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What is everyone buying for saw blades these days and where are you buying them?
 

You can get back to me if you wanna buy?

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 03:10 paul mcclintic via <cannontandem=[email protected]> wrote:
What is everyone buying for saw blades these days and where are you buying them?

 

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I've been buying Bosch blades at Lowes , I think their @ 12-14 bucks . They cut good & seem to last .

animal

On 2/5/24 6:10 PM, paul mcclintic via groups.io wrote:

What is everyone buying for saw blades these days and where are you buying them?

 

Well we sell for $10

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 03:14 mike allen <animal@...> wrote:

I've been buying Bosch blades at Lowes , I think their @ 12-14 bucks . They cut good & seem to last .

animal

On 2/5/24 6:10 PM, paul mcclintic via wrote:
What is everyone buying for saw blades these days and where are you buying them?

 

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whose blades are they ?

animal

On 2/5/24 6:16 PM, Sam Shepherd wrote:

Well we sell for $10

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 03:14 mike allen <animal@...> wrote:

I've been buying Bosch blades at Lowes , I think their @ 12-14 bucks . They cut good & seem to last .

animal

On 2/5/24 6:10 PM, paul mcclintic via wrote:
What is everyone buying for saw blades these days and where are you buying them?

 

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Just a guess….but I figger Bosch built ‘em, Lowe's bought ‘em, and if you buy ‘em, they are yours!?

That said, I buy Lenox bi-metal blades, from?

Other Bill


On Feb 5, 2024, at 6:28 PM, mike allen <animal@...> wrote:

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whose blades are they ?

animal

On 2/5/24 6:16 PM, Sam Shepherd wrote:
Well we sell for $10

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 03:14 mike allen <animal@...> wrote:

I've been buying Bosch blades at Lowes , I think their @ 12-14 bucks . They cut good & seem to last .

animal

On 2/5/24 6:10 PM, paul mcclintic via wrote:
What is everyone buying for saw blades these days and where are you buying them?

 

Hi Paul
I've done a bit of study?on all the blades I can get in NZ and can say from experience I can detect no difference in the cutting ability of any of them, which is not to say that they were all equal!??
I've used the following (all 10-14 varipitch HSS teeth except Lenox which was 11-13):
Starrett Intenss Pro-Die? (US)? x1
Lenox Easicut? (US) x1
Bahco (Snap-on)? (Belarus) x2
Bruel? (Germany) x2 (dearest ~$40US)
Rontgen (Germany) x10
BiChamp (China bought in NZ) x9
Imachinist? (China via AliExpress and cheapest ~$4US ea) x3
Hakansson (Sweden) x2
Out of the box all cut at the same rate (within experimental error) when set up to cut square with the same bow weight (weight in cut).
The biggest difference was in the welding of the blade:??
  • If the blade cracks at the weld it is ALWAYS a manufacturing fault for which you should get a refund or replacement no matter how old.?
  • Imachinist had ~1.5" blade length of set ground off the teeth when cleaning the flash of the weld (blade would squeak each time the weld went through the cut in wood and leave lines on the cut face).?
  • Rontgen were the best with only 3-5 teeth affected by the weld grind and within 1mm in loop length, so I suspect they are CNC welded. That said I've had Rontgen blades crack at the weld.
  • Some international brands supply blades factory welded, while others send coil stock to the country where they're sold to be welded up in that country
All the above blades had zero hook to the teeth (tooth face at 90deg to the work) so have no real reason to cut differently as M42 HSS air hardens and will all??be at 67Rc.
My guess is that there are only very few companies world wide who have the capacity to electron beam weld the M42 HHS strip on the edge of the high carbon blade stock and they sell to all the others who grind and weld their proprietary blades.?
Find a blade that has been welded properly and stick with that - jv


On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 3:10?PM paul mcclintic via <cannontandem=[email protected]> wrote:
What is everyone buying for saw blades these days and where are you buying them?

 

For my 5x7 JET horizontal metal bandsaw I buy?
Q? 601 Series - Qsaw? M42 Bimetal
??0.5 x 10-14 (0.025) ??@ 5' 4 1/2 " ? ? ??
 from sawblade.com.?
The reduce per-blade shipping costs and gain a small hedge against inflation I buy them in batches of five which lasts me about that many years.

Raymond
David Pidwerbecki
 

I buy the supercut bi-metal blade from Harbor Freight. ? I wait for a coupon. ?Item 97119. ?I find?the Super Cut bimetal blade lasts a long time and I haven’t ever had one break.

i have tried to weld my own 64.5” x .5” x .025” blades for my 4x6 bandsaw with no success. ? I weld my own blades for my vertical bandsaw (it’s a Jet 1408) with the same stock, but I think the small wheels in the 4x6 put the weld joint under a lot of stress.
 

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 01:08 PM, David Pidwerbecki wrote:
I buy the supercut bi-metal blade from Harbor Freight. ? I wait for a coupon. ?Item 97119.
I found the same blade on ebay? 3 for 59.91 + tax with free shipping. The weld is very good.
 

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 05:20 AM, paul mcclintic wrote:
I found the same blade on ebay? 3 for 59.91 + tax with free shipping. The weld is very good.
I've been using a blade from LA Cutting Products as well.? It's 2-3 years old now and still cuts fast & straight.

Mark
 

On 2/15/2024 11:43 AM, Mark Kimball wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 05:20 AM, paul mcclintic wrote:

I found the same blade on ebay? 3 for 59.91 + tax with free
shipping. The weld is very good.

I've been using a blade from LA Cutting Products as well.? It's 2-3
years old now and still cuts fast & straight.

Mark
I've been using nothing but LA Cutting Products for a few years now
... their current 10% off code is Vday24 , good til the end of February .

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