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[Deadeye]

If you've got a decent bandsaw already, just use the widest blade it'll accept safely. Slow feed, thin kerf, the more tpi the better. Oh, and wax the fence as well - it'll make life much easier.

The King brand is pretty ubiquitous in Canadian wood shops: nothing fancy but good solid equipment. For fellow Canucks: no, it's not the same cheapass King garbage you see in hardware stores.

I assume it's random-width ? Once 8/4 gets above 6" or so it becomes a bit of a pain to hand-feed, depending on how much you have to do. The cold molding I've done has all been under 1 1/2" so a bandsaw with a 2" blade is lots. You might want to ensure you have room to build on a full length outfeed table as well if you're going to be working by yourself. Rollers are a bit sketchy. If you have a lot to do, it might be worthwhile to just incorporate the fence into the outfeed table to keep everything locked up.

 

[Boston]

hmmmm
at 2" I might as well use the table saw with that thin curf blade we were talking about. Ild like to cut my strips as wide as possible for the given molds so I may be going wider which is why I asked as a taller piece goin through the band saw can end up with a following blade. The wood I have the most of is White Oak though and that stuff tends to work easily cause its density is so uniform.

Ild like to be able to cut say a 4" height either with a huge table saw or a mill style re saw. not sure what Ild do with strips that wide but having the capability always comes in handy. Thing is that on a table saw you need a blade stabilizer to end up without a warped blade and a decent cut but on a band saw you end up surfacing a lot soooooo in the end what you save on the band saw you loose in the surfacing and on the table saw what you loose to the blade you gain on surfacing assuming you can keep the blade straight after the first ten feet or so
also you have to use as many teeth as you can jam on the blade and its got to be a ripping blade and not a cross cut or you'll be putting even more strain on the motor than what torture your already putting it through.

oh
Ive got a pretty complete shop so I know what your talkin when it comes to balancing some sixteen foot hundred pound chunk of lumbar on a twenty dollar set of rollers over a table saw

and my band saw is definitely the weak link in the shop

pretty sure it was made by P.O.S. industries