For as long as I’ve used bandsaws, I’ve heard of the mysterious bandsaw drift phenomenon, yet I have never been able to really get a definitive answer to the cause of this problem. With my first bandsaw, I spent months trying to get that bandsaw to resaw lumber and gave up a year later after countless hours of swapping blades and customer service phone calls that did nothing to fix my problems.

Today, we're going to look at bandsaw drift logically and try to understand why it's happening. Only then can we hope to resolve the mysterious bandsaw drift phenomenon...

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Bitesizes from the video
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129. Resawing lumber economically →    • 129. Resawing lumber economically #mt...  

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00:00 Intro
0:24 1. The Mysterious Bandsaw Blade Drift Phenomenon
2:26 2. Ancient Tried and True Methods
4:40 3. Physics, Nature and Logic
7:20 4. Gaming the System
10:32 Credits