Sicne I got my big boy table saw, I have just been using my WWII combo blade (and still love it), but recently I picked up a dedicate rip blade and a dedicate cross cut blade (the ones that Jothn Katz-Moses recently reviewed).

This afternoon was the first time that I used either--I had to do some cross cuts and was changing over from a dado stack, so I decided to give the new cross cut blade a try. I was pretty impressed. It may be that it is a new blade or it could be that I was using the right tool for the right job versus a general purpose one.

So my question for the group, setting aside the dado stack, how often do you use a cross cut or rip blade vs a combo blade? If so why and when?

Thanks