Band saw help needed.

General Discussion
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Hey Doc,

just to let you know that today, after returning from the dentist to have a tooth pulled, I set at a set of ribs for my next wooden project. With the set up advice from yorself and others, the saw cut beatifully and produced a full set of ribs for an 8’ chambered/hollow in about 3/4 of an hour. The plan is to produce three X 1 1/2" wide stringers inlayed with different woods, then chambered, spaced 6" apart and infilled with cedar and pine boards. The rails will then be added to the outside in the form of a solid laminated piece each about 2" thick, chambered out and shaped. I’ve been planning this in my head now for three years or there abouts. THIS is why I need a band saw, virtually every piece of this one will be done on it. My wife still thinks I bought it to cut the new birch wood flooring and skirting boards. The birch flooring I got is beautiful and there’s loads of off cuts to make into nose blocks and fins and stuff.

I’m so into this now that the golfing fraternity can rest easy, that one will have to wait a few weeks, balls to them! I’m going to have to google Lignum Vitae (I’d guess at Lime wood though?)

Nice one buddy. Your help, advice, wit and wisdom is always proper appreciated.

Peace!

P.S I’d love fries with that.

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Give the ol’ blade a twang with your finger and you’ll hear the right tension with your ears. As for tracking, is it a two wheel or three?

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Hi Jase,

Teeth- ouch. Painful subject. On the other hand, I just got an appointment for a colonoscopy. Put it this way, I can feel for you, but my feelings are of a much lower order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_vitae - the smack upside the head from an old policeman’s truncheon is just one of the wonderful things about it. I’m more familiar with its maritime uses. Makes a lovely thrust bearing. Might be the only wood that’ll sink in the Dead Sea. AKA Greenheart, Ironwood, Goddamnedheavywood.

If you’re a wood turner, then making the balls themselves out of Lignum Vitae might be kinda fun. Might be easiest to make a concave-faced chisel up special ( mebbe a big old file past it’s usefulness as a file) ground on the radius of the ball you want to make.

Now, that board sounds like an interesting project, it does. For some reason I’ve never done much of anything with birch, curious to hear how it is to work with.

If you’re doing relatively big or thick inlays, the bandsaw can be a lot of fun for those, do them kinda like a tenon or a Dutchman, kinda like this, as seen from the side;

You can see how the bandsaw is just the thing for cutting those and the angled ends make sure that it won’t pop out under flex. I’d cut it a little big, then plane down to perfect.

Don’t tell the wife that you’re gonna be doing the flooring with tablesaw and miter saw, it only upsets them, wives that is. Plus, when they find out what you actually do, they want you to go shopping instead. If you have to notch around something, do it Very Ostentatiously with the bandsaw and hide your saber saw, coping saw and anything of the sort. And use the phrase “Yes, dear, you see how well this does the job, couldn’t have done it without this bandsaw” a lot while doing it.

It’ll make it all much easier to get the next big and hard-to-conceal tool past her. For instance, a wood shaper : “Honey, you know that _______ you wanted? Well, if I got a wood shaper, I could do it, and it’d look Real Nice.” You don’t tell her that you’re gonna get a straight cutter for it and a pilot bearing for the top and cut out the pieces for the next six boards fast and pretty by tacking a template to the work piece.

And the thickness planer, and the mortising machine, and the jointer, and the lathe, and the metal lathe, and the welder, and the milling machine, and the new, bigger workshop…

Heh- have fun…

doc…

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Hey Coc, I hope all goes well with the ole camera up the …well you know where it’s going. Yup, I’d much rather have teeth pulled.

I doubt that I’d manage to get hold of any Lignum Vitae, in fact one has to really search for anything other than pine or MDF over here.

The birch seems to cut and plane really nicely, the stuff I have has this incredible grain patterns and kind of spalting through a lot of the boards, the variation in coulours is fantastic.

The stringers are going to be a kind of sandwich made of two pieces of red cedar with square and triangle moulded timber glued between them so that the end grain of those would be forming the decorative pattern showing on the deck and the bottom. If I had your computer diagram skills this would be easier to explain. I’m sure this will be an easier way to get the effect I want rather than actually inlaying as I called it previously. I’ll post some pics when there’s something to show.

Deffinately needing a bigger place to work now, no chance of any more big tools until I build an extension on my garage. I’m not sure there’s anything else I need at the moment anyway, other than maybe a better table saw, and a lathe, oh and a thicknesser, and of course a bigger band saw.

My dad recently retired and moved to a smaller place near the sea, so I got given a few more bits of usefulness; the bench planer/jointer is really useful, he unfortunately made room for his Elu contractor’s saw though.

Later Doc

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hey jase i have a nice sized lump of lignum vitae in my shop, if we ever arrange to meet ill bring it to show ya… im never planning on cutting it up though and you’ll realise why when you see it! id rather hacksaw through some steel!

dog

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hey jase i have a nice sized lump of lignum vitae in my shop, if we ever arrange to meet ill bring it to show ya… im never planning on cutting it up though and you’ll realise why when you see it! id rather hacksaw through some steel!

dog

Come on the dog! Get yer back into it and saw that mother up. Wassamatter? To tough for ye?

GGGRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Mate, looks like you scored some the other weekend in Devon. The footage of Puts looked grand, some really fun looking waves. So, where was the other spot? PM me! I only ever surf the obvious for fear of stepping on local toes; though I do sincerely believe that the inhabitants of N.D. are the most chilled out and relaxed people in the UK and I’m sure everyone is cool about wherever you surf; as long as you do surf. (it was you that posted the video footage wasn’t it?)

Take it easy mate