Matthias Wandel's Bandsaw
A lot of you would know about Mattias Wandel's Woodworking for engineers site and his creations. I've toyed with the idea of doing the 14" bandsaw since late last year. There's a couple or so builds on the WWF with good reports and I finally decided to have a crack and build it.
I'm pretty much a beginner, or returning to woodwork after nearly 10yrs. Though back then my tools were average with no machinery but as I was about to go buy quality gear, I got into cars and metalwork and tooled up for that instead. But now, back to woodworking, the Michael Storer Eureka Canoe I built late last year stirred my interest in boatbuilding and woodwork and I've been slowly tooling up over the year. With plans bought for more boats the bandsaw's a must to move forward and although I've been tempted to just buy a 14" model, the homemade bandsaw looked like a great project.
The bandsaw plans are awsome. Very detailed, a little confronting at first, but after a week going over the plans at work, I've spent the last three days off working solidly and have finished the frame.
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$270 worth of Tassie Oak ripped with my old circ saw then cut with my new Bosch GCM10S sliding compound. Another bit of machinery I always wanted, I only bought this because my old mitre saw couldn't cut a 90deg angle. It was a clearance item at the big B house at $470 and although it lacks a few features like double bevel, belt drive and so forth of the newer $1k+ sliding compounds, it's been awsome.
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All parts trimmed and notched and laid out for dry assembly.
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I glued parts vertically, assembling each frame piece then laid them on the floor for straightening and clamping. The glue I used was Selleys Aquadere Exterior
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The individual frame pieces ended up pretty flat. All 6 main frames were glued together and at least another 6 more clamps were applied then shown above.
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With a bit of sliding between the laminates occuring during glue squeeze out, the whole thing ended up a little off in places. With a lot of planing all surfaces ended pretty fair.
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A before and after planing shot. Not the best example but a lot of other photos were too blurry.
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I left off the legs and top wheel mount bracket, instead deciding to just do the 6 main laminates. Here I'm dry fitting the legs and top wheel mount. All notches were tight as expected but they fitted fine with some hammering whilst gluing.
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