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The blade won't touch the guides unless you're trying to force the saw to do more than what it should be doing. Using a too dull blade is included under that category. Sort of the same with cutting with a chainsaw. The guys struggling are pushing too hard on the saw and probably not using a sharp blade. You cut with a light hand on a bandsaw just like you should with a chainsaw, and really any other saw. I put new ceramic guides on my 24" right after I brought it home after over 30 years of abuse in someone else's shop. I ran 10,000 lineal feet of Cypress through it, plus other smaller jobs since then, and the guides are just as good as when I put them on the saw. Here is a video of an old man cutting with a light hand with a hot rod chainsaw. He didn't work up a sweat cutting up this dead Maple tree. I'm glad to say that my pant size is a couple of sizes smaller now.. I'll have to show this to Pam. -
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@Beechwood Chip, thinking about this a little more. If you haven't re-cut the track, yet, you could test your theory by interposing a few sheets of ordinary paper between the stop block and fence.
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