Improving A Small Horizontal Bandsaw

Norman Billingham fits a sub-vice to his bandsaw

- Norman Billingham

The small horizontal bandsaws available from most suppliers of machine tools for model engineers are invaluable bits of kit, especially if you are getting on in years. Cutting discs from the end of a piece of 2” mild steel bar by hand is not something you’d want to do too often. I bought my saw from Chester Machine Tools a few years ago when it was on special offer, but they are widely available. Mine is the smallest size. It was remarkably cheap and is pretty crude, but since I replaced the cheap blade which came with it with a better, bimetallic one, it has served me very well.