Wish I had pictures but the man who owned our house before us built a homemade bandsaw that made this one look like a baby. This thing was floor to ceiling and using a car tire to move the blade. It looked like it used some sort of vintage auto gear shifter too. Very heavy duty. They said he went and looked at an industrial type band saw and then came home and made it. They left a lot of his hand made tools when we bought the house but they took the bandsaw
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The man who owned the house was an engineer from Ford and was amazingly talented. They left me a (all handmade) wood lathe, table saw, 2 belt sanders, 2 wheel sanders, air compressor, wall grinder, and gave my dad a nice chop saw and drill press. He was a close family/church friend but he died +10 years ago. His widow recently moved to assisted living and the son-in-law helped offer the house to us. I was sad when he took the bandsaw and a heavy duty work table with him. There was also a large metal lathe (not hand made) he offered me but it took up too much space.
