Ideas for reusing bandsaw blades?

I use old blades to make blades for hacksaws and others. Shear to length and punch holes where needed. I know that a 3 TPI hacksaw looks strange but its really handy. The 3 TPI in a bow saw is great for trimming trees. Tage Frig (sp) used pieces on them to clean out his dovetails by grinding off the teeth and sharpening then using a hammer to tap his blade knife into the wood. One of his videos shows this very well.

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Might be able to use some of the blade for tearing off sheets of sandpaper. I have a palm sander that takes squares of sandpaper. I usually have 8.5×11 sheets of sandpaper that I fold and cut to size. It can be tedious and generally slows me down. Might be overkill for your blade. This idea might be better suited for an old hacksaw blade or something with a few more teeth. All that being said, this might stir up or trigger an idea for you. Tim

-- Tim from Iowa City, IA

I keep some pcs. of band saw blades (about 12” long and taped on both ends) by my buffing station to “fluff up” the buffing wheels prior to adding more buffing compound.
Bill

It could actually be cut and re-soldered at a saw shop. It probably wouldn’t cost too much. You don’t have to scrap it. They even make blade soldering kits so you could do it yourself.

This one is only $35 at WOODCRAFT:

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You can make a bowsaw and use it for hand-ripping. 3 TPI
is pretty coarse for cutting joints though.

You can also make yourself a walking-beam saw. There
are directions on it in some old FWW issue.

Blades are hard steel so they work as scrapers. You might
cut it into 4” lengths and make a holder.

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These are some good ideas. I hadn’t considered trying to re-solder it. That kit would be a worthwhile investment if it worked.

-- Patrick, Iowa City

I did the same thing. I should have thrown the blade out months ago, bu felt guilty for some reason (even though it was unusable). Now that I can do something with it, I’m glad I didn’t . Thanks for the post and all the replies!

Hmmmm, ideas abound here, thanks. I have a bunch of old Wood-Mizer sawmill band blades. You are all welcome to them if you come and get them and post a picture of what you make with them – I live in west central GA. Regards

-- Fred, Georgia

This topic comes up from time to time on the sawmilling forums. I don’t know how wide your blade is compared to the smallest 1-1/4” used on bandsaw mills. But steak knives are often mentioned as possible reuses . I’ve got a few broken ones hanging in a tree that I’d give away to a new home.

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you can use them to make knives for cutting bread as well

-- rob, ont,canada

Cut off all but one backward-facing tooth, put a handle on it, and you have:

1- grout/caulk remover
2- carpet/ linoleum cutter

I suppose you could also make some pretty good scrapers out of them.

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Cut it into multiple lengths, attach them to a handle, and you can create “distressed wood” like nobody’s business!

Mount it teeth up to keep birds from perching somewhere.

Bowsaw.

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they make great intarsian and marquetry cutting tools as well as doing wood carving (various self made knives for small detials and such)

-- Nicholas, Journeyman Cabinetmaker, Partenkirchen, Germany

Custom ground profile scrapers.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

a 2ft scarp piece is handy when my buddys wood mizer gets jammed up ,we use it to free the sawdust out behind the blade so we can pull the blade back out.Like the scrapers idea!thanks

-- eric post, tallahassee FL

I’ve seen them used in a tool to score the cambium layer on fruit trees for increased production . It works well and is called girdling . A smart person reading this should start marketing these tools .

How about really manly bracelets?

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Modify this idea using bandsaw blades instead of hacksaw blades: http://www.primitiveways.com/two_bladed_pocket_knife.html

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you could also make your own thin parting tools out of them.
sorta like the one in this video, but with a bansaw blade instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Joo-cBzsjQ&feature=channel_page

I have made one of these and i use it alot, they work well.

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They would work great for flossing your teeth :-)

-- Wayne - Plymouth MN