No, it's a wood-cutting bandsaew, but I was considering using a variac
to decrease the cutting speed. My saw uses the same 80" blades. I'm
able to cut aluminum like butter using my skip-tooth blade.

There is a HUGE difference between cutting aluminum and stainless.
You will have to slow that saw down to a crawl to cut SS. Typical
wood saws run 3000FPS. You need less than 100 and probably more
like 50 for SS. You will also need some kind of lube. I used a big
wax stick sold for this purpose.

Second, are you cutting thick blocks or thin sheet? The TPI
will depend on thickness. A course blade on thin sheet will strip
all the teeth off the blade and bend the stock too.

chuck