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Choosing the Correct Circular Sawblade


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My trusty old Palax Combi came with a 700mm blade with about 110 teeth.

Been using it for about fifteen years with hardly a problem cutting mainly ash up to a foot in diameter. The blade was due for a sharpen I thought, but an old friend who was a woodworker all his life thought that the blade was not in need of a sharpen, just a cleanup of residue.

I took it off to clean it in the workshop and replaced it with another brand new blade I bought some time ago but this one only had fifty odd teeth.

 

This blade went through the Ash like a knife through butter. Far quicker than the old blade even when freshly sharpened.

 

How do you go about selecting the correct blade for the job in terms of number of teeth for mainly Ash and Beech, and what blade would you change to if you were cutting Poplar or Pine?

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I can't answer your question but can say we have 3 blades for our Palax. Some have more teeth than others, the ones with less teeth cut faster as simpy a more aggressive cut, consequently not as smooth a cut and can snatch occasionally.

 

Incidentally I'd recommend Doug at Cutting Solutions for good quality blades, service and prices

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I can't answer your question but can say we have 3 blades for our Palax. Some have more teeth than others, the ones with less teeth cut faster as simpy a more aggressive cut, consequently not as smooth a cut and can snatch occasionally.

 

Incidentally I'd recommend Doug at Cutting Solutions for good quality blades, service and prices

 

 

Thanks for the replies. A clean cut is unnecessary for the firewood, and speed is preferable.

I would understand multitooth blades being used on joinery quality crosscut timber.

 

I just assumed that the Palax came out with the 100 plus tooth blade as a good compromise, but perhaps it is because it mainly deals with pine in the Scandinavian Forests.

 

The fifty tooth blade is stunningly more effective on the ash and it does not grab at all

 

I suppose that it a case of suck it and see but that experiment can be quite expensive!

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