Originally Posted by
Walt
I think I experienced this exact problem this week. I've always gotten great results resawing maple with my standard 3/8" blade on my Walker Turner 16 bandsaw. This week a friend brought over some Purple Heart and Jatoba, so I slapped on the big 3/4" (or maybe even 1") resaw blade, and it drifted like crazy. I did notice that no matter how hard I cranked on it, I never could get the big resaw blade really tight. After reading your post, I'm thinking that maybe the inability to get proper tension was the culprit.
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