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Hesh, you are more deserving than you think! i'm gonna call Mike Holmes from the Canadian TV show " Holmes on homes" and have him tear up your work space and build you a twice the size shop before you could even say "cookie crumbles"! he might even buy you a brand new drum sander

Serge

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] Rich did you get the instruction book with your saw? [/QUOTE]

Yes Hesh, I sure did. Made a point of it. Although, it seemed like the previoius owner was a little reluctant to give it to me. For whatever reason, I have no idea. I too, followed it to a tee, since this is my first experience w/ bandsaws.

The weekend, when I went to pick it up was like out of a Stephen King book. It was during those helacious rainstorms that Northern Calif was getting. All the surrounding rivers were on the rise, and I got lost for a couple of hours (darned Mapquest ). His place was in the middle of nowhere, somewhere up in the wine country. There were trees down, and branches & mud were everywhere. After finally finding his shop (very cool shop), we had to load it into my Pathfinder in the worst part of the storm (it just barely fit), and the poor guy was partially crippled...Sigh! In all the excitement, I had left all the accessories there, and he later had to mail them to me. All in all, for $450, I think I made out OK. It's mine now, and all is good!

Congrats on yours...

for me I was using an olson 3/8 inch 3 or 4 tpi resaw blade and it did not give good results, very wavey finish. I went to woodslicers 1/2 " and it is great. I was told that the saw is too small for a 1/2 inch blade, they would break, but it hasn't happened yet. And Jet does recommend up to 1/2 inch, sooo   Oh, I have heard too that the woodslicer will dull quickly, not sure about that..There is a company that sells the exact blade for half the price,, I'll find their name...

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] I can now...slice off headstocks, etc.[/QUOTE]

!!!!??? Somebody stop him--he's out of control!!!

Ok, I thought I had the smallest shop in the world but I think you did me one better.... Can you hand me the soap please?

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

One positive note on your shop Hesh, you might have the windows that i don't in my enclosed shop, My security guard keeps me company and feed him all the t-bone i can find, here he is:



Scary guy huh ?

Hesh, that was a picture of me at 15, on a student exchange program , i tried to run but i could not hide nor disguise myself

haha.. nice. Bandsaw in the crapper. Hard to get more classic than this!

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com