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RE: BAND SAw blade recommendsation - jteneyck - 01-03-2020 At the risk of opening a whole can of worms I'll add my two cents on the Woodslicer. It cuts great - until it doesn't, and that happened in less than 25 feet of 10" maple on my 14" Delta with riser. What the …. Never have I seen a blade dull so quickly. I put an Olson MVP on and finished cutting the maple with no issues. The comment about a 3/8" blade cutting better than a 1/2" one could be very true, especially if the saw has a wimpy spring as many 14" Deltas and clones do. I have an Iturra spring on mine and that still only gives you about 12K psi on a 1/2" blade, but that cuts better for me than a 3/8" one in thick stock. (The spring is capable of maybe 15K psi but the frame will bend so much that the upper guides go out of alignment.) On 6" stock, however, like the OP is asking about, a 3/8" x 4 tpi blade may be a very good choice if the spring in his saw can't put much tension on a 1/2" blade. It's not that a 3/8" blade has less resistance than a 1/2" it's because the spring will be able to apply 1/3 more tension to it. FWIW, I have a 3/8" x 4 typi blade on my saw most of the time and it works fine for resawing stock up to 6" thick. Carbide blades like the Resaw King are amazing in how fast and smoothly they cut. I would use one for cutting exotics, otherwise, it seems awfully expensive for resawing 6" stock. John RE: BAND SAw blade recommendsation - justdraftn - 01-03-2020 (01-03-2020, 09:22 AM)Hank Knight Wrote: I've never used a 1/8" blade of any kind. (01-03-2020, 10:35 AM)jteneyck Wrote: At the risk of opening a whole can of worms I'll add my two cents on the Woodslicer. It cuts great - until it doesn't, and that happened in less than 25 feet of 10" maple on my 14" Delta with riser. What the …. Never have I seen a blade dull so quickly. I put an Olson MVP on and finished cutting the maple with no issues. Thanks! for the review of the WoodSlicer. Thought I was missing out on something..... I use an 1/8" blade a lot. It runs very well in the Laguna mini phenolic guides. I leave them on and run 3/16 and 1/4 blades, too. For the smaller blades I think it works much better than the ceramic guides. I do most of my stuff w/3/16. W/the mini guides can turn a pretty tight corner. As far as the expense for a Resaw King.....once you bite the bullet and just do it.... every time you need to do stuff...veneer...cut up some hard wood for a board.....mill raw wood.....it is just so nice. For me, it's worth every penny knowing when I want to cut anything....it will do it. RE: BAND SAw blade recommendsation - wood-chips - 01-05-2020 (01-03-2020, 07:31 AM)justdraftn Wrote: Do you ever use a 1/8" blade from Wood Slicer? I have not used the 1/8" blade. I have not used the Laguna Resaw King blade, my Delta 14" will not sufficently tension a 3/4" blade. I don't resaw that much so wood slicer is a good choice for me. |