Anyone with any experience with using a template on a bandsaw? I see that LV has a duplicator available for $20 -
What's the minumum diameter pattern routing bit that would cut a full
1.5 inches of depth?JP
Anyone with any experience with using a template on a bandsaw? I see that LV has a duplicator available for $20 -
What's the minumum diameter pattern routing bit that would cut a full
1.5 inches of depth?JP
bandsaws do inside corners fine, but they don't leave a great surface. I'd probably bandsaw 1/8" oversize, clean up with the router and get the corners with a chisel.
what are you making?
I would not use cutter that LV has a duplicator available for $20 -
I flipped the piece and used it as its own template for the second pass when I needed a pattern on 2" stock.
Michael Latcha - at home in Redford, MI
Jay, A few years ago I got the same 'duplicator' from Hartville Tool. If anyone can get it to work on anything but a STRAIGHT cut, or VERY GENTLE curve . . . let me know how.
I got it so I could make 8 cornices for a pergola-like Rose Arbor I was making for Joanne. All it did for me was ruin the template {originally made for drawing/routing}. It wouldn't follow the curve and cut off a corner before I realized it.
The only 'technique' that seems to make 'engineering sense' is the simple jig {the blade is 'captured' in a notch at the end of a rounded piece of flat stock} illustrated in any number of bandsaw manuals. Chapter 5 in Duginske's 'Band Saw' book, for example.
Regards & Good Luck, Ron Magen Backyard Boatshop
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Decorative right angle supports for under the eaves of a building. They're going to be a full 3" thick, which complicates things a bit.
JP
Jay - my ISP's news is only current during the day, so excuse what appears a piggyback.
If you're going to go a full 3", as your most recent post says, and you have an Oscillating Spindle Sander, you can pattern sand your bandsawn roughs. I made an insert for my JET which takes the inserts used for a router and found it a pretty good way to go. Down into the 1/2" spindle size, though.
Could you please explain in a little more detail how you "pattern sand" using an OSS? It looks like I'll have to make a ring to sit above the table that the template can ride against. Problem is, it will have to be bigger than the spindle itself, right?
JP
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