selling a bandsaw to someone who doesn't do curves...

I've been looking at bandsaws and wondering about size: why does an 18" take more time to set up ?

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GregP
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Sorry, I meant that the 14" took more setup time.

It's a question of accuracy. The 18" will laugh at a 6" high resaw, even if things are a bit sloppy. The 14" is more marginal - you can do it, but you need to check the guides are running spot-on, and that the tension is right. Maybe it can't resaw so deep with any blade, and you have to swap it over for your best resaw blade first (and then reset everything).

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Andy Dingley

Ok ! (I was afraid that the mythology I have been evolving about these things was completely off base...)

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GregP

Aren't sweetgums sometimes called spiny maple? --dave

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Dave Jackson

To add to that, if you use it to cut up a bunch of pumpkins for fresh pumpkin pies, be sure to clean up all of the orange goo quickly, cuz once it dries, it's a real PITA to remove. Also, DAMHIKT ;) --dave

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Dave Jackson

Dave Jackson asks:

Not anywhere I've been. Around here, they're gum or red gum, and in some places they're called alligator tree, satin walnut, and star-leafed gum.

It's also not as easy to get hold of as I'd like. Thought I had some coming, but it's a couple weeks late.

Charlie Self "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." George W. Bush

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Charlie Self

Patriach notes:

Oh. Well, the book, if you can find a copy, is Woodworker's Guide To Selecting & Milling Wood. Betterway Books, Cincinnati, 1994. I'm hoping to sell an updated and more complete version to a publisher some time this year.

Charlie Self "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." George W. Bush

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Charlie Self

For those lucky enough to live in California,

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redgum available. Some pretty nice claro slabs, too. Ain't cheep.

scott

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Scott Lurndal

I cut some smoked salmon for a friend (with a fee of salmon, of course). Took a while to get it all out...

Did a dandy job though.

PK

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Paul Kierstead

snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnotforme (Charlie Self) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m13.aol.com:

I'll want a signed first edition...

Patriarch

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Patriarch

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:16:25 -0800, mac davis vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:

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Can I borrow that? I think it's a good way to start about any tool. Thanks.

On the other hand, are we talking reasons or tools? . Do the two _always_ go together?

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Old Nick

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:00:46 -0600, the inscrutable Patriarch spake:

Ditto here. (Hurry, Charlie!) (Hey, I found the earlier version in my library system.)

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Larry Jaques

I already have a metal-cutting bandsaw for that kind of stuff. :)

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Silvan

Money is in short supply with $50,000 worth of medical bills coming, and my deductible/copay to consider. I'm probably theorizing about a year or two from now, but I'm thinking this way with an eye toward what I'm going to do with the space I have liberated in corner by rearranging my shop. About one more day, and it will be damn close to organized. (For about 11 seconds.) 25 hours spent cleaning/arranging so far.

Dovetails and tenons are interesting. Otherwise not too much I didn't already have in mind. The main thing that it would do incredibly well is serving as a replacement for my much overused bow saw in turning prep, but that's a thin justification in of itself. My mini lathe is basically a tool for making a pile of shavings, and a neat curvy piece of firewood. I haven't found much use for 12" spindles or 8" bowls, other than turning a bit of wood into silly string for the merry hell of it.

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Silvan

Where? I'm going on what my boss said. He used to be in the sawmill business around here, and he still cuts his own trees for fun. I asked him about this, and he pretty much scratched his head coming up with any place to buy real species like walnut, or walnut, or maybe walnut. He said that he and all the other local woodcutters he knows about send off their walnut and cherry to the log peeler directly, do not pass go.

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Silvan

What about this one - a 72" bandsaw with 67" vertical capacity...

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be a little big for most shops though...

JeffB

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JeffB

Surely you are not talking about old "common gum" which grows damn near everywhere in my part of the world and has a grain pattern so bad that people will not even try to use it for firewood ???

You can't split gum with most explosives...

I didn't think anybody but the paper company used gum.

Charlie Self wrote:

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Pat Barber

The paper company, and the guy who sold Dad a whole truckload of gum for firewood one year. The load was about 70% red gum, 30% miscellaneous, with some oak in there. Dad used to hand me a maul and say "Here, go get some exercise."

I used to quarter a piece of oak in two whacks, then get a piece of gum to humble myself a little. We had one huge red gum crotch in particular. I forget how many times we hit that damn thing, but it was up there. Broke two mauls on it, and got three or four wedges stuck in it. We finally got it cut up somehow. Probably sawed it with a chainsaw or something, I imagine.

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Silvan

Silvan wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

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Sounds like you are not sure that you really need one ... so why not hold off on getting one? In my limited experience it's better to only buy the tools you need when they become necessary.

That said, I use my bandsaw more often than my tablesaw. I build furniture, toys, gifts, etc. I do a fair amount of marquetry and lately I've been learning to do veneering. Bandsaw gives you great ability to make custom veneers.

Other than that, I use it for resaws ... especially to make bookmatch patterns for figured woods.

And I use it for ripping rough lumber ... much safer than a tablesaw if the wood has residual stresses in it.

I also use it for short cuts that would be dangerous on the tablesaw.

Have fun ... Nate

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Nate Perkins

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