woodnthings

Just to see if I could do it and what the performance would be, I got out the Dremel with an 1/8" chainsaw sharpening stone and started in on a 143" 3 TPT 3/4" resaw blade. That's only 429 teeth to sharpen, no jig just eyeball (assisted x 1.5) I had nothing to lose since the blade had lost it's edge anyway. Well, it worked fine and sliced a 6" piece of spalted maple easily. Who knows there may come a day when, after becoming a 3rd world country we will have to recycle our blades and we'll envy the Mexicans someday.
Off topic, Sorry! bill

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Kudzu

Umm, try 429 teeth. You have more patience than I have!

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woodnthings

Thanks,I was just thinking that and was gonna post the correction! I never did know whether to divide or multiply!!!
143 x 3 = 429 bill

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The woodsman

Hey thats pretty nice,I have some 73" 3 tpi,do you think that would that work on those ? an what about blades with more teeth,what do you think on that.Just trying to learn,do you know if they make jigs for sharping BS blades? I mean other than what the pro's use.Thanks.

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woodnthings

So, I don't know much, except the sawmill guys have a big machine and setup laying the blade horizontal and all. This was just an experiment on an old blade, but it cut pretty well afterwards. A blade with 3TPI is doable by hand and by eye, however, you don't have a way to put the "set" back in the teeth this way. I don't know if the sawmill guys are able to do that either, maybe some one will respond? The size of the rotary stone will determine the size of the teeth you can sharpen...I think you can get one smaller than 1/8", but then you'll have many more teeth to sharpen....lot's of patience! bill
Just jump in there and give it a try...watcha gonna lose... an old blade? eh! eh!

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Never stand directly in front of a horse or tablesaw that's running!
If you're not making dust, you're gathering it. After I reread my own posts, I agree with myself even more.