20" Woodgears Wooden Wood-cutting Bandsaw (with changes)

[craig9]

Hi folks. Not entirely sure if this belongs here, because it's not a start-to-finish tutorial or anything like that.

At the end of last year, I got 80% of the way through building a 20" capacity wooden bandsaw, mostly using plans from woodgears.ca (no affiliation, just a happy customer), but with some twists to make it suit my needs. And then - progress stalled a bit. Partly because I got it to the 'usable' state, and so the motivation to finish the enclosure, permanent motor mount, and base cabinet was suddenly vanishing. The saw has been working perfectly for me for about 10 months now, but it's not very convenient or safe to use. Not yet anyway! A few weeks ago I picked the project back up again, and made some headway. Today I released a 29 min video with progress so far.

This video is a bit on the long side, didn't really realise that until editing stage, and it's a little more detailed than I usually do, but hopefully it's interesting anyway. It takes you through from no enclosure at all, to most of the upper wheel enclosure being built, step by step. Still more to do, of course.

It's by no means complete, there will be at least a couple more episodes until I can call it truly finished, perhaps 3-4+ episodes more.

Thanks for reading ,
Craig