Turnkeyjack

I read some earlier comments about the Masterforce 18” scroll saw sold by Menards. I have had one for the past 6 months, and I find some things good about it, but many things substandard also. Primarily, you must deal with plastic handles on everything and they are not very strong. I have broken the tightening handle for the tilt table, and the plastic pieces on the thumb screws that tighten the quick connect for the blades, both upper and lower soon twisted off the screw shaft and I had to replace them with regular medal thumb screws, when trying to secure a spiral blade into the saw, I have found that the twisting action of the thumb screw spins the blade right out of the holder causing me much frustration and almost as much time as did my old scroll saw without the “quick connect”. Further, if you want to get parts for this machine, forget about it. All in all, My take on this saw is that it would be better to spend a little more money and get a better saw that will give you less trouble.

-- Jack, Wisconsin, jackt@centurytel.net

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Hello Turnkeyjack,

Let me welcome you to LJs. I am sure that you will find being a member of this group to be an interesting, as well as exciting, experience. Have fun and enjoy.

Jack, your review will get read by more members if you re-post it in the review section.

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Hi there, welcome aboard. A board….I made a funny. Thanks for the heads up on the saw. I have not had any problems with it yet. I can see however, how the plastic knobs could break off. The same thing happened with my Wilton Scorll Saw. It does have a great warentee though.

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