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- No-one could make a bandsaw blade that could withstand the constant flexing until Frenchman A. Perin introduced a viable blade in the early 1860s. Bandsaws quickly became popular in England and the rest of Europe. By the late 1860s the blades had made their way to North America and the first manufactured American bandsaws appeared.
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The earliest types of bandsaws were developed in the early 1800s and were mainly used in sawmills for resawing lumber. The designs of early bandsaws were quite simple, with a blade consisting of a long, narrow, and flexible strip of steel that was stretched between two wheels.
Jun 8, 2017 · No-one could make a bandsaw blade that could withstand the constant flexing until Frenchman A. Perin introduced a viable blade in the early 1860s. Bandsaws quickly became popular in England and the rest of Europe.
The idea of the bandsaw dates back to at least 1809, when William Newberry received a British patent for the idea, but bandsaws remained impractical largely because of the inability to produce accurate and durable blades using the technology of the day. [3]
May 9, 2018 · Two of these firms (J.A. Fay & Co. & Baxter D. Whitney) were in business—in the 1830’s - well before the development of the band saw as we are studying it. The other three were founded—1867 to 1873 or 1874 - at precisely the time of the band saw development we are studying.
Feb 5, 2020 · Fast-forward to 1947. After 100 years in business, Kasto patents and develops the first metal hacksaw. The technology for sawing remained somewhat stagnant for decades after, even when machine manufacturers in other industries began ditching mechanical relays for numerical control (NC) systems.
Jan 8, 2019 · In times past, a decade or two before I apprenticed in the 1960s, the only bandsaws really available in the UK at any rate were those developed for industry. In some countries bandsaws are still the rarity and scarcity, not the norm at all. We shouldn’t assume that all peoples have access to them.
Jun 13, 2016 · New methods of metallurgy, along with the discovery of ways to hammer a thinner saw blade so it ran true, allowed the old 1/2-inch kerf to be reduced by half. This still resulted in a lot of sawdust, however, and as trees for lumber became scarcer and demand increased, band saw mills with their thinner blades came into use.
