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   fredsmart48 | Jun 26, 2003 04:28am | #1

   have fun  it will show you how it kind of how to. 

   http://www.woodzone.com/tips/bandsaw.htm   first page leading to a animation  gifs  of how to bend the blade

   http://www.woodzone.com/images/tips/bladetwist.gif

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   forestgirl | Jun 26, 2003 08:11am | #2

   Obviously, you were supposed to squint your right eye!  OK, 'nuf of that.  The definitive thing you did wrong, I suspect, is force the blade.  If you're doing the wrist thing correctly, the blade should pretty much sink into the coil.  If you're having to force it at all, something's not right in the action.

   Keep this in mind after your visit to the web instructions above.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

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   forestgirl | Jun 26, 2003 08:12am | #3

   Oh, yuck, I just ran that animation.  No wonder you had trouble.  Let me find the FWW diagram and I'll scan it and post it.  It's much easier, methinks.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

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   forestgirl | Jun 26, 2003 08:33am | #4

   OK, here ya go, picture below reprinted from Fine Woodworking #128.  The notes say a consensus was arrived at, that this method was the safest and easiest of the ones they tried.  "Hold the blade to the floor with your toes, sawteeth facing out, and twist your wrist 360*, pushing down slightly as you turn.  The blade will coil down on itself into three loops.  [Vincent Laurence, Assoc. Editor, FWW]  PS:  I would recommend wearing gloves.

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   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

   
   

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   JeffKurtz | Jun 26, 2003 02:51pm | #5

   And if anyone still doesn't get it, follow this link for a video presentation of the same method.

   http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/wvt055.asp

   (When I watched John White do this, and saw how simple it was, and remembered how I'd struggled to do the same, and how I'd had no success..... let's just say that with a bit of effort one can kick oneself in the buttocks with some force.)

   Jeff