First, thank you all for the kind remarks.
It is pretty hard tobuy a bad sawblade any more.
There has been a lot of activity in the sawblade industry to improve overallquality. As an example; side clearance deviation on a blade used to runas high as 0.010" and even 0.020". Now it is rarely ashigh as 0.005" on Big Box blades. On the World's Best Bladesit runs 0.0005" or less. (Side Clearance Deviation is a comparisonof the measurement of the tip from the saw plate.)
Basically I spent about 20 twenty years figuring out how to use advancedmaterials for saw blades. We were successful in mills and plants wherecut quality and tool life were extremely important and easy tomeasure. (Nobody knowingly buys a sheet of MDF, etc. with raggededges.)
Then the recession hit and many of my customers (top end saw shops and customblade manufacturers) were suffering. So we started advertising andselling their blades. They bought advanced material saw tips from us, wetold them to make the very best blades they could and then sold thoseblades.
I'm a Creeker, yes I m.
I fries my bacon in a wooden pan.