Tuffsaw bandsaw blades a bit long.

[Random Orbital Bob]

Nice one Glynne. Like the bit about your Missus's tape measure :=)

I would send the blade back to Ian. When he sent you that response that was completely and utterly honest ie even he makes mistakes....that is exactly why you can trust him every single time. Send it...he'll check it and if its wrong he'll fix it. Then we all know what's going on one way or another. It wont make a jot of difference to his business in any negative way, in fact I'll wager it more likely people warm to him even more because he's such a decent bloke. I had one of his blades break once at the weld and he replaced it without a quibble. He understands that successful businesses need customers to place repeat orders as well as attract new ones. Those customers will always place repeat orders when the product is good and if something goes wrong he fixes it. Which he does, without fail.

I remember many years ago a famous American Ivy league business consultant called Tom Peters wrote several books about re-engineering businesses. He would have loved Tuff Saws because he does everything right. Great product, great price, great after sale care.

 

[Baldhead]

Nice one Glynne. Like the bit about your Missus's tape measure :=)

I would send the blade back to Ian. When he sent you that response that was completely and utterly honest ie even he makes mistakes....that is exactly why you can trust him every single time. Send it...he'll check it and if its wrong he'll fix it. Then we all know what's going on one way or another. It wont make a jot of difference to his business in any negative way, in fact I'll wager it more likely people warm to him even more because he's such a decent bloke. I had one of his blades break once at the weld and he replaced it without a quibble. He understands that successful businesses need customers to place repeat orders as well as attract new ones. Those customers will always place repeat orders when the product is good and if something goes wrong he fixes it. Which he does, without fail.

I remember many years ago a famous American Ivy league business consultant called Tom Peters wrote several books about re-engineering businesses. He would have loved Tuff Saws because he does everything right. Great product, great price, great after sale care.

Totally agree with everything you have said about Ian, he is a VERY decent bloke, unfortunately what he did for me some time ago I can't tell anyone, he asked me not to!!!
He supplies great blades, at a fair price (I would actually pay more!) and gives advice freely, I have asked him what sort of blade I need and he has on occasion actually sold me a cheaper blade than I was going to buy.

Baldhead

 

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He supplies great blades, at a fair price (I would actually pay more!) and gives advice freely, I have asked him what sort of blade I need and he has on occasion actually sold me a cheaper blade than I was going to buy.

Baldhead

done that with me too - and the damn thing worked fine too!

clearly a new fangled business model that will never catch on (homer)

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

I think its a little sad that Ian, by being a really decent and honest bloke sticks out like a sore thumb! A jewel amongst charlatans and rip off merchants with just your wallet in mind. Good for him but a sad indictment on the general state of business.

 

[Ring]

Cant fault Ian or his service his blades are second to none very knowledable in his field and tbh would not look elsewhere an honest down to earth guy that puts other businesses to shame.
Jim

 

[WellsWood]

Well, with all this discussion about tension meters and bandsaws, It's clearly time to point out an old post of mine regarding this very subject. Might help somebody out - and now so old is unlikely to show up on anyone's radar.

It only remains for me to say I can't echo loudly enough Steve's comment about NOT DISTURBING THE LOWER WHEEL ADJUSTMENT BOLTS. Been there, done that, as they say - took an absolute age to get the damn things right again - never again!

 

[Glynne]

Just as a footnote to my earlier posts, I've decided not to send the blade back to Ian as I have used it quite a lot and whilst he is more than happy to shorten it for me, I think I would be taking liberties. I've ordered a Fastcut one so hopefully I can get the right amount of tension on this one.
In changing blades, I have again pre-adjusted the top wheel to the likely tension before releasing the quick lever and fitting the blade. Don't ask me why but it does make a difference on my saw?
Glynne

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Thanks for the update Glynne

 

[DennisCA]

On band saw tensioning:
https://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/tension.html

May be of use. I've been looking around the net to see if one should de-tension or not and came across this and loads of other thread and opinions, hard to separate the chaff from the wheat but from what I've understood it doesn't seem to be needed, unless you've managed to tension your blade beyond it's limit, which is quite high as the above link shows.