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   Elcoholic | Aug 23, 2002 11:36pm | #1

   I don't think so.  I tried it once w/ some 10 x 10 oak timber and the blade went wherever it wanted to go anyway.  It's all about tension and sharpness with a bandsaw.

   John O'Connell - JKO Handcrafted Woodworking

   Life is tough.  It's tougher if you're stupid - John Wayne

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   forestgirl | Aug 24, 2002 04:37am | #2

   Kinda hard, not knowing what the poles look like, but in addition to having a sharp and properly tensioned blade, perhaps you could build a sled of some sort that would help.  I know in the last few months I saw an article, with pics, of an attachment used to make tapered posts for a canopy bed or some such thing, for use on a bandsaw.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

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   riverr1 | Aug 24, 2002 05:00am | #3

   FG,

   Thanks for the advice and comments. I tried to post pictures but they just wouldn't take. They're about seven and a half feet long and vary in diameter from about 6 to 10 inches. The diameters vary with the carving. The best way I can describe these without pics is think totem pole. They're for a restaurant. They need to be cut in half and mounted to the inside corners of the walls symetrically around the interior. The outside corners are up, but the cut was 90 degrees to wrap the corners. I cut those with a chainsaw. I considered the Makita 16 1/2 inch circular saw for those, but $550 was a bit high for 8 cuts!

   Thanks. Don