Thread: BS n Blades

None to add but will make good use of the links you put up - can't be bothered finding them myself! Thanks Tony.

Thanks Tony.

A few more worthwhile links:

Slicing Wood:
A Practical Guide to Successful Resawing
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=19

Clean Machine:
Bandsaw Dust Control that Works
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=20

Coiling Bandsaw Blades
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=21

Bandsaw Puzzle Cubes
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=22

Leading You On:
Feed Direction Is the Key to Resawing
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=23

Coplanar Bandsaw Wheels
10 out of 10 bandsaws prefer them
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=24

Taking a Flutter:
Bandsaw Blade Vibration
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=25

Demolition Derby:
Resawing Treated Lumber
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=26

The Long and Short of It:
Bandsaw Blade Length
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/i...n=Custom&ID=27


Olson. General “How-To’s” for all Band Saw Blades
http://www.allbandsawblades.com/blade_width.htm

Tony,
Thanks for those links. I was particularly glad to see the one for "Coiling Bandsaw Blades". I think that there are probably a lot of bandsaw users who cannot coil bs blades. In fact, only last weekend I was with a chap who has used a bandsaw for a number of years and he did not know how to coil a bs blade. I showed him the foot on blade method detailed by Mark Duginske in his "Band Saw Handbook", but I will be sure to refer him to that link.

John H
Why do you never cut "too long".

Originally Posted by baxter

Tony,
Thanks for those links. I was particularly glad to see the one for "Coiling Bandsaw Blades". I think that there are probably a lot of bandsaw users who cannot coil bs blades. In fact, only last weekend I was with a chap who has used a bandsaw for a number of years and he did not know how to coil a bs blade. I showed him the foot on blade method detailed by Mark Duginske in his "Band Saw Handbook", but I will be sure to refer him to that link.

John H
Why do you never cut "too long".

baxter

Perhaps you should provide a step by step instruction sheet thereby sharing your knowledge on how to "coil a blade"?

Originally Posted by Sculptured Box

baxter

Perhaps you should provide a step by step instruction sheet thereby sharing your knowledge on how to "coil a blade"?

Tony,

Unfortunately I don't have any link or instruction sheet for the single handed method described in the "Band Saw Handbook"

I can however describe a simpler two handed method demonstrated to me by a friend. As with the Duginske single handed method, hold one end of the blade with your foot on the floor. Hold the blade in both hands, palms out, at about 2 o'clock and 10 o'clock, and twist both hands inwards as you lean forward. The blade should fold into three loops.

I find that, at least with thinner blades, it does not matter whether the teeth are facing towards you or away from you. It may be different with thicker blades and garden gloves could help in that situation.

I am sure that you would have been familiar with this method of
folding, however it may be of interest to others.

Originally Posted by Sculptured Box

Some worthwhile links, can anyone add to it????


Setting Bandsaw Blade Tension

Learn to set your bandsaw’s tension to ensure cuts that are straight and even by Lonnie Bird

http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/w00013.asp?


Suffolk Machinery Corp. - Bandsaw Tensioning

http://www.suffolkmachinery.com/six_rules.asp


Setting Up a Bandsaw by Les Swift, Peninsular Woodturning Guild Inc.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pwguild/i-bndsaw.htm


Bandsaw Tune Up
From: Fine Woodworking

http://www.woodcraft.com/articles.aspx?articleid=223


Fine Tuning a Bandsaw by Robert Vaughan
Page 76, Fine Woodworking, May/June 1997

http://www.owwm.com/files/PDF/FAQ/110124076.pdf


How to Install Bandsaw Tires by Robert M. Vaughan
Page 50, Fine Woodworking, July/August 1992

http://www.owwm.com/files/PDF/FAQ/19...ndsawTires.pdf


Bandsaw Tune-Up & Resawing Secrets

http://www.americanfurnituredsgn.com...20Dec%2003.htm


The Knowledge
Machinery Knowledge Main Menu

http://www.recordpower.co.uk/index.pl?s=knowledge&ec=13


Tool Test - Bandsaws by Tom Caspar
Published by American Woodworker, October 2004, Page 71
http://www.rd.com/americanwoodworker...T_Bandsaws.pdf


Efficient Use of Bandsaws in Lumber Manufacturing, F-5046

Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Salim Hiziroglu, Assistant Professor, Forestry, Win Adams, Application Engineer, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

http://osuextra.okstate.edu/pdfs/F-5046web.pdf

Tool Test, Bandsaws For Resawing, by Randy Johnson
American Woodworker, August 2001 page 84 - 110
http://www.rd.com/americanwoodworker...ndsawsMore.pdf

Thanks for your help

Another one for the list - http://www.bcsaw.com/products_frame.htm

which also has a "Bandsaw Blade Selection Guide for helpful information regarding which blade is right for you."