On 10/11/12 12:00 AM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
Wilfred Xavier Pickles wrote:


I'm just a hobbyist, make little organizers, odds and ends. Very
much budget
constrained.

For 10+ years I've been running with:

Freud 10" Carbide Finishing 40 Tooth
Advanced Anti-Kickback Design

and haven't done too badly.

Rockler currently has:
Freud 2-pack of 10" Rip and Fine Crosscut ... $40 #47943

How much of an improvement (if any) might the new blades make?
Speculation
is encouraged.
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If funds are tight, consider getting existing blade sharpened.

$20 a blade doesn't get you much of a blade, IMHO.

Lew


They are marked down quite a bit... a whole lot of a bit. :-)
I couldn't see the model numbers in that Rockler ad, nor if they were
thin kerf/thin plate blade. But the rip blade looks like it might be
their glue line rip blade without the fancy paint job. Same with the
cross cut blade. Both of those would be very good blade, if the same as
their high end.

When I called Freud a while back when researching blades, one of their
tech guys told me that they often have these large runs of "plain"
blades to sell in bulk for many different reasons. Some are for
industrial use, some are for huge retailers so they can have a unique
sku number, and other reasons.

He said some are thinner kerf versions, some are smaller tooth versions
(less sharpening), but many are the exact same blade as their marquee
lines except with different printing and no "slippery red"paint job.

If the ones in this pack are the latter, it is an exceptional deal. If
they are thinner kerf, even "Diablo" blades, they are still pretty good
for the price. The plate thickness is the real issue on those blade,
because the teeth with be great. But if they have a thin plate, they
will wobble too much and have a less that perfect cut.


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