Roll it to loosen the wire, pick out the end between the blades & unravel the thing. Dennis' method is probably faster though.
I just unravel the top inch of a bundle, making sure that the blades teeth are pointing downwards, then I pull out single blades when required and my blade holding tube on my bench has a few different size bundles of blades inside it.
My saw blade holder tube taped to a jam jar full of punches top left.
James
I pull the top of the wire with my nail and then unravel it.
I remove the wire completely and store in a test tube now after a tip on here, I have a rack with one size in each tube in order of size.
James this a bit off topic, I see you have a New Concepts saw frame can you give a honest opinion, I am about to buy a new frame and have been considering the New Concepts
I have got used to my Knew Concept frames, they are great when you spend hours piercing especially now as I am in my 70s and the light saw frame makes piercing easier for me, my favourite 5 inch saw frame is a special model with a one piece titanium frame, I don't think they make them anymore looking at their website. I also have the standard aluminium models in my collection. If you don't do a lot of piercing then a decent standard saw frame will be OK. I do still use my old German frames occasionally.
James
Thanks for that James, I think I may give one a go, I am ordering some more titanium strips, may ask Brian if that frame is still available
I just checked through my work history and the last big piercing job I did took me 360 hours of piercing, a job with over 10,000 separate holes to pierce out, so the light weight saw frame was very useful for my old hands.
This was the job I pierced, a pair of 18ct. gold table lamp shades that were to be plique a-jour enamelled.
James
That is amazing work James if I ever become a tenth that good I will be happy
I also saw a good tip somewhere about colour marking one end of any new batch of saw blades at the time you unwrap them, then you can always tell at a glance which way round to put them in your saw. (Especially handy if you drop them all like I did.)
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