Profitable bandsawing requires a pointy blade, and normal blades go boring surprisingly shortly. Resaw cuts are particularly exhausting on these blades, as are cuts in tropical woods, a lot of which include silica, an abrasive materials. Carbide-tipped blades, alternatively, keep sharp many occasions longer than their bimetal or carbon-steel cousins.
Starrett’s new Woodpecker CT options triple-ground carbide tooth with a backing blade created from a high-strength alloy. The blades are designed for high-volume chopping, and they are often resharpened when the tooth lastly do lose their edge.
I ordered a 1/2-in.-wide, 0.032-in.-thick blade with three tooth per inch (TPI)—an important measurement for common work on my 14-in. bandsaw—and I put it by way of a battery of powerful checks. It did an attractive job resawing huge veneers, making straight, clear cuts. And it labored simply as effectively on rip cuts and on curves with a radius as tight as 5 in., in quite a lot of wooden species.
The preliminary funding for a high-quality carbide-tipped blade like that is comparatively excessive—however the superb sturdiness of carbide implies that the blade can pay you again many occasions over. Woodpecker CT blades can be found in a spread of widths, lengths, and thicknesses, at each 1.3 and three TPI, and customized lengths will be ordered for any bandsaw.
—Roland Johnson is a contributing editor to FWW.
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