onocoffee
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I tend to get into trouble mainly because I go ahead with not a lot of knowledge and plow through it until something happens.
Yesterday, I thought that I would make a couple of mallets. One of white oak and the other of Black Locust from a branch that I cut off the tree that fell in my yard earlier this summer. I got the idea from a Japanese woodworkers' video I saw on YouTube. He was more masterful with a chainsaw and a hatchet, I had my old 1934 Delta 14" bandsaw. I scored a line around the center and started cutting away the handle with a Carter Green Wood 3TPI blade. Overall, it went well. I would cut a slice off along the length of the handle and then, if the center line wasn't deep enough, cut the slice from the piece. During one of those crosscuts, I jammed up the piece and stopped the saw.
After shutting off the saw and dislodging the workpiece, I went back at it. The saw was making a decidedly different sound and I could see a wobble in the blade and I'm thinking that I kinked the blade. I've got a video below showing the situation. Can this be rectified? Is it a matter of tightening and increasing tension? Later, as I was cleaning thing up, I checked the motor belt (one of those adjustable multi-link belts) and it seems a little loose compared to when I restored the saw. Could the jam have loosened the belt and is causing this issue?
I don't know enough about bandsaws to accurately diagnose the issue which is why I'm asking here. Or is it just a simple matter that I have kinked the blade and the only course of action is replacement?
Thanks!
These are the mallets so you can see the size of the Black Locust.
Yesterday, I thought that I would make a couple of mallets. One of white oak and the other of Black Locust from a branch that I cut off the tree that fell in my yard earlier this summer. I got the idea from a Japanese woodworkers' video I saw on YouTube. He was more masterful with a chainsaw and a hatchet, I had my old 1934 Delta 14" bandsaw. I scored a line around the center and started cutting away the handle with a Carter Green Wood 3TPI blade. Overall, it went well. I would cut a slice off along the length of the handle and then, if the center line wasn't deep enough, cut the slice from the piece. During one of those crosscuts, I jammed up the piece and stopped the saw.
After shutting off the saw and dislodging the workpiece, I went back at it. The saw was making a decidedly different sound and I could see a wobble in the blade and I'm thinking that I kinked the blade. I've got a video below showing the situation. Can this be rectified? Is it a matter of tightening and increasing tension? Later, as I was cleaning thing up, I checked the motor belt (one of those adjustable multi-link belts) and it seems a little loose compared to when I restored the saw. Could the jam have loosened the belt and is causing this issue?
I don't know enough about bandsaws to accurately diagnose the issue which is why I'm asking here. Or is it just a simple matter that I have kinked the blade and the only course of action is replacement?
Thanks!
These are the mallets so you can see the size of the Black Locust.