Imagine a jigsaw, except it’s table mounted (so you move the wood, not the saw), and the blade is really, really narrow and held top and bottom. Good for very fine work - like a powered coping saw or fretsaw.
a band saw the blade is a contiguous loop, in a scroll saw the blade is just 5 inches long (6?). You can thus put the blade through a hole in the work and cut inside parts (if you can weld blades you could do this with a bandsaw). Bandsaws have a blade guard which makes it a bit harder to see where you are cutting. For find work like the above a scroll saw is better than a small blade in the bandsaw. However the bandsaw can do much heavier work (resaw) and so if often a good enough compromise for people who don’t do much fine work.
Band saw is well, a band (think belt, like the belts on a car engine) that runs on pulleys, so the saw moves continiously in one direction (downward). Plus the blade is much larger, for cutting large pieces. The blade is 1/2" or more from teeth to spine. It’s not really intended for making curves it can do fairly large radius curves, and removes more wood because the blade is about twice as thick as a coping or scroll saw. A band saw couldn’t produce the piecs in the post, because the saw band is a continuous loop.
A scroll saw is effectively a motorized coping saw, very fine, narrow blade, about 1/8" from teeth to spine, so it can do very short radius cuts. The blade moves up and down like a jig saw, but it’s on a stationary unit - there’s a deck you put your workpiece on and move the work on the deck around the blade.
Imagine a jigsaw, except it’s table mounted (so you move the wood, not the saw), and the blade is really, really narrow and held top and bottom. Good for very fine work - like a powered coping saw or fretsaw.
How does that compare to a band saw?
a band saw the blade is a contiguous loop, in a scroll saw the blade is just 5 inches long (6?). You can thus put the blade through a hole in the work and cut inside parts (if you can weld blades you could do this with a bandsaw). Bandsaws have a blade guard which makes it a bit harder to see where you are cutting. For find work like the above a scroll saw is better than a small blade in the bandsaw. However the bandsaw can do much heavier work (resaw) and so if often a good enough compromise for people who don’t do much fine work.
Band saw is well, a band (think belt, like the belts on a car engine) that runs on pulleys, so the saw moves continiously in one direction (downward). Plus the blade is much larger, for cutting large pieces. The blade is 1/2" or more from teeth to spine.
It’s not really intended for making curvesit can do fairly large radius curves, and removes more wood because the blade is about twice as thick as a coping or scroll saw. A band saw couldn’t produce the piecs in the post, because the saw band is a continuous loop.A scroll saw is effectively a motorized coping saw, very fine, narrow blade, about 1/8" from teeth to spine, so it can do very short radius cuts. The blade moves up and down like a jig saw, but it’s on a stationary unit - there’s a deck you put your workpiece on and move the work on the deck around the blade.