Thread: New Bandsaw on order.

Bob - thanks for the offer of a closer look, I might take you up on that. I do have a few things to pick up in Goulburn next week, so will PM you for directions when I know what day.

I have to say that the dust ports on your Laguna are positioned so that they might actually work; I've had to add a second dust port to my Scheppach bandsaw to try and improve the otherwise dismal dust collection ! I also have the same Carbatec 2hp dusty, but have retrofitted the pleated filter in place of the original needlefelt item.

Cheers.

Mr B,
No probs about dropping by when you're around town.
I'd like to know more about the changes you made to you dust collector. I'm always up for changing how things work for the better. Sortta harks back to my car fiddling days.

Cheers,
Bob

Originally Posted by Glenrob

DJ,Here we go again....no A/A button to play with. For my situation I put it down to the fact that the computer I'm using now is an old Apple Mac desktop that was rebuilt after a lightening strike a few months ago, plus the fact that because of my remote location, my internet reception is via satellite which unfortunately is slow and unpredictable. Plus when I tried to upload pics with the "manage attachments" button, I can't get the screen to d/l. I did however this morning try it on my new Mac and everything is all hunky dory, so I'll try to get anything special for the Forum like posting pics done on the other puter.So please don't think that at least in my case that there's anything wrong with the Forum's performance.Many thanks for your concern,Bob

Originally Posted by BobR

Bob I don't think the problem has anything to do with your system being an old Apple. I have seen the problem on two separate systems - one a 12 month old Toshiba laptop and the other a home build using an ASUS motherboard using Intel chips. Both running Win7 and IE10. At the moment the A/A button is OK.

What Bob said, hence why I was asking for info, quite often a simple upgrade will fix it and in some cases changing a setting or two will solve it but unless I know what browser or system you're using I cannot advise.

DJ,
As I mentioned, I think it's my satellite connection that's causing my problems as well as the fact that the old desktop Mac I use in the lounge room is pretty old to the point where it will not accept any further upgrades and nor is it Intel capable. This post is from my new Mac and I'm not using the A/A button to test my theory.

Thanks again,
Bob

Obviously the next step in his long running saga is to finally see what this bandsaw can do. I had been keeping a particular piece of an old pine tree that I cut down and spit up for (lousy) firewood well over a year ago for this very purpose. I like to think ahead ..... I think. .

Anyhow as you shall soon see, I started with a very out of square chunk of pine and proceeded to see what sort of result I could achieve. The average thickness (or should that be thinness?) I was hoping to reach were consistent pieces of approximately 1mm.
Also I did this with no attempt at all at correcting any blade drift, and as you may be able to see, it wasn't a bad result for a first attempt. BTW, I did use the standard fence after I squared 2 reasonable sides to work from.
I am now going to do my little bit for the Ozone layer by burning off all the packing material I've collected recently.
It's just one of the benefits of living on a property where neighbours can be neither seen nor heard, which is especially handy when it's wabbit hunting season.

Bob

Sir Glenrob, it is a bit rude to show off 1mm slices, beautiful to behold, then burn them as kindling.

We poor peons can only manage 9mm on our crappy 14" generics. If I get it straight I offer a beer to my favourite god.

I, for one, think a poor Internet connection is conducive to productivity! We over privileged city slickers have to contend with slaving over our computers for hours and hours. We get only an hour a day for wood, you get all the hours we consume on useless internetting!

Originally Posted by Glenrob

DJ,
As I mentioned, I think it's my satellite connection that's causing my problems as well as the fact that the old desktop Mac I use in the lounge room is pretty old to the point where it will not accept any further upgrades and nor is it Intel capable. This post is from my new Mac and I'm not using the A/A button to test my theory.

Thanks again,
Bob

I had a satellite connection for a couple of years and it caused me no end of dramas. Most satellite connections have at least 500 milliseconds of transmission delay and can get to a full second. Add in a lot of dropped data packets and it's a recipe for problems. This causes all sorts of weird behaviours. For instance, every picture that I clicked on this forum and others would open in a new tab page instead of a popup window. About 50% of my posts were lost when I hit the submit button too.

If you have a reproducible error it may be worth contacting the ISP support and they can watch the data packets in real time and see what's going on. I found that turning off my receiver box and disconnecting the coaxial antenna cables for a few minutes and restarting it forces the unit to recalibrate and sometimes helped things for a while. It's also possible that your antenna requires realignment.

Steve

Originally Posted by Evanism

Sir Glenrob, it is a bit rude to show off 1mm slices, beautiful to behold, then burn them as kindling.

We poor peons can only manage 9mm on our crappy 14" generics. If I get it straight I offer a beer to my favourite god.

I, for one, think a poor Internet connection is conducive to productivity! We over privileged city slickers have to contend with slaving over our computers for hours and hours. We get only an hour a day for wood, you get all the hours we consume on useless internetting!

Sir Evanism,
I'm not really sure what the intentions of your post are meant to convey. If you are just being pleased that my new bandsaw produces and performs as it is supposed to and by me taking the time to demonstrate this to those who have asked to see what it can do and to prove that it's capable of doing as it was intended, then I thank you for your interest.
If however, you are being critical of the fact that because I am retired after spending over 40 years in the workforce and now have the time to persue my chosen hobby, and you are displeased with the fact that you do not have the same time available because you still have to "slave over our computers for hours and hours", then I am sorry that you feel that I am in some way to blame for your circumstance.
I too would still be an "over privileged city slicker" had I not been terminated from my position due to no longer being physically able to continue my duties, and even though I am now fortunate enough to be living in this area, I would give it all away just to be able to walk to my letterbox and not experience the ever present pain that I have to endure day in and day out.
If I have taken your post in the wrong context then I sincerely apologise. I have never intended to display any sort of "one-up-man-ship" simply because of where I live or what I am now able to do with my spare time or the way I have chosen to live out my days.

"Sir Glenrob"

ps, those 1mm pieces that I posted pics of were safely put away for future use and NOT used for kindling! I can ill afford to waste good timber whatever the reason it was cut initially.

Bob,

All of the Laguna bandsaws are supposed to excel at resawing.....and I think you have just shown this to be true !

I'd be happy if I could get a good reliable 2mm veneer off my bandsaw, then run it through the drum sander to finish the surfaces.

Looks like you have everything pretty well aligned too

Thanks for putting up the pics.

Bob, have been following your posts and am pleased that you have everything up and running. I have made similar cuts and am more than pleased with the results. Not sure that I will have a need to cut 1mm veneer as I have found commercial veneered ply to be too thin to work with. I usually go for about 3mm as there is plenty of room for a good sanding finish and the substrate can't be seen through.

Re the earlier post. I would not take it too seriously. Just a bit of cynical humour. I am capable of doing the same.

Bob,
Thanks for the tip on your commercial veneered panel experiences. A 3mm or greater initial thickness sounds like a good basis to begin with and makes perfect sense. I like to finish my work with a final hand sanding. It just seems to give me the feeling that I am responsible for the piece's final outcome.

As for the other business, I can take both cynicism and sarcasism as long as it's given in the right vein, but I can also dish it out if I have to, but I'd rather not have things stray to that level. This is a friendly place with us all on an equal footing, sharing and enjoying the love of a similar pastime and/or hobby and I'd like it to stay that way.
Nuff said.

I think there is a lot to be said for using 2-3mm veneered pieces as a compromise between commercial veneer (0.6mm, and rapidly getting thinner it seems!) and solid timber.

With a good resaw bandsaw, and a board with spectacular figure/colour, I'd rather get 6 pieces out of it than just use the one piece as solid. That can translate into 3 nicely bookmatched tabletops, still with enough meat in them to support final finishing with handtools, etc. Use more mundane pieces of the same timber to make veneers for the (unseen) underside of the tabletops. Finish off with more good quality solid timber edging.

Unfortunately for me, "resawing wide boards" and "Scheppach" are rarely seen in the same sentence...

With all the interest in Laguna products from the southern states, you'd have to wonder if it is worthwhile for Gregory's to have some sort of outlet in Sydney?? The tablesaws look nice too, certainly competitive with JET et al.

Mr B,
I like the look of Laguna's other products too and recently read a review of their Fusion table saw in AWR. Thought it might be a nice replacement for my Carba-tec 10" table saw should I ever need to replace it, and as I like to be faithful to a particular brand if I find their products worth my loyalty. The only concern I had with the Fusion table saw was that it 'only' has a 16mm arbor
It'd be great if they were to expand their stores to other states as I'm sure they'd find a following of new users to warrant their decision. We can only hope.

Bob

Originally Posted by Glenrob

Sir Evanism,
I'm not really sure what the intentions of your post are meant to convey. If you are just being pleased that my new bandsaw produces and performs as it is supposed to and by me taking the time to demonstrate this to those who have asked to see what it can do and to prove that it's capable of doing as it was intended, then I thank you for your interest.
If however, you are being critical of the fact that because I am retired after spending over 40 years in the workforce and now have the time to persue my chosen hobby, and you are displeased with the fact that you do not have the same time available because you still have to "slave over our computers for hours and hours", then I am sorry that you feel that I am in some way to blame for your circumstance.
I too would still be an "over privileged city slicker" had I not been terminated from my position due to no longer being physically able to continue my duties, and even though I am now fortunate enough to be living in this area, I would give it all away just to be able to walk to my letterbox and not experience the ever present pain that I have to endure day in and day out.
If I have taken your post in the wrong context then I sincerely apologise. I have never intended to display any sort of "one-up-man-ship" simply because of where I live or what I am now able to do with my spare time or the way I have chosen to live out my days.

"Sir Glenrob"

ps, those 1mm pieces that I posted pics of were safely put away for future use and NOT used for kindling! I can ill afford to waste good timber whatever the reason it was cut initially.

I was being tongue in cheek and sarcastic. It clearly didn't work. I was poking fun at my self. This also didn't convey well.

Apologys. It wasn't meant to be offensive.