FaithfullFaithfull FAIPRS Piercing Saw (Jeweller's Saw)

AVOID AVOID AVOID!I rarely write Amazon reviews, but sometimes, I'll find a tool or purchase that is just so great, so amazing quality or such great value, I have to log in and write a review.THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE..This is without a doubt the WORST tool I have ever purchased, either from Amazon or elsewhere.I have used jewellers saws before many times, I'm not some newbie that doesn't know how to tension a blade or use burr life or how to saw with one. So believe me when I say THIS SAW IS RUBBISH. It is NOT WORTH the cost of postage, let alone the asking price.Where to start with it's woeful "qualities"?Handle itself is cheap wood, fine. Does the job. The frame *looks* from the photos like blue-painted steel. It's not. It's a low-grade, poorly cast alloy. I'm thinking tin but whatever it is is non-ferrous.The retaining screws are actually made out of something ferrous, tho I'm thinking more likely a very cheap nickel alloy than steel. To give you some idea of how soft and poor these screws are, I scraped them gently with a regular scalpel blade. Do that to any kind of normal steel (let alone HSS), and your blade will dull. This carved a line in it. Carvable steel, well done lads, a new low!The main part of the frame itself is also ferrous metal of some kind, but I suspect again an ultra-cheap ultra soft nickel alloy of some kind. Can you get magnetic lead?The real star of the show here though was the ONE, solitary "blade" shipped with this landfill filler.It snapped as soon as I tried to gently tighten one nut. Not under tension, not bent, not even really being tightened, and it snapped. I tried a few times to actually get it tightened within the frame (moving down as each piece snapped off). I managed to get it in place once. Set it against a 0.5mm thick piece of silver and made one gentle 45 degree stroke. It snapped in half as the frame twisted (likely from the badly cast retaining nuts)I have already submitted a return request for this garbage. If, like me, you couldn't find your piercing saw anywhere, or the blades you know are somewhere in the house, I suggest you either a) Buy a decent one from Cookson old or others or b) spend your day looking for your old saw, because even if you don't find it, you've gotten some exercise, tidied up a bit, and not spend £9 on the worst piece of excrement I have ever seen offered for sale.

1 star off due to poor DPD delivery experience - they damaged the package and would do nothing until I asked them to return to sender. This was pointless as they "would not deliver a damaged package" so what else were they going to do? Amazon got a replacement sent out.It is a good enough tool, not premium, but effective for precision cutting of thin metals. The blades are quite fine and will not survive if used on too thick or hard material.

Husband tried product for cutting dovetails and the blades just broke as couldnt get the tension on the blade right. There a 3 butterfly wings, 2 for blade and 1 for tension, 1 of these just fell out, it wasnt welded on. took the nuts of the blade holder and they are very poorly made. Disapointed and not fit for purpose! My husband is a joiner of 50 years! He has been replacing his old worn out tools.

The shiny square nut has a bevel around the round hole which is supposed to mate with the blue painted cast part. It doesn't. The diameter of the edge on the blue cast part is much bigger than the hole, so it leaves too much clearance - as is, the saw was not able to hold a blade.I found a solution which seemed to work - file off the raised edge completely! This seemed to allow the nut to close onto the blade. I had to do this to both endsI expect a product like this (a saw) to fulfill that purpose out of the box, not require filing just to get it to hold a blade.I wish I read the reviews before wasting my time. I plan to keep it because I've messed with it, but I won't recommend this product or buy it again.

This is my first piercing saw, but compared to my other small saws it's probably the most comfortable to use. The wingnuts make it simple to fit/remove blades and adjust the length/tension, and the saw is well balanced in the hand making it easy to make consistent and accurate cuts.I hadn't realised just how fragile piercing saw blades can be, so like many other customers the adjustable length is a welcome feature for reusing the broken parts. It's a very reasonably priced saw frame, I wasn't expecting a tool of this quality for so little. I'm guessing they make enough from those fragile little blades!