ian maybury
04-24-2015, 4:44 PM
Just wondering if anybody offers one? Stock blades tend not to be well sharpened - even from new.
Anything i've seen involves either taking the blade off the saw (which seems daft when the saw amounts to as neat a blade presentation device as can be imagined), or working by hand with a Dremel or similar.
It seems like it ought to be very possible to come up with a device that would clamp into place and do the business. It'd need to index the blade forward to a stop against each second tooth, the grinder would need to be adjustable in two axes for angle and to have an adjustable stop, to accept different profile wheels to give a correctly formed gullet, to flip over to do the opposing teeth, to have a tooth topping setting, to be able to handle side facing/set adjustment, to handle different tooth pitches etc
Even better if it was precise enough to handle carbide blades...
Seems like it could probably be done simply enough to be a cost effective option for single users? Band fatigue life might be an issue, especially on smaller wheeled saws?
Anything i've seen involves either taking the blade off the saw (which seems daft when the saw amounts to as neat a blade presentation device as can be imagined), or working by hand with a Dremel or similar.
It seems like it ought to be very possible to come up with a device that would clamp into place and do the business. It'd need to index the blade forward to a stop against each second tooth, the grinder would need to be adjustable in two axes for angle and to have an adjustable stop, to accept different profile wheels to give a correctly formed gullet, to flip over to do the opposing teeth, to have a tooth topping setting, to be able to handle side facing/set adjustment, to handle different tooth pitches etc
Even better if it was precise enough to handle carbide blades...
Seems like it could probably be done simply enough to be a cost effective option for single users? Band fatigue life might be an issue, especially on smaller wheeled saws?