On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:30:33 -0800, Fly-by-Night CC
wrote:

In article ,
Ba r r y wrote:

Just for grins, since your tossing the original blade, try lightly
touching the leading side of the teeth with an abrasive with the saw
running, and see what happens with the cut.

That sounds like that recommendation to touch up jointer knives with a
sharpening stone and the jointer running

Not at all, maybe I didn't explain it correctly.

You are LIGHTLY touching the SIDE of the teeth on a moving blade with
a hard abrasive. This is done to the side the cut leads toward. The
abrasive used should be BIG ENOUGH, or mounted to wood, so that the
fingers are comfortably distant from the blade.

This is no more dangerous than rounding the backs of the blades, and
the same tool can be used. Some blades lead because one side is
much sharper than the other, or the set is off center, even on an
anally accurate set-up saw.

Dulling a side or rounding the back of a band saw blade is no more
dangerous than actually band sawing wood, if the operator thinks
things through.

You do round the backs of your blades, no?

Barry