I'm having trouble resawing on my 14" Grizzly G0555 band saw (no riser block). I messed up some of Todd's (tv) pieces last week, and didn't fare any better slicing some of my own sycamore boards. I'm using a shop made fence (6") tall that I clamp to the stock fence. The blade is a 1/2" woodslicer. Fence and table are square to the blade.
The biggest problem is that the cuts are tapered. Let's say I'm resawing 1" board in half - the top of both halves is 1/2", but the bottom of one board is 3/4" and the other 1/4" (OK, maybe not quite that bad, but the difference is at least 1/8"). The other problem is that the blade seems to wander a bit. I wouldn't call it "drift", since it doesn't seem to be consistent. It's almost as though it oscilates.
I tried resawing using a tall (6") stack of feather boards. That did not work well at all. I tried a single featherboard (at the bottom), that worked better. I've tried feeding the stock at different rates, doesn't seem to make a lot of difference.
Any ideas? I'm pretty sure it's operatore error, the question is - how do I fix it before I run out of lumber? :help:
The biggest problem is that the cuts are tapered. Let's say I'm resawing 1" board in half - the top of both halves is 1/2", but the bottom of one board is 3/4" and the other 1/4" (OK, maybe not quite that bad, but the difference is at least 1/8"). The other problem is that the blade seems to wander a bit. I wouldn't call it "drift", since it doesn't seem to be consistent. It's almost as though it oscilates.
I tried resawing using a tall (6") stack of feather boards. That did not work well at all. I tried a single featherboard (at the bottom), that worked better. I've tried feeding the stock at different rates, doesn't seem to make a lot of difference.
Any ideas? I'm pretty sure it's operatore error, the question is - how do I fix it before I run out of lumber? :help: