16" Gap butchers meat saw? How different from a woodworking machine?

And there may be structural issues. I'm just thinking of the blade tension
issues that people face with sub $1000 bandsaws. The meat cutting BS's
probably don't bother to "spend" on a structure which allow you to put
25,000 lbs of tension on the blade. Considering meat and bone has far less
density than even the softest woods (so it would seem), there is no need to
make the structure support such tension. And in cutting meat, I don't
imagine the end consumers of the package of meat brought their micrometers
to the meat counter anyway, so they won't notice the few thousandths of an
inch blade deflection. Anyway, I think the meat-cutting bandsaw maker
would put their design dollars elsewhere. Don't even ask if the table
tilts,
why would a meat cutting table need to tilt to 45 degrees. Aftermarket
additions (for woodworking) probably won't fit either. Dude, just buy a
basic Laguna and be done with it. Let me know how that works out for you.

I'm only speculating on some of these issues, the table may tilt, the
wheels may be possible to tension to 30K+ PSI, etc...

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"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:42:53 -0700, JackN@noaddress.org wrote:
>
> >Could you use a butchers saw for wood?
>
> Yes, but you wouldn't want to. The guides are nothing like accurate
> enough. There's also a problem that they're only designed for one
> size of blade and you may have trouble using a narrow blade with the
> guides.
>
> If you took a welder and a set of Carters to it, who knows ? But I
> can't imagine it being cost-effective.
>
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<JackN@noaddress.org> wrote in message
...
>
> Could you use a butchers saw for wood?

I tried it once. Boy, was he pissed at me. I'm not allowed back in the Stop
& Shop anymore.

Aside from being stainless and washable, I don't know the differences in
blade speed, etc.
Ed

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:42:53 -0700, JackN@noaddress.org wrote:

>Could you use a butchers saw for wood?

Yes, but you wouldn't want to. The guides are nothing like accurate
enough. There's also a problem that they're only designed for one
size of blade and you may have trouble using a narrow blade with the
guides.

If you took a welder and a set of Carters to it, who knows ? But I
can't imagine it being cost-effective.

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"David Binkowski" <dcbinkowski@ameritech.net> wrote in message news:<1kKkb.4466$8x2.2527069@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com>...
> Don't even ask if the table tilts, why would a meat cutting table need to
> tilt to 45 degrees.

To mitre pork chops of course!

-Chris

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:42:53 -0700, JackN@noaddress.org wrote:

>
>Could you use a butchers saw for wood?

Sure. You've heard of "woodbutchers," haven't you?

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