Thread: Slowly but surely

Bandsaw purchased. It's a Rikon 10" bandsaw with a 3 1/8 inch rip height. Perfect for pens and other small turnings. Also perfect for slicing up scale material. I have some really nice looking Brazilian Rosewood that would make some nice scales. I think the grain is too big for nice pens, but I'm going to give it a try. Anyone know where I can get a fence for this saw that will allow me to easily control the thickness I am ripping? Here is the saw:

http://www.toolcenter.com/rikon/10-300-10BS.htm

I paid 149USD for it. It's really nice, but I'd like to be able to control thicknesses for things like cutting my own pen blanks and eventually making scale blanks too.
Any advice?




PS-Lathe should be in Wednesday or Thursday.

That's it, Harry's slowly approaching the MA/TM territory

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

That's it, Harry's slowly approaching the MA/TM territory

MA/TM? Was ist das? I'm un familiar with that term.

Matt Anthony and Tony Miller.. You'll just be in charge of the pens

Ilija,
Thanks . I do have quite a shop of stuff from all my fabricating days. I made a partial living over the years on the side with stonework (architectural carving), metal work, woodwork, pens, bamboo Shakuhachi flutes, razor strops, etc....

Right now we are adding a large treadle leather sewing machine and a kicker press to speed up assembly. Fun aquiring new equipment which opens up new possibilities for designs and projects.

Anyway, very nice little saw and you may find a simply straight piece of wood clamped to the table will make do as a fence for quite a while. Not fast to adjust but for ripping scale materials it's fine.

Tony