i’m trying to cut out holes for the railing posts in the black locust decking for the treehouse so, you know, nobody falls over the edge.
the black locust is so dense it’s breaking the jigsaw blades!
just drilling the holes in the corners of the area to be cut out quickly drains the cordless drill battery.
it’s amazingly tough stuff.
i’m trying to finish the nesting boxes for the chicken coop and really, really need a jigsaw to finish the job but i broke the collet on my jigsaw by applying too much force on a dull blade when i was building the coop.
the tinkerer in me can’t resist taking the think apart to see if i can wrench the broken collet back together and hold a blade.
the statistician in me is trying to calculate the risk/benefit of a repair that could save me a few bucks or send lethal blades flying at any moment.
either way, odin thinks it’s awesomely cool that i even know how to take a jigsaw apart, though, i’m not sure he’s convinced i can fix it.