Ok, this is going to sound blasphemous, but i have a Chinese made 14" Laguna bandsaw. I've used all sorts of blades on it over the 15 years i've had it including 1" Laguna re-saw king blades which i do like, but have had issues with both their sharpening, and QC on some of the new blades i've bought. I use the bandsaw for a mix of ripping lumber, resawing lumber up to about 12" (Max capacity is 14 1/4" tall by about 11" with the fence on) & curved work, although i do a lot less of that these days. This little bandsaw gets lots of use on almost a daily basis.
I just put a 1/2" woodslicer on it to see what the hype was about, and WOW! That blade is amazing. I've only run around 2 or 3 hundred lineal feet of 2x6 through the saw, resawing it in half, so can't speak to its longevity, but it ran true, and gave a perfectly flat cut, something that can be problematic in 1/4 sawn Douglas fir. I'm really hopefull it will stay sharp for a decent amount of time, as it is honestly the nicest blade i've run on this machine, and quite possibly the nicest blade i've run on any machine period! I did try resawing some hickory veneers, and while i only had 4" wide pieces, i was able to cut 1mm veneers with perfect accuracy using this blade. Don't get me wrong, i could do that most of the time with a Re-saw king, but not with every blade, and definitely not every time after a sharpen, which i think is pretty bad considering i send them back to Laguna to be sharpened.
The other nice thing about this new blade is that being 1/2" i can use it for a bit of curved work too. I would change it out if i had lots to do and tighter radius curves, but it does ok, and means it will likely be the blade that stays on most of the time. If this first blade lasts, i'll likely buy a bunch of these blades for that saw and suspect a lot of my other blades will see very little use in the future.
Being a hobbiest, think about what capacity of saw you need, maybe you don't need to be resawing 16, 18 or 20" wide pieces? Either way, try the Woodslicer blades, they are the bomb!
Regards,
Bryce
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