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I just got an order of FD-TC blades from Wooden Teddy Bear DBA Mike's Workshop and they included the new July prices. For the TC (Two-Way Cut) blades I ordered the price will go up 5 cent a dozen from $2.95 a dozen presently to $3.00 as of July 1. Not a huge hike. HOWEVER in comparing further some other blade styles increased in price by 15 cents a dozen or even more

I just went on the Starrett site and all I could find is extra fine blades for reciprocating saws that say they're for scroll cutting. Not a Scroll Saw blade that I can seem to find.

Starrett Metal Cutting Band Saw blades are great Absolutely top quality. If the scroll saw blades are of equal quality they'll be jut fine. I DO wonder about comparitive pricing.

Thank you. I have been giving thought to adding a dozen 3s to the order so I'd order 3,5,9s maybe 2 dozen 5s and one dozen each 3s and 9s. and the drill bits for the 3s and the 5s. Thank you for the advice..

Ryobi takes both pin end and plain end right out of the box without adapters.

Tak a look at Mike's Workshop and you'll see FD-TC Blades. 2 down and 1 up tooth placement. Listed as "FD-2-way cut". Come in 2/0, 1,3,5,7, and 9 $2.95 a dozen / $17.00 1/2 gross $29.00 Gross. As for my shop I have a Harbor Freight VS Mini Lathe for pen turning and a Rikon 8" slow speed grindre with one-way Wolverine grinding jig to keep my chisels sharp. I am a full-time wheelchair user so no basement shop is possible and we have no garage so my "shop" is in a corner of the "dining room" NO Room for a table saw or a miter saw. Could maybe have fitted in a 9" band saw but I was given this scroll saw and this gives me an opportunity to add scrolling to pen turning as an activity and I CAN also use the scross saw for cutting blanks. Not ideal but better than going out on the back porch to use a plastic miter box (that's screwed down to the porch rail)and hand Hard back miter saw to cut blanks in the middle of winter. I really think I'll enjoy learning to scroll so this will work out just fine for me.

Ike, Thanks for your thoughts, I don't want to use box store blades for anything-hence the yen to order some good blades to replace what is a box store blade that came with the saw. I have read nothing good about box store blades (Ryobi etc). I have read good things universally about Olson and Fying Dutchman. Seems a few more have liked FD than Olson but that may simply be what I have read-where I have read it. The only exception to the box store might be Menards which I understand stocks some Olson -amd Woodcraft which does likewise. My reason for ordering no. 9s is primarily for cutting pen blanks bottle stopper blanks, and shaving brush blankswhich can run up to about 2" square - hardwoods as well as softwoods so I thought that maybe I should have a little heavier duty blade but I still wanted a good quality blade - not a box store blade - hence the FD Blades,although the Olson are also equally acceptable to me. The smaller blades (3,1, 3/0, 2/0 etc) I deliberately omitted at this time until I gain more skill with the saw which I felt could be accomplished with the 5s. I thought the tiny blades might just get broken unti I become more skillfull.

The Flying Dutchman sample packs are all no 5's of different styles. I wanted the no 9s for cutting pen blanks etc which run from 3/4" thick and sometimes upwards counting bottle stopper and shaving brush blanks.

I received a Ryobi SC165VS 16" Scroll Saw as a gift. It came with one 15 tooth pin end blade. I haven't touched a saw of this type for around sixty years. The last was an old belt-driven Delta "Jig Saw" in fifth grade woodshop in elementary school in 1954. I plan to use the saw to cut pen blanks to length but now that I have it, I have been looking at all the other things I can do with it and I have looked at fret work, and other things that scroll saws are made to do. I have read that many experienced scroll sawyers like Flying Dutchman blades and so I intend to order some Flying Dutchman blades from Mike's Workshop. I'm not absolutely sure of what to order for my very first order. I've read that blades with some reverse teeth are good because they give you a good back side finish. I read someone likes the FD-TC blades and so I was thinking on ordering the following to start out. The FD-TC blades are 2 tooth with 1 reverse tooth pattern. I'd like your expert opinions: (2 dozen) FD-TC-5 (2 dozen) FD-TC-9 (6 each) #55 Wire Size Drill Bit. There is a 3 dozen minimum so I just added one extra dozen of the FD-TC-9 and I added the 55 drill bits which the Flying Dutchman literature says is the proper drill bit for the FD-TC-5 blades. What do you "Pros" think? Thanks, Ernie Richardson

Thanks - as a "Newbie" I'm glad to learn this.