Thread: Table Saw blade question.......

Stay away from fine kerf blades; they're more flexy and will need a different riving knife. They're fine for cordless stuff where power might be lacking, but they have no place in any piece of fixed machinery IMO unless you're cutting up some insanely expensive timber and the extra 0.8mm is going to make $10 worth of sawdust.

We had 96T 12" for fine work at my old work, 72T is probably the bare minimum.

The first one you linked should be fine, the Diablo site says it's good in table saws too.

If you want to go all out, the Leuco Proline GLOBAL_METHODS and Topline GLOBAL_METHODS are suuuuper nice

Originally Posted by elanjacobs

Stay away from fine kerf blades; they're more flexy and will need a different riving knife. They're fine for cordless stuff where power might be lacking, but they have no place in any piece of fixed machinery IMO unless you're cutting up some insanely expensive timber and the extra 0.8mm is going to make $10 worth of sawdust.

We had 96T 12" for fine work at my old work, 72T is probably the bare minimum.

The first one you linked should be fine, the Diablo site says it's good in table saws too.

If you want to go all out, the Leuco Proline GLOBAL_METHODS and Topline GLOBAL_METHODS are suuuuper nice

That's great.
Thank you for the wisdom and advice.
Very much appreciated
Tom

What saw are you putting it in Scribbly Gum? There are a couple of differences in the two blades you've linked to; the Diablo has a 7 degree hook angle that is more suitable to cut off saws and it also has smaller teeth that will provide less sharpenings; the Freud has larger teeth and a 15 degree hook angle more suitable for table saws, but it's thin kerf. IMO the thin kerf doesn't matter much when you're doing 90 degree crosscuts but it's a different story if you want to cut mitres in thicker stock so a 12" thin kerf crosscut doesn't really make much sense. Do you really need a 12" blade? I use a Diablo 80 tooth 10" crosscut blade on my 12" saw and very rarely find I need anything bigger.

Originally Posted by aldav

What saw are you putting it in Scribbly Gum? There are a couple of differences in the two blades you've linked to; the Diablo has a 7 degree hook angle that is more suitable to cut off saws and it also has smaller teeth that will provide less sharpenings; the Freud has larger teeth and a 15 degree hook angle more suitable for table saws, but it's thin kerf. IMO the thin kerf doesn't matter much when you're doing 90 degree crosscuts but it's a different story if you want to cut mitres in thicker stock so a 12" thin kerf crosscut doesn't really make much sense. Do you really need a 12" blade? I use a Diablo 80 tooth 10" crosscut blade on my 12" saw and very rarely find I need anything bigger.

Thanks for those thoughts.
I have an old - mid 1990's - Carbatec 12" table saw.
My rip saw blade does a good job ripping but is very coarse and of no use in finer work.
I hadn't thought of using a 10 inch blade.
Thanks for that
Tom