Raised my game Today on Resawing

[Tom Bender]

Resewing has been hit or miss for me. Today I need enough to veneer both sides of a coffee table with 1/8" Mahogany. My stock was 9" wide RS but my saw will only fit 7 3/8" so some waste was in the works. I decided to get what I could and tore into the upper guide. A little trim here and there and now it's good for 7 3/4" That helps.

Put on an appropriate blade and started, and the result was a lot of wandering, and the belt slipped a lot.

Got into the belt problem and found that Grizzly had sold me a saw with a motor that didn't really fit and the belt couldn't be tensioned properly. Fixed that.

Back to the wandering cut, DOH I had not tensioned the blade. After that it went pretty well.

[Van Huskey]

Resawing can often be vexing. It is like the 1 iron in golf, it will telegraph and magnify every operator and setup issue. It often asks us to push a saw to their limits or in your case beyond the limits via modification! :)

[Robert LaPlaca]

Resawing can often be vexing. It is like the 1 iron in golf, it will telegraph and magnify every operator and setup issue. It often asks us to push a saw to their limits or in your case beyond the limits via modification! :)

Ah the old golfers lament.. If caught out on a golf course during a thunderstorm and afraid of lightening, one should grab a one iron and hold it up, because even god cannot hit a one iron.