Sudden Death of a Good Blade

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Rob!

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Finally found a bandsaw blade that was deep enough and had a good enough rake angle to give me really true rip cuts. Thin pieces so nice you could see light through them. I've been using it about six months.

I went down tonight to cut a stabilized rosewood block into scales - and the blade was dead. Hardly nicked them. It wouldn't even cut a spruce 2 x 4 very good. I have cut stabilized scales with this blade before. The dulling was sudden - not gradual over a period of time.

The last thing I cut was a 5" cut in 1/4" g10. That cut went fast and clean. Is G10 that hard on blades, or should I be trying to figure out whose body my wife has been trying to hide? :eek:

Rob!
 
Yep, G10 is bad stuff to cut. Its soft and seems like its not cutting that hard, but the glass content makes it really abrasive on tools, and the plastic just gums stuff up and burns. Eats blades up quickly.
 
Rob

It seems a moot point to check the blade tension and guide, as I'm sure you have. A some-what loose or misguided blade will start into a cut sometimes till that last cut, then try to turn out / refuse a cut.

Dead saw blades are dead blades, but there is a chance that half way through your last cut, if you tried to start a new cut, it would have balked?
 
Like everybody else said G10 is ugly to cut. I cut both G10 and Micarta with my regular wood cutting bandsaw (along with well wood). The G10 actually sparks occassionally.

Haven't tried Bimetal blades for G10, will have to give that a try on the metal cutting saw.

Sean
 
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