Bandsaw Blades

[John TenEyck]

Connecticut Tool and Saw also sharpens (and sells) the Woodmaster CT, and other Lennox blades.


John

[John TenEyck]

I am on my second Woodmaster CT. The first one I managed to sharpen 5 times (doing the sharpening myself).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Derek, did you sharpen the face of the tooth, the top, or both? And how? A diamond stone in a Dremel? Thanks.

John

[Melvin Feng]

I have two 1.25" Laguna Resaw King blades for my 18 BX. They are definitely not what I would consider glue-up ready, but that isn't my expectation for any bandsaw work. I consider them to be fantastic blades. I liked the first one enough that I bought the second to keep on hand for when I sent the first one out for sharpening or if I did something to destroy the blade. Laguna actually has a 20% off on blades starting on november 23rd at woodcraft and rockler, I believe, and I am really tempted to buy a third. haha.

One thing I really like about the Resaw King is that the backing is quite thin, .024, which means that it is relatively easy to tension on modern steel framed saws. I haven't had any issues with barrel cuts, even when I was resawing 15.5" of red oak.

I've only had to send out the first blade to resharpen once, and I had my second blade replaced since it had a bad weld (oscillated forward and backward, but only realized it after using it for months). I believe you are supposed to be able to get it resharpened about 4 times before there isn't enough carbide left.

Derek - could you describe how you resharpen your carbide blades? I've thought about trying to build a jig, but I didn't think that I would be able to do as good as a job as laguna, and I just send it back to them to get them resharpened.

[jack forsberg]

I use just regular carbon blades .025 and grind the set

[Derek Cohen]

Derek, did you sharpen the face of the tooth, the top, or both? And how? A diamond stone in a Dremel? Thanks.

John

John, I used a Dremel with a diamond disk to grind a small flat at the back of the tooth ...



I have recently made a fixture to hold the Dremel at an angle. This works better than freehanding, as I was doing. (I cannot find a photo of it at this moment).

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Mark Gibney]

I would like to see that fixture you made for the Dremel, Derek. Thanks.

[Derek Cohen]

I have posted it to its own thread.

Regards from Perth

Derek