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Re: Bandsaw table leveling screw too long
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 7:53 pm
by jsburger
edma194 wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:10 pm
That guide works with thin stock of the kind usually cut with a jigsaw or scroll saw. There's no lower guide block to use with that blade guide, I don't know if anyone has tried it on a Shopsmith bandsaw. It is designed to work only on thin stock.
All true. I have one and have used it occasionally. It works as advertised.
Re: Bandsaw table leveling screw too long
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:03 am
by rlkeeney
edma194 wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:10 pm
That guide works with thin stock of the kind usually cut with a jigsaw or scroll saw. There's no lower guide block to use with that blade guide, I don't know if anyone has tried it on a Shopsmith bandsaw. It is designed to work only on thin stock.
Obviously, you have never watched the demo where they cut reindeer out of 2x4. I cut this
- 20210102 143747 Toymakers Shop Chicken Rooster Carter Guide 2x4.jpg (181.8 KiB) Viewed 529 times
chicken from a 2x4 using a carter stabilizer and a 1/8-inch blade.
Re: Bandsaw table leveling screw too long
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 2:00 pm
by edma194
rlkeeney wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:03 am
Obviously, you have never watched the demo where they cut reindeer out of 2x4. I cut this20210102 143747 Toymakers Shop Chicken Rooster Carter Guide 2x4.jpg chicken from a 2x4 using a carter stabilizer and a 1/8-inch blade.
I have been looking at some demos now. My concern here was getting vertical cuts through wood for bandsaw boxes up to maximum depth in the Shopsmith, something just shy of 6 inches. Carter didn't recommend the guide for that usage, although in one demo I see it doing a good job up to several inches deep. My concern with the guide is the blade twisting in the cut. For now, the single stack of bearings I set up at their recommendation is doing a decent job with 1/8" blade, though it is only a little better than using cool blocks.