Thread: how do you resaw long lengths

Get a friend.

Or at least, that is how I have done it in the past...

First question you need to ask yourself is whether you are just going to cut the boards to length after resawing. If the answer is yes then cut down to lengths before resawing.

Otherwise make sure you have a good fence, make extensions if necessary and make sure you have good infeed and outfeed support. Use some featherboards or equivalent to hold against the fence before the blade.

I resaw recycled jarrah of up to 3 mtrs long (sometimes more) regularly on a 14" band saw unassisted. If the blade is a bit past it's best I saw free hand following a pencil line or given a nice sharp blade just against the fence.

Given that you are sawing through 150mm a sharp blade and well tuned saw are a must else the bottom of the cut won't follow the top.

I have two roller support stands on the in feed and out feed sides to take the weight. I find that It's important to ensure that the surface on the underside of the cut is jointed at an accurate 90 deg angle to the surface against the fence.

Obviously your real enemy is an embedded nail, find one of those and your buggered



Cheers


Dave

Yep with the above. A long (eg > 1 ~ 1.5m) board is too heavy to control accurately by hand, so an in- and out-feed set of rollers are pretty much an essential.