Band Saw Box A Step By Step Tutorial To Making Your Own Bandsaw

Band Saw Box A Step By Step Tutorial To Making Your Own The most important aspect of making band saw boxes is to maintain the proper order of operations. here’s a brief summary before we dive deeper: 1) cut out overall shape. 2) cut off the back. 3) cut out the drawers. 4) glue the kerfs closed. 5) cut the fronts and backs off of the drawers. Step 4: roughly cut out your template and attach it to the blank with spray adhesive. be sure to leave enough room to sand to your line. at this point you are only cutting the outside of your design. keep in mind the smallest radius you can cut is determined by the size of your bandsaw blade. i used a 3 16 or 1 4" blade for the boxes i've made.

Band Saw Box A Step By Step Tutorial To Making Your Own Bandsaw Set up a resaw fence and cut the back off the box, making it 1 4” thick. use the flexible curve to draw the drawer opening. i make the outside of the flexible curve even with the outside of the box, and then trace the inside edge. radius the inside corners using a washer. for a 3 16” blade a washer with a diameter of 1 1 4” creates an arc. Mark the thickness of the back on the rear of the box, and slice the back from the body of the box. make the back about 1 4″ thick. don’t sand the cut parts. mark out the wall thickness you want to leave behind on the box after the drawer is cut out. again, shoot for about a 1 4″ wall. look for a spot on the box where you can make an. Step 3: cutting out the box. change to a narrow bandsaw blade and adjust your saw. you will set the body of your log on the newly formed flat section and mark out where the core is going to be removed. when marking the core you must ensure that you leave a wall thickness of at least ½” all the way around. Step 4: cut out the drawer. next you can cut out the drawer. you can use whatever shape you want. i drew a few lines on the box using a paint can to make my shape. once you have your line laid out, you can cut out the shape. you will have to cut from the outside of the box to get to your inside line. this is ok.

Band Saw Box A Step By Step Tutorial To Making Your Own Bandsaw Step 3: cutting out the box. change to a narrow bandsaw blade and adjust your saw. you will set the body of your log on the newly formed flat section and mark out where the core is going to be removed. when marking the core you must ensure that you leave a wall thickness of at least ½” all the way around. Step 4: cut out the drawer. next you can cut out the drawer. you can use whatever shape you want. i drew a few lines on the box using a paint can to make my shape. once you have your line laid out, you can cut out the shape. you will have to cut from the outside of the box to get to your inside line. this is ok. Step 7: completing the bandsaw box shell. with the drawer blank and shell back set aside, glue together the entrance cut with a couple of f style clamps. let this sit and dry for a couple of hours. be sure to not remove the template just yet. once the glue dries on the entrance cut you can glue on the back. This makes for a better glue joint when you glue the box back together, long grain to long grain, and will also help make the glue seam more invisible. the chunk that comes out of the interior of the bandsaw box becomes your drawer. 3. make the drawer. set up your resaw fence for a 1 4” cut and cut the front and back off the drawer piece.

Band Saw Box A Step By Step Tutorial To Making Your O Vrog Step 7: completing the bandsaw box shell. with the drawer blank and shell back set aside, glue together the entrance cut with a couple of f style clamps. let this sit and dry for a couple of hours. be sure to not remove the template just yet. once the glue dries on the entrance cut you can glue on the back. This makes for a better glue joint when you glue the box back together, long grain to long grain, and will also help make the glue seam more invisible. the chunk that comes out of the interior of the bandsaw box becomes your drawer. 3. make the drawer. set up your resaw fence for a 1 4” cut and cut the front and back off the drawer piece.