Thread: What are you working on?

I have the same band saw as you Roy, I'm certainly hoping it works. I'd like to get as much as possible. Thought about a coping saw too but I never seem to cut straight with those

How I set up my bandsaw is to figure out the drift on the blade and then adjust the angle of the fence to match the drift, run a few test pieces. To figure out the drift take a soap piece of wood of similar width to your scales, mark a line on it and get it to go through ice and straight. Stop the saw and mark the angle that you have to push the wood through to make a straight cut, on the table top. Set your fence at that angle and how thick you want your horn cut and run a test piece of wood. If the angle matches the drift of the blade you can just push it through with no wobbles.

Google ‘pull saws’ Eric. Wider than a coping saw and very thin kerf.
Done a few red dyed horn scales by hand with one. In my experience it was more effective than a scroll saw at splitting horn stock. Bandsaw should work if you can keep your blank well supported and square to the fence.
Good luck..

If you go with 'our' bandsaw. While this is set up for a table saw, I'm thinking that you'll need one of these to help keep the blank flush to the fence. You could simply use C-clamps to hold it in place.

Or maybe sandwich the blank between two squared up wood scraps using hot melt glue.
Give you something to hold on to during the cut.

I guess 8 went to a different kind of school for math but im only seeing 4 scales out of that size of material. If im wrong it wont be the first time. Good luck and be sure to let us know how it goes.

Some deep pits under some small areas of rust. A bit of 600 greaseless and a lot of 320 wet/dry.
Ain't going to get all of it. Gonna take a while.



I HATE sanding razors. New year's resolution....No more rusty razors.

Got 1 blank cut, 4 scale blanks. Get 2 sets of scales from each blank or 16 scales. I kept saying 16 scales meaning 8 sets. Band saw does well and is what I used in the past just don't want to miss out on an opportunity for new learning.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Some deep pits under some small areas of rust. A bit of 600 greaseless and a lot of 320 wet/dry.
Ain't going to get all of it. Gonna take a while.



I HATE sanding razors. New year's resolution....No more rusty razors.

As Crocodile Dundee might have said--"Ats not rust----now thats's rust"

Originally Posted by cudarunner

As Crocodile Dundee might have said--"Ats not rust----now thats's rust"

Oh DUDE! That's a Henry Sears Queen!
You simply MUST restore that!