Re: Home made pine road bed takes first track.

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:24:31 -0700, David Nebenzahl
<nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>A bandsaw *probably* isn't going to give as smooth a cut as a well-made 
>tablesaw rip, so will require some smoothing (a couple p***** with a 
>hand plane would quickly take care of that). And it *is* harder to resaw 
>on a bandsaw: you can't just push it through, as the blade will tend to 
>wander. But all in all, it's the more appropriate tool.

The key is to either set the fence for drift, use a single point
fence, or tune the blade with a file.

A perfectly usable bandsaw fence is simply a straight board or metal
shape clamped to the table, fine tuned with hammer taps.  You don't
have to buy an expensive fence for this tool.  Expensive fences have a
much more appropriate place on a table saw, where kick back due to
parallelism is an issue.

<http://www.popularwoodworking.com/articledisplay?id=17581>

A single point fence is where you use the corner of a board clamped to
the table and aligned with the blade, and follow a rip line drawn on
the edge of the stock.   Here is an overcomplicated example:

<http://images.meredith.com/wood/images/p_374_1_1.gif>

To tune a blade with a file, you can LIGHTLY touch a file or
grindstone to the moving blade, on the side the cut drifts towards.
The cut is drifting because one side of the blade is sharper than the
other.