Dave Morris
04-21-2007, 11:12 AM
Looking for ideas on some additional support for the outfeed side of my Jet 14" band saw. Searched this forum and all over the net, only found one attached folding outfeed table designed for a larger steel-frame saw. Plenty of stuff out there for table saws, apparently not much info for band saws other than making a replacement table for a lager surface all around the blade. I don't need the extra width to the side of the blade, but an extra 3 feet behind the blade would really be nice. Problem is, I'm worried about stressing the saw's aluminum table trunions if I make a larger table supported solely by the saw's trunions.
Anybody make a custom outfeed table for their 14" BS, or do most of you folks simply use a separate stand for outfeed support? A separate stand seems lacking in stability.
The task at hand is resawing straight boards from about 100 curved staves from some large 70+ year-old redwood wine barrels. The pieces are about 6" wide, 2" to 3" thick, about 5 feet long, with a bow of about 1" along their length. Figure I'll need to make a sled to support this curved stock for the initial cut, but I'd like to have something supporting the weight at the end of the cut. Got a couple ideas of my own for a hinged outfeed table with folding legs, but figured somebody has made something like this for their 14" saw and I could learn from their experience.
Don't want to use my jointer to flatten the boards, they have a lot of crud built up from years of making wine and the (hard mineral?) deposits built up on the old redwood will trash the knives on the first board.
Thanks for any tips, pointers, or links to pics of other's solutions.
Dave
Anybody make a custom outfeed table for their 14" BS, or do most of you folks simply use a separate stand for outfeed support? A separate stand seems lacking in stability.
The task at hand is resawing straight boards from about 100 curved staves from some large 70+ year-old redwood wine barrels. The pieces are about 6" wide, 2" to 3" thick, about 5 feet long, with a bow of about 1" along their length. Figure I'll need to make a sled to support this curved stock for the initial cut, but I'd like to have something supporting the weight at the end of the cut. Got a couple ideas of my own for a hinged outfeed table with folding legs, but figured somebody has made something like this for their 14" saw and I could learn from their experience.
Don't want to use my jointer to flatten the boards, they have a lot of crud built up from years of making wine and the (hard mineral?) deposits built up on the old redwood will trash the knives on the first board.
Thanks for any tips, pointers, or links to pics of other's solutions.
Dave