Repurposing A Narrow Bandsaw Blade

This article is from Issue 64 of Woodcraft Magazine.

You just installed a brand-new 1⁄8" blade on your bandsaw and are cruising along in the cut when all of a sudden you hear a “snap!” Yep, your blade has broken. If you don’t have a welder, that expensive blade would usually go to waste. Not with me. I turn it into scrollsaw blades by using heavy duty snippers to create lengths that fit my scrollsaw. All that’s left is to file down a few teeth at each end to fit between my scrollsaw’s blade clamps.