Bandsaw Cool Blocks

[Lazurus]

Anyone suggest a supplier in the UK who actually has stock, or a material to fabricate my own as current ones have just about worn away.

S.

[Wood spinner]

https://www.olsonsaw.net/shop/band-saw-blades/accessories/cool-blocks-band-saw-blade-guides/

http://martins-supplies.co.uk/presta/bandsaw/5-coolblocks.html

[seventhdevil]

why not make them out of lignum stu???

[Lazurus]

why not make them out of lignum stu???

I haven't got any. 

[seventhdevil]

i might have an off cut if you are interested?


what size would you need?

[burywoodturners]

Try to get an old bowling ball, the old wooden ones, these were made from lignum vitae and sometimes crack and split which is how I got mine!
Ron

[seventhdevil]

i've a few of those i must admit. i usually use them for mallets if i can bu there are a few that are past it.

i also have about 1 1/2" tons of it in log and plank form.

[bodrighywood]

Found about 10 of them (bowling balls) in a shop today whilst have a browse round som antique / junk yards. Tenner each? Used to be a couple of quid.

Pete

[seventhdevil]

a tenner each can be considered a good deal these days pete. i still buy them on occasion on ebay to use as skittle balls if they have no inserts either side and some of the prices people ask is quite astonishing mate..

[Lazurus]

i might have an off cut if you are interested?


what size would you need?

I only need a couple of small lengths to finish 1/2" square, pen blank size would be fine.

Wont make much of a dent in your sore methinks........

[Derek]

a tenner each can be considered a good deal these days pete. i still buy them on occasion on ebay to use as skittle balls if they have no inserts either side and some of the prices people ask is quite astonishing mate..

So I got a bargain with 10 for free

[Lazurus]

Very much so 

[bodrighywood]

a tenner each can be considered a good deal these days pete. i still buy them on occasion on ebay to use as skittle balls if they have no inserts either side and some of the prices people ask is quite astonishing mate..

So I got a bargain with 10 for free

Oh yes indubitably. Just make sure they are lignum vitae not lignite or some other plastic equivalent.

Pete

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

Lazarus it would be cheaper for you to just buy the right thing rather than have wood shipped to you ,even small bits. If not metal it should be a hardwood but if you don'y have lignum boxwood will do the same job. I remember years ago we had a machine that had blocks made from Oak that was kept soaking in a bucket of oil, at a push that might do.

[seventhdevil]

i might have an off cut if you are interested?


what size would you need?

I only need a couple of small lengths to finish 1/2" square, pen blank size would be fine.

Wont make much of a dent in your sore methinks........

stuart, i have a lawn bowl with a crack in it that you can have for free if you want mate.

pay the postage and it's yours.