A Christmas Manger Shed

Cute little project buddy! That was nice of you to do.

Happy new year!

-- Bob A in NJ

Looks great Karson, and you got the son to help you out: Bonus Points!

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

looks fun…and man—-that’s one band saw blade!!! looks huge…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

Nice work Karson.

That is a wonderful project and the cutest manger scene that I’ve ever seen : ) That bandsaw blade looks pretty intimidating to me . I’ll give your youngster credit for stepping up to the machine in the first place and he can only improve his cuts with practice ! Happy New Year to you and your family : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

I agree with letting him try. It looks to me that the board was not pressed tight to the fence at the bottom. I was behind him at the time and holding the wood on the outfeed side.

The blade is a 1” Laguna resaw King blade. carbide tipped and resharpenable at $45.00 each. The blades cost $1.75 per inch of blade.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

A friend of mine also has a carbide tipped blade but I don’t know the brand name..It slices through Hard Maple like it was styrofoam ! Have you used yours enough yet to need resharpening ? What kind of BS do you have and how many HP to turn that 1” monster ?

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

I’m waiting for two of them to be returned. I sent them the first week in December. I called and was told that they were being resharpened. I’ve never gotten one resharpened before.

I have a friend, member of the woodworking club, he sent one off for resharpening and they said the blade was defective and sent him a new one. So they seem like a reputable company.

I was going to send one off for sharpening so i went to buy a second blade so I’d have one in the interim and they had a special buy one and get the second for 1/2 price so I ended up with two new blades. So now I have three of them. They should last me the rest of my life.

One of the blades had been on the saw 5 minutes and I tried to resaw a figured block of oak and as soon as I hit the wood I saw sparks fly. It had sand imbedded in the end of the log. The blade was shot. So I didn’t get very good life from it. The other blade I was resawing some camphor wood and I cut maybe 5’ and the blade was shot. I guess imbedded silica in the wood. So for some strange woods I’m going to use other blades to do the resawing. And save the carbide ones for my known clear lumber.

I’m going to cut some Chehem and Macacuba today for a couple of shoulder planes that my son and I are going to make next weekend.

Happy new Year to you also Dusty.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Well done Karson, great piece of cedar.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

wow , I’m sorry to hear about the short lives of those two blades : ( I’ve got to check out the Camphor wood as it is new to me along with the other two that you’ve mentioned here . thanks for the feedback : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Hi Buddy;

I hope you outlive thirty of those blades. (more if you get them at a discount)!

You have a big heart my friend, and I’m sure proud to know you. (helps to balance out my other friends) LOL

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Oh, and nice project!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com