Jameel Abraham
12-16-2007, 5:17 PM
I bought a Resaw King for my Bridgewood 18" saw earlier this year. I ended up sending it back because it only cut a few feet before it started requiring quite a bit of force to cut, in other words, it was dull after maybe 50 feet of 6" resawing in walnut, maple and cherry.
The folks at Laguna thought that the blade was faulty, and they offered to resharpen it for nada. They actually ended up losing track of the blade while it was in their shop, and ended up sending me a completely new one at no cost. That seemed like a fair outcome to me. Although when I received the new one, one of the teeth was chipped, and it looked just like the chipped tooth on the first one I sent it. I didn't mention this to Laguna, since I thought I was getting the better end of the deal. I'm actually not surprised more new blades don't get delivered with chipped teeth, its virtually impossible to uncoil a blade like that with any degree of finesse, those brittle teeth are just begging to be chipped off, even when coiled in the box. You'd think they would ship fresh blades with dip coating to protect those fragile teeth.
So anyways, I mount up the new blade last week and proceed to resaw some 4" wide cocobolo. I get about 6 inches into the board and realize that the performance of this blade is just about the same as the first dull one. Not to mention the cut quality is bad, not smooth at all.
So, I've had this new blade for a few months since I couldn't use it while remodeling my shop. I'm not sure I can return it for a refund at this point. And I don't want to try another one. I'm pretty-much burned out this blade at this point. I'm even getting a little burned out about resawing in general. I was all set to do some great easy resawing when I bought my Italian bandsaw, but so far I've had nothing but frustration. I was getting better results using my grandfather's 1980's Sears aluminum-frame saw!
So, with that glowing review, who would like to buy a 145" Resaw King? ;)
The folks at Laguna thought that the blade was faulty, and they offered to resharpen it for nada. They actually ended up losing track of the blade while it was in their shop, and ended up sending me a completely new one at no cost. That seemed like a fair outcome to me. Although when I received the new one, one of the teeth was chipped, and it looked just like the chipped tooth on the first one I sent it. I didn't mention this to Laguna, since I thought I was getting the better end of the deal. I'm actually not surprised more new blades don't get delivered with chipped teeth, its virtually impossible to uncoil a blade like that with any degree of finesse, those brittle teeth are just begging to be chipped off, even when coiled in the box. You'd think they would ship fresh blades with dip coating to protect those fragile teeth.
So anyways, I mount up the new blade last week and proceed to resaw some 4" wide cocobolo. I get about 6 inches into the board and realize that the performance of this blade is just about the same as the first dull one. Not to mention the cut quality is bad, not smooth at all.
So, I've had this new blade for a few months since I couldn't use it while remodeling my shop. I'm not sure I can return it for a refund at this point. And I don't want to try another one. I'm pretty-much burned out this blade at this point. I'm even getting a little burned out about resawing in general. I was all set to do some great easy resawing when I bought my Italian bandsaw, but so far I've had nothing but frustration. I was getting better results using my grandfather's 1980's Sears aluminum-frame saw!
So, with that glowing review, who would like to buy a 145" Resaw King? ;)