Years ago I bought a 10” Delta home craft bandsaw from an old clockmaker. He cut many of the fancy wood parts for his hand made clocks with this little saw. I notice when I was in his shop that many of the clocks had brass rings, and numerals, on their face. I asked him how he cut them out, and he said he cut them on the bandsaw. He used a 10 tooth per inch blade for almost everything he did on the saw. He roughed out the numerals, and finished them up with a jewelers saw.
I tried it for cutting out parts for a tradegun, including the dragon sideplate, and even a 3/16” brass buttplate, and it worked great. The secret is the narrow, fine toothed blade. A bandsaw pulls the project down onto the table without the reciprocating action of a scroll saw.
Hungry Horse