Introduction:
As a beginner to anything related to modding I was a bit hesitant to directly buy myself a Dremel or saw. In addition to that I am the lucky owner of 2 left hands, which doesn’t come in handy when using electrical equipment.
That’s how I stumbled upon the idea (well actually a friend of me, bOred, advised me) to try it modding with a cheap classical figure-saw.
Total cost for this mod: 2.6€ for the figure-saw + 3.8€ for 12 metal saws = 6.4€
It took me a total of 3 days, each day I worked on average 2 hours. On the following pages you will see my progress made; hopefully it will be useful for you, the reader.
DAY 1:
This is the basis of my cut-out; the end result should look like this in a couple of days.
So here’s the design using the correct scale to help me get started.
I first bought a figure-saw at local mega-super-market, but this seemed to be not useful at all (too small). So I went to a local hardware store and found exactly what I was looking for
Much better!
(Thanks bOred for the advice :) )
TIP: always put enough tension on the cutting blade, you can achieve this by pushing the saw together and tighten the screw to fasten the blade. This way you work much more precise.
First you a hole of ~3mm, you insert the blade and then attach it to the saw, this way the saw will be around the panel.
After 1 hour of hard, careful, work, I had booked quite some progress and decided to call it a day.
The end result day 1:
Onto DAY 2!
Only 6,4 EUR