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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I have a couple of band saws where I keep a ¼” blade on one and a ½” blade for resawing on the other (yeah, lazy!). In the past I would use a wider blade for resawing but really liked the ½” 6 TPI blade so I kept it on. Yesterday I was resawing a 11” wide by 14” long piece of Bolivian Rosewood (real dense wood). I used the ½” blade and it was slow going but never drifted and cut beautifully. In fact, that’s why I use this blade – no drift. However, when I was finished and looked at the blade, the gullets were full, the blade was caked with saw dust and I honestly was surprised it did so well. So, I changed to a ¾” 3 TPI hook tooth blade. It cut much faster and easier but drifted like a son of a gun. In fact, it drifted so badly, it ruined the piece. The good news is I needed a thinner piece, so that became the thinner piece. But, when I was sanding both pieces on the drum sander it was obvious how badly it drifted. Because the previous blade cut to the line with no drift, I could cut 1/16” over my finished thickness. However, with the ¾” blade, I couldn’t. So, I marked a ½” line to get a finished 3/8” thickness. As I monitored the cut, it was drifting so badly, I had to stop or it would have cut into my 3/8” thickness. BTW, it drifted at the bottom and I was monitoring the top which is why I didn’t see it the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>So, all that to ask why the drift? Is the blade not sharp enough (I had used it before so maybe dull?), not tensioned enough, or ???? I think it was tensioned enough but I still throw it out there as a question. Why would the ½” cut so beautifully and the ¾” cut so badly? I cleaned up the ½” and was tempted to put it back on but I don’t want to because it’s really not designed to do what I was doing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>One thing I’m going to try today it to cut the 11” width down to a narrower piece (that I would need anyway) and try resawing a narrower piece.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I ordered new blades but, of course, they won’t be here for a few days and I want to resaw today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT"'>Chuck<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>