Building a bandsaw on the cheap from mostly scrap wood

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4/9/16 Saturday (and my birthday)

Busy day today. Full of fun, and I even had about an hour to work on the band saw.

I started off by turning the wheel down a little bit more. I’d make what seemed like a lot of sawdust and flatten and square the edge, unplug the motor and then pull out my wife’s cloth tape measure and measure the circumference. Still a long way to go. It was taking a while, and I just wasn’t into it at the moment.

So I decided to shift my attention to something else. I was going to need to also turn down the pulley and make a groove in it for the v-belt, but the pulley was too far from the board I was using as a tool rest. No safe way to reach it with a chisel. I decided to make a tool rest extension. Pretty straightforward.

First I cut the vertical part. Then I drilled some holes in what would be the horizontal support.


Clamped the vertical tool rest part and used some of those pocket hole screws to screw it together.


Holding the tool rest in place to see how it will fit. It’s still not as close to the wheel as I would like, but it would be too much effort to set things up to get it closer.


4/10/16 Sunday

I had about half an hour after mowing the lawn, so I turned the wheel down some more. I’m pretty close now to the right size.