Want to try to resaw some 8/4 white oak, ash and walnut down to 3/8 for some Christmas keepsake boxes. I built a tall fence and ordered two new blades from Suffolk Machinery.
That said, what kind of loss can I expect? Or, how thick of a board must I start with to end up with 3/8″ thickness? I am thinking around 5/8″. Is that unrealistic?
Any other tips you can provide a resawing virgin would be greatly appreciated.
Keep Safe-
BVL
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You've got a good start: a tall fence, and new (and I assume good) blades. Setting the fence to the correct drift angle, keeping good blade tension and feeding the board at a good rate (viz., not too fast) will lead to good results. A 5/8 board for 3/8 final thickness should be plenty thick; I've managed having just 1/8" spare with good results, but it depends on how well you track your line and how little barreling you get.
Other tips:
1) blades heat. As metal heats, it expands. As bandsaw blades expand, they get loose and this will lead to blade tracking problems. Avoid them by not overheating the blade and by re-checking balde tension.
2) After your first cut, send the thick stock back through the thickness planar (or thickness sander, if you're lucky enough to have one) before resawing the next piece.
3) If you are looking to bookmatch flitches, you need to minimize waste in order to get the best bookmatched appearance.
If you can, practice. But if you follow these basics, even your first results can be good ones.
Good luck,
Paul
Paul: they don`t call me the auld rebel for nothing. I can see no reason to resaw wide stock to make thin and narrow box sides. I try to block out the individual parts on the wide board. The smaller and narrower pieces are now much easier to process.
If you make a box,4"X6"X12" for example.cut a piece of the rough stock to 4"X18"plus a little for the joints and you will have all 4 pieces for the box sides.Keep the two pieces oriented as they were in the board. Looking down on the board,the left end is one end of the box.(4") The piece behind it on the other piece,(12")is the other side of the box. As you can see,if uou use mitered corners,as I do, The wood grain will be contineous around the box.
Iam not going to comment about lead on the bandsaw. As I have stated before, If both edges of the saw cut the same,thre is no reason for the cut to deviate from a straight line. In my opinion,the blades you have selected are A One.Thank you,Mr.Croney,where ever you may be.
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Edited 10/6/2004 3:05 pm ET by Pat
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