Thread: Uses for different saw blades.

They all look to be steel blades
most these days are carbide tipped - stay sharper longer

I couple similar I received from my Dad I put clock mechanism through the hole and hung them on the wall

They're pretty much scrap metal.
For what it would cost to have them sharpened you could buy a decent carbide tipped blade, maybe even 2.

As for what they would have been used for; the second blade looks like a rip blade, the last one looks like a crosscut blade and the first one...never seen anything like it

First one looks like a sandstone stone cutting blade similar to a concrete type, especially with the two straight edges in the centre.

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The last blade may be for cutting steel. Very fine teeth. Not for a table saw but a very low revs steel cutter? pker

The second one is the same as one that I inherited from my FIL. When helping me many years ago it was used for cutting corrugated iron but must be used in a saw with a metal body as it literally burns through the iron sending out sparks. We used a heavy B & D saw which I still have but not used for some time.
Much better and safer ways to do the same job today.

Thanks for the replies.

I havn't been able to google anything similar to the first 2 photos (square teeth) but it kinda makes sense that it might be a brick, stone, concrete or sandstone cutter.

Originally Posted by pker

The last blade may be for cutting steel. Very fine teeth. Not for a table saw but a very low revs steel cutter? pker

It's got an ATB grind on the top, steel blades aren't ground that way

im pretty sure the first blade is a ceramic / fiber sheet saw. Maybe tiles, but if my memory is correct dad had ones like that specifically for fibrolite or masonite

I'll say that the first one is a stone blade of some sort. I've got a blade like the last one = it's for plastics, arborite and so on.