Needs to be on wheels, and mounting the motor on a hinged shelf (so that it's weight provides the belt tension) will make for easy speed changes and always the perfect tension on the belt.
A fence is great, however, remember that when cutting on a bandsaw, there is a thing called "drift" that MUST be accounted for to get a straight cut (or at least parallel to the blade). A good way to measure "drift" is to mark a line on a board about 12" long parallel to one of the long edges and then run the board through the saw along the line. In most cases, you will see that the board must be pushed into the blade at an angle (not parallel to the plane of the blade)---this is the so-called "drift" angle and the fence should be secured to the table of the bandsaw at this angle so that when one edge of the board is kept tight to the fence, the blade cuts parallel to that edge. A good way to adjust the fence to this angle is to attach the fence to a miter gauge which is then put in the miter slot in the bandsaw table. If the "drift" angle is determined to be, let's say 4 degrees, then set the miter gauge, and therefore the fence, to 4 degrees and lock it in place. Remember also that "drift" angle will vary with the size (width) of the saw blade (i.e., may be different for an 1/8 inch blade than a 1/4 inch one).
@@garyspodnick8770 A better way is to remove "drift" by setting your blade correctly on the wheels. Aim to have the bottom of the gullet at the apex of the wheel.
I love you and your wife's work ethic. When I watched your first video I knew I would be a fan. When you watch artists at work it is a very soothing and calming feeling. I wish one thing for you and I know how uncomfortable and hot wearing dust masks especially with the amount of dust and other fine particles you are dealing with on a daily basis. Your lungs are very important, I know I have COPD and any exerting at all I lose my breath. I was a welder among other Industries that were very hard on my lungs and in a time where safety was not a priority. Just saying LOL Love watching you at work on all of your videos. Keep them coming.
U are right, I was about writing the same. Eye protection is one thing but don't forget about ur lungs. Only because u can't see it, dies not mean it's not there. And I can tell u, ur new bandsaw is producing a lot of fine dust ;)
Farmer's lathe is such a good name for it tho. Just yesterday i cut a few hairs off a shaft to get it to fit by rolling the shaft under the "farmer's lathe" unto a table. I'm going to start calling it that. :)
petepetro1 I was thinking the same thing. He doesn't have much time left before they start planting again. Hoping he has been working on it but just hasn't edited the footage yet!!
Wonderful project. Jet makes some quality gear and your fixes brought it back to as good as new and made it easier for you to use. I suspect you’ll get another 20 or more years of service from it. I really enjoy your projects. The pace, quality of production and photography are something that brings me back time after time. If that motor dies on you, a variable speed replacement model would allow you the flexibility you want to cut metal without having to grapple with the motor and change pulley spots and reset the motor height.
There's always two things you can depend on with Justin's builds -- overbuilding the hell out of something and respecting the natural look of metal for what it is!
I don't remember how I got on your channel but meanwhile I watched many of your videos over the weekend. I like your video-style, your cool projects and your dog. Very Relaxing!
Great Job, I did notice you don't have a blade guard for the blade exposed next to the arm. You could easily build one from plywood or plastic. When your focus is on the cut you can easily forget that other part of the blade moving just as fast about 14" away.
Great project. In suggestion. Door latches. Kinda looks like the handle is heavier than the latch tine. My guess is that it will vibrate and open the latch...you could probably use a wonderful farmers forge and grab the red hot handle with pliers and flip it around level pointing over the tine. Bet you could figure something better than that. Love to watch you solve problems and build stuff. Thanks for taking time to do the videos so we can come along. Flowers look nice too...also looks like dog has found a new friend.
I'm working on a 1986 Delco Machinery bandsaw that looks to use many of the same parts. This was helpful. Also, the "play" in the upper bearings you noted was actually the upper wheel angle adjustment. There is a knob 90 degrees off the tensioner that increases the angle of the upper wheel so the blade doesn't walk off.
Do you keep the signs you make for the sponsors, or do you send them to each of them? I'd like to think that would each appreciate your custom work. They all look great! Keep up the great work!
I’ve got an old bandsaw that’s been sitting in my garage for years. I need to get her all fixed up! The bandsaw stand you made is amazing! Great video, like always!
A "Farmer's Lathe" and a "Farmer's Press-Break" are my kind of tools. And if Surfshark supports you, I'll support them! That old bandsaw has a lot of miles left in her. (And its always good to see Kelly and our pal Drake too) Good job brother.
Great work! Look forward to all of your videos. Cool cornhole boards, too. Mine are the Italian and Puerto Rican flags. They latch together, have wheels, bag storage and a tape measure mounted on the back.
I never have seen anyone else who always makes something for or around your sponsor and that to me is golden 👌 You always spend so much time in a sign and of a beautiful quality! Thank you for that respect to your sponsors, you are truly one of a kind! And besides your fantastic projects I always have to laugh about your narration, the great kind of humor 😁 And I hope to see the beautiful plants when they start to bloom and which beauty that gives 😊😎
I would recommend making some adjustable height roller stands for supporting larger pieces while cutting. Also make yourself a pusher to keep your fingers away from the blade. Great video, your fabrication skills are improving greatly!
You are an amazing designer and maker! Thank you. I realize you are full on with the farm but I wanted to let you know that today on the BBC news was a piece about a small initiative to create a portable respirator was successful in Wales. Your skills and the cnc table could also be put to use to create parts for some for your area. I have left a comment on the channels of My Mechanics and Tysy Tube here in Europe. Maybe you have heard already but your CNC connections could get all over this. I thoughtful methodical video of making one would be helpful for the whole planet. Stay safe and healthy. Thank you.
I did all that to an old Craftsman table saw from the 30s or 40s with an even older motor adapted to it. Turned out to be the best saw I've ever owned.
It's great to see that you have the ability to be able to restore item's like this! Especially when we live in a time were everything seems to be just sent to the recycling site . So good on you for doing a fantastic job on the restoration, hope you have it for many years to come!
Thanks for sharing the band saw re-birthing, great to see you take an anchor and make a useful tool out of it. About your alternative approach to solving problems pay no attention to the negative gallery comments, I understand what your channel is all about as my wife and her whole family come from the farm. Again thanks for the entertainment and DIY's.
Amazing fabrication. Your creativity with this industrial Stove Pipe Steam Boiler Era is crazy good. And yes, that was a era according to my history investigations and research. Lmao...Nice work man.
I love seeing quality old tools being restored like this. I've got a really small working area and was gifted a 1955 ShopSmith that I'm in the process of restoring. It's sure taking me longer than a day though to restore! It's a quirky tool, but I'm looking forward to having it working again.
Hahaha! You crack me up! My "farmer's lathe" is a drill press and a file. (note: it's not pretty when the Morse taper lets loose and you have a 3 pound steel top dancing around your shop, banging off everything) Excellent restoration!
And seriously, how can people dislike this video? it was really good. Maybe it's a case of fat fingers on a small phone and an accidental miss of the like button?
I am impressed that you use these cup type wire brushed on youir angle grinder. for me these always were destroyed in a minute as the wires get bent to se side to a point where it is unusable. I switched to regular wire wheels and have not ever used a cup type again.
Great job...I am a professional woodworker.....I still use my 14 inch bandsaw every day.....have never found a reason to "upgrade".....enjoy your channel....looking forward to future projects.
For a chip out free cut for wood on the backside. Cut a piece of plywood the same size as your top cut until the blade is in the middle of the piece then clap or screw on to your metal top and thats it no more chip out on the back. Great job on it and great job on the belt guard safety feature.
I bought a similar band-saw. There were so many woodworking tools that were copies of each other. ...Anyway it looks great. Love how the base turned out. I am also glad to see you put the return blade guard back on. I worried you didn't have it when I saw you cutting without it. That could be bad. ....looks like yours may be broken. Would seem to be an easy thing for you to make to fix that. Good video. I like the thought of speed changes. Newer saws have that. I believe mine is one speed like yours was..
I'm a furniture maker by trade and have a lot of experience with band saws, that 14" band saw you have is really a work horse. It would be the first I would get and even getting a bigger one later it would still have a place in the shop. They just are the perfect balance of size/footprint to power to versatility. There are tons of accessories for that size saw available too.
Another great video. Thanks for sharing. That looks just like the king brand band saw I bought second hand a few years ago. They must be all made in the same factory somewhere but with different paint jobs and stickers. Ohh well I guess that makes replacement parts highly accessible.
I just converted an almost identical saw to cut steel. To get into a blade speed that will work for cutting steel you will likely need more speed reduction than you can achieve with step pulleys alone. You can probably find a gear reduction on Craigslist or eBay for cheap. It’s a pretty easy conversion. Nice video!
Nicely done. As for cutting metal, you won't be able to slow the blade speed enough with the pulleys. I have the same saw and several years ago put a VFD on it and with that you can change the speed with the twist of a knob. You'll need a 3 phase 220volt motor.Through the magic of electronics, you still have a line voltage of 120v single phase. I got mine on ebay and it works reasonably well. Good luck on all your projects.
Hey buddy I got a suggestion. If you build a protection shield for the back side of the blade will be more safety work with this beautiful machin. All the best
To me, there is Something so satisfying about seeing an old piece of gear brought back to life.....great job
Laughed out loud at the Farmer's Lathe :D
it's a pleasure to see a pro working metal
Nice refurbishing job. You will be amazed how much you use it now that you rebuilt it and it is available for projects. Thumbs Up!
Very nice refurbishing project. I think you will have many years of usage out of it now. Bravo sir, Bravo. Thumbs Up!
Pretty cool to see you move from your dads shop to now your own shop. Hope I get there soon!
I really enjoyed that you kept the clips of you constantly dropping the objects
I dropped a fork as I was watching those
“Farmer’s lathe, and took 20 thou off...” 😂🤣😂
Came here to call that line out!
I knew when he said it what the top comment was gonna be. Indeed it is
Love the "farmer's lathe" lol!
He got me with that one. I said to myself “oh I guess he’s going to grind it first”.
Beautiful “farm lathe”. The speed and feed was spot on mate!
Needs to be on wheels, and mounting the motor on a hinged shelf (so that it's weight provides the belt tension) will make for easy speed changes and always the perfect tension on the belt.
You should make a fence for it so you can make straight cuts.
Very useful addition for any band saw. And if you have scrap around, it can be a half an hour project. :)
Ja, also a center pin jig for cutting circles
A fence is great, however, remember that when cutting on a bandsaw, there is a thing called "drift" that MUST be accounted for to get a straight cut (or at least parallel to the blade). A good way to measure "drift" is to mark a line on a board about 12" long parallel to one of the long edges and then run the board through the saw along the line. In most cases, you will see that the board must be pushed into the blade at an angle (not parallel to the plane of the blade)---this is the so-called "drift" angle and the fence should be secured to the table of the bandsaw at this angle so that when one edge of the board is kept tight to the fence, the blade cuts parallel to that edge. A good way to adjust the fence to this angle is to attach the fence to a miter gauge which is then put in the miter slot in the bandsaw table. If the "drift" angle is determined to be, let's say 4 degrees, then set the miter gauge, and therefore the fence, to 4 degrees and lock it in place. Remember also that "drift" angle will vary with the size (width) of the saw blade (i.e., may be different for an 1/8 inch blade than a 1/4 inch one).
@@garyspodnick8770 A better way is to remove "drift" by setting your blade correctly on the wheels. Aim to have the bottom of the gullet at the apex of the wheel.
I love you and your wife's work ethic. When I watched your first video I knew I would be a fan.
When you watch artists at work it is a very soothing and calming feeling.
I wish one thing for you and I know how uncomfortable and hot wearing dust masks especially with the amount of dust and other fine particles you are dealing with on a daily basis. Your lungs are very important, I know I have COPD and any exerting at all I lose my breath. I was a welder among other Industries that were very hard on my lungs and in a time where safety was not a priority. Just saying LOL
Love watching you at work on all of your videos. Keep them coming.
U are right, I was about writing the same. Eye protection is one thing but don't forget about ur lungs. Only because u can't see it, dies not mean it's not there. And I can tell u, ur new bandsaw is producing a lot of fine dust ;)
Well, I just found out that I had a farmer's lathe all along.. In fact, five of them :D Great video, as usual! Thanks!
Farmer's lathe is such a good name for it tho. Just yesterday i cut a few hairs off a shaft to get it to fit by rolling the shaft under the "farmer's lathe" unto a table. I'm going to start calling it that. :)
You shouldn't take pride in your vices...
Such an underrated channel...always well done. I'm ready for the van build to pick up again!!
petepetro1
I was thinking the same thing. He doesn't have much time left before they start planting again. Hoping he has been working on it but just hasn't edited the footage yet!!
Those new guides look like carter products. They greatly improved my new bandsaw and are worth the money. Great job with the restoration!
Wonderful project. Jet makes some quality gear and your fixes brought it back to as good as new and made it easier for you to use. I suspect you’ll get another 20 or more years of service from it.
I really enjoy your projects. The pace, quality of production and photography are something that brings me back time after time. If that motor dies on you, a variable speed replacement model would allow you the flexibility you want to cut metal without having to grapple with the motor and change pulley spots and reset the motor height.
I just bought my old bandsaw that has been through 4 owners over the past 12 years or so. I’ve done so many projects with it with my kids.
Nice project! Handheld plasma torch and cutting letters on a bandsaw all in the same video; that’s like my great-grandpa’s farm. Hehe
There's always two things you can depend on with Justin's builds -- overbuilding the hell out of something and respecting the natural look of metal for what it is!
The farmers lathe taking off accurate .0020 " per pass is always useful to have. I have one myself.
Subbed.
"The best bandsaw is the one that you have"
Awesome and useful project with some sweet mods!
I don't remember how I got on your channel but meanwhile I watched many of your videos over the weekend. I like your video-style, your cool projects and your dog. Very Relaxing!
The satisfaction level of this project is off the charts.
Great Job, I did notice you don't have a blade guard for the blade exposed next to the arm. You could easily build one from plywood or plastic. When your focus is on the cut you can easily forget that other part of the blade moving just as fast about 14" away.
YES, YES, YES!!!!!
YES, YES, YES, YOU'RE DAMN TOOTIN, YES I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE YES!
You've got one of the best fab channels on the Tube... Keep up the awesome work
Great project. In suggestion. Door latches. Kinda looks like the handle is heavier than the latch tine. My guess is that it will vibrate and open the latch...you could probably use a wonderful farmers forge and grab the red hot handle with pliers and flip it around level pointing over the tine. Bet you could figure something better than that.
Love to watch you solve problems and build stuff. Thanks for taking time to do the videos so we can come along. Flowers look nice too...also looks like dog has found a new friend.
Whew, for a minute I thought you weren't going to put a cover over the non-cutting side of the blade. Glad to see it in the end of the video.
I'm working on a 1986 Delco Machinery bandsaw that looks to use many of the same parts. This was helpful. Also, the "play" in the upper bearings you noted was actually the upper wheel angle adjustment. There is a knob 90 degrees off the tensioner that increases the angle of the upper wheel so the blade doesn't walk off.
You will find that bandsaw to be one of the most valuable tools in your entire shop what a great restoration great job you’ll really enjoy it
Do you keep the signs you make for the sponsors, or do you send them to each of them? I'd like to think that would each appreciate your custom work. They all look great! Keep up the great work!
I’ve got an old bandsaw that’s been sitting in my garage for years. I need to get her all fixed up! The bandsaw stand you made is amazing! Great video, like always!
farmer’s lathes are great, I’ve been wanting one for a while
Nice restoration!! Love that bandsaw so glad you saved it from the junkyard!!
A "Farmer's Lathe" and a "Farmer's Press-Break" are my kind of tools.
And if Surfshark supports you, I'll support them!
That old bandsaw has a lot of miles left in her.
(And its always good to see Kelly and our pal Drake too)
Good job brother.
I would like to see more videos of the farm work. You sure have talent oozing out everywhere
Your channel is a gift to UA-cam. Thank you for making your videos.
Nice work on the stand. The saw looks like new after the refresh.
That’s not a tool, that’s art! Awesome job!
Great work! Look forward to all of your videos. Cool cornhole boards, too. Mine are the Italian and Puerto Rican flags. They latch together, have wheels, bag storage and a tape measure mounted on the back.
I never have seen anyone else who always makes something for or around your sponsor and that to me is golden 👌 You always spend so much time in a sign and of a beautiful quality! Thank you for that respect to your sponsors, you are truly one of a kind!
And besides your fantastic projects I always have to laugh about your narration, the great kind of humor 😁
And I hope to see the beautiful plants when they start to bloom and which beauty that gives 😊😎
You are an artist young man ! Incredible metal work. peace
Yay! Rainfall videos always makes my day better.
Black looks great! I think I’ll use that next tool I rehab
Good video. I like the voice over. I really like the look of the saw stand.
I would recommend making some adjustable height roller stands for supporting larger pieces while cutting. Also make yourself a pusher to keep your fingers away from the blade. Great video, your fabrication skills are improving greatly!
as with everything you do, nice work! so much talent in one man. good job!
Loved all your videos recently I just had a catch up. Much love from the Uk.
Wow! Anything you touch turns into gold. Greatings from Italy.
You are an amazing designer and maker! Thank you. I realize you are full on with the farm but I wanted to let you know that today on the BBC news was a piece about a small initiative to create a portable respirator was successful in Wales. Your skills and the cnc table could also be put to use to create parts for some for your area. I have left a comment on the channels of My Mechanics and Tysy Tube here in Europe. Maybe you have heard already but your CNC connections could get all over this. I thoughtful methodical video of making one would be helpful for the whole planet. Stay safe and healthy. Thank you.
I did all that to an old Craftsman table saw from the 30s or 40s with an even older motor adapted to it. Turned out to be the best saw I've ever owned.
It's great to see that you have the ability to be able to restore item's like this!
Especially when we live in a time were everything seems to be just sent to the recycling site . So good on you for doing a fantastic job on the restoration, hope you have it for many years to come!
Great rebuild. I think you will find it very useful. I have used both the "farm lathe" and the "farm press brake". Thanks for the video.
Luv your vids mate. Well done. I have watched all off them and now have to wait for the next post. Please don’t keep us waiting to long.
Thanks for sharing the band saw re-birthing, great to see you take an anchor and make a useful tool out of it. About your alternative approach to solving problems pay no attention to the negative gallery comments, I understand what your channel is all about as my wife and her whole family come from the farm. Again thanks for the entertainment and DIY's.
Amazing fabrication. Your creativity with this industrial Stove Pipe Steam Boiler Era is crazy good. And yes, that was a era according to my history investigations and research. Lmao...Nice work man.
Awesome video! I was about to skip through it at first, but enjoyed the full video in the end. Very Relaxing! Thanks!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that drops everything 😁
Great to see you made a new video. Love your videos and projects
Beautiful Work! Great Fabricating!!!
Very nice vid, the old saw turned out nice!! I wish you well. Thanks
I love seeing quality old tools being restored like this. I've got a really small working area and was gifted a 1955 ShopSmith that I'm in the process of restoring. It's sure taking me longer than a day though to restore! It's a quirky tool, but I'm looking forward to having it working again.
I would love to see you make more projects like yard art.
This is actually a really good band saw and what most would absolutely consider "pro equipment".
Hahaha! You crack me up! My "farmer's lathe" is a drill press and a file. (note: it's not pretty when the Morse taper lets loose and you have a 3 pound steel top dancing around your shop, banging off everything) Excellent restoration!
Great project! Always nice to see good old tools put back to use. Thanks for sharing!
Nice job!
An upper blade guard would be a good idea.
Nice resurrection! The stand is outstanding. Would make a great end table or night stand, maybe with a wood top.
Please do more van videos!!!😀they are the best!
Love it. You always make quality videos. I don't think we can get enough of them!!
And seriously, how can people dislike this video? it was really good. Maybe it's a case of fat fingers on a small phone and an accidental miss of the like button?
I am impressed that you use these cup type wire brushed on youir angle grinder. for me these always were destroyed in a minute as the wires get bent to se side to a point where it is unusable.
I switched to regular wire wheels and have not ever used a cup type again.
Great job...I am a professional woodworker.....I still use my 14 inch bandsaw every day.....have never found a reason to "upgrade".....enjoy your channel....looking forward to future projects.
You've gone and convinced me to finish off my bandsaw restoration.
You inspire me to keep going everyday, thank you
What a wonderful restoration. Beautiful job 😍
Love your videos man. Wish you posted more frequent but know you are busy!
The stand is a thing of beauty..
Congratulations with your new (old) bandsaw, it’s looking amazing. Thank you for sharing your amazing story. God bless you and your family.
Fantastic job. You will use the heck out of it.
Great job on the restoration. Like the farm lathe
Great work your welds are getting better love your videos to
Great move on fixing your old band saw love your work shop to
For a chip out free cut for wood on the backside. Cut a piece of plywood the same size as your top cut until the blade is in the middle of the piece then clap or screw on to your metal top and thats it no more chip out on the back. Great job on it and great job on the belt guard safety feature.
Great work, my band saw has lockable wheels on the stand makes it so handy in my shop
I bought a similar band-saw. There were so many woodworking tools that were copies of each other. ...Anyway it looks great. Love how the base turned out. I am also glad to see you put the return blade guard back on. I worried you didn't have it when I saw you cutting without it. That could be bad. ....looks like yours may be broken. Would seem to be an easy thing for you to make to fix that. Good video. I like the thought of speed changes. Newer saws have that. I believe mine is one speed like yours was..
For a first time user your sign turned out great. As good as Dereska
I really like your way of making content out of your ads aswell.. Quite unique to UA-cam.
Nice work! I recommend buying or building a fence. Make it with a track built onto it for maximum modularness.
I have that same bandsaw! It’s a beast. Mine needed new tires also. I bought these blue silicone ones somewhere online. They work great.
I'm a furniture maker by trade and have a lot of experience with band saws, that 14" band saw you have is really a work horse. It would be the first I would get and even getting a bigger one later it would still have a place in the shop. They just are the perfect balance of size/footprint to power to versatility. There are tons of accessories for that size saw available too.
Keep up the good work keep putting out content maybe this will turn into a fulltime gig
Another great video. Thanks for sharing. That looks just like the king brand band saw I bought second hand a few years ago. They must be all made in the same factory somewhere but with different paint jobs and stickers. Ohh well I guess that makes replacement parts highly accessible.
nice job on the stand
Love your videos. Energy is spot on!
I just converted an almost identical saw to cut steel. To get into a blade speed that will work for cutting steel you will likely need more speed reduction than you can achieve with step pulleys alone. You can probably find a gear reduction on Craigslist or eBay for cheap. It’s a pretty easy conversion. Nice video!
Simply gorgeous. 👍🏻👍🏻
Nicely done. As for cutting metal, you won't be able to slow the blade speed enough with the pulleys. I have the same saw and several years ago put a VFD on it and with that you can change the speed with the twist of a knob. You'll need a 3 phase 220volt motor.Through the magic of electronics, you still have a line voltage of 120v single phase. I got mine on ebay and it works reasonably well. Good luck on all your projects.
Hey buddy I got a suggestion. If you build a protection shield for the back side of the blade will be more safety work with this beautiful machin. All the best
Fantastic, done an amazing job as always. Love your videos!
Exceptional skills on display and simply a joy to watch, you have fast become my favourite youtube channel Sir.
I wish you all the very best!
That was a great project! Good job! Looks great!