Thread: bandsaw help

I'd be using a table saw with a thin kerf ripping blade over a bandsaw myself. I think on a 100x100 post it would provide a truer cut just for the stability on the bed with a decent fence of the table saw on that sized timber.

Most cabinet makers would probably be able to handle a job like that and minimise the waste. Or perhaps someone in the forums.

Neal

[QUOTE=thompy;1299748]I'd be using a table saw with a thin kerf ripping blade over a bandsaw myself.QUOTE]

If the posts are more than 1 metre in length they would be much easier to handle on a table saw. I would be surprised if anyone would take the job on if there is any possibility whatsoever that there are nails, screws or bolts in the timber. I have tried timberyards in the past and they don't want to take the risk of losing a blade.

Mick

Firstly, not many, if any, table saws will do a 100 mm deep cut, so you will be doing a blind cut which needs to be matched up the other way. Second, table saws are very friendly with two adjacent faces that are flat and square, unless you want to use a sliding jig that clamps. They are very unfriendly, at any depth cut let alone maximum, with anything not flat and square. I wouldn't be putting 100 mm cedar posts through my table saw unless they were jointed. Re-sawing with a band saw accurately does require some set up and practice. If there are only a few posts I would consider a good rip saw, a stable pair of saw horses, take your time and use a bit of elbow grease.

Where are you?

I am sure we could do it on our bandsaw at the Hills Mens Shed for a negotiated donation.

PM me if you are interested.

I'd felt a bit inadequate for not knowing how to go about this job. But the lack of consensus from the experts has improved my self esteem! Thanks to all for your advice.

Mel

You can take it, or you can leave it. Up to you. I posted my opinion on using a table saw with 100mm square posts which might not be flat and square, and you were offered the use of a band saw.

Sorry if the site isn't reaching your lofty expectations.

Hey, that's a bit harsh! I hadn't intended any put-down of the forum or its members.

I had felt a little foolish posting the question, thinking that there must have been an obvious solution that I couldn't see. I was very grateful for the varied suggestions offered, and interested that there were so many quite different approaches.

I'm sorry that you read into my words something so negative - nearly a week before you wrote your sharply worded reply, I had already acted on some of the advice given in the responses.

Originally Posted by melchong

Hey, that's a bit harsh! I hadn't intended any put-down of the forum or its members.

There's no need for that sort of behaviour. Melchong, there's often more than one valid way to tackle a job. It just depends on what you are trying to do.

Mick

Well,

Mel came along to the Hills Mens Shed today and we successfully re-sawed his rather wonderful pieces of cedar. We had to do battle with a bandsaw blade that had , just an hour earlier, been treated to a piece of bolt hiding in a lump of pine, but we got through it all OK

It's always good to meet a forum member and combine resources to get something done.

Thanks Mel.