Bandsaw Blade Welding Jig
            Bob Harbour
            5/3/2005

These two pictures are of a simple bandsaw blade welding fixture 
that I welded up out of 1/4" hot rolled steel. The base is made 
of three pieces: 
  A flat plate with two 1/4"-20 holes drilled and tapped in it 
  A Strip that supports the end closest to you in the pictures.
  A wider strip that sticks up well above the plate to form a 
    guide to push the blade up against for welding.

A top piece is screwed down on top of the blade to hold the two
ends in alignment against the back strip for welding. Not obvious
from the photos, the top of the front strip is about 1/16" above 
the surface of the plate. This gives better clamping action on the 
blade when the top piece is screwed down. The whole assembly is
about 3" by 3" square.

The notch in the top piece is where the welding is done. 

This is revision 0 of this project. I have not perfected the
welding process for bandsaw blades, but the jig seems to work fine.