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Title: What is your favorite saw blade for bandsaw?
Post by: iowabow on January 11, 2011, 11:17:21 am

What is your favorite saw blade for bandsaw? i cut osage so how wide and and how many points? I have a 93.5 in delta

Title: Re: What is your favorite saw blade for bandsaw?
Post by: osage outlaw on January 11, 2011, 11:47:24 am

I use a 1/2" blade with either 4 or 6 tpi for cutting osage.  I have a low bow building budget so I get my blades at Lowes.  There should be someone on here that can recommend a good brand blade that you can order.  I think timberwolf is one of them, but I'm not sure.

When I got my first bandsaw, a 9" benchtop, it had a fine tooth blade on it.  I couldn't wait to try it out on a scrap piece of osage.  I think I made about a 2" cut when it started slowing down and smoking.  I stopped the saw and checked the blade.  There wasn't a tooth left on it.  You couldn't tell the front from the back of the blade.

Title: Re: What is your favorite saw blade for bandsaw?
Post by: iowabow on January 11, 2011, 12:16:39 pm

i was just wondering what others were using ...i found a 93.5,  1/2 with 3 tpi was the only one they had.

Title: Re: What is your favorite saw blade for bandsaw?
Post by: Grunt on January 11, 2011, 01:00:10 pm

Google up Timberwolf , they will make any sized blade to fit your saw. I use a 3 tpi.

Title: Re: What is your favorite saw blade for bandsaw?
Post by: iowabow on January 11, 2011, 03:10:33 pm

thanks folks

Title: Re: What is your favorite saw blade for bandsaw?
Post by: n2huntn on January 11, 2011, 03:25:36 pm

Yep Timberwolf. Better to spend money on one good blade than a lot of cheap ones, saves wood too.
Jeff

Title: Re: What is your favorite saw blade for bandsaw?
Post by: Bevan R. on January 11, 2011, 08:18:15 pm

I only keep 3/4" carbide tip blades in my 14" jet. I cut a lot of tropicals and it pays off in the long run.