Building a bandsaw on the cheap from mostly scrap wood

[glatt]

My wife was out of town for the weekend, and the kids were away for most of Saturday at a band competition. I had time to get some work done. And I am getting close, so I'm motivated.

I wanted to get the table done this weekend, and the first step Saturday is to make these little flying saucer bolt heads to clamp the trunnions down. They need to be the same thickness as the trunnion supports, so I grab some of the leftover boards I had glued up to make those. They are an awkward shape. I could really use a band saw to cut these out. Funny thing about that, I think I now have a band saw I can use.


I cut out and glued down the paper templates to the stock. Then I clamped a scrap piece of quarter inch thick plywood to the band saw frame.



I cut them out on the band saw and they look great! I have a band saw!


I cleaned them up and smoothed them out on my son's disc sander.