The Woodpecker Ep 136 - Wooden bandsaw part 2 

I had to sand, A LOT... But be honest maple looks beter than pine :))

Canadians! :D

You need no Matthias telling you that Alain is doing AWESOME JOB!

Matthias Wandel ض

Canadian air LOL

I hope so :))

The thing is that even with a circle jig they're no assurance the bearings will be 100% dead center on the wheels, so you'll have to turn them anyway.

Alain Vaillancourt Unless you use the bearing as your center point on the jig. Even then, it would be necessary to fine tune it as you did. I still think your doing a great job! Maybe someday I'll get off my behind and do it.

Funny - these vids make me realize I need like 10 more pipe clamps. The last ones I got super cheap on ebay (supply your own pipe, so they're as long as you need). What I thought first and foremost was how expensive hard Maple is where I live. The optimal situation is to be buddies with someone who owns a mill.

Just go to harbor freight and you can get pretty good quality clamps for only a couple of bucks. A great option if you need a lot for cheap. Also they all come with a lifetime warranty so you pay 3 bucks for a clamp and have it for life. A 6 inch clamp at harbor freight is 2.99 but literally the exact same brand on amazon is 15.99. Just shows you how high companies raise prices compared to how much they cost to make.

At the end of my last part I say how this weight and how much it cost me, so you'll be able to make your own mind if this worth all the trouble.

I bet that even if it cost 1000 USD it is much better than any sold here in that price range!

The problem with a pattern bit is that doesn't mean that the center bearings will be dead center after gluing them so I would still have to re-turn it anyway. After gluing a couple of maple board together this becomes too heavy and awkward to manipulate around.

J'imagine que oui, je vais essayer et en acheter une a ma prochaine visite du dolorama

Yes they are :)

I wouln't say shift, but I always work evenings. My days off are all over the place so I almost never have a weekend off. It's the reason why I only post an episode every 2 weeks even if I have 10 finished and redy to be publish. I rather have snow in summer than one month without anything and stress over this.

I never cut a circle on the table saw, but I saw it done on line. Like you said, when I want a nice circle I use a router. But for this I had to carve a crown and have a particular size, the jig saw saw fast, but less than accurate I can't argue with that.

Just like that not a lot, but I make some modification on others videos and talk about the only big mistake I made.

I know, I hate this tool.... I only noticed this while I was editing. At that time I said the same thing to myself....

the wheels were 50cm of diameter

For the turning I was using a ¼HP(110Volts) motor, but my final saw has a 2HP motor which run on 220V

Thanks

2 months, I'll say taht in the last part at the end inside the wrapup

Not for the frame. The frame has to be in solid wood, Matthias made his with pine, I wanted maple so it would be even more stiff. This is because the frame has to be very rigid and plywood or particle board are not. But for the wheels MAtthias says that OSB is OK but not for the flanges, the bearing put too much preasure on the wood that they might break or chiped over time.

thanks for the reply, pine is a softwood, right ? i can get that, if not i guess i'll make it out of metal then, or is cast metal the only thing rigid enough for the frame ?

Yes pine is a soft wood. Metal would be fine, but this might cost more than wood. You still have to have a big piece of metal if you don't want it to bend under the blade pressure.

well if softwood works then that's all i need to know, the only way to get hardwood that i know of around here is from used pallets, that's too much work, and i don't have a planer, jointer, drum sander etc. Also i might be able to find the metal i need in a scrapyard, at around $2 CAD/Kg it shouldn't be too expensive.

Where are you? You can pretty much get hardwood anywhere.

It was easier to cut with a jigsaw, and I needed to turn it anyway to get the bearings dead center.

the diameter of the wheels is too large for his lathe.

I mean "lathe" on table, with washing machine motor :-)

Every parts are made out of hard maple except the plywood which is all baltic birch plywood.

Bien oui j’ai une version française, je fait toujours une version Française

I can't say exactly, but at least 40 years, I always used it when I was young but since I didn't play with it before being a teenager I can,t be sure of the exact year but at least 40.

Alain Vaillancourt I've also been having trouble finding a place that sells Baltic birch plywood, where did you get yours?

I'm lucky, my local hardwood supplyer have a lot in stock. 4x8 sheets and 5x5. I buy 5x5 it cost less by the square foot. But before I was buying them in a big woodworking store in Montreal but it's far and more expensive, that's the trouble with big store they have more employees so everything cost more.

all my animations are screen grab of sketchup