FGarbrecht
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As I've been learning how to turn pens, I've also been outfitting my basement shop including building a 14" bandsaw. I used the woodgears.ca bandmill plan (https://woodgears.ca/index.html) which also converts into a small horizontal lumber mill if you want. I still need to enclose the blade assembly and motor to make it safer, but just ran my first test cut and was actually a bit surprised at how nicely it cut (even with a cheap HF blade).
The frame is assembled from a zillion interlocking pieces of lumber, and somehow I managed to misread the build plans and I put it all together as its mirror image. I spent a week thinking about how to make it functional as a mirror image, but just couldn't figure it out, so I started over and built it again properly; so now I have a very nice mirror image frame that I guess will be helping to heat my house this winter.
The frame is assembled from a zillion interlocking pieces of lumber, and somehow I managed to misread the build plans and I put it all together as its mirror image. I spent a week thinking about how to make it functional as a mirror image, but just couldn't figure it out, so I started over and built it again properly; so now I have a very nice mirror image frame that I guess will be helping to heat my house this winter.