14" Bandsaw

WOW!!! I must say I’m impressed! I have been on woodgears.ca and I admire his work also.
Nice work on your new bandsaw!! Can’t wait to see your other hand made tools!

-- St Augustine FL, Experience is the sum of our mistakes!

Your saw is beautiful! I’m impressed and I’ll be looking for the other tools you’ve built.

-- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com

Now that is outrageously cool! Excellent

I got those plans over a year ago and just about the time I was going to start working on it Obamanomics cost me my job. Been a struggle ever since and I just don’t have the time to work on it.

Some day I will get to it though. In the mean time it’s great to see other folks proving it can be done.
Congratulations on a nice build. I was thinking about using flange bearings as well.

In relation to truing the wheels, have you considered using a belt sander, set on a fixture at an angle to the face of the wheel. Let the contact with the sander do the spinning. I once turned the brake rotors on my car like that and it worked great.

I might have to build one for myself. Great job.

-- Kenny, New York

Wow. I’ve got nothing but respect for the guys who can build their own powered equipment.

-- Brian Timmons - http://www.BigTWoodworks.com

Looks like a very good build and a real money saver too. Can’t you true up your wheels with a router mounted on a circle jig?

-- Mike, an American living in Norway.

Way cool,very nice work.

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Thank you all for your kind comments. It is really nice having peer approval of your work. To crank49, I have less than $50.00 invested in the saw and that was mostly for the flange bearings and saw blades. Truing the wheels was a problem because I used a flange bearing on the outside but a inset roller bearing on the inside. I tried using a flange bearing on the inside as well but the clearances I needed to hold wouldn’t work out. Matthais Wandel used two roller bearings on his wheel build but I had to be different :). The wheels really aren’t that bad but I seem to have this problem with perfection I can’t seem to shake :).

-- Lee - Northern idaho~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green

Nice one.

-- Mike - In Fort McMurray Alberta

congrats with your new toy :-)
hope it will take you a lifetime to worre it out

take care
Dennis

that is just too cool. it looks like it was a challenge

-- may not always be right,but,never in doubt.

Really nice band saw, keep us advised on how it works out

-- Norman - I never never make a mistake, I just change the design.

great bandsaw, that is very cool.

-- Peter, Woodbridge, Ontario

Nice saw.
I recently built the 16” version of Mr. Wandell’s bandsaw. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who agrees the wheels are the hardest part.

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EDIT
I have to go check this out.
Your post says this is a 14”. However, after looking closer at the photos you’ve posted, most of the parts are identical to the 16” I built.
I will go to his site and check it out.

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