mob - https://www.furnitology.com/ - dating back to (perhaps) the 90's or even 80's, so it's not the bee's knees for clarity!
In fact, Bristol_Rob's modern-day video shows everything a lot better, but I will add the link when I can access my other laptop later....

 

[Cozzer]

I have been aware of him for a while as he used to be featured in Fine Woodworking at times. A buddy of mine took a class with him in the early 80's. If his scroll saw is the model I'm thinking of it has a 30" throat. I have one, bought because it was a good deal but I haven't done a lot with it. They made the same saw in 19" and 21" as well.

Any chance you can put the link to that video up?

Pete

Here ya go, Pete....



Regards to you....