Bandsaw throat plate

To save milling of contours [profiling] nothing beats a vertical bandsaw. In small cuts, throat plate needs to be flush, and with slot just wider than blade. At this instant flush a bigger issue.
After visually marking 4 equidistant spots, 2 magnets provided a Vee block like locator fixture. Quick work, #29 drill for 8-32 set screws.
Attachment 22840
Don't use stainless screws, unless purchasing length compatible for plate thickness and depth of recess. They're difficult to shorten and chamfer new corner of thread.
A simple matter, adjusts screws to be in an even plane with saw table. I recommend a block with a fairly sharp corner to verify flush condition.

Slot width I can't remedy immediately. That will be a pressure plate set-up in the lathe, for OD [+/-.002] and narrow chamfer of bottom edge. Probably 2nd use of improved saw will be roughing out it's own new plate[s]. Then after turning and scribing centerline, it'll saw the slots. Aluminum seems favored for throat plates, less potential damage to blades. I prefer steel, as generating less frictional interruption between table and plate. Some saws have a loose dowel hole to keep plate in line with blade.

Below is tonyfoale's plate; far more correct execution than original you see modified above. While circular plates are infinitely more common, a rectangle or square is superior. Round is just a manufacturing convenience. Why on earth the plate is so widely slotted is beyond me.

On the bandsaw that I recently built and featured here a couple of weeks back. I made the throat plate hole as a corner rounded rectangle, and made a matching plate. I fed the plate in by hand and let the blade cut its own space. This photo was taken after the saw has seen a fair bit of use and you can see that the blade has not attacked the plate.

Attachment 22865 Click thumbnail for full size.

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Thanks Toolmaker51! We've added your Bandsaw Throat Plate to our Bandsaws category,
as well as to your builder page: Toolmaker51's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

<div id="blocks"> <div class="block b1 pngfix"> <div class="bimg"> <div> <a href="http://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-bandsaw-throat-plate"> <img src="/uploads/212207/homemade-bandsaw-throat-plate.jpeg"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="head pngfix"></div> <div class="left pngfix"></div> <div class="right pngfix"></div> <div class="blockover b1 pngfix"> <div class="title"> <a href="http://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-bandsaw-throat-plate">Bandsaw Throat Plate</a> <span> by <a href="http://www.homemadetools.net/builder/Toolmaker51">Toolmaker51</a></span> </div> <div class="tags">tags: <a href='http://www.homemadetools.net/tag/bandsaw'>bandsaw</a>, <a href='http://www.homemadetools.net/tag/plate'>plate</a> </div> </div> </div> </div>
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Thanks tonyfoale! We've added your Bandsaw Throat Plate to our Bandsaws category,
as well as to your builder page: tonyfoale's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

<div id="blocks"> <div class="block b1 pngfix"> <div class="bimg"> <div> <a href="http://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-bandsaw-throat-plate-2"> <img src="/uploads/212212/homemade-bandsaw-throat-plate-2.jpeg"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="head pngfix"></div> <div class="left pngfix"></div> <div class="right pngfix"></div> <div class="blockover b1 pngfix"> <div class="title"> <a href="http://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-bandsaw-throat-plate-2">Bandsaw Throat Plate</a> <span> by <a href="http://www.homemadetools.net/builder/tonyfoale">tonyfoale</a></span> </div> <div class="tags">tags: <a href='http://www.homemadetools.net/tag/bandsaw'>bandsaw</a>, <a href='http://www.homemadetools.net/tag/plate'>plate</a> </div> </div> </div> </div>
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