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I was reading a recent copy of a machining magazine in B&N and saw where a writer made a jig to allow cutting of short pieces of round stock on a horizontal bandsaw. That gave me the following idea:
My set of Enco collet blocks have the same diameter across the flats for the hex and square blocks. So if you clamp the stock in a 5C collet in one of the blocks and place it in the bandsaw vise so as to allow the blade to contact the stock in the desired position, and then use the other block to keep the vise jaws square, you should be able to cut off slices from fairly short lengths of round stock.
I haven't tried it as my bandsaw is not operational, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work. I did put the blocks into the vise, and it seems to lock the blocks very tightly.
My set of Enco collet blocks have the same diameter across the flats for the hex and square blocks. So if you clamp the stock in a 5C collet in one of the blocks and place it in the bandsaw vise so as to allow the blade to contact the stock in the desired position, and then use the other block to keep the vise jaws square, you should be able to cut off slices from fairly short lengths of round stock.
I haven't tried it as my bandsaw is not operational, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work. I did put the blocks into the vise, and it seems to lock the blocks very tightly.