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I'm going to kinda show my ignorance here, but I still wanted to bring this up. I will start by saying I am not a big table saw guy, I have one (or 3) obviously but really they are not used by me like they are most. I know woodworkers who have table saw work down to a science. Mine is just a workhorse for ripping mainly.
Anyway I had a guy bring me a sawblade to sharpen like I have never seen before (prolly cause it is way older than me :laughing
It has 8 carbide tips and no set in the teeth. The teeth have an alternating 5 degree bevel on the top, that is the only thing that makes them different from one another. When you sharpen a saw blade you normally sharpen 3 faces, but the carbide tips where just barely wider than the blade so I did not sharpen the side cause even a little would have removed it too much I think. I just reduced the outside diameter of the steel part of the blade to make the teeth stand up a hair and sharpened 2 faces on the tips.
I am not making this a sharpening thread, this is about the blade. I gotta hit some yard sales or something, I need one of these dudes. (No way to talk the guy out of this one :no:, he is an old guy and it was his Dad's) It says Sears & Roebuck on the other side. I was not sure how I did on the sharp job so I threw it on my little table saw...the best blade I have ever used. I threw a couple pieces of hard wood at it and it cut it like a cheese slicer. I ran a couple scraps of 8/4 hickory, 8/4 white oak, 8/4 honey locust...just whatever hard and thick I had laying around. I ripped it all pushing lightly with one finger, and spun the pieces around and crosscut them clean as a whistle with no splinters/tearout on the end. It cut easy and very clean. It is a thick blade (a full 1/8" on the steel a little more on the tips) I can't see it ever wandering.
OK, that is my contribution for the day. Some of you may think "No big deal, I have 10 of those in a pile". I thought it was still worth bringing up and asking if anyone was familiar with blades like this? Until now I was not, again I will say it is the best blade I have ever had on a saw.
Anyway I had a guy bring me a sawblade to sharpen like I have never seen before (prolly cause it is way older than me :laughing
I am not making this a sharpening thread, this is about the blade. I gotta hit some yard sales or something, I need one of these dudes. (No way to talk the guy out of this one :no:, he is an old guy and it was his Dad's) It says Sears & Roebuck on the other side. I was not sure how I did on the sharp job so I threw it on my little table saw...the best blade I have ever used. I threw a couple pieces of hard wood at it and it cut it like a cheese slicer. I ran a couple scraps of 8/4 hickory, 8/4 white oak, 8/4 honey locust...just whatever hard and thick I had laying around. I ripped it all pushing lightly with one finger, and spun the pieces around and crosscut them clean as a whistle with no splinters/tearout on the end. It cut easy and very clean. It is a thick blade (a full 1/8" on the steel a little more on the tips) I can't see it ever wandering.
OK, that is my contribution for the day. Some of you may think "No big deal, I have 10 of those in a pile". I thought it was still worth bringing up and asking if anyone was familiar with blades like this? Until now I was not, again I will say it is the best blade I have ever had on a saw.
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