When you are Old you get smarter?
Last week I was ripping some Panga-Panga on my TS as I usually do..(nasty dust!) AND I remembered my band saw!
I use it but not that often.. Sorry me! Forgive me, I’m old and stuck in my ways.
I usually use a 1 inch wide Lenox blade (3 tooth in an inch) for slicing whatever. My sticks were not that thick so I changed over to a Lenox Bi-Metal blade I had..1/2 inch 4 teeth to the inch.. As in each tooth in 1/4 inch apart…
What an expertise I had! Yes, I USED MY so called “JUNK” 18 INCH RICON bandsaw I have. I slit the ‘sticks’ in half. Center marked very accurately. And did my thing..
I set it up so the bearings were really close to the blade…
I only used the the standard fence and one feather board to hold the ‘sticks’ to the fence.
I did some Sape? and the Panga-Panga. Both about 8 inches tall. Very different woods.
I am making two Canopy or called Pencil Post beds for my China Dolls…
I threw away two of my one inch, 3 tooth Lenox blades (that I loved). My Lenox Bi-Metal 4 tooth per inch worked wonderfully! OK, I tested it.. So long as I did NOT push the stick for a faster feed!
I cut the ‘sticks’ and ran them throught my surface planner, edge wise. Set a 1/32 inch and only one stick showed something NOT cut of.. So I had to do another 1/32 inch to make then all the same.
Old man set in his ways but think I will now use my bandsaw for ripping! Then to the table saw!
Edited 10/8/2008 8:23 am by WillGeorge
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Will,
Glad you have got better: I noted that you recently suffered an attack of 1) figuring that widest is best when it comes to band saw blades and 2) a cerebral affliction which dictates that the table saw is the machine of choice when it comes to cutting just about anything. Both of these conditions are manifest widely in America for some reason yet to be established.
We look forward to pictures of work in progress on items made from the Sapele Mahogany and Panga Panga.(Incidentally, that name is a distortion of the word "Penga Penga" which is used locally In Zimbabwe and Mozambique to mean "mad"- as in acting in a mad fashion, or you can just say "you are penga, man"). You have to admit that one has to be mad to use Panga Panga.....
the word "Penga Penga" which is used locally In Zimbabwe and Mozambique to mean "mad"- as in acting in a mad fashion,
MAD fer'sure! The dust that comes off of it is unreasonable!
After working it I looked like a Welch or Pennsylvanian Coal Miner!
2) a cerebral affliction which dictates that the table saw is the machine of choice when it comes to cutting just about anything.
I'm one of the mad Americans who almost exclusively uses a band saw ( I have two actually). The table saw now lives in a corner, barely used even when I made stuff to sell. Personally, I can rip faster (aside from safer) and every bit as accurately as any table saw I have owned. Not to mention I can rip thicker stuff than the table saw.
Yep. I can live just fine without a table saw.
Take care, Mike
When you are old you get smarter.
I keep waiting for that to kick in in my case. : )
Band saw. If I could only have one power tools it would be my band saw.
"surface planer" I can only think of what I call a jointer planer (jointer). Is it something other?
My "surface planer" is the
DeWalt DW735 Heavy-Duty 13" Three Knife, Two Speed Thickness Planer
http://www.tylertool.com/dedw132pl.html
NOT selling you anying.. You asked!
I love it!
"My surface planer......." OK, so I call that thing a thickness planer as you later have it.
"Not selling you anything." You asked! Can't remember asking. In fact I am pretty well fixed in tools right not so as the Title goes - "When you are old, you get smarter." I'm not so sure about that but I surely get more forgetful.
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