Fragging with a wet tile saw (and diamond bandsaw).

[muck]

Looks cool....can you adjust the table height?

[whatcaneyedo]

The table height doesnt adjust but the blade guide/water-lubricator can move up and down to give as much as 3.5" of cutting height.

[whatcaneyedo]

I just tried out the bandsaw for the first time this evening by cutting a duncan and an open brain. Eventually I'll try it on my acans and some other 'brains'.

What I liked:
1. Cutting is nice and smooth and calm, not like with a rotary tool or wet tile saw where theres lots of noise and coral goo flying everywhere (like the dude with the lawnmower and the room full of zombies in Dead Alive... What? No one has ever seen that movie? You suck ).
2. My fingers feel safe.
3. Cleanup is easy because the unit is mostly plastic its safe to splash it with lots of fresh water to get the gunk out.

What I didnt like:
1. I dont really like the water lubricator system of the saw. When I assembled it I couldnt get the provided hose to fit so I had to use some of my own flexible airline hose.
2. The mechanism that restricts water flow to the blade kind of came loose and I had to glue it back in...
3. Cutting is slower than with a wet tile saw, it took me quite a long time to get through the hard lower skeleton of the open brain.

[Mr.nintendo]

I know it's off topic, but Juzam Djinn was a bad ass card back in the day

[Kryptic4L]

your fingers should be fine when working with a diamond saw, burn and scorch the heck out of them though if you clip the blade. you can just toss on some leather gloves to get around that though.

[whatcaneyedo]

Originally Posted by Mr.nintendo

I know it's off topic, but Juzam Djinn was a bad ass card back in the day

lol You're the second one to know what that was.

Originally Posted by Kryptic4L

your fingers should be fine when working with a diamond saw, burn and scorch the heck out of them though if you clip the blade. you can just toss on some leather gloves to get around that though.

The comment about my fingers was because I was always really stressed while using the rotary tool to cut small frags. Sometimes the cutting wheel would grab and jump and I was concerned that it would eventually slash on of my fingers when it did. Using the wet tile saw was much better because the cutting wheel is stable but I still wasnt able to cut very small pieces without being worried. With the bandsaw I can comfortably get very close to the blade with my fingers without getting really nervous about losing a finger.

[Kryptic4L]

the wetband saw worries me more for some reason. perhaps no experience with one. But the diamond saw you should be alright to get your fingers fairly close. that is provided the type of blade the ones I used to use to cut coring samples were blunt diamond coated blades, they would burn skin but it would take some serious effort to cut through me. usually hit the blade about once a week.

[whatcaneyedo]

Heres a picture of my open brain after fragging with the bandsaw. The nice flat even cut should heal over and look puffy and normal again in a few weeks.

This is the second time I've fragged this brain, the first time I used a rotary tool which did the job but not very well... The brain was once a really nice big piece but because my tang wont leave it alone I have to keep it in my frag tank. And because its in my frag tank I might as well frag it!



I plan to dice this brain up into several pieces later this month with the bandsaw.