if you’re keeping score, the amazingly dense black locust has broken jigsaw blades and a drill bit and today while trimming the ends off the treehouse deck boards it wore my circular saw blade down until it was totally smooth and about as effective at cutting as a butter knife.
granted it was an old blade – the lesson learned, if you’re ever working with black locust be prepared to invest in new blades and drills bits!
yes, we know the black locust is dense enough to break new jigsaw blades.
and tonight it caused my 5/16th inch drill bit to get so hot from friction that it snapped!
i can’t imagine working with it without power tools like some of the amish builders in the area.
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.