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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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 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 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 !
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.
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!
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.
The auto-generated CC... at 2:28-2:33 it helpfully captioned that you've got the non-adjustable speed Dremel plugged into a "very ass". That was good for a laugh!
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!
@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.
Only time I've known Matthias to do anything simply because of artistic concerns was when he carved the name onto an urn instead of burning it in with a solder iron. Which he said he only did because he thinks burning in looks bad. Every other project has been decided purely on function
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.
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.
Honest question: is the time spent sharpening worth it? I feel like for all that effort I could just buy a replacement. Not trolling, I promise. Nothing but love for you, Matthias. Your works are an inspiration!
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?
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?
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.
Matthias you have 100 videos with at least 1 million views! Thanks for being so original.
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.
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!
I agree with David Stanton - this is exactly why we love what Matthias does. Brutal honesty, complex simplicity and humor.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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
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 love how you come up with a bunch of simple mechanical solutions and put them together into a good working machine
I love your videos, I want to be as good as you when I,m older. i learn a lot from your videos
A nail, a rubberband, a rusty hinge and a dremel. Mix thoroughly with genius and 15 minutes later, voila. Truly inspiring!!!
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 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.
Truth in advertising! Some youtubers do not show fails! But you do. I thought it was another example of your genius! Thanxz
I didn't expected the sharpening on the saw to be that simple. Nice video!
Your mechanical mind still impresses me. Well done Matthias .
unbelievable patience...you have skills but your patients is at a whole different level. hats off to ya
That's quite an engineering!
Very nice job making that jig - and many thanks for teaching us!
Mathias, congratulations on a simple yet wonderful idea!
Your a genius! Never fail to amaze. I think you could sell those.
Never get of this guys vids,..he's a genius
That is a beautifully creative jig! Sometimes making jigs are more fun than other wood work.
Lol. I love your honesty and ingenuity. Sometimes it's worth just buying a replacement consumable. Excellent effort, and a fun watch.
Very nice little jig. I appreciate the honest assessment at the end.
You are such a clever young man.
Thanks for sharing your expertise.
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.
This man is phenomenal in his enginuity!!
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 !
Easily the kludgiest thing I've ever seen you make. Brilliant!
This is incredible engineering. Even if it's not the most practical, it's so cool to see how your mind works.
Matthias, you're my main man! You impress me each time!
Matthias you have more patience than "Job." For those of us who do not have your patience, thank you.
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!
You should do the fully automated sharpening jig. Not because you need it, but because WE do.
Great video, thank you!
still an awesome jig, love how you tackled all the problems!!
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.
Awesome video! Thanks once again. It might have been worth mentioning that bandsaw blades last pretty good and don't cost much to replace.
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.
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!
As always, Matthias in your video has a lot of good ideas!
I've watched all of your videos... i think this one might be my favorite!
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...
oh what a satisfying video. Love it so much. Well done grasshopper.
3:10
"What is he doing?"
"He's beginning to believe"
Creativity off the charts. Always fun to see what you come up with next.
You have a lot of patients my friend! great video
You did it again Mathias. Love it
Paint it green. :-) Matthias is an inventor of our times.
Hallo Matthias......
.....das ist eine sehr gute Maschine,hat mir einen halben Tag gekostet und geht ab wie die Feuerwehr!!!
Danke für das Video!
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.
Wir sind der Meinung: Daß war spitzeee !!!
This video was awsome! Love the builds for super specialized stuff! Keep it up man! 👍🏻
The auto-generated CC... at 2:28-2:33 it helpfully captioned that you've got the non-adjustable speed Dremel plugged into a "very ass". That was good for a laugh!
ingenious and entertaining. I love jigs, whether they're time efficient or not.
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!
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!
Wow, le pensi tutte, sei unico nello stimolo al FAI DA TE, by ITALIA🇮🇹🇮🇹.. CMQ COMPLIMENTI
Real good. Very educative. Regards from Antonio, Goa the state of India
So wonderful Matthias. I always look forward to Friday videos.
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 ^^
@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.
Matthias is great even when he misses!
Muy bueno Mathias. Has tenido una idea excelente. Te envío un fuerte abrazo Daniel desde la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Argentina.
Thanks for your videos Matthias. You are always full of good and smart ideas.
I really enjoy videos on these types of projects, thanks!
That’s a pretty cool idea. Did you use the rusty hinge for artistic value? 😛
You have to know one thing about Matthias: When he _can_ use garbage without compromising on functionality, he _will_ use garbage.
I doubt it, Matthias is most certainly a function over form kind of guy.
Only time I've known Matthias to do anything simply because of artistic concerns was when he carved the name onto an urn instead of burning it in with a solder iron. Which he said he only did because he thinks burning in looks bad. Every other project has been decided purely on function
Well, and green paint!
Last night, I threw a pile of rusty hinges in the scrap metal box. "I'm never going to use these," said I.
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.
Allways fun to see your ideas, the first scratch, improvement steps and the final result. Good learningcurve
Looks like it works good. But should you be grinding the front of the tooth and not the top?
On the flyer engineering with scrap, Just got to love it
that feeling when you find out a new Matthias video is up ^^
Great innovation Matthias. thanks for posting.
there are "youtubers", and then there is matthias. GOAT
Genius work, Matthias!
Dall'Italia. Non capisco i pollici in giù. E' bravissimo in tutto
It is amazing how your mind works!
Love this stuff! Great video would love to see more stuff like this.
One word: genius! Thanks for it
Спасибо За прекрасное приспособление!!!,Очень помогло в заточки!!!!
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.
Во голова, это же надо столько приблуд придумать!!! Класс!!!
Сергей Дубогрызов я на него уже более двух лет подписан , не перестает удивлять
You are brilliant Matthias!
That title immediately makes me think of the Twin Peaks intro ;)
In spite of everything, a fully automated bandsaw blade sharpener would be very cool, no question !
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.
Matthias Wandel.
Inventor, GENIUS.
Matthias Dios le bendiga , me gustan mucho sus videos, le felicito, voy a tratar de hacerlo en mi taller. Un saludo desde Venezuela.
Agree with Mr. Stanton...great because it's simple and ingenious...
Matthias, you are priceless..
Honest question: is the time spent sharpening worth it? I feel like for all that effort I could just buy a replacement.
Not trolling, I promise. Nothing but love for you, Matthias. Your works are an inspiration!
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?
Dude, you're a genius...