Preparing a Bowl Blank Using a Band Saw

Video Transcript

"In this clip I'm going to talk to you about how to prepare your old blank from a log and using the band saw to do that. Let's assume that you don't have a chain saw to cut your log in half but you do have a band saw and a band saw is a perfect way to do that. You want to make sure that you have a flat surface on at least one end before you begin so that you can run the log through the band saw this way. If you try to do it this way you can see that the log is going to want to rock and if it rocks it could get caught, it could jam in the band saw, and you could be injured so this is a safer way to do it and when I cut, I want to cut right between the center where the pith is. Now in this particular log the pith if you can see it is right about here and it is not quite in the center. It is very rare that the pith will grow right in the center of a tree, we should be so lucky but the reason we want to cut through the pith is because that is where the tree gets its nutrients and this is an area that will crack before any other area so I want to cut right through that."