Being an urban carpenter, I carry a lot of tools up and down stairs. I leave their cases in the truck because they weigh a lot, and pack the tools up to the job in pouches. This won’t damage most tools, but I found that the protruding blade of my jigsaw was either breaking off or jabbing holes in the pouch.
I finally got fed up with this and made the blade guard shown in the drawing. It’s basically a little wooden horseshoe with a Y-shaped metal strap (made of flattened copper water line) screwed to it. I beefed up the short-grain portion of the horseshoe with a second layer of pine. Then I whittled away at the horseshoe with a utility knife until I got it to fit tightly between the body of the saw and its base. It’s ugly, but it works.
—Arne Waldstein, New York, NY
Edited and illustrated by Charles Miller
From Fine Homebuilding #54
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Or you could take the blade out, a somewhat tedious job back when this tip was made but effortless now.