How to cut
1x6 Wood
How to Resaw Wood Without a Bandsaw
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hello friends today we've reached the
long piece of wood without using a
bandsaw
stay tuned I'm Christopher the Midwest
man mountain and I believe that
woodworking and gardening are two of the
best ways to be sustainable creative and
achieve a sense of purpose thank you for
watching I have here a piece of maple
that's about 3/4 of an inch thick and
five inches wide what am I going to do
if I don't have a bandsaw and the
maximum cut depth of my table saw is
three inches well let's go find out to
begin with let's cross cut this board to
a more manageable length in my case I'm
going to do eighteen inches
let's take a closer look at this board
from its maximum height and the maximum
plunge depth of the blade we can see
that the board comes in at five and a
quarter inches and let's see how high
this blade goes the maximum plunge depth
of the blade is just about three inches
now three times two is six so
theoretically I could cut this board in
half doing two swipes however three
inches of material is a lot of wood to
hog out at the end of a board so what
we're going to do instead is make
incremental cuts and the wood passes
through the blade it tends to squeeze in
and itself so when you're restoring on a
table saw it's important to have some
sort of splitter at the end in my case
I'm going to reattach the riving knife
so that as the wood goes through the new
opening is caught between here and I
can't pinch itself causing extra tension
and the possibility for kickback on the
actual saw blade I'm operating today
with a full curved blade so that means
the thickness is one eighth of an inch
the wood is three quarters of an inch
3/4 minus 1/8 is 5/8 that gives me five
waves of material to cut in half 5/8
divided by 2 is 5/16 and that's what I'm
going to set my table saw fence to using
a push thick on the top and my hand to
keep consistent inward pressure on the
bottom of the board I'm going to advance
the board over the blade and increase
the height that steady intervals about
half an inch at a time as it goes across
I'm going to flip the board keeping one
side up against the fence consistently
for each cut
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having made our final passes through the
table saw you can see that we have a
much more manageable portion here to cut
this is just over one inch worth of
material so there are a couple things
that you can do three come to mind if
you're very adventurous you can cut the
rest of the top of your table saw I
cannot do that with the board this stick
because it's too variable you can
already see how the ends are pinching in
I really don't want one of these sides
to fall down and my hand to hit the
blade or me to get kickback from the
board or there to be some sort of
binding that's just too concerning for
me so what I'm going to do next is put
this here in the bikes and I could
either cut this entire thing with a
handsaw or in my case I'm going to use a
reciprocating saw going to make very
quick work of it I'm going to make the
first cut with a handsaw just those
there's something for this play to get a
hold of and then finish the rest of it
mechanically
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and just like that what ah you're done
the thickness of the blade on my
reciprocating saw was very thin it was
just over a sixteenth of an inch so you
can see that right here in particular
there's almost the lip that goes up that
was one inch thick that's fine from here
you can take this you can run it through
a thickness planer you can take a hand
plane to it you can stand it if you're
very adventurous there are a lot of ways
to finish it up and on this side you can
see I made just a little bit of a
mistake by rushing and the solve for my
reciprocating saw cut in just a little
bit a fraction maybe a 64th desiccate
some Finn will take that out this is a
great technique for book matching wood
if you want to make something look very
nice in a box in particular so really is
a great way to get more material from
one piece if you don't need to use 3/4
of an inch and you don't want to use a
thickness player to get rid of you know
half an inch and just give you a bunch
of sauna so what are the techniques do
you use to resell wood not using a band
saw be sure to let us know in the
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