I’m in the market for a bandsaw

You can easily make an Adirondack chair with the tools you’ve listed. I would like to expand my woodworking skills and I wanted a good bandsaw.

 

A band saw would let you stack several boards if you wanted to make several chair parts at a time or to sell them.

For me a bandsaw is great for re-sawing boards to thinner material, scribing and cutting trim for unlevel doors and trim as our old house has.

I also use it to pare down blocks of wood for wood turning.

Cutting small logs into cookies for projects, drink coasters, etc.

 

That's neat. You might also like a planer. I got one last year and love it. It is a specialty tool but when you need it, they are perfect.

 

I do have one, but when I re-saw down to 3/8"-1/4" pieces of wood, it chatters going through the planer from being so thin.

 

Are you saying that a band saw can make a clean and consistent 1/4" cut? This is getting to be like the width of a blade which is pretty fine work. I may need to but a bandsaw now...

I have cut real fine shims like 1/8" on my planer but they were pine so I didn't see any of the bounce that you were talking about. I can see that happening though.

 

These cuts were made when I picked up my band saw and was tuning it.

Left. old-growth fir just over 1/16"

Middle. 1/4" cherry

Right. 1/4" apple

 

I'm still waiting.
I ordered (and payed for) my Laguna 14BX on November 8th.
They told me it wouldn't be in till late January. I'm thinking about telling them i want my money back.

 

You can barrow mine!

 

Thanks! I'll stop up.
Can you and Carry help me load it?

 

Her name is Carry Farwood , her cousin is Carry Bandsaw!

 

I have a piece of 1x10x36" mahogany. Planed really true. I take thin stuff like that
and double tape it to mahogany for support.

 

I can feel your pain.


....just say'n......

 

I sat on the cash from March/April waiting on any sale price. The only time the BX was included in a sale was black friday.
It'll soon be a year. Thats about long enough. Lol

 

Maybe a different model Laguna?

I think if you wait for the Laguna, you will realize it was worth it.

YMMV

 

My bandsaw is in!! My bandsaw is in!!
And Miss July is in the area today.
(Woodcraft/Harrisburg is about 120 miles from us.)

 

Wife had just txt'd me a bit ago and said they were done a little early at work and they might go to Woodcraft and pick up a chuck adapter for the lathe. Couple minutes later Woodcraft called her to say the bandsaw was in.

 

That’s awesome! You have a lovely wife.

 

Not only that, they have a lift gate on their work truck.

 

WOOT...WOOT!!

There just is noth'n like new toys.

.....make that first project push sticks and finger savers.

 

Yep. I was looking at your push stick pics earlier