How to Get the Most Out of Your Band Saw
Any band saw can resaw. The question is: "How well and how thick?" The first thing you need to decide if resawing on your band saw is an activity in which you are likely to engage frequently, occasionally or never. For those of you who don't know, resawing is the ability to cut thin slices or veneers out of a board standing on its edge on the band saw table, while being guided along a high fence. Where this pays off is when you are trying to get maximum mileage out of an especially fine, beautiful, expensive hardwood board. For example, I made a lot of jewelry boxes with 3/8" thick sides. Considering that I had to sand all of the sides flat and smooth, I found that I could barely get 2 slices out of a 1" thick board or 3 slices out of a 1 1/2" board or 4 slices out of a 2" thick board. You need to allow 1/16" kerf waste for most band saw blades plus more if your blade wanders, which all blades do to a certain extent. Then all unevenness has to be...