Using the Band Saw: Techniques for Better Woodworking

by Nick Engler

Book Overview

Using the Band Saw: Techniques for Better Woodworking (Workshop Companion) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875961401
• ISBN13: 9780875961408
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Very Good Information

Nick Engler's book is filled with very good information. I have this and Mark Duginski's Band Saw Handbook (another great reference) and one of the interesting differences is that Engler isn't a proponent of coplanar tracking like Duginski is. I guess this is an arguable point and it's good to read books by two woodworking authorities who have opposing views. Engler is a proponent of changing the speed of your band saw for the type of sawing you're doing and shows you how to build a base with step pulleys and a has a job/blade type/speed chart. He also shows you how to construct a couple of extension tables to support larger work as well as several jigs and accessories to make sawing easier and more accurate. In the back of the book he has a few projects (Noah's Ark, chess set, Queen Anne side table, and nesting boxes) to exercise your band saw skills.