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Offline Danny

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Blades cutting like cutting butter.... :+}
« on: November 27, 2011, 09:05:02 am »
Bet all have thought about when a blade has gotten to dull....
Heres my two cents....  A NEW blade will cut like if you imagined cutting thru butter....  After time you Will notice that this easy cutting has gone away.
Or when you get to the point where your having to push the wood into the blade harder than when you started.  I am sure I have been guilty of the as some projects I just wanted to get finished and kept on cutting even tho I knew it was time to change to a new blade.  Anyway....  Danny  :+}
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Offline Judy Hunter

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Re: Blades cutting like cutting butter.... :+}
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2011, 09:51:59 am »
I am very guilty of "saving blades".
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« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2011, 10:02:52 am »
Me too Judy:  I guess it's that natural "thriftyness" we have built into us.  Get as much as we can out of what we've got.  I just can't bring myself to throw away a blade that's still cutting.  Then I reach a point where it breaks and I have to change blades and it cuts so nice that I wonder why I didn't do it sooner. Got to go now and start my scrolling for the day with a fresh new blade!

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« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2011, 10:31:06 am »
I do it too. I doubt there is anybody who isn't guilty. The benifits of switching blades is huge. Easy cutting, cleaner cuts.. but for some strange reason I always say, "just five more minutes and I will change".. that naturally turns into 30 minutes LOL..
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2011, 12:01:08 pm »
Not me! As soon as it dulls, I finish the cut and change it. Sometimes I don't even wait ti finish the cut. If it is to dull to finish the cut, I will make a little "cut out" so I can easily fit a new blade in to finish. I don't save a blade for latter either, because latter never comes. Blades are cheap and time is money!
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« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2011, 12:59:42 pm »
true - sometimes I forget about it too.
I cut and notice the extra pushing. But then O change entry holes and do not change the blade...

I mostly change when I switch to another item, but also not always....
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Re: Blades cutting like cutting butter.... :+}
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2011, 06:00:59 pm »
I only do inlays so I am cutting 3/4" of material ( Stacked 3/8" each).   When the blade starts cutting slowly I change it out with a new blade.  I save the old blades and cut off the bottom 3/4" of them with a tin snip and then I have a "new" blade, just shorter. My Hegner will adjust to this shorter blade.  Will your saw?
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« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2011, 07:06:43 pm »
Jim, that works? Isn't the saw going hard when the blade is like 3.5" or 4" ?
I noticed my Hegner to run smoother when the blade has not to much tension. So I expect this to run quite hard/steady.
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Re: Blades cutting like cutting butter.... :+}
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2011, 07:29:52 pm »
IF you are doing 'portraits' with SPIRAL blades you darn well better have a sharp blade in your clamps at all times!
If you have to 'push' the wood into the blade you risk the danger of a 'slip' which can cost you the whole thing...

I keep sharp blades and run the speed as fast as I can so that a VERY gentle touch is all I need to keep the blade on track and the wood moves as slowly as needed to make the detail cuts!

Happy "Portraiting" to you all....

Right now I am about 1/4 of the way through Grampa's "Big Cats" and have gone through 4 of the FD New Spiral 2/0 blades.

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Re: Blades cutting like cutting butter.... :+}
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2011, 08:21:20 pm »
I use my blades till the end as importing them is not as cheat as you get them in the US in fast they would be double the price with the extra postage
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« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2011, 11:49:37 pm »
You know, there should be SOMETHING we could do with used blades beside discarding them.  I was thinking of making a hedgehog but that didn't turn out.  Kept getting poked.
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Re: Blades cutting like cutting butter.... :+}
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2011, 06:05:26 am »
Changing blades????????
I always thought that you keep going until they break (lol)
At least that's how I started out -
Couldn't figure out why my cuts were angled, yet my table was level
Live and Learn.......
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Re: Blades cutting like cutting butter.... :+}
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2011, 08:48:36 am »
although most times i start a new project with a new blade I'm using the blades to long as well.
I have a small tube were i keep my old blades so sometimes on tiny and small projects I use an old blade because the new ones are to aggressive.
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Re: Blades cutting like cutting butter.... :+}
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2011, 08:50:31 am »
I think most of us are guilty of this.
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« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2011, 09:18:10 am »
Quote from: Marcel
sometimes [...] I use an old blade because the new ones are to aggressive.

I did so too, but lost control about the blade sizes of used blades in the last few weeks. I should organize the blades better.
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