Bandsaw blades ?

[Mad Max]

Whatever looks good

[Crooked Stic]

Different strokes for different folks but seems to me you waste a lot of wood ripping with a table thin kerf or not.

[Shredd]

  I Guess...    If you are gonna make a cut and you have the ability to make the cut how ever you want why not make the cut closer to the finished design?? Just seems like a lot of extra sanding to me to sand a parallel into a taper...

  As far as kerf is concerned...  I would rather lose a few lams than put wear and tear on my expensive  carbide bandsaw blade...  They break before the teeth wear out...  I am guessing a 8" circular saw blade costs around $30 and it can cut lots and lots of lams before it ever wears out... And they are easy to resharpen...

[Crooked Stic]

I will stick with the bandsaw on bamboo flooring. Cuts easy and get 3-4 lamps verses 2 with table saw.

[Jeff tech]

7 1/2 Diablo blade has a 1/16 kerf works great. If you can fit it on your table saw. JF

[Mad Max]

I will stick with the bandsaw on bamboo flooring. Cuts easy and get 3-4 lamps verses 2 with table saw.

I'm with stic on the bamboo flooring and 3 to 4 lams.
It's 5/8" thick but has a air gap channel in the bottom and a hard clear coat on the top. mine does

[Shredd]

Now we are talkin two different things... I was talking a slab of wood not pinching a couple of lams out of a thin piece of bamboo...  In which case I would use the thinnest kerf available also...

  Ok I think I made my point...  I'm done here...

 

[Crooked Stic]

Max Big  Jim and Rosewood both have bamboo planks no grooves no finish.

[Mad Max]

Yes I did know that, Thanks

[Stagmitis]

So what Carbide tipped brand and what configeration for glass/g10 do you all reccomend?  Tired of profiling bows on mt table saw and got another bandsaw I am dedicating to that.

[Appalachian Hillbilly]

I am going to save my Resaw King for that. Still cuts glass fine but too dull for the big thick pieces of hardwood .

I have a diamond blade for my table saw, but man, it is so easy on the bandsaw to cut limb profiles with the carbide blade.

[Mad Max]

So what Carbide tipped brand and what configeration for glass/g10 do you all reccomend?  Tired of profiling bows on mt table saw and got another bandsaw I am dedicating to that.

Big Jim cuts alot of G10, he would know best.
He is kind of slow on checking his Trad Gang PM box, Try this and tell him you are on Trad Gang     [email protected]

[Buggs]

I cut a lot of G-10 by hand with a bimetal hacksaw blade. I'm not doing any complex shaping. Don't know if a carbide tipped blade is necessary for glass. I'm sure it would last longer..... and cost a lot more.

[Mad Max]

I cut a lot of G-10 by hand with a bimetal hacksaw blade. I'm not doing any complex shaping. Don't know if a carbide tipped blade is necessary for glass. I'm sure it would last longer..... and cost a lot more.

In the past people said they cut there site window with carbide band saw blade and use it for a year or more.

[Crooked Stic]

I know I have cut as many as 20 to 25 longbow limbs with a regular bimetal blade after it dulled some on wood. G10 will wreck them pretty quick tho.

[Stagmitis]

Thanks for all you comments everyone!

[Bryan Adolphe]

Well that’s good to know Kirk I just checked my 8/4 maple and it’s def not quartersawed,
Still possible to use as core lams or best to find some quartersawed ?
 Not a good day unless you Learn something new !

Well took some of that flat sliced 8/4 hard maple I have and cut myself some quartersawn out of the middle of it enough to rip a few lams for sure,  not easy stuff to find around here suppliers may have some oak but that would be it .  Back on track whenever I get at it.

[Appalachian Hillbilly]

Local place had a Timber Wolfe. Nowhere near as smooth as a Resaw King. Will use it for general stuff, but too much sanding for lams. The Resaw King required very little sanding if you got the saw set up right.

No flutter with the Timber wolf, just not as smooth.

[Kirkll]

Now we are talkin two different things... I was talking a slab of wood not pinching a couple of lams out of a thin piece of bamboo...  In which case I would use the thinnest kerf available also...

  Ok I think I made my point...  I'm done here...

 

I used  a 1/6” kerf 7 1/4” Diablo blade on 5/8” flooring on a small portable table saw for years and it would cut a full 1.75” material. I got 6 lams per board. 144 lams per case. Cost per case about $100 for high quality flooring.

Unfortunately my big uni saw doesn’t have the same depth capacity running a
7.25” blade without double cutting it, so I use an 8.25 now that has a thicker kerf.
Now I’m only getting 96 lams per case on 5/8” flooring …..

but do the math guys…. That’s only $1.00 per lam on a $1000 bow… even if you made your lams at half that cost what are you saving?   two bucks per bow if you used 4 lams each.

I think some of you guys must be tight wads… lol.   Time is money too.

Kirk

[Buggs]

Guess I'm a tight wad! I saw the price of that Resaw King and my kerf got smaller.