Anyone see David Mark's 'shop tour' episode of Wood Works? He went through his tools too quickly....
BUT he did show how he tune-up his bandsaw - very interesting. And how to setup a fence to compensate for drift. The short of it – He basically stated that a blade will drift, but for the life of the blade it will drift the same. So once the bandsaw fence is set, it will be set for that blade ‘forever’. How? You draw a line on a 2x4, cut it by hand following the line, see what angle you’re cutting at and copy that angle (using a sliding bevel guage) back to your bandsaw fence. Then you can use that fence for cutting veneer slices off of whatever you’re cutting. (He proceeded to do a 3/16” veneer cut off a 12” wide board. Very impressive! And a nice cut!)
So my question – I’ve never heard this technique talked about before in discussions on drift. (Maybe I just didn’t read the right discussions before.) Even articles on wood magazines don't talk about doing this. Has anyone else tried it? Or setup their saw the same?? If so how does it work? The pros like Mr. Marks always make it look easy – how easy is it for amateurs like me.
Thanks,
Perry