Home made blade sharpener for the homemade bandsaw. There 'was' a lot of machining...

[skunkworks]

Dad and his brothers made the sawmill in the 80's.. Dad made the blade sharpener a few years ago. Finally got back to it..

[Sparky_NY]

Very nice work !

[Tim Clarke]

Simple and effective, the definition of a good design!!!

[Paul Alciatore]

That is neat. Wish I could see more details of the design.

[RSG]

Way cool Skunkworks!

[BCRider]

Very cool! Downright mezmerizing in fact......

Any chance of a further back overall picture or two?

[skunkworks]

I will take some better pictures tomorrow.

Very cool! Downright mezmerizing in fact......

Any chance of a further back overall picture or two?

[old mart]

Its just as well it is automatic, I was thinking how many teeth there will be on a blade. Does it also work with variable pitch blades?

[JRouche]

Very nice!! Inspiring actually, to get out into the shop and make something. Thanks. JR

[mickeyf]

Nice. The saw itself has a rather large looking electric motor? What size? And that's a conduit vertical for the power lines? (couldn't be an exhaust pipe! 🤔) When I lived in the country a guy down the road had one powered by an old volkswagon engine.

[Jon Heron]

Cool!
Are you going to make a tooth setter too?
I just got into running a woodland mills sawmill last week on my property up North. They sell an automated sharpener that runs off a 12v battery so you can run it in the bush but its spendy as hell... https://woodlandmills.com/woodland-m...ade-sharpener/
I was thinking about getting after it with a dremel but I can already feel my back aching...
I made my first boards and cants last week...

[skunkworks]

I think it is a 20hp 3ph.. (initially ran the K&T before we got rid of the hydraulics..) I surprisingly don't have many pictures of it. I should take some more... It initally (in the 80's) started with a 5hp briggs.. Then a pinto 4 cyl. Once it wasn't going to be portable anymore - we put an electric motor on it.

Nice. The saw itself has a rather large looking electric motor? What size? And that's a conduit vertical for the power lines? (couldn't be an exhaust pipe! 🤔) When I lived in the country a guy down the road had one powered by an old volkswagon engine.

[skunkworks]

Cool!
Are you going to make a tooth setter too?
I just got into running a woodland mills sawmill last week on my property up North. They sell an automated sharpener that runs off a 12v battery so you can run it in the bush but its spendy as hell... https://woodlandmills.com/woodland-m...ade-sharpener/
I was thinking about getting after it with a dremel but I can already feel my back aching...
I made my first boards and cants last week...

Dad just bought a setter - seems to work pretty well... woodland mills is the brand.. It actually is only made for 1.75" blades - but we got it to work with our 2"+ blades.

Edit add - this one

https://woodlandmills.com/blade-tooth-setter/

[skunkworks]

dad made this video a few years ago..

[mickeyf]

Not that I have any plans to make such a thing... but it would be interesting to see how the grinder is cam'd, as well as the tooth advance.