Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
An unhappy day of resawing
Bill Tindall, E.Tn.
I am resawing a 16/4 cherry plank to make some quartered frame stock for a future chest of drawers for my youngest daughter's husband. First I hit the "target" of several .22 bullets. Didn't hurt the blade but the wood was mightily messed up in this area.
Then, a direct hit(s), splitting 3 nails and taking several teeth off the band saw blade. It's toast.
And this was a tree that had grown nowhere near any buildings or other civilization.
Re: An unhappy day of resawing
Barry Irby
Wonderful Accuracy. Imagine how unlucky you have to be to hit several bullets on one stroke and three nails on another. Perfectly driven nails. And who can account for the bullets. I would have to glue up that resaw and build it into something. What a story. Hope it was not a high dollar blade.
Bummmmmmer
Bruce, a MN Galoot
Your unerring accuracy in nailing all of them is remarkable!
If that's your high dollar carbide resaw blade, it might be able to be resurrected. A few years back, an outfit in upstate NY sharpened and replaced a couple teeth on my Lenox Trimaster.
Re: An unhappy day of resawing
Don Stephan
Feel your pain.
what is remarkable....
Bill Tindall, E.Tn.
is that someone put this vertical line of nails so straight with the grain that I split all of them sawing parallel to the grain. And I was so lucky that the original sawing of the 16/4 plank was exactly parallel to this line of nails. And I chose a resaw thickness to line up perfectly with the center of the nails. 
I wish all my woodworking was this accurate.
The blade I use for rough resaw is the same blade that is welded up for Woodmiser saws. I get them welded up at Misenheimer, but likely any saw shop makes Woodmiser blades. Even with my measly 1 HP motor I breeze through stuff up to 12" tall.
Bill, what size saw ....
Barry Irby
are you running that blade on? Isn't it too large for my Delta with a riser block and 16 Inch wheels? (and a 1hp motor.)
Makes sense to me to use a blade from the people that selol WoodMizer Saws.
20" vintage Delta
Re: 20" vintage Delta...Thanks...
Barry Irby
Don't think it would run well on 16" wheels.
maybe
Bill Tindall, E.Tn.
The wheels on a Woodmiser and not large.
You "hit" on someone's target practice?
Re: An unhappy day of resawing
Don Orr
Good shot-looks like you nailed it. 
Impressive
Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey
Someone zeroed his scope's elevation on the "No Hunting" sign and you got'em both.
The very reason I borrow a detector before going at a log from around here.