cutting speed - fast or slow?
Just a quick question.
My $340 Laguna Resaw king snapped last week. A titanic kaboom. It's off to the shop hopefully for repair.
In the meantime I bought another Laguna blade - the Proforce 3/4" 3TPI from Gregorys. It cuts well - nice smooth and clean. A little tidyup compared to the RSK.
I was having a big day today. Much work on. 4 large dolls houses with a total of 70 big bits of timber to cut, machine, thickness and sand.... a LOT of work. A LOT!. I was pushing the pine through the Proforce pretty fast. I noticed some cuts had a considerable quantity of shavings/dust left inside when I went a bit too quickly and others were clean when I slowed it down a bit.
Is it "best" for the blade to leave clean cuts, or is it best to push it fast?
Does the pile of uncleared dust matter? Does this wear it faster? I'm thinking that maybe it does.... but I don't know for certain.
The blade wasn't hot, or warm. I use 2 x 100mm dust nozzles for suction... one in the official port under the table and the other jammed up under the front. This keeps the inside of the cabinet squeaky clean, perhaps also cooling the blade with 8" of travel through a hurricane.
Im asking, overall, for I spent 4 hours on that saw today and anything that can make such a job faster is welcome :) ..... (btw, the Laguna Resaw King would have absolutely hot-knifed through butter on this job, but that isn't to be!)
Your wisdom is most welcome!