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Anyone have experience ripping strips with a bandsaw? I thought I remembered he discussion about this, but I can't find anything. I have a beefy enough bandsaw, but I'm unsure of the quality of strips and don't want to waste wood on an experiment if someone with experience would caution against it. Seems like a nice way to save some wood from the sawdust pile.
Thanks,
Patrick
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RE: Bandsaw ripping
Thanks for the feedback. It occurred to me that if you needed to plane down the strips or do extra faring to account for a wavy bandsaw line, you'd have eaten up any of the savings you made with a thinner kerf. I might just have to play with this a bit to see what kind of tolerances I'm dealing with
Thanks,
Patrick
RE: Bandsaw ripping
Anything that keep expensive western red cedar out of the sawdust pile is a good thing! Forest saw blades makes an ultra thin kerf blade at 5/64. Be careful when ripping strips, you’ll probably have to remove the riving knife from table saw to use a 5/64th blade.
The extra work of plaining bandsaw roughness eats up any savings. A couple of years ago Rockler had a super thin kerf blade but I can't find it now. Some folks have used thin kerf 71/4 circular saw blades in their table saw. They have a tendency to burn your wood a bit, that sands off easily while fairing the boat.
Let us know what you find out.
RE: Bandsaw ripping
Set the upper roller guides near the work. Use a fence. Be careful with the grain of the wood. Straight boards rip better than curved, warped or split boards.
RE: Bandsaw ripping
i have done it with good success for for a low production set-up.
to make it work i built a jig that supported the blade immediately above and below the board i was ripping and also created a fence for the board.
without that jig, the blade drifted too much. i tried setting the uppoer rollers as close to the piece as possible....but found my jig much more effective at elminating blade drift.
my jig was made of wood with a pre-cut groove for the blade with just enough tolerance for the blade width and the wood being ripped. great result....but a bit of work to get it all set up.
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RE: Bandsaw ripping
I would suggest that strip ripping can be easily accomplished with a properly set up bandsaw. This video has opened my eyes and I can now do rips straight and true with my bandsaw. https://youtu.be/wGbZqWac0jU
RE: Bandsaw ripping
You can make a jig to keep the stock against the bandsaw's fence:
Quick and Easy Band Saw Fence Downloadable Plan
or the commercial guide:
Magswitch Workholding Resaw Guide Tool Attachment
RE: Bandsaw ripping
» Submitted by paulbritmolly - Sat, 6/4/16 » 8:56 AM
met someone doing a strip canoe that used a bandsaw. they told me that it would be less waste. but made for extra work on faring the outside of the hull, due to the slight drift of the bandsaw blade.