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Picked up a tip from an old timer at the hardwood supplier last Tuesday
I was at Commonwealth Hardwoods in Hartford grabbing some cherry for a kitchen job. An old guy probably 70 years old saw me struggling to get a clean cut on some figured maple. He told me to stop using my standard blade and switch to a 60 tooth triple chip grind for veneer work. I always thought more teeth just meant slower cuts. He let me borrow his spare blade to try it out right there in their shop. The difference was night and day, zero tearout on the curly stuff. I ordered two of those blades that same afternoon. Has anyone else found a weird blade swap that fixed a specific problem?
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craig.grant6d ago
Used to be firmly in the "more teeth means sanding not cutting" camp myself. Picked up a cheap 80 tooth blade at a garage sale years ago and it just made everything slow and burny, so I figured the whole "fine tooth" thing was a gimmick. Then a buddy let me try his new ripping blade with a weird hook angle on some gnarly white oak, and it was like magic, pulled the stock through clean as could be. Really made me rethink how much geometry and gullet size matter over just a tooth count, even if it feels counterintuitive.
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harper_smith6d ago
i dunno man, watching a blade cut through oak like that is cool and all, but it's still just spinning teeth hitting wood. not exactly changing lives out here lol. like yeah geometry matters, but are we really losing sleep over hook angles on a sunday afternoon?
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