Cutting Ti, what's the best way??

Frank, I only plan on using it on titanium to get the most life out of the blade. My Diemasters do fine on annealed steel so I'll keep using them for blade stock but I don't see why you couldn't use this blade for other metals.

The name of the blade is the Lenox Master Grit. Here is a link from Tool Center

http://www.toolcenter.com/Master_Grit.html The one I got is the gulleted medium grit.
 
Good thread here. I nearly posted a thread asking the same thing. Who knew, this search function actually works. I'm hoping to get the money for a metal band saw on Monday for my birthday :D
 
I use a hacksaw with 24 tooth bi-metal blades LOTS of lube and lots of pressure. I usually just squirt some cutting oil on the blade and make sure to keep it wet throughout the cut and ti cuts pretty easily. Titanium isn't really very hard but it doesn't transfer heat well at all so the tips of the teeth will basically overheat and anneal almost instantly without some sort of coolant. With a sharp blade and enough coolant titanium cuts as easily as annealed blade steel. I usually get two or three framelocks out of a single hacksaw blade before I throw it away.

I know it's an old thread but I didn't see this posted anywhere.
 
Ressurecting this thread to coax an update from jonny about the long term performance of these master-grit blades. I'm cutting a lot of 0.060 6al4v at the moment, and while the high end bi metal blades are working, I'm getting sick of the chatter from lost teeth.

One of these blades in the length I need will run $200ish, so obviously a big investment, which would only be justified if these last 4x longer than the $50 blades.

So how has/did this blade hold up for you Jonny, and can you give some approximation of material volume it cut?

Thanks!
 
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