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I go to my best friends tool and die shop, and use his huge metal cutting "Do All" bandsaw. Slick as a whistle, and I've never felt creeped out doing it. I was shaking my head NO while reading about cutting it on a TS. More and more as I grow older I use the TS a lot less for some stuff that when younger I wouldn't have given a second thought to. I find even ripping stock to close to size I use the BS a lot more than I ever did before. If it gets even close to the offcut being small, it goes to the BS. Has to be a wider piece, with just a bit cut off to use the TS. I don't think I think about it, I'm either shaking my head NO, and going to the BS, or not.
But I admit I also do a dry run cut on every new cut on the TS, and think and look to see if any warning bells go off, 60+ years of TS use, still have all 10 fangers, I think I must be doing it right. Unfortunately I know a lot of guys my age, who can officially use the nickname "Stumpy"
But I admit I also do a dry run cut on every new cut on the TS, and think and look to see if any warning bells go off, 60+ years of TS use, still have all 10 fangers, I think I must be doing it right. Unfortunately I know a lot of guys my age, who can officially use the nickname "Stumpy"
