1 – The bandsaw blade length is specific to each model bandsaw. Watch where the bandsaw blade is contained and slowly free it from each section of the bandsaw. When the blade is up to speed, I feed in the left edge of the green wood bowl blank and begin following the edge of the cardboard circle, without cutting the cardboard.
Currently running a Timberwolf 3/4 wide blade with 2 teeth per inch. The blade I am running now has cut about 70 green bowl blanks and still cuts good. Does a great job, just make sure you watch your fingers.
05-31-2009, 10:46 PM #1 Best bandsaw blade for bowl blanks Hello everyone, I have a Jet bandsaw that uses 133″ blades. 06-08-2009, 3:34 PM #14 saw blade I have a Jet 20″ and have also used Timberwolf & Olson blades. 06-08-2009, 3:48 PM #15 I bought a 2 tpi AS 1/2″ blade from my local saw sharpening service which seems to work just fine for bowl blanks.
Process logs into useable turning blanks, cut pen blanks to size, cut corners off a bowl blank… the uses of a band saw are too many to list. We have shop tested all the band saws and accessories we carry so you can buy with confidence.
As a bowl turner I like to do most of my bowl preparation with some jigs I made for my bandsaw that will take a 2′ or 3′ log and I can use it to cut it down the center of the pith or cut it on each side of the pith so there is no pith in my bowl blanks, I usually will put on an 1″ or 1-1/4″ bandsaw blade and spend the day ripping my logs in half. I experimented with 3/8″, 1/2″ 5/8″ bandsaw blades for cutting bowl blanks. If I could find some good bandsaw blades I wanted to negotiate a discounted price for anyone who might need one or two from both our facebook group, Wood Turning Basics https://www.
I was using it for resaw stuff down to pen blank size. He took my Griz apart, re-did everything and it still wouldn’t track or cut. He said the saw was great, set up just right, just a POC blade.
best bandsaw for bowl blanks Related Question:
What size band saw for blank bowls?
While a 17” bandsaw can easily handle a bowl blank that is eight inches tall and 16 or 18” in diameter, a 14” bandsaw may only have a cutting depth of five or six inches. With a six-inch cutting depth, or height, a 14” bandsaw cannot handle blanks taller than six inches.
What is a skip tooth bandsaw blade good for?
Skip tooth blades have widely spaced teeth at a 0 degree rake angle to prevent clogging when cutting soft wood, non-ferrous metals and plastics. Hook tooth blades have a deeper gullet—that is, larger teeth—and a positive 10 degree rake angle. This helps the blade to feed into the material more aggressively.
How do you seal wood to turn blanks?
Once the wood has been air dried and cut to the final size I usually seal the end grain with wax. Canning wax, Candle wax, Paraffin wax, any type of wax that turns to liquid when heated will work fine for sealing wood blanks.