{"id":38,"date":"2004-05-02T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T23:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:11","slug":"i-got-a-non-crappy-bandsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/i-got-a-non-crappy-bandsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"I got a non-crappy bandsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great stuff. I picked up a new-to-me bandsaw this week, a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00002265N\/personworks-20\">Jet 12&#8243; Open Stand Band Saw<\/A>, along with four timberwolf sawblades and an upgraded fence.  I get to use it to build the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/archives\/000018japanese_table_designs.html\">Japanese-styled table<\/a> I&#8217;ve been thinking about.  The curves I have planned will be tricky, but I suppose there&#8217;s no better way to learn than to try it out.<br \/>\nI really don&#8217;t know much about bandsaws, so I&#8217;ve been reading lots. The secret seems to be in the blades.  There&#8217;s two critical dimensions: the thickness of the blade, and the set of the teeth.  A &#8220;thick&#8221; blade tracks straighter, which is good if you&#8217;re cutting straight lines but bad if you&#8217;re cutting narrow curves.  Teeth that are set widely (meaning that they&#8217;re bent in opposite directions) cut a wider swath, making turning easier and resulting in less rubbing against the wood you&#8217;re cutting through.  Good for making turns or for cuts through thick wood (where you need to cut widely so you the blade doesn&#8217;t rub), but bad if you&#8217;re worried about wood waste.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(At some point I&#8217;m going to post the draft plans I have for that table&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a new-to-me bandsaw this week.  I get to use it to build the Japanese-styled table I&#8217;ve been thinking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}