Thread: Vacuum&pressure pot experiments

Looks great my friend and now fellow Mentor!

You had spoken of modifying the stock fence but the pics don't seem to show any mods, if you could expand it would be very much appreciated

All I ended up doing was adjusting the rear lock tab nut a bit on the rear of the fence and checked my parallelism to the blade at the corners.
That and covered the centre knock out with three layers of Teflon tape to eliminate the slight step around the blade itself.
Used the 18 tpi x 3/8 blade and it worked a charm as far as straightnes of cut is concerned.
Really like the skil mini band saw indeed!

Wow Mike looks great. Seems you got the most out of the material. Thank you! This will be a very happy new year indeed.

Thanks Colin. Was a goal o mine to be done those slabs this week off. Now that I've 'cut my teeth' as it were in the world of tooth and tusk, I am confidant I can save more material on future jobs. If they come along that is. That marrow center is a different density than the outer tusk and as such I should have center sliced and tried to save inner and outer layers as separate cuts. The splitting due to the age of the material was a factor as well I believe. Fresh tusk was probably processed a lot quicker, back in da day.
Regardless, I think this stuff will profile into scale stock quite nicely. I am tempted to take the set I'm keeping and run it through the stabilizer solution used for punky wood to see if I can harden it up prior to use. Not sure though.
I have the 6"blanks and the couple wedge pieces soaking in mineral oil until we can arrange to GTG.
Thanks again for the challenge matey, wife says I cannot cut any more tusk while she's home. Lol.
But it looks like Christmas down here I said,, baa humbug said she..
Women,,,

Originally Posted by MikeB52

wife says I cannot cut any more tusk while she's home. Lol.

If it smells anything like cutting bone, I don't blame her!

Smells zactly like bone when cutting Roy. I guess it's less noxious than horn, but not much..