AndyF
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- Phelps, NY, USA
I'll be resawing some 12" wide Maple boards for a kitchen counter project and am looking for a good resawing blade that I can use on my Jet saw. Any suggestions?
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A critical part of re-sawing is having adequate blade tension. .
How thick is your material and what are you hoping to end up with for final thickness? How much of it do you need to saw up? I'd expect some serious cupping as the maple (hard?) comes off the saw, unless the wood has been dried completely stress-free, or is quartersawn.
Small saws want small blades so they can be tensioned properly.
A sharp 1/4 " blade, properly tensioned will cut straight all day long.
A dull and flabby 1 inch blade won't cut a foot of length without bowing out.
I was involved with resawing about 4 tons of Macassar ebony. we tried a lot of blades. Thin, tight and sharp cut the most lineal feet with the least post sawing clean up. And about the cost?...... all smiles on the 1/4-3/8 " blades. We used a very old 36 inch Tannewitz at the time
I think it wold be difficult to re-saw a 2X10" Brazilian Rosewood board with a 1/4" blade.
You would be rewarded to try.
But do not forget the tension!
In perspective, do the math on blade stiffness as a function of tension. Small saws just can't stand the pressure!
I was very surprised to see my local portable sawmill guy using a 1/2" blade cutting logs into usable lumber. Who'd have thunk it?
When I was in the workers compensation business, the professional lumberyards that I used to visit used re-saws with very wide blades. In a large machine, 3", 4" wide blades 20 feet long are not uncommon. Such machines have mechanical drives to push the wood through the blade.
I use 1/4" blades from time to time and they work fine for curves, arcs and circles.
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Timberwolf (r) makes recommendations for resawing hardwoods. Apparently they have not yet heard of the advantages of using 1/4" bladed on expensive hardwoods. If they read this thread, they may change their minds, though.
I looked at Google and not one source recommends a 1/4" blade for resawing hardwood.
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