woodworker II blade sharpening
Len wrote in
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Third, I never
thought to raise the blade. I was always told to keep the blade low
with just the teeth showing.
Yeah, I was taught the same thing, and for crosscuts that's how
I do it. But ripping that puts the teeth at a bad angle - they're
basically pushing along the wood fibers, instead of shearing
across them as they do with the blade raised.
John
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