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A neighbor was renovating an old house and need a corbel to add to the other six that were on the house. I used a 2×12”, traced it, and gave my little 3-wheel 50-year old craftsman band saw a real workout. I was the first time I really fired it up, other than a few crosscuts on tiny wood model parts. Came out pretty good, eh?
-- Far-North Wood-Works (a fantasy company)
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TopamaxSurvivor
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posted 70 days ago
Yup, it did :-)) By the way, Welcome aboard!!
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Rich99
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posted 52 days ago
thanks, topamax…
these corbel are severalyears old now, and since then i did the two poppy tables and a few other projects.
well, that old band saw always hyad quite a vibration and the blade didn’t tracks very well, so i used a fine tuning tool (tack hammer) to straighten out the drive pulley which was 3/8” or so out of square to its’ axle. that made it worse, to the point that i broke 3 blades in a week thinking i got it right.
so i took the axle/pulley out and brought it to Leighton Precision Machining in the next town over, and he put it in a humongous lathe and straightened it within 2 minutes! five bucks. the pulley was just ‘pot metal’ and he knew just how much he could lean on it.
today i went to home depot and sears for a blade… it’s 62” and no one carries them – youl’d think sears would, since it’s a craftsman (albeit a 1930-something model).
anyway, thanks for the welcome… this is a good place. —-rich
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