The thing that makes the Forrest blade leave such a smooth finish is the
clearance angles on the side of the tooth. This is never touched during
sharpening so a local could sharpen it just fine. The difference though, is
how smooth a grind job he does. If it is rather course, it will cut just
fine but will not retain an edge nearly as long as if it were smoother.
Considering some of the local sharpening shops' work I have seen, you would
be better off sending it to Forrest. In any case, by sending it to them, if
something goes wrong, there is no haggling over the lousy saw shop you took
it to. Forrest will sharpen anyone's blade. Talk to them about prices.
"Mike Hide" wrote in message
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Thats interesting as I always use a local blade sharpening service . I
wonder then if Forrest sharpen other blades than their own.

So in that case I am wondering how a forrest blade sharpened locally would
perform....???

I must admit the my main concern is quality of cut rather than speed
mike hide


"Steve Knight" wrote in message
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The blade will not rip as fast as a true rip blade but as a combination
blade in my opinion it is hard to beat, for my purposes [I like to do
most x
cuts on the tablesaw]. The end cuts show no tooth marks at all ,in fact
the
cut almost has a sheen to it.

I found my FWWII blade 30t standard kerf rips faster then even my 20t
blade in
the tropicals I cut. I was pretty surprised with that.

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