What? No bandsaw milling threads?

[Sawdust Man]

Some walnut, pignut hickory, & a dab of ash I cut last spring.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Sawed up a couple white pines into 1x12's today.

 

[legdelimber]

man o man. I can smell that sticky turpentine aroma from here!

 

[Loony661]

Watch out for muskets..

 

[Sawdust Man]

Watch out for muskets..View attachment 393846

Wow! that's quite a treasure.
Probably pretty hard steel, & not good for blades.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

After my broken finger heals I’m bringing my sawmill to my son’s high school shop class for a demonstration/make lumber for them to make projects with.

 

[Loony661]

After my broken finger heals I’m bringing my sawmill to my son’s high school shop class for a demonstration/make lumber for them to make projects with.

That would be awesome! Good on you for that!

 

[Mastermind]

Any of you guys use Lenox bands?

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Any of you guys use Lenox bands?

They’re decent, that’s what your mill came with. Not sure what exact one but woodland mills uses Lenox. My uncle used to be a dealer and they had several grades of metal cutting bands but the high end ones were some of the best.

 

[Mastermind]

They’re decent, that’s what your mill came with. Not sure what exact one but woodland mills uses Lenox. My uncle used to be a dealer and they had several grades of metal cutting bands but the high end ones were some of the best.

Local fella tells me that the Lenox blades last longer before breaking than the Woodmizer blades I'm using.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Local fella tells me that the Lenox blades last longer before breaking than the Woodmizer blades I'm using.

Maybe they do I’ve dulled them all before breaking so far.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Local fella tells me that the Lenox blades last longer before breaking than the Woodmizer blades I'm using.

Are you using woodmizer's "double hard" blades?
We used Lenox bands a couple decades ago but no recent experience.
I do seem to remember them being softer....which, I would imagine would make them last longer being a more flexible material.

 

[Sawdust Man]

After my broken finger heals I’m bringing my sawmill to my son’s high school shop class for a demonstration/make lumber for them to make projects with.

Cool

 

[Mastermind]

Are you using woodmizer's "double hard" blades?
We used Lenox bands a couple decades ago but no recent experience.
I do seem to remember them being softer....which, I would imagine would make them last longer being a more flexible material.

I've been using their silver tip blades

 

[Sawdust Man]

I've been using their silver tip blades

I've never run the silvertip, but my brother tells me they are not as good as the double hard.
Do they have hardened teeth? The DH have heat treated teeth.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Sawed up another couple white pine logs today.
3/4" x 12" x 10'

 

[Mastermind]

I've never run the silvertip, but my brother tells me they are not as good as the double hard.
Do they have hardened teeth? The DH have heat treated teeth.

I'm not sure. I broke a couple out of the last 5 I bought. Never sharpened either.

 

[Sawdust Man]

I'm not sure. I broke a couple out of the last 5 I bought. Never sharpened either.

On occasion the screw up the recipe on a batch of blades and you'll have a box that breaks prematurely.
Woodmizer used to replace blades when that happened, but I haven't tried in a few years.
I did get a box a few months back that were braking on me & I need to contact them and gripe to see what they say.

How many hours or board feet are you getting before they break?


I really need to buy or build a grinder..... I've got close to 300 blades here needing sharpened.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

On occasion the screw up the recipe on a batch of blades and you'll have a box that breaks prematurely.
Woodmizer used to replace blades when that happened, but I haven't tried in a few years.
I did get a box a few months back that were braking on me & I need to contact them and gripe to see what they say.

How many hours or board feet are you getting before they break?


I really need to buy or build a grinder..... I've got close to 300 blades here needing sharpened.

View attachment 393934

I’ve been using the double hard also, I like the blades and haven’t broken any yet out of this 10 pack even though I’m running 55 thousandths thick blades. Went thicker because I was getting waves in black spruce before. Only drawback I’ve heard is the double hard blades are brittle in the tooth and the teeth break when you go to set them. Far as holding up they have done well I made over 400 boards out of noticeably dirty wood on 3 blades. All 10-14” diameter logs so lots of cuts through the dirty bark that we only had a broom to clean off.

 

[Mastermind]

On occasion the screw up the recipe on a batch of blades and you'll have a box that breaks prematurely.
Woodmizer used to replace blades when that happened, but I haven't tried in a few years.
I did get a box a few months back that were braking on me & I need to contact them and gripe to see what they say.

How many hours or board feet are you getting before they break?


I really need to buy or build a grinder..... I've got close to 300 blades here needing sharpened.

View attachment 393934

Not many. A couple of logs. I'm thinking that the smaller the mill, the more likely they are to break. The wheel diameter is only 16" on my mill. That's a good bit of flex the blade has to endure.