Build: Making a rip fence for a band saw
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2017
- I made an adjustable rip fence for my band saw out of scrap plywood and some inexpensive hardware. This could be adapted to fit most band saws. Thanks for watching, please feel free to leave any questions, comments, or suggestions below. Did you make one - post to instagram or twitter and tag/mention me!
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The Vulture by The Copacetics from Providence, RI
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Thank you. Looks great to me. You did a great job.
Solid work, Jeff!
Well, considering you were convinced to do this a few days ago, you got this out pretty quick. Great job for your first video.
ManCraftingTM Thanks for watching! Definitely needs some work. Audio needs lots of help. Need to work on camera placement. My format will come into its own eventually. One those things where if I didn't put it out there right away, I'd spend forever tweaking it and it would never see the light of day. After being surrounded with inspiration last week, had to strike while the iron was hot.
Thanks for sharing a good idea! Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Mike
+Mike K Thank you!
It got the job done. Good work.
A nice easy fence to make thank you for making this video & sharing Regards Steve UK
if you are going to make cross cuts without a cross cut sled don't use the fence like you were. kickbacks happen when the piece gets wedged between the fence and the blade. when you cut pieces wider than they are long as you were there it invites kick back. once the saw grabs it, there is nothing you can do. if you need the spacing the fence can give you for repeatability the setup a little block on the fence so by the time the wood hits the blade you are off the fence.
+Gary Watson Not sure if you saw, but I was using the miter gauge in lieu of a sled. The work piece was held against the face of the miter gauge. Not ideal, but I haven't built a crosscut sled for this saw yet. The guides on the one I built for my old saw didn't fit in this one (it had non standard width miter slots) Crosscut sled for this saw is the next project, and probably one of my next videos.
Thanks for the concern!
RhodyJeff I rewatched to make sure I had it right. the problem isn't that you are using the miter, that part is fine, the problem was that at the same time you were riding the piece of wood against the fence. that was the dangerous bit. if you had removed the fence altogether and done the same operation I wouldn't have said anything. hopefully I'm not coming off as a jerk, just wanting you to be safe, (and to know specifically what the unsafe behavior was).
Gary Watson I gotcha. I was definitely using the fence as a guide when I should have just marked it on the plywood. I was using that block to pull it against the miter, but yes, I should have moved the fence out of the way.
Not sure if you noticed, but In the next shot I am standing off to the side of the saw. Particularly with how confined my shop is (I mean, I'm sharing my laundry space with it, not exactly spacious) it's not always conducive to standing in exactly the ideal spot. When the cut and spacing makes sense, I stand to the side. I'd argue it's actually safer to make a cut from a comfortable position than to have to contort your arms in an unnatural position to handle push sticks or blocks or your work piece directly. I stand in the position that I can most comfortably and confidently maneuver and control the work piece.
Everyone is responsible for their own safety. I try and be as reasonably safe as I can in my own shop, as I would expect anybody else to be in theirs.
For what it's worth I have experienced kickback on my old saw and got a nice bruise and scrape on my gut. I learned the hard way I had a misaligned rip fence on it, and the lack of riving knife on that saw didn't help. Since then I've always done what I could to avoid it, and haven't had an incident.
Safety is always a concern - I appreciate your comments pointing it out for other viewers.
On blade drift - I haven't had a problem with it. A properly tensioned blade, with the upper guide set to the appropriate height for the work piece, and the left, right, and rear guides both top and bottom properly adjusted won't experience any meaningful blade drift. Particularly with this larger resaw blade I have on it that I would use for rip cuts, it's been a non-issue. It's a pain, but any time I change the blade I adjust all 6 guide bearings and the position of their carriers. I'm sure that helps.
Perfect video
Congrats on your fence. I have been putting off making a table saw sled, bandsaw fence and a segmented sled for awhile, doesn’t help that I have spent over 5 months in hospital in the last year, but I still think I have been procrastinating lol. There are sooooo many different types and styles, it is frustrating me, which ones will stay square etc... Due to the slot you cut out, the one where your bolts travel along, does that have much movement in your timber, therefore making your fence slightly off? Cheers, Sean
Excellent! Both me and The Robbins Workshop have it in mind to do this very soon for both our bandsaws! Probably make ours out of aluminum though.
+Wildman Tech I'm not much of a metal working guy really - just working with scrap I already had and wanted to keep it almost brutally simple. I'd love to see how the aluminum ones come out!
Will very likely make a video of it. Since we each have different bandsaws, will probably make one for each channel.
7:42 Acid trip flashback, woah!
Great work! You should show it in use though too ;)
Nicole Aptekar Thanks! I will in upcoming videos :)
RhodyJeff get rid of the music.
the video is a little long but definitely useful stuff
First time the board kicks and hits you in the belly, you'll learn to stand to the side when ripping . Seen small strips embed in a 3/4" plywood panel.
Why finish the laundry room when you can make a rip fence for a bandsaw.
Opened this video and practically got blown out of my chair by the music and then when he started his dialog could barely understand him. May be a good video but I didn't hang around to try and understand him. Sorry about that.