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Originally Posted by kwakatak
I tried making cam clamps out of red oak and it really made my little bandsaw strain - the wood was literally burning as the blade was cutting through it. Obviously I needed a better blade.
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In my experience, it's no worse than hard maple. Yes, you need a better blade.
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Do a search on Youtube for "Todd Stock pore filling". For his demonstration he was working with maple which is also a very dense wood.
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Uhm, maple is a "closed pore" wood and doesn't require pore filling.
An old-fashioned paste pore filler works well on oak, as it does on rosewoods and other open-pored woods.