Bandsaw Noob......a few questions

Carter offers an excellent DVD on Bandsaw tune-up that should answer alot of your questions. Also try The Bandsaw Book by I believe Lonnie Bird. Scrap the factory blade and pick up a Timber Wolf Blade. You’ll notice all kinds of difference.

-- KCkevin

I found this video from TWW very helpful
http://thewoodwhisperer.com/bandsaw-setup-tuneup/

Thanks guys, and Kevin, I will look for “The Bandsaw Book”

-- Measuring twice and cutting once only works if you read the tape correctly!

No burn, Burn the blade. The bearing should be close enough so that when you feed the wood the blade should touch the thrust bearing. But, when there is no wood and the blade is spinning the bearing shouldn’t touch.

It the wood / blade seems to beout of control then it might be too fast. But the finner the blade the slower the feed, The coarser the blade the faster it can take a feet.

Have fun I consider my bandsaw to be my most favorite tool. I use it for a lot of things.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

1. use a dollar to set the distance
2. feed so that you don’t get a lot of movement out of the blade
3. throw it in the scrap metal pile and buy a good blade (not from Lowes or HD or Sears)
4. two options: learn to hear it (very difficult); or buy a tension gauge.

-- He said wood...http://hickbyassociation.blogspot.com/

thanks

-- Measuring twice and cutting once only works if you read the tape correctly!