Thread: Shop made bandsaw

Greg,
You can find an article on the bandsaw at the following address;

http://www.motherearthnews.com/top_a...ality_Band_Saw

The article also has a mailing address to order a plan:

Lemle Products, Dept. TMEN, 1036 Eton Road, Toledo, Ohio 43615.
The cost is quoted as $10 (US).

Hope this helps; it certainly looks interesting.

G'day,

I'd reakon you'd need a mother of a motor to turn those wheels if you went letter by letter on those plans! Wouldn't waste my time.

Waldo,

Yeah, I thought that too; there is heaps of inertia on a car wheel and tyre, but once it is rolling the momentum is your friend.

I think you need to make the decision as to whether you want to buy a good second hand band saw for $300, or want to spend $200 and have the satisfied feeling that you made it your self. Depends what turns you on, I suppose.

The article says he used an old washing machine motor, geared to suitable speeds.

There are plans online for bandsaw mills using car wheels, they reportedly work ok.

G'day,

Necessity is the mother of invention.

I just uncovered some plans for a small homemade bandsaw in a 1966 annual of Woodworker magazine (UK), a book I bought at the local markets. I'll attach the main drawing I just scanned, but if they are of any interest I'll post the remaining 4 pages with detailed drawings and description, about 100Kb each.

Cheers,

That'd be funny, bandsawing away then, BANG psssstttttttssss, flapper flapper flapper.

Youd have to pull over to the side of the shed to change the flat..

Al

Al, I'd give you a greenie for that but gotta spread some lovin' first.

Just joined the forum and can't find further on the band saw plans

Cant see the point of building a bandsaw, you wont really save all that much and prob end up with an inferior machine.
If you wanted to build a resaw or milling machine then yes it might be worth it, providing you have good metal and engineering skills plus the tools.



Oz thats a classic, green fired

But Harry,
Following that line of logic why do we bother making anything at all.
Imported stuff is so cheap its basically killed off our local furniture industry.

But it could be fun to do it so hang the waste of time.

The small Hitachi re-saw sells for about $5k in Aust. I know that i could make that machine with some changes for about $3k. And if you you can get enough people involved you can maybe get the cost down to about 2.5K
Trouble is, its not what everybody needs or wants. I ended up buying a Tiawanese machine for 3.3k it weighs about 400kg and its very neat and tidy.
Its actually this machine below under a different name.
http://www.grizzly.com/products/G0568

Originally Posted by echnidna

But Harry,
Following that line of logic why do we bother making anything at all.
Imported stuff is so cheap its basically killed off our local furniture industry.

But it could be fun to do it so hang the waste of time.

Because with furniture we can make it better without even trying... and can make it for about the same price.
At the end of the day it wont threaten your safety either.

Greg, Go for it! You will get great pleasure from building something for your self and learn a bit too, I'm afraid the younger blokes here in Australia are so reliant on factory produced machines and goods that the thought that you can actually build something that works well and is not imported just blows their thinking, on the south coast of New South Wales at Bateman's Bay there is an old fellow who makes bush furniture and has built he,s own Band resaw and its powered by a Nissan car engine he also built he,s own Bandsaw with wooden wheels the resaw has car wheels and tires and works like a charm, both plans came from the USA. He also has 2 saw bench,s one small and one large both home made, Do they look pretty with nice paint work ,no do they work, YES they cut Assie hardwood no better test than that.......Peter