Ok...I've held on to this long enough. Time to let it go.
I put a new blade on my bandsaw last week, Delta 4 tpi on my Craftsman POC. I was trying to cut some pen blanks and I kept getting black chunks, smoking like crazy...1/8" per second feed rate...it just sucked. Tuesday I was working on my egg and looked over at the bandsaw for whatever reason. Stupid blade was upside down. After a "shoot, darn, dang and rats" moment I reversed it and blah blah blah...cut a 6" ambrosia maple block to round like butter.
OK...let it rip.....
I put a new blade on my bandsaw last week, Delta 4 tpi on my Craftsman POC. I was trying to cut some pen blanks and I kept getting black chunks, smoking like crazy...1/8" per second feed rate...it just sucked. Tuesday I was working on my egg and looked over at the bandsaw for whatever reason. Stupid blade was upside down. After a "shoot, darn, dang and rats" moment I reversed it and blah blah blah...cut a 6" ambrosia maple block to round like butter.
OK...let it rip.....
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