Why doesn't every band saw have a slide table | Woodworking
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I have seen dedicated slide tables on band saws in the manufacturing world and have wondered why they haven't made they way to the garage woodworkers shop. Honestly this might be the best upgrade to a band saw i have ever done. there will be more upgrades and how to videos to come with bandsaw slide table
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Put this at the top of the list of 'Things I never knew I needed but now I must have'. This is amazing.
Actually this is perhaps the most exciting video I’ve seen from you. I can visualize having something like this in my shop and some of the things it could do. The idea is outstanding.
Beautiful. I use my bandsaw for as much as possible. Blades last longer due to more teeth, hardly ever need to be cleaned. Its a safer tool than the table saw and a good bandsaw with a good blade can cut things just as fast.
I do as much of my lumber milling on the bandsaw as i can then run it through the helical head planer on the side.
I've been thinking of putting a sliding table on my table saw and bandsaw for a while. Thanks for the video!
Please, please, please do a follow up build on this!! We all want it!!
Absolutely brilliant - a video series in itself starting with how to build a sliding table for bandsaws that don't have them available as an accessory. Your design thinking is amazing, I can almost hear the cogs grinding. BB
Upgrade of the century. 👌
Genius idea, and stellar design, mate. 👍
Thank you so much bill I am really enjoying this I see this being very handy addition to the
Want plans for that. I know all band saws are different but plans can be customized. WOW out of the park Izzy and that would solve my no joiner problem any longer and save me a tone of space in my tiny shop.
working on design that everyone can build
@@izzyswan Thank you brother. Drop me a line when they are up. Building that for sure.
This is awesome. Top of my list. A jig for sawing firewood into usable boards is what I need it for and many other uses.
Dude!!! Watching you cut with that bandsaw.. pure art
That is insanely cool! Why don't more band saws come with sliding tables?! Now I need one!
Yeah they're really handy for a lot of applications
I was just thinking this and after finding the video figured “Izzy Swan would be the man to do it”. Thank you!!
Yes we’re waiting
Well that is super badass! My much smaller bandsaw wouldn't be quite as amazing with such a setup, but I can still see huge benefits.
Thanks Izzy, your innovations, especially this one, are the reason I love to watch your channel. Why would you think this isn’t one of your more exciting videos? THIS IS AWESOME! Thank you for all you do!
Thinking on the fly and building, awesome job Izzy! Not at all boring and never think that!
Absolutely brilliant! Now I'm kicking myself for selling my SawStop sliding table.
Sounds like a lame thing to do. What where you thinking. LOL
I've been a cabinet maker woodworking hobbyist amung many other things, & thought I had a pretty good imagination. But watching you work & seeing your imagination work is a whole new level.....👍🤔👍
Great build Izzy. Really cool idea, haven’t ever seen or even heard of something like that before.
Sliding bandsaw table = mind blown 🤯. This is awesome.
now i need to figure out how to make the slide table because I need this now.
This one left me speechless due to all the possibilities that just popped open. Thanks Izzy!
Really glad that you like that thanks for watching Thomas
Its always fun to see how you take a tool and make it do more. It seems like this just makes many of those operations not only easier but safer. I’m calling it the Izzy factor!! Sweet.
I tried the same to my band saw then got so excited with its functionailty that I tried it with my Scroll Saw... Turned out brilliant for 1/4 inch and smaller thickness and almost works as a CNC machine when i sttach a stylus and template guide.
I want to hear more about this!
WOW - that is awesome! HOWEVER - I would love to see you do this with some sort of "commodity" slide system rather than something that starts with a $1200.00 slide unit. A couple hundred bucks at most - us hobbyists can't drop much more than that......
I got a 100 dollar MLT 100 slide table from ebay. I attached it to my Makita bandsaw using t-profile and a small wood packing piece. Works great.
Have to agree this is one of the best upgrades ever. (and I have seen so many upgrades ..and I do make so much use of my bandsaw already)
Did you ever build the final version?
It is a lot of fun to see you get excited about something like this. I was about to comment that I don't have room in my one car garage to add a lot of bulk to my bandsaw and then you said I could get rid of my cheap, lousy floor hogging jointer (brand will go unnamed). Hmmm.... have to rethink the idea. Darn you! Somehow I know that means more money invested in my shop - somebody help me with my addiction to wanting to have everything Izzy has!
if you have a router table, make a spit fence for it and you will still be able to joint!
I've looked through a lot of the comments and replies and haven't seen much about the sliding mechanism. I'm useing a Gil-bilt kit as the basis of an 18" bandsaw for myself. The reason I think I need a saw that big, that heavy and that powerful is that I want to be able to slab, riff and quarter saw.
You're a master of design and build, like a lot of others I respect and admire your work. When you can please let me know about the sliding mechanism.
Thanks in advance.
I believe that he used a Sawstop sliding table Aka Harvey sliding table. I say this as Sawstop's sliding table looks like a cheaper vesion of the Harvey sliding table and both have the same layout and use the same hold downs Bolt patern. Also known as the Excaliber before That company was bought out. Which pop up some times on craigslist.
Ok....drop everything else and get this project video done! LOL....great video and looking forward to seeing the build.
Very nice project Izzy. Down here in mid-Michigan I built a big steel slider table for my bandsaw 2 years ago. Made 100+ 5-6 ft long square billets out of “firewood “. All 5 to 9” square. Used billets to jack up my sagging old 100+ yr old barn. It was spectacularly useful. As it happens, I Just took the sled apart last night - time to repurpose... and here you go with this beauty. Aluminum slider base with ply top is MUCH better for small stuff - I’m definitely going to rebuild something similar for my new shop (located in my newly leveled sweet old barn). Thanks so much for sharing your work and ideas...
This is a must have now, need to find a slide table in the EU to stick on my bandsaw asap! Great project and upgrade!
Just upgraded to a Laguna 14/12 now I need to build a fashion of this without the use of the saw stop slide. should be a fun adventure, as always thanks for the motivation. Hope your back is doing well
I just saw this highly needed video for my application... Thank you for the ray of light you just showed to me. I think it is a wonderful idea. Thank you again. Have a great week ahead.
Izzy, I’m with you on this one. When you asked why more bandsaws don’t have a sliding table I immediately realized that I don’t have to buy a Jointer and if I make the sliding table long, with enough support, I can even rip long logs as well as cut 14” thick logs. I’m soooo, excited.
Izzy... your amazing!
QUESTION: What are you using for the sliding table in this demo?
It was the slide table off my saw stop it was just an easy accessible slide table I'm already designing one that we can build ourselves
Keep us posted on that.
@@izzyswan Great idea Izzy. Still waiting for sliding table. :) Some of the ideas can be taken from diy cnc guys.
Crazy cool. IZZY is the woodworking mad scientist
Woah. Yessss!! When you said "a chunk of firewood", I got all kinds of excited. I've found some AMAZING gems in firewood! I put scales and handles on knife blanks, and this is all I would need.
Thank. You.
And yes, agreed on the jointer. Been using them since '82. Scared me then, scare me now. I could tell you a few horror stories about low IQ's and missing digits... ugh. They learned respect too late.
Great vid, two big enthusiastic thumbs up!
thank you Izzy
Wow. Just wow
WOW Izzy that's the best idea I've ever seen! You have just saved me from buying a jointer!
Izzy, you mentioned problems with longer stock. When you design your slide, you could design it so that the longer workpiece sits on top of two fixed points that are independent of the slide. The slide moves between the fixed points and workpiece, but when it reaches the end fixed point the slide drops slightly and you can slide it back to the first point and continue your cut. With some extendable in and outfeed dealies, you could cut lengths outdoors until such time as you reach the horizon at which point your workpiece will probably not be 100% flat due to the curvature of the earth (that is the level of accuracy we'll be expecting from any future sliding table build).
Great idea!
Holy heck! I need this now! Please put it all together soon and I will be first in line!!!!
Already working through some designs that we can build ourselves
Well done.
Mind. Freaking. Blown. Ive seen the crapy sliding tables on table saws before and was just laughing about them a week ago but this is actually amazing thank you!!
This might be the best use of my worthless SawStop sliding table that I've ever seen. Good job Issy.
hahaaha
I just saw your video.. That is so very cool... I would love to use this to make repeat thin cuts for my board business.
I honestly like this guy,so so so humble. Many thumbs up !!!!!
Beautiful work Izzy. You're wrong when you say its not the most exciting video. The concept makes it the most exciting video.
Boy O Boy, THAT is something I am going to make for my Band Saw.
Thanks a LOT Izzy!
Pure genius. As always and again and again... added to the list to build..
The possibilities for resawing are endless. Nice build.
Unreal, so versatile, brilliant.
Brilliant idea! It s an awesome upgrade, not that complex to be build and it works fantastic! Great job as expected Izzy!👍👍👍
For those wanting to know where to find a slide, You could build a slide mechanism, using two parallel drawer slides. I am surprised Izy did not mention that idea.
Guess what my next project is going to be! Brilliant as usual. Love your videos - I have been inspired by many of them. Keep it up Izzy.
Awesome. I would be interested in having step by step instructions with some photos. You are more than a woodworker. You always think out of the box.
working on them now
Fantastic video!
You can get lost in the possibilities. Just what you showed blows your mind. I'm saying this is one of your best videos, ever.
Wow! And what a deal on Dollar shave!!!
I'm glad there are creative folks like you to think of these kinds of things. Thanks for sharing.
Never even heard of (let alone having seen) a sliding table on a bandsaw.
Fantastic idea. Great execution. Well done.
Great video Izzy. I notice that a number of people have asked where you got the sliding table but you haven't answered them. This is an amazing improvement to the bandsaw and I can't wait for your video showing how to build one. Presumable that will include a build for the sliding table as well
He did mention it, but you had to be listening for it to catch it... It's the slider off of his Saw Stop table saw.
I don't have the room or the $$$$ for a jointer that is wide enough to be of any real use. This would easily turn my band saw into a jointer that can be used on wide boards before going through the planer. This could also be used for re-sawing and veneers, even turn the band saw into a mill for slabbing. I agree with you, the possibilities here are almost endless. This has to be the one of the best woodworking videos I have ever seen on TH-cam, I can't wait for the followup to this video. GREAT JOB IZZY!!!!!!!!
This is what you might call an upgreat! Thanks for sharing the video and the idea.
This is the only way I can give this idea 10 thumbs up. Can not wait for the build.
I've never seen one before but they make perfect sense as a feature for a bandsaw. Glad I watched this, great idea
After being disappointed in the SawStop sliding table, of various reasons. I did just the same as you a year ago. Attached it to my 18" Jet bandsaw. And i love it, just as you say it gives a ton of possibilities. I beefed mine up top make quarter sawn lumber from my rough pile of big mapel quarters.
Good project, turned out nicer looking than mine :)
Best
TR Norway
Awesome Idea Izzy, by adding a sliding table to the bandsaw brings endless ideas to mind. Especially when resawing logs into lumber.
I’m super jealous of your skills and your shop
Izzy is super. Cool upgrade.
Damnit, now I REALLY have a reason to buy a band saw. Just have to find an affordable one to justify it all.
Great video! Thanks!
You get what you pay for when it comes to bandsaws. I contemplated for months on which to buy. For the money, you won't go wrong with Rikon
Very nice! Bravo! Now you've got me thinking. Angles for scarf joints... Saw some videos with the Little Ripper, but this is much more versatile.
Wow, this is something I wouldn't have considered. I am blown away. Great job!
Really inspiring video. I have built an infeed and outfeed table for my bandsaw but this is much better idea.
WOW. I wish I had 1/10 th of your ABILITY/ INTELLIGENCE. Is this something that you have worked with before? ( home made sliding saw) or did you come up with this idea from scratch? I’m AMAZED at your ability. I am being very sincere here.... you SIR need your own TV show. I hope the people who have the great fortune of working with you are taking advantage of your knowledge. May I ask what is your EDUCATIONAL background? I am a man with only a grade 12 education and have learned a lot from people who have experience in the real world, and I feel that’s the best education you can get . EXPERIENCE is above all else in my books. So do you have an Engineer diploma ? I know you said you have over 30plus years experience, is experience the education ? All my respect to you SIR
Love it - want it! :)
I am loving it! clean up 60 bf of rough walnut in 40 mins this evening.
Neil - you make it, we'll watch!
Love the idea of not needing a jointer. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool. I look forward to upgrades and a final version!
This is the best upgrade to band saw.
I have a basically unused bandsaw so I have copied the screen for each step in your video saved in Word and now will plan thank you
Game changer. I like it. I've wanted to get a jointer for a while now and now I don't have to. Also, I've always viewed my band saw as one of my more under utilized tools, and this puts it at the top.
Amazing add on! This makes the Bandsaw so much more versatile.
I know it’s an older video but I love this, thanks for sharing.
One of my favs from your collection
IZZY I am so looking forward to the next steps for this and plans! Please keep it coming!
I agree this is one of your best upgrade. I await for all the added figures to come . Thank for your sharing.
Even my wife liked this idea! Especially if I don’t need a Jointer!!! Thanks! Can’t wait for the full build of the slide table!
My first band saw was an old Biro meat cutting bandsaw. That thing was a beast. I never got around to putting tires on the wheels so I had to use the no set meat cutting blades. Wasn't ideal but that sliding stainless steel table was was out of this world. I cut a lot of raw lumber and figured veneer with it.
Hey Izzy, knowing that you'll soon want your slider back where it came from, maybe this is the time to experiment with poly cutting boards for sliders when you build a more permanent model for the band saw. Keep on innovatin' man!
Who would give this a thumbs down? This is a great idea!
This is extraordinarily cool, and may very well get priority and become my next project. Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Great idea. For me I just added table extensions to the back and side of the band saw to enlarge the work are and a slide on extention for the front side. Then made a sliding cariage to fit over the fence with a thin catch on it then it is simple to push the peice through the saw. After using this system i can't beleive the saw makers contunue to do thing the way they do.
Fantastic
oh and thank you for making it easy work for me to make it since you did the hardest work by figuring it out
Brilliant!
This is brilliant!
It's reasonably straightforward to make and use, and offers so many possibilities.
Thankyou. :)
Incredible
Amazing idea, it’s so much easier to use the bandsaw with your extension. Thank you for sharing your amazing story. God bless you and your family
Where have you been all of my u tube life. After watching one video, I subscribed. That is very rare for me,. Love what you do. Rick Barke
Well a friend of mine keeps bragging on this Izzy guy! Who names their child Izzy I ask? Then he sends me the link to the BEST bandsaw upgrade ever! Well now I think Izzy is a genius. I don't care what they named him as I now like it and I subscribed and then got PO'd when I could not find instructions to build the upgrade and HAVE TO WAIT! LOL So here I sit with theme of jeopardy playing in the background!
My favorite tool in the shop ....bring those ideas online can’t wait
I appreciate you sharing your skills and ideas cheers
Wow, patent it! Great idea. You are very smart!
Hey Izzy nice one. I have been a meat cutter for over 35 years and i have meat cutting band saw in my shop. It has a sliding table and an adjustable tall fence to cut steaks at different thicknesses, or wood now in my case. I just can't imagine using a bandsaw without a sliding table. I'm definitely adding your jigs to mine thanks
Izzy - Brilliant video - looking forward to more jigs and bits with your new band saw set up.
Awesome video. No limit to creativity. I agree jointers can be a little dangerous....so I put a 1/4 horsepower power feeder over the outfeed side of my jointer about 5" after the cutterhead. I just have to hand feed the board till it gets under the first wheel then the feeder does the rest. Way safer and much better result thanks to even pressure and feed rate.