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- old 14″ band saw
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- pile of parts I hope to retrofit into a new and better blade guide.
Got distracted from my guitar a bit. Got the heel block glued on the neck but dreaded cutting it out with a coping saw. I just can’t seem to keep a coping saw on track and I didn’t want to chance it in a 3” thick piece of mahogany.
We had this old Ridgid bandsaw in storage at work, which I asked them to hold on to. We had about 6 of them and got rid of them all. If you read the reviews on these, they are pretty bad. Being free I thought I’d give it a shot. Brought it home to the dungeon, tried tuning it up and realized the bottom blade guide was broken. We had a craftsman saw with a bent frame, so I took the bearing guides off which appear to be much nicer. I was hoping a retrofit would be easy, but not so. But I think I have it figured out. Using the top blade guide, I think I just need to move a shaft and make an aluminum adapter block. At least I hope that will work.
Then back to the guitar…
