Hey y'all! I've searched around and haven't been satisfied with the relevance of information I have found pertaining to horsepower and thin or full kerf blades.

I have an old unisaw (1946) that I picked up a couple months ago with a 3 phase 1.5 hp motor on it, put a VFD on it and have been using happily since with a cheap thin kerf 40 tooth blade from the Borg and a Freud dado stack. I've run some deep 1/2 x 1.875 notches for lap joints in cedar 4x4s for some posts with good luck and no bogging down, but I have seen people hesitant on whether the 1.5hp is enough to run a full kerf blade.

Before I go out and spend a couple hundred on decent plywood and general purpose blades, does anyone have any experience with full kerf blades on similar saws? It seems that much of the information out there sends to be geared towards saws rated similar to my 6.5 hp shop vac so I'm not certain how big of a gain of salt to take the advice with.

Thanks!