Category Archives: Bandsaw 2018

Continued with the wheels today in two sessions posted here in one post. Lost of hole cores for making smaller knobs. Having two bench drills saves a lot of time stuffing around changing bits and related drill accessories. I use … Continue reading →

After cutting the Melamine wheels the next job is to make the flanges to mount the bearings. The bearing flange (four of them) looks like this, the 6205 2RS bearing has a OD of 52 mm so I need a … Continue reading →

This is the motor I will be using, a 1200W unit from a ALDI Gardenline water pump. Last time I made my our wooden pulley which never ran as true as I would have liked so this time I bought … Continue reading →

Back to cut discs 3 & 4 which will make the second wheel Same thing again, work slowly around Now we can move along and make two wheels.

Just finished the 8” bandsaw and decided to build another 14″ bandsaw to replace the one lost in the shed fire that took around 7 months to build. I will be using the 8″ bandsaw (see previous posts) to build … Continue reading →

My 2018 bandsaw. Click on picture to view construction in chronological order.

Bandsaw Update- Friday is cleaning day, finished my bit and off to the workshop for a little session before I take Holly for her rehab walk.