I really admire you problem solving process because that is the way we were trained many years ago when i over hauled car engines and transmissions. Identify the problem, create a soution, and test the theory. You break the project into series of smaller projects. I've enjoyed watching and borrowing some of your projects to solve our problems in the shop. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work.
Mathias I have been looking for a method to sharpen my bandsaw blades for ages. As my eyes get older I needed to be able to sharpen up without having to"see" each tooth. Your comment about this jig being accurate convinced me to make it, so I did, or something near to yours anyway. Apart from the initial setting I can now sharpen a blade in 7minutes better than I can free hand . So thankyou for showing and sharing this.
Hey Matt. One of your subscribers here. Sorry your jig wasn't adequate to your needs. But it is 10 times better than the factory made Norwood jig I bought for my hardwood sawmill blades. I think you're a genius brother. I'm gonna make myself one now (sawmill; but a bandsaw blade nonetheless... just a little bigger). I also learned I was positioning my Dremil wrong. Your videos are helpful to me. Thank you young man. Hope the Lord blesses you and your family a whole bunch.
I've been watching how to videos for a long time, and I found this guy... After watching this video I'm convinced... He's got to be the smartest man on earth.
To see the problem solving in the process of making something that doesn't quite workwell enough in comparison to another method, and the reasons why, is very informative and helpful. Thank you : )
It always feels like Christmas when you upload another video! I love the concept and the way you show the successes and failures of each project. Thank you for sharing this experience!
Thanks for this idea and I always appreciate your videos, your honesty and your humbleness. Even when you aren’t particularly pleased with your results , the outcome is still more successful than most people’s attempts!
I so enjoyed the process of building the jig overcoming and tweaking Thanks. I’m a metal worker but I find your procedures are stimulating to my rusty mind
After trying your sharpening technique just last week for the first time, I see this tooth advance system as a helpful addition to the method. I found that if the tooth was bent to the left I'd move the grinding wheel across so I could hit it square on, and same for a tooth bent to the right (and ones in between). This system doesn't allow for that but still pretty cool. The movement of the dremel was about an inch between hitting a left or right bending tooth square on which is quite a bit. A tricky one to automate but worth thinking about next time I am sharpening. Anyway, Thanks!
I was considering building something along those lines, but your experiment made me changed my mind. Thanks for the insight, I'll stick to hand-sharpening too.
No hablo inglés pero usted es lo mejor que he visto en toda mi vida en la carpintería, muy inteligente y hábil para este lindo oficio muchas gracias!!!!!!
I don't own a bandsaw, so this is something I wouldn't built myself...But I love watching videos like this because of the clever thinking process involved into combining essentially pieces of junk into a working jig that solves the problem..Highly entertaining !
Defiantly worth a shot. Having never sharpened a band saw blade I can only imagine the time spent doing so would be annoying. Anything to speed that process up would be worth it!
I'd really like to see a follow-up on that jig, but I understand your point. I would have probably made it different in the first place. Keeping the screw to adjust, but have the dremel spring loaded to drag down on the blade and with a cam-type implement to lift it when pushed further. If that works, automating it would be a breeze afterwards.
watching this years later...I still want to send you a box of my bandsaw blades...to uh...contribute to the science haha. This was huge, thanks Matthias.
Thi is ingenious! I have about 30 used bandsaw blades hanging on a hook in my workshop - waiting for some way to sharpen them. I'll try to make this gadget - I think it'll work for me. too! Great well thought-out idea!
A fully automated bandsaw blade sharpener would be an interesting project, though, I think. A lot of people might benefit from that. The current contraption is very ingenious, good work.
Someone else could take this design and improve on it. It should be fairly easy to automate since you only need to set the timing on two points. Which can be done through simple Electronics.
Jason Svendsen, thinking the same thing, all worked by a hand crank, that can also be easily changed out with an induction motor, geared down. I'm suprised he didn't find his contraption that useful.
Jason Svendsen, That's good thinking! I would imagine that full mechanization would take more precision, he's operating this grinder plunge by hand to make up for the general vagueness of the machine. On the other hand, the advance is pretty definite, the teeth probably have very uniform spacing and the rough kind of mechanism for advance might be adequate, so it would make sense to link them. Also, if there was something simple motorized and speed-controlled that just did the advance and let the sharpening still be "by hand" he might be able to go faster and faster w/o a big investment.
@Matthias Wandel , Facing the contraption, The only way I can imagine this being done automatically is with a 12v DC motor with good torque but not much RPM. Add a wooden wheel to this with a nail. Tie two strong but thin ropes to the nail. Screw two eye-hooks into the side of the thick base. One eye-hook is below the dremel lever, pulling it down when ever the nail is on the east-side(Right). The string loosens during the descent from the east-side(Right) toward the south-side(Down). But during the ascent from south-side to west-side(Left) it tightens the second rope. The second rope pulls on the second lever somehow and this pushes the bandsaw blade forward. Before the rope loosens during the ascent to North-side(Up) before the process repeats. This way, you can adjust the RPM on the 12v DC motor quite easily to get the ideal amount of time on the contact points. I just can't think of how to easily accomplish the second rope idea. Since it needs to be loose while the other is tight, vice versa. Easiest is simply having two DC motors. This would essentially make it automatic. Then it is just a matter of designing adjust ability for different sawblades.
Ingenious build. Maybe in the end not as effective (quick) in use as you expected it to be but nevertheless: it works and for sure it was fun building it. Thanks for sharing. Maybe with some (a lot of?) adaptations it is possible to make the bandsaw blade sharpening jig that way that it is possible to leave the blade at the bandsaw (vertical instead of horizontal now). That'll save in any case time for mounting and unmountaing the blade.
A great example of an engineering process; I have been meaning to do this project... I've completed the concept, I've debugged it so it works, I've overcome the longer term problems. Oh, never mind. It really isn't worth it. Thanks for sharing.
just wooooow👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Absolutely this will help in our sharpen live. hope you get some time to improve this. and can u sir do something for table saw blades. thanks
I know you’re not going any further with the project but I did wonder about linking the advance operation with the up-swing of the dremel arm making it a single touch operation
I love your videos Mathias, I really do. I’m a super-nerd for a lot of things but I can tell you’re on a whole other level. That being said, a brand new WoodSlicer bandsaw blade is like $30, why not just buy it and save all that time? Oh yeah, see previous paragraph. Haha
great innovation. I love how there are so many considerations. I doubt I could ever begin to think of how to come up with this. On the other hand. I think automating it would be a cinch at this point.
The rubber-band makes it! A Variac is a nice touch, too! This is really some "classical technology"! I am always surprised when woodworkers make tools OUT OF wood, which I always expect to be of metal. Overall that seems like a good level of technology for what you're saying is an infrequent but tedious job, it probably paid for itself in a few uses... I'd call it a bargain if it slowed me down a little but made a better job. At the end I thought you were going to talk about dressing the grinding-wheel. Maybe carry the action of the blade advance down to a foot-pedal?
I think you should make your own attempt at a bandsaw stabilizer, it appears to be quite a simple design. But it would give you even more capabilities with your homemade saws 😁
Love all of your vids Mathew. Just one question on this one though. All my band saw blades appear to have alternate bevels on the back of each tooth as per a circular/hand saw, of course it could be my eyes! Anyway if so, this mean the dremel attachment would need to swing both left and right as well, alternate teeth could then be sharpened before altering the angle and sharpening the remainder. Maybe it doesn't make that much difference!
Wait, you can do this quicker by hand? And the quality is just as good? Was not expecting that, but I love this type of problem solving video! You just raised 2 notches in my book Sir: 1) for making something this cool & 2) for being a better sharpener than something this cool 👍
I know you said you won't make something fully automated, but what if you used a crank and something like a camshaft to automate the blade advancement and pushing down on the dremel with a single turn.
I agree. This is the classic almost public service announcement from Mr Wandel: Engage brain, keep money in pocket. Try something out, learn a bit, have some fun, stay practical, stay humble. Love it, thanks again Matthias.
This looks like one of those projects made because it could be worthwhile but making it is certainly more fun than actually sharpening the blades. Ingenious bit of kit though.
Seeing this i get a bit dissapointed, you made this amazing rig and all you needed to do was adding a small engine to the side and 2 cogs with arms to make it push the 2 points automatically! Sarcasm aside i love you channel and i love to see when it take things to the extreme
Matthias you have 100 videos with at least 1 million views! Thanks for being so original.
This man is incredibly skillful, and very generous with his information to help us ordinary mortals. Thanks Matthias, you're a star!
He could easily have it manufactured and retire comfortably.
I really admire you problem solving process because that is the way we were trained many years ago when i over hauled car engines and transmissions. Identify the problem, create a soution, and test the theory. You break the project into series of smaller projects. I've enjoyed watching and borrowing some of your projects to solve our problems in the shop. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work.
Mathias I have been looking for a method to sharpen my bandsaw blades for ages. As my eyes get older I needed to be able to sharpen up without having to"see" each tooth. Your comment about this jig being accurate convinced me to make it, so I did, or something near to yours anyway. Apart from the initial setting I can now sharpen a blade in 7minutes better than I can free hand . So thankyou for showing and sharing this.
Hey Matt. One of your subscribers here. Sorry your jig wasn't adequate to your needs. But it is 10 times better than the factory made Norwood jig I bought for my hardwood sawmill blades. I think you're a genius brother. I'm gonna make myself one now (sawmill; but a bandsaw blade nonetheless... just a little bigger). I also learned I was positioning my Dremil wrong. Your videos are helpful to me. Thank you young man. Hope the Lord blesses you and your family a whole bunch.
I've been watching how to videos for a long time, and I found this guy... After watching this video I'm convinced... He's got to be the smartest man on earth.
I agree with David Stanton - this is exactly why we love what Matthias does. Brutal honesty, complex simplicity and humor.
To see the problem solving in the process of making something that doesn't quite workwell enough in comparison to another method, and the reasons why, is very informative and helpful. Thank you : )
It always feels like Christmas when you upload another video! I love the concept and the way you show the successes and failures of each project. Thank you for sharing this experience!
Matthias is working at a way higher level that most people, that's for sure. The solutions he comes up with always blow my mind.
A nail, a rubberband, a rusty hinge and a dremel. Mix thoroughly with genius and 15 minutes later, voila. Truly inspiring!!!
This is the kind of Matthias video that I love!
Agree...!
True
Yes, coat hangers, rubber bands and rusty hinges!
True, but I haven’t found one I didn’t like yet either
Messy and pointless?
Thanks for this idea and I always appreciate your videos, your honesty and your humbleness. Even when you aren’t particularly pleased with your results , the outcome is still more successful than most people’s attempts!
I so enjoyed the process of building the jig overcoming and tweaking Thanks. I’m a metal worker but I find your procedures are stimulating to my rusty mind
It was fascinating watching how the jig evolved from beginning to end, each little modification adding to the utility. Nice vid.
Matthias is such a genius, it's incredible what he can come up with.
After trying your sharpening technique just last week for the first time, I see this tooth advance system as a helpful addition to the method. I found that if the tooth was bent to the left I'd move the grinding wheel across so I could hit it square on, and same for a tooth bent to the right (and ones in between). This system doesn't allow for that but still pretty cool. The movement of the dremel was about an inch between hitting a left or right bending tooth square on which is quite a bit. A tricky one to automate but worth thinking about next time I am sharpening. Anyway, Thanks!
I was considering building something along those lines, but your experiment made me changed my mind. Thanks for the insight, I'll stick to hand-sharpening too.
I love how you come up with a bunch of simple mechanical solutions and put them together into a good working machine
No hablo inglés pero usted es lo mejor que he visto en toda mi vida en la carpintería, muy inteligente y hábil para este lindo oficio muchas gracias!!!!!!
I didn't expected the sharpening on the saw to be that simple. Nice video!
Truth in advertising! Some youtubers do not show fails! But you do. I thought it was another example of your genius! Thanxz
I don't own a bandsaw, so this is something I wouldn't built myself...But I love watching videos like this because of the clever thinking process involved into combining essentially pieces of junk into a working jig that solves the problem..Highly entertaining !
Your mechanical mind still impresses me. Well done Matthias .
Your a genius! Never fail to amaze. I think you could sell those.
On a brighter note, now you're half way to being a proficient telegraph operator! Cool jig, hate it didn't really work too well.
Mathias, congratulations on a simple yet wonderful idea!
That's quite an engineering!
Very nice job making that jig - and many thanks for teaching us!
I love your videos, I want to be as good as you when I,m older. i learn a lot from your videos
Lol. I love your honesty and ingenuity. Sometimes it's worth just buying a replacement consumable. Excellent effort, and a fun watch.
You are such a clever young man.
Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Defiantly worth a shot. Having never sharpened a band saw blade I can only imagine the time spent doing so would be annoying. Anything to speed that process up would be worth it!
unbelievable patience...you have skills but your patients is at a whole different level. hats off to ya
It's hard to believe you can sharpen it faster without the jig, anyway cool idea and pretty well built on the fly jig. Thanks for the videos.
That is a beautifully creative jig! Sometimes making jigs are more fun than other wood work.
Awesome video! Thanks once again. It might have been worth mentioning that bandsaw blades last pretty good and don't cost much to replace.
You should do the fully automated sharpening jig. Not because you need it, but because WE do.
Great video, thank you!
Matthias you have more patience than "Job." For those of us who do not have your patience, thank you.
This is incredible engineering. Even if it's not the most practical, it's so cool to see how your mind works.
Easily the kludgiest thing I've ever seen you make. Brilliant!
I'd really like to see a follow-up on that jig, but I understand your point. I would have probably made it different in the first place.
Keeping the screw to adjust, but have the dremel spring loaded to drag down on the blade and with a cam-type implement to lift it when pushed further. If that works, automating it would be a breeze afterwards.
Very nice little jig. I appreciate the honest assessment at the end.
watching this years later...I still want to send you a box of my bandsaw blades...to uh...contribute to the science haha. This was huge, thanks Matthias.
Thi is ingenious! I have about 30 used bandsaw blades hanging on a hook in my workshop - waiting for some way to sharpen them. I'll try to make this gadget - I think it'll work for me. too! Great well thought-out idea!
Hallo Matthias......
.....das ist eine sehr gute Maschine,hat mir einen halben Tag gekostet und geht ab wie die Feuerwehr!!!
Danke für das Video!
A fully automated bandsaw blade sharpener would be an interesting project, though, I think. A lot of people might benefit from that.
The current contraption is very ingenious, good work.
Someone else could take this design and improve on it. It should be fairly easy to automate since you only need to set the timing on two points. Which can be done through simple Electronics.
I think Matthias could figure out a mechanical way to automate too. Every time the Dremel raises back up, it advances the blade.
Jason Svendsen, thinking the same thing, all worked by a hand crank, that can also be easily changed out with an induction motor, geared down.
I'm suprised he didn't find his contraption that useful.
Jason Svendsen, That's good thinking! I would imagine that full mechanization would take more precision, he's operating this grinder plunge by hand to make up for the general vagueness of the machine. On the other hand, the advance is pretty definite, the teeth probably have very uniform spacing and the rough kind of mechanism for advance might be adequate, so it would make sense to link them. Also, if there was something simple motorized and speed-controlled that just did the advance and let the sharpening still be "by hand" he might be able to go faster and faster w/o a big investment.
So wonderful Matthias. I always look forward to Friday videos.
I like your idea. I can see it took a few times to get it like you wanted it, and that makes it all the better. Bravo sir, Bravo...
Muy bueno Mathias. Has tenido una idea excelente. Te envío un fuerte abrazo Daniel desde la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Argentina.
Looks like it works good. But should you be grinding the front of the tooth and not the top?
Engineers.. can make enough money to buy a new blade for each cut. Still comes up with an idea how to make contraptions like this.. Awesome build!
Never get of this guys vids,..he's a genius
Even though it didn't work as you hoped, the design was great. Always amazed by how simple a solution you can make to a complex problem ^^
I've watched all of your videos... i think this one might be my favorite!
still an awesome jig, love how you tackled all the problems!!
Paint it green. :-) Matthias is an inventor of our times.
Matthias, you're my main man! You impress me each time!
@Matthias Wandel , Facing the contraption, The only way I can imagine this being done automatically is with a 12v DC motor with good torque but not much RPM. Add a wooden wheel to this with a nail. Tie two strong but thin ropes to the nail. Screw two eye-hooks into the side of the thick base. One eye-hook is below the dremel lever, pulling it down when ever the nail is on the east-side(Right). The string loosens during the descent from the east-side(Right) toward the south-side(Down). But during the ascent from south-side to west-side(Left) it tightens the second rope. The second rope pulls on the second lever somehow and this pushes the bandsaw blade forward. Before the rope loosens during the ascent to North-side(Up) before the process repeats.
This way, you can adjust the RPM on the 12v DC motor quite easily to get the ideal amount of time on the contact points. I just can't think of how to easily accomplish the second rope idea. Since it needs to be loose while the other is tight, vice versa. Easiest is simply having two DC motors.
This would essentially make it automatic. Then it is just a matter of designing adjust ability for different sawblades.
ingenious and entertaining. I love jigs, whether they're time efficient or not.
oh what a satisfying video. Love it so much. Well done grasshopper.
This man is phenomenal in his enginuity!!
Ingenious build. Maybe in the end not as effective (quick) in use as you expected it to be but nevertheless: it works and for sure it was fun building it. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe with some (a lot of?) adaptations it is possible to make the bandsaw blade sharpening jig that way that it is possible to
leave the blade at the bandsaw (vertical instead of horizontal now). That'll save in any case time for mounting and unmountaing the blade.
You did it again Mathias. Love it
YES i was hoping matthias would come out with an updated version for this. awesome. you were the first guy i subbed too, love your work!
A great example of an engineering process; I have been meaning to do this project... I've completed the concept, I've debugged it so it works, I've overcome the longer term problems. Oh, never mind. It really isn't worth it. Thanks for sharing.
Creativity off the charts. Always fun to see what you come up with next.
Real good. Very educative. Regards from Antonio, Goa the state of India
Love the videos you produce. I think I will build this one. Getting too old to hold a Dremel that long.
Allways fun to see your ideas, the first scratch, improvement steps and the final result. Good learningcurve
You have a lot of patients my friend! great video
Wir sind der Meinung: Daß war spitzeee !!!
just wooooow👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Absolutely this will help in our sharpen live. hope you get some time to improve this. and can u sir do something for table saw blades. thanks
I know you’re not going any further with the project but I did wonder about linking the advance operation with the up-swing of the dremel arm making it a single touch operation
Thanks for your videos Matthias. You are always full of good and smart ideas.
I love your videos Mathias, I really do. I’m a super-nerd for a lot of things but I can tell you’re on a whole other level.
That being said, a brand new WoodSlicer bandsaw blade is like $30, why not just buy it and save all that time? Oh yeah, see previous paragraph. Haha
*Matthias (two T’s)
Great innovation Matthias. thanks for posting.
great innovation. I love how there are so many considerations. I doubt I could ever begin to think of how to come up with this. On the other hand. I think automating it would be a cinch at this point.
As always, Matthias in your video has a lot of good ideas!
that feeling when you find out a new Matthias video is up ^^
Matthias Dios le bendiga , me gustan mucho sus videos, le felicito, voy a tratar de hacerlo en mi taller. Un saludo desde Venezuela.
The rubber-band makes it! A Variac is a nice touch, too! This is really some "classical technology"! I am always surprised when woodworkers make tools OUT OF wood, which I always expect to be of metal. Overall that seems like a good level of technology for what you're saying is an infrequent but tedious job, it probably paid for itself in a few uses... I'd call it a bargain if it slowed me down a little but made a better job. At the end I thought you were going to talk about dressing the grinding-wheel. Maybe carry the action of the blade advance down to a foot-pedal?
It is amazing how your mind works!
I think you should make your own attempt at a bandsaw stabilizer, it appears to be quite a simple design. But it would give you even more capabilities with your homemade saws 😁
Hallo Matthias...habe deine Vorrichtung nachgebaut...super Maschine!!
Schärfe alle meine Bandsägeblätter.
Viele Grüsse aus Deutschland
Love this stuff! Great video would love to see more stuff like this.
there are "youtubers", and then there is matthias. GOAT
Love all of your vids Mathew. Just one question on this one though. All my band saw blades appear to have alternate bevels on the back of each tooth as per a circular/hand saw, of course it could be my eyes! Anyway if so, this mean the dremel attachment would need to swing both left and right as well, alternate teeth could then be sharpened before altering the angle and sharpening the remainder. Maybe it doesn't make that much difference!
Wait, you can do this quicker by hand?
And the quality is just as good?
Was not expecting that, but I love this type of problem solving video! You just raised 2 notches in my book Sir:
1) for making something this cool &
2) for being a better sharpener than something this cool 👍
Gracias por compartir sus habilidades. por favor ¿seria posible subtitular los videos en español?
Wow, le pensi tutte, sei unico nello stimolo al FAI DA TE, by ITALIA🇮🇹🇮🇹.. CMQ COMPLIMENTI
I want to see u build an automated one so bad, that I would encourage everybody to send you bandsaw blades so that you don't run out of them :)
I know you said you won't make something fully automated, but what if you used a crank and something like a camshaft to automate the blade advancement and pushing down on the dremel with a single turn.
Could you put the levers on cams and get the timing with gears in order to just have one crank for both processes?
I agree. This is the classic almost public service announcement from Mr Wandel: Engage brain, keep money in pocket. Try something out, learn a bit, have some fun, stay practical, stay humble. Love it, thanks again Matthias.
This looks like one of those projects made because it could be worthwhile but making it is certainly more fun than actually sharpening the blades. Ingenious bit of kit though.
Seeing this i get a bit dissapointed, you made this amazing rig and all you needed to do was adding a small engine to the side and 2 cogs with arms to make it push the 2 points automatically!
Sarcasm aside i love you channel and i love to see when it take things to the extreme
You are such a clever guy.
Funny enough, I thought; Why not make it fully automatic. But you gave the answer at the end of the video.
Who long does it take to get theses from idea to the table top?
On the flyer engineering with scrap, Just got to love it
Dall'Italia. Non capisco i pollici in giù. E' bravissimo in tutto