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Hello Shop Talk, I hope you're all doing well today. I have some stabilized mammoth ivory from Raffir that I cut into slabs today (Ugh, the smell! ). When I got into the material, it looked like whatever Raffir uses to stabilize the tusk didn't penetrate all that far. I've purchased pre-cut...

Must be those steady hands from grinding knives. I need to get me a pair of those. :p Man, I’m just counting the days down until I have space for a mill and proper surface grinder. I still need to get my SGA tuned up speaking of that.

Horsewright cuts all his scales on his portaband too. You guys are gonna have to show me how you cut so straight with them, lol. If it comes down to it, I did just pick up a 10 pack of blades. :P

Nah, not really. A few times a year I’ll sell a bit of extra on BladeForums, but mostly I just store it for future use. I give more of it away than anything, lol. I’d be happy to send ya a block the next time I’m cutting it.

I have a feeling that it has something to do with the bandsaw setup (blade alignment on the tire, tension, etc). I've been cutting desert ironwood logs into blocks on a 14" bandsaw with a 3/4", 3TPI Timber Wolf blade with no issue at all. Something that helped when I was on a lower powered saw...

Speaking of miter saws... How do you guys think a 7-1/4", 60 tooth, carbide circular saw would do in a miter saw for cross-cutting Micarta? I have this 4 foot long, 2.75 inch diameter, Westinghouse linen Micarta rod that I'm going to eventually slice up into 1/4" slabs. I was thinking maybe...

I picked up a couple of the 60 tooth carbide circular saw blades. We'll see how it goes. :) At $20 a blade, no biggie if it's a failure, or if the teeth shear quickly.

I’ve heard of people using those 60 tooth Diablo circular saw blades for ripping scales on a table saw. I have a zero clearance insert that just came in, so maybe I’ll grab one of those blades and experiment. :)

I tired the bandsaw on some stabilized maples and it cut through it like butter. Good thing, because the original plan was to use the table saw for all my stabilized wood, lol.

That’s a fair point. I have a portaband and swag table on hand for cutting excess material off of scales, but I wouldn’t trust it for ripping. With the cost of the material, blade cost isn’t much of a factor to be honest. Whatever consistently preserves the most material wins in this...

Yep! For full-sized blocks I normally use my table saw, a Freud thin kerf, 60 tooth saw, and a Grr-ripper pushblock. Super safe and the scales turn out very nice. With that setup, I lose about .1 of material from the kerf and cleanup. I was thinking with the bandsaw I might be able to lower...

I’ll be using it to cut thin scales (like 3/8”) into thinner pieces for slip joints. Right now I can get a couple .15” - .16” scales out of one 3/8” piece. It’s mainly for vintage rag phenolics. Hard to come by, and tend to commande a premium price, so I don’t want any to go to waste.

Hardened 4140.

Hello Shop Talk, I hope you're all having an awesome Sunday! I am in the process of fine tuning my Laguna 1412 and was just curious at to what kind of tolerances you guys are achieving on your bandsaws. I think I've got the saw pretty close to good, and I'm wondering if I should just stop...

Today's score.... Fairly unassuming. Let's see what's underneath! I'm gonna call this a win, lol. I'll have to work around the cracks/checks and saw cuts, but this should turn out wonderful!

Brad Jansen makes a great stiddy for a very, very reasonable price. Here's a peening anvil he made for me recently.

Sorry, I'm a bit late posting. So the big ol' square, black piece that I thought was meh, ended up being my favorite out of the bunch, lol. It looks to be a paper phenolic? I don't think I've seen anything quite like it, but I'm pretty sure I'll be using this bad boy. Not a very good...

Huh... I think you're right. I think it's some sort of rag Bakelite. Weird. I just polished a bit and will get some pics up tomorrow.

Hmmm... I don't think it's rag phenolic. At least it doesn't look at all like any of the rag phenolics I have on hand (I suppose that doesn't mean all that much though). I'll get properly suited up today and cut/grind a little to try to get a better look. If it's Bakelite (or even rag), I...