band saw blades

[croft]

hi

are eps band saw mill blades any good 

 

as ripper shipping is a joke

 

croft

[bilke_user]

3 hours ago, croft said:

hi

are eps band saw mill blades any good 

 

as ripper shipping is a joke

 

croft

Shipping?  as in time it takes  or as in how much it costs
I've found Stephen to be pretty reasonable with cost of shipping, and we are classed as Highlands and Islands which always carries a premium.
 

 

[croft]

yes but he will not send packs of five 

 

have you used eps blades

 

croft

[bilke_user]

No, not used them.
TBH I tried the Rippers just to see what folks were raving about.  Grass greener on the other side etc.  I'm sticking to the Double-hard Woodmizer blades, but will get Stephen to sharpen them, cheaper than Woodmizer and does a good job on them too 

What mill are you running?

 

[Johnsond]

13 minutes ago, bilke_user said:

No, not used them.
TBH I tried the Rippers just to see what folks were raving about.  Grass greener on the other side etc.  I'm sticking to the Double-hard Woodmizer blades, but will get Stephen to sharpen them, cheaper than Woodmizer and does a good job on them too 

What mill are you running?

 

Did you not rate the ripper blades compared to what you were already using ??. 

[bilke_user]

They were fine on the birch and beech, but when it came to the big douglas (3ft dia) they were lasting about an hour or so less than the Woodmizer blades, and at £8/blade more expensive they weren't doing it for me, so back to what I was using and know best

 

[Johnsond]

Just now, bilke_user said:

They were fine on the birch and beech, but when it came to the big douglas (3ft dia) they were lasting about an hour or so less than the Woodmizer blades, and at £8/blade more expensive they weren't doing it for me, so back to what I was using and know best

 

Well funny you should find that as I’m getting exactly the same. Elm or oak etc etc they are fine but the decent size Douglas I have just dulls them in no time at all. Is it a particular type of blade you find works best on the DF ? 

[bilke_user]

Douglas is pretty abrasive stuff, I normally get three hrs from a Woodmizer Double Hard but with the Rippers it was very noticeable how much less I was getting.  normal would be 2 hrs with some lasting a little longer but not much.  Like I said, in Beech and Birch they were fine, but I mill a lot of Douglas and can't justify the extra price for less life, even if  they do say they take a third more sharpens.  
I think a lot is talked about blades and their performance, but really if you find something that works well stick with it.  Ripper blades may work well on someone else's mill, simply because it suits their style of milling and maybe what works well for me won't.

[ARV]

We buy our blades from EPS. The Roma Gold at 55mm wide.

These are last year's prices though. We get a small discount if buying more than 10 blades at a time.

We had some issues with the welding on one of the batches of blades we bought, but Ross Anderson in Kirkcaldy, sorted out the problem and got the blades replaced with a quick turnaround.