I have been working on my own house the last few days and had just enough figured Jatoba to do my door panels in the kitchen if I resawed it and did not waste any. I had one 11" wide to resaw and I could see it was not going to fly, even with a new 1.3 woodmaster carbide and the tension cranked up. It wanted to follow the weird grain.
So I cheated. I put a thin kerf in the Minimax and cut in 1.5" on the two long edges and on the starting end. The bandsaw then followed the path of least resistance and I have my bookmatched panels. Worked like a charm.
Larry