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Saw blade sharpening
Where can I inexpensively re-sharpen table saw blades? I live in NJ.
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"Sasha" wrote: Where can I inexpensively re-sharpen table saw blades? I live in NJ. "inexpensive" is in the eyes of the beholder. What does "inexpensive" mean to you? Table saw blade sharpening is priced per tooth; but you're buying the skills and attention to detail of the sharpening guy. I take mine to a local woodturning friend who has just started his own sharpening service. He went to school to learn the skills and has invested a lot of time and money in his new tooling. I don't recall exactly, but I think I paid about $12 - $15 per 50 tooth blade and the cut quality is very good to excellent. Additionally, I've not found much variation in pricing from one place to the next over the last 5 years or so. I used to take my blades to industrial sharpening shops that cater to the milling shops and the Oregon lumber industry. They charge about the same as everyone else. -- Owen Lowe The Fly-by-Night Copper Company __________ "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Corporate States of America and to the Republicans for which it stands, one nation, under debt, easily divisible, with liberty and justice for oil." - Wiley Miller, Non Sequitur, 1/24/05 |
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"Sasha" wrote in message oups.com... Where can I inexpensively re-sharpen table saw blades? I live in NJ. www.ridgecarbidetool.com Mine came back better than new |
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Saw blade sharpening
Forrest are in Clifton NJ, and charge about $20 for a 40T 10" blade. I
don't think you can go wrong with them. -pb |
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Saw blade sharpening
Make sure the shop you chooe have CNC Vollmer, Walter and Schmidt-Tempo
machines. This is very expensive equipment that some shops avoid, but it is required to get a precise tooth form. "Sasha" wrote in message oups.com... Where can I inexpensively re-sharpen table saw blades? I live in NJ. |
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Saw blade sharpening
Expense is relative. It wouldn't make sense to spend $20 to sharpen a $10
Harbor Freight blade. Just buy a new one. It does make sense to spend $20 to sharpen a $100 blade. |
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Saw blade sharpening
Horse****.
"Tom H" wrote in message news Make sure the shop you chooe have CNC Vollmer, Walter and Schmidt-Tempo machines. This is very expensive equipment that some shops avoid, but it is required to get a precise tooth form. "Sasha" wrote in message oups.com... Where can I inexpensively re-sharpen table saw blades? I live in NJ. |
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"Ba r r y" wrote in message ... I *swear* the Freud cuts better than it did as new. I can't wait to mount up the "properly sharpened" WWII again! G Total cost was $60 for both blades, including test cuts on both and return shipping. A fair deal! I have has the same results. While it is ultimately a little more expensive to use Forrest, they can truly return a blade to factory specs which many tool sharpening services only wish that they could. Most only retip and resharpen blades and you can forget about having a blade flattened and trued by most. For me it is worth the extra 5 or $10 to have the blade cut like new or better again. |
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"Tom H" wrote in message news Make sure the shop you chooe have CNC Vollmer, Walter and Schmidt-Tempo machines. This is very expensive equipment that some shops avoid, but it is required to get a precise tooth form. Does that equipment reflatten the blades also? If not I would not consider those shops either. |
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Having done a fair amount of tool grinding, I can say with complete
certainlty that setup is key with either manual or conventional machine. Saw blades are among the simplest form of cutter to grind. Given equal skill and attention to detail of the operator, the results from either machine, conventional or CNC, will be equal. Niether machine will flatten or tension a blade. That is a seperate process. "Leon" wrote in message t... "Tom H" wrote in message news Make sure the shop you chooe have CNC Vollmer, Walter and Schmidt-Tempo machines. This is very expensive equipment that some shops avoid, but it is required to get a precise tooth form. Does that equipment reflatten the blades also? If not I would not consider those shops either. |
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