Thread: Home made bandsaw

Hi

Try here;

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...hlight=bandsaw

Still think though;

All power to you if you decide to build one.

But jigs are one thing, spinning snarling cutting hacking killing metal teeth are another and I wouldnt feel comfortable with it.

Good luck


dazzler

If you're a member of www.finewoodworking.com you can still get access to fine woodworking article mentioned in the thread dazzler mentioned in PDF format ... I see Dazzler stil hasn't changed his opinion

Heres some pics of an old time all wood bandsaw.

It would be an interesting project to make.

Love it Bob
You've just inspired me no end ... I love a thing of beauty that is really practical
Bet you it runs quietly as well

Originally Posted by Ramps

Love it Bob
You've just inspired me no end ... I love a thing of beauty that is really practical
Bet you it runs quietly as well

Super quiet.....once your ears are slashed off

I like that as a project as well, any more details available please Bob.

Can any one please knock me up two wagon wheels?

Its a museum piece from USA.
It NEEDS PROPER GUARDS, if you make a saw like this.
so it may loose some of its attractiveness.

Theres sufficient detail in the pics to build a reasonable version of it.

Unfortunately I just kept the pics for my own reference and don't think I have the url. I just did a google on the image names and didn't find anything

Thanks Bob, just a thought if the weather is not to my liking, it looks an interesting project

Chain link fencing would most probably get over the guarding problem and running observatation could still be maintained!

Here's a pearler ... on a vintage tools site from popular mechanic or some such.

http://www.vintageprojects.com/power-tools/bandsaw.html

"The original cost in 1940 of building these plans was four dollars." but must be US$ so you'd have to do the conversion to pounds.

I put this one specially for Dazzler as it has BOTH sides of the blade exposed

and also the one made from pipes but this you need the model-T ford front wheels ... I think I'd stick to making the wagon wheels )

Ramps, that was an interesting site of bygone eras.

Bugger me Dazzler but you have a way with words. I counted my fingers (and ears) just from reading your post!

Originally Posted by jow104

Ramps, that was an interesting site of bygone eras.

Or is that "an interesting site of bygone ears"?

Originally Posted by stuart_lees

Or is that "an interesting site of bygone ears"?

Stuart, go to the top of the for m today.

Originally Posted by Shaver

I was just wondering, has anyone tried to make a bandsaw? If so are there any threads I could read?

Back in the mid '80s I saw a home built band saw, it was more than 20-years old then, the guy whom built it built it into the structure of his shed, the top wheel hung from the rafters, the bottow wheel apeared to be mounted on an old lathe headstock on blocks on the floor, minus the lathe bedrails. unguarded, the saw came down onto the table, which had lower and upper saw guides, around the back, the blade went back up again.

The builder was in his '70s, and made up his own blades.

If I was making a bandsaw (I was going to, but managed to buy one instead) I was going to make the wheels from chipboard, I was thinking to use 2 old heavy electric motors for wheel bearings, I wasn't going to disasemble the motors at all, just mount each wheel onto the motor shaft and fit each motor onto the frame. And I was going to use laminated chipboard for the frames. A 3rd motor would have driven it.

If the top wheel motor could be run as a generater through a resistence, that would put tension on the blade, I beleve saw mills do this.

Something unusal I was thinking of, which I don't know would work, was the top wheel would tilt for tracking, the bottom wheel would go up and down for blade tension. does anybody know if this would work?

Popular Mechanics had some books around about the '40s which went into a number of editions "60 Power Tools you can make" and "40 Power Tools you can make" hich had various band saw designs http://www.lindsaybks.com/ is a site selling such books, reprints. I have had good service there.

And in my files, I have a download of a 3 or 4 page aticle from PM, if Shaver wants to contact me, I will dig it out.