14” Bandsaw – Table and blade guides

This is another interesting stage where we can start planning to setup a temporary table and begin construction of the upper blade guides.

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Even with a temporary table I still need to know where the blade position will be so I can make the blade access cut on the table saw. So the first thing is to mount the blade, and make sure tension and alignment are correctly set.

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14” Bandsaw – table prepping

With the basic blade guide arm setup and before we start making the actual blade guides we need to make ready a temporary table and put that aside for now.

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Running out of off cuts so got down a 2400mm length from my stock of MG10 pine. No problem cutting this stuff on the big Ozito 12” sliding mitre saw. The stand arms will extend out to 2 metres. Here only the right is extended.

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