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GADGETS AND GEAR FOR MAKERS
Bollé Safety Glasses
$9 and up bolle-safety.com
I thought Bollé just made glacier glasses
and other spendy shades for outdoor
sports. So I was stoked to find their stylish,
affordable line of indoor and outdoor safety
glasses, from basic industrial ($9 and
up, $15 and up for polarized) to mil-spec
ballistic ($20 and up), to blue-light ($74 and
up), in standard and Asian fit. Pay a little
more for anti-fog and specialty coatings.
Now whether I’m stirring resin, drilling out
stripped screws, or sanding in the sun, I
have eye pro that’s not an eyesore.
—Keith Hammond
Spyral Freestyle Coping
Saw & Spyral Saw Blades
Saw $18, Blades $6–$8 for multi pack
spyralsaw.com
Cutting curves in thin sheet stock with a
coping saw is major pain — attempt too
tight a curve, or let your stroke stray from
perfectly perpendicular, and the flat blade
abruptly sticks and binds, bending your
workpiece and causing tearouts or cracks
(and often a horrendous screech).
Instead, try these wire blades with
a spiral tooth, from Bestway Products.
They’re like those wire survival saws
(Chuck Yeager cut off his helmet with one
after a crash, badass!) but made for coping
saws, bandsaws, hacksaws, and jeweler’s/
scroll saws too. Turn any corner you want,
this blade does not want to bind. Using
their Spyral Freestyle coping saw, I easily
cut tight little ¼" keyhole shapes in floppy
⁄" acrylic sheet, swinging the saw around
to apply pressure from any direction that
felt right. Smart. —Keith Hammond
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