making your own bandsaw blades for wood

[wally7]

Has anyone experience in buying bandsaw blade coils , making your own length and silver soldering them together with feathering jig?
Did it many moons o/k but is it worth it to save money these days?

 

[Phill05]

Yes I do it, I turned a disk out of ally and put two cuts into it to hold the blade, grind a feather edge on each end when you put the blade into the cuts it hold it at a slight radius braze it grind the edges clean slip out of disk fit to saw, job done never had a joint break.
I can get an image with dims in the morning if it helps.

 

[Bingy man]

Hi and welcome tbh I can’t think this would be a good idea, the specialist blades available today are imo not that expensive for my r p bs 350 . That said if you have the experience and equipment to do this then kudos to you but given the speed that blade goes round I’d not fancy it breaking during use ..

 

[Doug B]

I don’t silver solder though I know a chap who does very successfully, I use a little welder shown here

Soldering broken bandsaw blades

works out so much cheaper buying a coil rather than buying ready made blades

 

[wally7]

Yes I do it, I turned a disk out of ally and put two cuts into it to hold the blade, grind a feather edge on each end when you put the blade into the cuts it hold it at a slight radius braze it grind the edges clean slip out of disk fit to saw, job done never had a joint break.
I can get an image with dims in the morning if it helps.

thanks but I have a plan for one. Just wondering if it was feasible and cheaper, but thanks for reply

 

[Torx]

This Old Tony on YouTube does a good video on Tig welding them.

 

[deema]

Just buy them from Tuffsaws, brilliant product, great price, brilliant service and backup. After all, it’s the blade that the saw is all about.

 

[Richard_C]

Surely it depends on what you do with your Bandsaw, and only you will know that. As a hobbyist, I use a variety of blades and may replace one or two different ones a year, if I bought a coil of one size/ tpi it would last me forever and beyond. No use at all. If I were using the same blade all the time, perhaps resawing, then I suppose the economics of making my own might work. But if you are doing that chances are you are professional so you need to put a value on your time to get your true cost. Have you thought about trying an M42 blade, see if the higher cost vs longer life works for you? As above, Tuffsaws are excellent.