“HOOOOO WHEEEE!”
That’s a big piece of equipment! That has good written all over it!
Scroll saw looks pretty darned spiffy too, tilt table?
“HOOOOO WHEEEE!”
That’s a big piece of equipment! That has good written all over it!
Scroll saw looks pretty darned spiffy too, tilt table?
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
20 years ago when I was a student in the Sculpture dept at the Atlanta College of Art, the College's wood shop had an enormous Oliver Bandsaw, I can't give any exact specs on it, but it was big and green and the flywheels had to be somewhere between 20" and 30" and it had a tabletop that was as big as (or bigger than) any table saw top. Had to be 9 feet tall! ... I always threatened I was going to take it home as it was an "Oliver" so it had my name all over it.
aka: Spencer
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"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
I recently finished my two mandolin builds so I'm about to jump back into the Walker Turner Bandsaw Restoration. I wanted to get some work out of it pre-refinish, so I could make sure everything was running smoothly. Thanks to some setup advice from James Condino, it's running beautifully. It's by a mile the nicest tool I've ever owned. I hope to have some progress pics up in the next couple of weeks.
Also, I just pulled the trigger on a 1940's Walker Turner table saw that will need restoring. It's not the cool art deco table saw from 1939 that I've been drooling over, but I'm still pretty excited about having it in the shop.
Matt Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztTl1mas94
You won't think that four foot 1939 unisaw is so cool the first time you drag it across the shop floor and one of the fragile "feet" break. There is a reason they switched to the solid plinth in 1940. I much prefer my 1945 with the louvered door...'purchased for $250 six blocks from my house...!
That old yellow Walker Turner lathe I used to own was up on craigslist this week...
This whole tool thread is so much fun! You guys are deeply afflicted with TAS (Tool Acquisition Syndrome)!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
I looked for a Delta unisaw for a long time, and nothing would ever come up in my area. I'm still going to get one at some point.
I saw your write-up about that yellow lathe over at OWWM. That thing is seriously cool. Is it around Asheville still?
The guy I'm getting the table saw from says he also has a 6" jointer with a cast iron Art Deco base--the only two I know of are a Delta and a Walker Turner. If it's the Delta, I want it. If it's the Walker Turner, I think I have to have it. I'm still waiting on him to send me pics, though.
Matt Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztTl1mas94
Matt Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztTl1mas94
I've bought and sold at least 3 Unisaws, swapped parts between them and kept the best (though decidedly not the best looking!) parts to put together into my own saw. 50s base and table with cast iron base, newer 3hp motor, that sort of thing. The power went out while I was right in the middle of a rip cut a week or so ago, I was in the dark shop holding onto a board with the saw winding down, the power came back on and the newer magnetic starter kept the saw turned off so it didn't start back up and throw a board at me. Sometimes new stuff is OK!
John Hamlett
www.hamlettinstruments.com
I swung over to Shreveport tonight to pick up the old Walker Turner table saw. It’s a model 1180B, but I’m not sure which year (somewhere in the 40s, I think). It needs a lot of work, but I’m very excited about restoring it. The tilt and lift moves freely.
I’ll need to track down a motor, if anyone has advice. I’ll need to track down some table top extensions too. Has anyone made their own?
Matt Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztTl1mas94
I have a cast iron Delta table top extension that I just removed yesterday. It should work; maybe drill a hole or two to mod it. I was using it to couple my 1946 Unisaw to my 2017 Sawstop. You can have it (and the whole Delta table top; 'gotta newer one with t-slots...) for a single PBR while we laugh and play a few tunes....
Heck yeah! I could use a little trip out to Asheville. And I’ll bring a whole case of PBR if you’ll show me the giant bandsaw.
Matt Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztTl1mas94
The Walker Turner table saw is coming along. I've still got to track down a motor and a fence system and have a machinist work a little magic on the tilt assembly, but everything else has cleaned up nicely. The most fun I've had so far has been restoring the badges. I hope to have some pics up soon of the replica Walker Turner logo badge I'm making from scratch using a saltwater/electricity etch.
Matt Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztTl1mas94
This seems like old home week. When I was an apprentice we had a mixture of old and new machinery in the shop, along with the staff. Pre-war Crescent bandsaw, Walker Turner table saw, Northfield sliding-table table saw, square head American molding machines, Greenlee tenoners and Yates 36” bandsaw among the old.
In my home shop I had a 12” Crescent jointer, which I sold to Bridge City Tools about 1980. (They used it for years). When I started turning I bought and have a prewar 11” Delta lathe and a 24” C. O. Porter wood lathe, currently configured for 8’ length, cut down from 12’. Biggest thing I turned were staved columns 16” x 8’.
Can’t beat heavy, smooth running equipment.
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I don't think it violates forum guidelines (though I guess I'll find out) to say that we don't know whose customs turned them back. My bet would be the Canadians, though it could have been ICE. Not that I have anything against Canadians or their customs enforcement. But ever since the US Government started treating them like a foreign country--rather than members of the North American family--they seem to have been on a vendetta. Not unjustified, by any means, but clearly one bit of stupidity in international relations beget other bits and then bigger and bigger tits for tats.
Our government has not been immune to this stupid junior-high level crap, and it's not just the current regieme. Back in the late 60's/early 70s, the world famous Canadian writer Farley Mowat wrote that when B52s flew over his property as part of SAC, he would rush outside and shoot at them with his pellet gun as a protest. He was thereafter denied entry into the US.
belbein
The bad news is that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. The good news is that what kills us makes it no longer our problem
From what I've seen working on old Gibson mandolins, they apparently had some sort of bandsaw or scroll saw that utilized round profile blades of files. There is distinct evidence that suggests they even had some sort of template that was used during the cut, similar to how we might use a roller tipped pattern router blade today
Some of the clues are the curved bottom of bridges with distinct marks, the peghead cut itself that ends in a round profile dead end on the curl, the body scroll, same round profile in the center. Neck dove tails, same round profile
Any facts or fictionalisms?
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
www.f5journal.com
Did you know Craig McClure who ran that shop? He bought us a very similar Oliver with 36" wheels when he was running the College of Architecture shop at GT when I was a student. Craig had a lot of cool tools, a Morgan roadster, a lot of cool Leica cameras, and a bunch of cool guitars, tenor guitars, banjos, and mandolins as well!
Matt Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztTl1mas94
Matt Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztTl1mas94
Private message sent about the blade cover.
The band saw is nice, but your mandocello video is fantastic! Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many people try to overplay the instrument but your approach is refreshingly understated! It made me want to clear everything off my workbench and start making one for myself....
j.
I ran across this on Facebook market place and decided to post it here- a big old bandsaw, in pretty sad shape but probably a candidate for restoration, for $300. If I were younger, I'd probably be all over it. I hope the Facebook link works.
If you are in the Southeast (Jax, FL) and ever lusted after such a thing, here's your chance.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...9193418023814/
In the event that you don't have a Facebook account here are some pictures. Rough shape. It's been rained on but it's big.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Same here. If I was younger, it was closer, and I didn't already have one that is very similar I'd jump on that bandsaw!
Needs a lot of cleaning and work, perhaps replacement parts, but could be made into a wonderful machine.
John Hamlett
www.hamlettinstruments.com
All I can say is “Daaaang!” Younger, closer, and shop space, you bet!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Depends if you want to work on machines or with machines.
I’m very happy the ‘work on machines’ phase has passed for me. And less tired
Not all the clams are at the beach
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I like the see-through blade guard!
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